Caroline Myss

A gentleman from the audience raised his hand. He was one among the sea of many. Caroline Myss stood before the crowd, sharing her wisdom and challenging their beliefs. She likes to think of herself as a realist. Others call her a cynic. Whichever way you look at it, her message is clear. “ We have to hold ourselves accountable for what we are experiencing inour lives. If it doesn’t feel good…change it.”   As the gentleman began tocome into full vision, Caroline observed an unusual childlike appearance. His eyes looked sheepishly at her and his body expression shifted and took on a fetal position.  She called out to him, “Stop that. Sit up straight.  It’stime to grow up.  The man, somewhere inhis mid 70’s, began to talk about his mother and the anger he felt over early childhood recollections.  “What,”Caroline Myss said to him. “ You mean to tell me that for 65 years you have focused your attention on your anger and neglected to live the rest of your life? You need to come into present time. You’re a big kid now.”  Later in the day, Caroline told me in ourconversation, “I saw the man clutching a small teddy bear.  This is not helping him energetically.  We have to move into present time and stop letting our minds wander historically. It no longer serves us. ” How do we prevent our minds from wandering historically?”  I queried.  “We don’t prevent.  We redirect.  First,” shesaid, “Do things in everyday life that command your full five-sensory attention.  For example, you canexercise.  When you’re on a treadmill,you are required to be present.  When your mind starts to wander, get it back.  Bless the thoughts - tell yourself its over and say goodbye.  Then move onto the task at hand.  This is what discipline is.  It is a pre-requisite for change.”

Caroline Myss hit the lecture circuit with a dynamism that is unparalleled by many in the field.  She was one of the first to shift our attention to energy, inviting usto glimpse the unseen.  Throughout theyears, Caroline has inundated us with new, penetrating information that has been a true wake up call.  Some of theterms she uses are woundology, sacred contracts, the tribe and the woundedhealer.  She knows this is thegreatest challenge of these times; to find a language to express a dimension that is now revealing itself.  When she said these words to me, I began to hear the theme song from the “Twilight Zone”playing in my head.  “Isn’t this sorta out there?” I asked her.  “What is this dimension thing?”  “You see Liz, that’s the problem. Take the corporate world for example. Spirit has now entered the “corporate body.”  We’ve dressed up phrases that help with attitude, potential and goal setting while incorporatingsoul and spirit into the equation.  Inour everyday lives though, we haven’t yet found the language to express how normalcy and the extraordinary converge. We still keep them separate.  The easiest way to describe what is happening is to remind people that - to focusso much attention on our inner life is a new concept.  As we learn to bridge our understanding of the five-sensory world and the multi-sensory world, we are constantly introducing new concepts. My job,” she jolts me with another term, “is to help people develop their energy intelligence.  That means wehave to be willing to put the “meat on the bone.”  We have to be willing to name, face and move through the fears we have in our lives.  We can no longer dance around the pain.  It is important that we define totally what is blocking us. For example, ”she continues, “I have people in my workshops that say they are afraid but I don’t accept that, so I probe further. Afraid of what, I ask them, and when they identify what is holding them back and state it out loud (which I think everyone should do) I believe it is the same as making a prayer.  If you say, “ I am afraid of being alone,” then you will be alone. It may be dark and you may be scared and then, you’ll be brought from the darkness into the light.  I have an RX for living. There are three principals to use as a guide.  Give up your expectations, give up your judgments and give up the need to know why things are happening.”  I figured as long as she was being so candid, I could ask how she was doing with this prescription.  “Miserably,” she said, but I am committed to these principals. I know what the consequences are so I work them all the time. Every time I find myself in stress, I ask my self if I’ve done any of the above three things. Invariably, I’ve done them all. This then allows me to move through ordinary thinking and into the extraordinary. I’m not to be put on a pedestal though.  Just because I can teach people about the consequences of being an unforgiving person, that doesn’t imply that I am a fully forgiving one.  I am not the teacher who has mastered the class. Those are the ones with the big names, but I do know, the spiritual path isn’t a path to peace; it is the path to why you’re not peaceful.  Spiritually speaking, in the phrase “follow your bliss, you are going to do a lot more following than “blissing.”  Give up the myth of the Promised Land because Moses never got there and look at the metaphor.  Perfection is not the goal. Recognize whatl ife is and let go of the fantasies.  Donna Reed wasn’t your mom and she never will be.”  Like I said, it’s time to live - in present time.“

Guidance for The Contemporary Mystic by Caroline Myss

1.     All is one.
2.     Honor one another.
3.     Honor Oneself
4.     Love is Divine power.
5.     Surrender personal will to divine will.
6.     Seek only truth.
7.     Live in the present moment.

Caroline Myss is a pioneer in the field of energy medicine and human consciousness.  She has her doctorate in intuition and energy medicine. She is the co-founder of the Institute for the Science of Medical Intuition with C. Norman Shealy, M.D. Caroline is the author of Anatomy of The Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing and Why People Don’t Heal, and How They Can.

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