If you already have an extensive Caroline Myss library, no need to purchase this-it's nothing you haven't heard before. I was hoping that it would draw in some new insights into harnessing intuitive powers but it was more of a lecture on "getting over yourself" and a loose interpretation on recognizing your wake-up calls. Although you got to love Caroline Myss-she really de-mystifies mystical journeys and grounds you squarely back into our real world with our real dramas. Do I feel more intuitive as a result of listening to the workshop?-Good question, can't really answer that. The results aren't in yet.
According to author and lecturer Caroline Myss, intuition is the ability to take multiple systems of knowledge and make sense of them. Courage is a fundamental part to becoming intuitive-that is, taking action based on the guidance that's received. In fact, Myss says that the intuitive journey is actually the journey to self-esteem.
Intuitive Power - Your Natural Resource is a live Caroline Myss workshop on 4 CD's. The theme of this workshop is the role of intuition, the nature of intuitive blocks, the importance of personal power and self-esteem in hearing and following intuitive guidance, and the interior spiritual life.
CD 1
In CD 1, Myss discusses intuition "American style" which includes the myth that we deserved to have our life "settled"-that the Mystery of who we are is something to be "solved" rather than lived. She also discusses the propensity of many American spiritual seekers to elevate roles like "healers", believing they are of utmost importance to the Divine-and how they sneer at "blue collar intuition" and grounded occupations (like accountant, for example) believing they're "just jobs" that don't require intuition. She goes on to dispel the myth that intuitive skill and the spiritual life are one in the same, as well as the idea that intuition is a "gift"-only bestowed on those who are "good" or "light enough candles". Survival intuition, that of the first three chakras, is *not* spiritual guidance or higher revelation; in fact, this type of intuition has a private agenda built into it.
CD 2
Funny stories are peppered throughout this workshop, and Myss begins Disc 2 telling the story of a Puella Eternis who was in her 30's and still lived with her Dad. Myss was discussing how God can "wipe you out" in an instant-with or without a prayer of surrender-and mentioned that as she was teaching this concept at another workshop, especially as it related to finances, this Puella called out "God can't take my money because my Dad put it in a Trust Fund." The audience roars with laughter at this story. Myss also goes on to admit that she has changed positions of a lot of things as she read and learned more, including the concept that illness is caused by negativity. Stating that she "doesn't buy it anymore" and that it's a "cruel thought", she acknowledges that while negativity can enhance illness, it doesn't cause it. Myss also says that she will teach, until the day she disincarnates, that the great skill or power in the human experience is not love, but self-esteem.
CD 3
Myss explains how our physical body is the "caboose" on the intuitive train-it is not the engine. She explains how we are always doing "energetic readings" by scanning people-an unconscious process that lights up all 7 of the chakras. As she has taught in other workshops, Myss talks about how meeting new people is often an exercise in gathering energetic data-starting with 1st chakra questions like "Where are you from?", and working upwards to the other chakras. For example, a 2nd chakra question would be "Are you married? Do you have any kids?" Unfortunately, as often happens in her workshops, Myss doesn't go beyond the first three chakras so we can see how questions from the upper chakras would be posed to others, and what exactly we're assessing from chakras 4-7.
Myss explains why some people and situations "gut" us, how to call our power back and how to keep energetically "contained"-which is the object of health. She goes on to tell a story about reaming out a guy when she was on safari in South Africa, despite "knowing better". She begins taking questions from audience members and someone asks Myss if she felt it was her place to do so. "No, I wanted it to be my place", she answers.
CD 4
Myss continues to take questions from the audience about her safari experience. She is asked: "Is it better to do that (chew someone out) then hold it in?" She answers: "You know, what I did is never the better path. He didn't come there to be attacked by me." Myss admonishes the audience on the importance of being hard-core honest with themselves and ask "What is the real reason I want to do what I'm about to do? What's the real reason I want to say _____?" Myss also talks about the back-lash of the new age, saying we've become "hyper-responsible" about illness and the concept of creating your own reality. She argues that we influence our reality, but we don't create it.
She is then asked about archetypes and if they are actual entities. She replies that they are, in fact, actual entities and that a person can be "possessed" by an archetype by identifying so strongly with an archetypal patterns that the pattern becomes more real than they are. According to Myss, comments like "That's just the way I am" are important clues to your archetypal patterns, and she correlates Julie Andrews' real life nun archetype and Andrew's role in The Sound of Music.
In Conclusion
Myss spends a good amount of time hitting home the importance of self-esteem and the containment of our personal power in this audio workshop. I have the Myss CD workshop series on Self Esteem, but haven't listened to it yet, so I don't know how much of this information from this series is covered in that workshop. If you're unfamiliar with chakras, you'd likely be lost, so I'd recommend reading Anatomy of the Spirit by Myss first. For hard-core Myss fans, there's really not a whole lot new here in my opinion, but as is always the case with her workshops, there are many nuggets wisdom that bear repeating and will help you on your journey towards becoming more conscious.
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