Caroline Myss - 10April

I:

1.

Patterns that produce disease

The issues of power, responsibility, wisdom, and love

Traditional medicine vs. intuitive diagnosis

The real origin of disease

Alternative healing

2.

Effect of personality

Importance of prevention

The holistic perspective

3.

Symptoms and creativity

Intuitive diagnosis

Cayce, Liechtman, Bach, Saraydarian, and Myss

Intuitive diagnosis works

4.

What it is and how energy flows

Effects of positive and negative stress

Life issues reflected in the chakras

Where does karma fit in?

Effects of environment and violence

5.

Transforming ourselves

Ego pain vs. soul pain; personal vs. impersonal self

Religion vs. spirituality; will to live vs. will to heal

Time vs. present moment

Illness, the teacher

II:

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Energy analysis of heart disease, with case studies

Energy analysis of stroke, with case studies

Energy analysis of cancer, with case studies

7.

Energy analysis of disease, infection, and the immune system

Coming down with AIDS, herpes, shingles, and other acute diseases

Why accidents?case studies

8

Coming down with epilepsy, MS, ALS, and other chronic illnesses

Case studies of chronic negative patterns

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Energy analysis of chronic pain syndrome

Pain examplesmigraine and other severe types of pain

Case studies of people with chronic pain

10.

Energy analysis of emotional disorders

Relationship of stress to mental and emotional problems

Case studies on Alzheimers Syndrome, Drug and Alcohol Addiction, and Panic Attacks

III:

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Societal hypocrisies cause stress

Stress results from low self-esteem

12.

Effects of the stress cycle

Illness resulting from stress

Even a placebo works

We are what we think

IV:

13.

Practice good nutrition

Take physical exercise

Develop mental attitudes attuned to the spiritual

Other alternatives for staying healthy

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Understanding our planetary situation

Choosing survival

Looking to the future

THE CONCEPTS PRESENTED in The Creation of Health are very appropriate to healing in our time. We are now faced with the threats of nuclear warfare and AIDS, which have no simple, intellectual solutions. A rebirth of the techniques of healing or perhaps a relearning of what our ancestors already knew is required. If there is to a be a twenty-first century, it will need to reflect a new level of spiritual wisdom and intuitive insight.

There may be a vocabulary in this book that seems strange to some, but remember, all healing is scientific. We are just beginning to explore areas of mind-body interactions and measure what emotional states (such as depression or love) do to the body.

We have struggled endlessly to gain acceptance of the fact that the health of the psyche and spirit are manifested on a cellular level, as physical health or disease. We are the soil in which the disease can take root. We are not simply attacked by nice or nasty diseases. We have a lot to say about our health and healing. The Creation of Health helps one look at this total picture to help one successfully live ones life.

I am still a surgeon, despite what I know about healing and Norm started as a neurosurgeon. We are grounded people but we also have seen the true nature of healing.

Every day, I see what love and peace of mind do to help people heal. I also know the resistance to learning what is not taught in medical school.

One of my subversive acts was to post on the bulletin board of the Doctors Lounge at Yale-New Haven Hospital a double-blind study of the effectiveness of prayer in avoiding post-myocardial infarction complications. In twenty-four hours, someone had written bullshit across it. One cannot change the closed-minded with statistics. Beliefs are a matter of faith, not logic. As the Quakers say, Speak truth to power.

My wife Bobbie and I, originally skeptics, have both personally experienced healings of physical problems. These healings were viewed by physicians who were also altered by what they saw.

I know I use my intuition as I evaluate patients. I know when people are sick. They give off a different feeling, vibration, aura call it what you will; it is obvious to me. I dont give up my diagnostic tools but combine intuition, symbolism and medicine in treating people.

The issue isnt to cure all illnesses. Everyone dies, someday. The issue is to love and live an authentic life and to understand that healing and curing may be two different entities. A quadriplegic painter, who holds a brush in his mouth, loves and beautifies the world and is closer to his wholeness than many of us who are without physical limitations.

What is our responsibility to ourselves and the cosmos? I believe it is all related to the role of love. Self-love and self-esteem are required. We must start with self-love and self-healing in order to be able to extend it to others. Free will is the key ingredient to making it meaningful.

What, despite all my scientific training keeps me open to the seemingly mystical and unconscious awareness? Life! To me it is mystical how a wound knows how to heal. How a fertilized egg carries all the knowledge to grow up to be a human being is mystical. Where in the DNA is the blueprint for our quadrants psychological, intellectual, physical and spiritual? All the information for us to be whole individuals is there. If we listen to our four quadrants, we will stay on our path. Illness is a reset button a redirector of ones life. It says change your life pattern. It is not a matter of blame or guilt but the courage to grow and change. Is it scientific? Yes! Teach type-A post-myocardial infarct patients to love and you halve the reinfarction rate. Psychotherapy can reduce the psychological and physical side effects of radiation and chemotherapy. DNA repair mechanisms are enhanced in stable individuals. This is all scientific, all measurable.

The greatest reason to live the message is that it feels good. No one will live forever the longer one lives, the more loss one experiences. It is what you choose to do with the pain that is the choice.

Love is a difficult problem for many of us. As discussed in The Creation of Health, the sexual or romantic and spiritual love have been separated. This separation leads to difficulties on all planes. At this point in our development, we must see the need for achieving spiritual, unconditional love as a means of healing ourselves and our fellow travelers on this planet.