Caroline Myss
American medical intuitive, contemporary mystic, and bestselling author whose books — Anatomy of the Spirit (1996), Sacred Contracts (2001), Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1997), Entering the Castle (2007), and Defy Gravity (2009) — have made her one of the most influential figures in the convergence of energy medicine, archetypal psychology, and contemporary mystical Christianity. Born 1952 in Chicago, Myss developed in the 1980s a working partnership with the holistic physician C. Norman Shealy, MD, in which she would do medical-intuitive readings of patients she had never met; the published case studies and her later teaching synthesized chakra theory, the Christian sacraments, and Carlos Castaneda's notion of personal power into a coherent psycho-spiritual framework that remains widely used in alternative healing today. Her CMED Institute trains practitioners in archetypal-pattern reading; her audio courses and lectures are among the most-streamed in the genre.
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Quotes by Caroline Myss
98 quotes“Grace is the energy of the divine moving through your life.”
“Open to grace, and your life moves in directions you cannot predict.”
“Resist grace, and your life narrows.”
“Why people don't heal: because they have grown attached to the wound.”
“The wound becomes identity.”
“Without the wound, who am I? This is the unspoken fear.”
“To heal is to release the wound as identity.”
“This is harder than it sounds.”
“Woundology — when the wound becomes the language of relationship.”
“Many friendships and marriages are built on woundology.”
“Heal, and you will need to find a new language.”
“Some relationships will not survive your healing.”
“Heal anyway.”
“Forgiveness is the most powerful spiritual act.”
“It releases the energy you have invested in resentment.”
“That energy returns to you, and you can use it for life.”
“Without forgiveness, you remain energetically tethered to the past.”
“And you cannot move into the future.”
“Your biography becomes your biology.”
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