Caroline Myss' Essential Guide for Healers by Caroline Myss
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Book Reviews of Caroline Myss' Essential Guide for Healers
Book Review: geared to the novice
Summary: 3 Stars
This CD of a workshop/weekend/talk is geared to the novice who is just starting out or considering if they are a healer or not.Book Review: Some good points but a lot to work on
Summary: 2 Stars
There are certain things that I learned from this CD.
Myss makes points like If you believe in Karma then children aren't innocent. This came after a story about how a father asked how an innocent child could have a serious disease.
A "bad" word in the English language is "deserve" such as "They deserve good things" or "She deserved to have [bad thing] happen to her."
Keeping good boundaries can prevent burn out. Be aware that you can't provide the best service if you're not up for it. She recommends prayer if someone comes up to you and wants something that you cannot provide at the moment.
It's important to have fun after work, not take it home with you.
Being in the spotlight as a spiritual healer can often come with the consequence that people criticize you and your ability.
There were lots of things I had issue with.
I hated that she kept saying, "I don't want that. You want that?" It was said repeatedly and in such a way that a person would know that if they were to say yes, they wanted that that it was not a good thing.
She used a lot of opinions. One in particular was that she doesn't like the fountains used in massage therapists and aroma therapists offices. She suggested to "get rid of them." I thought that if she didn't like them, she could request that they not use them while she's in their office.
She assumed that people had not considered that they don't need to carry the problems of their clients with them all the time. When I came into the healing field, I was told by a friend that as a healer, I needed to get out, have fun and have a laugh. Coworkers also used the symbol of leaving the bag of crap from work at the door at work and picking it back up when returning to work. I disliked that Myss was insistent that no one had ever thought of it. In her deck of cards, one of them says something like "not wanting the student to become to the master." I felt like this was something she was doing.
I know she has had criticism, the most damaging is that she has a Ph.D from a program that she developed but you really do have to consider where the information is coming from. She went on a rant about not selling out.
Another rant was that a person isn't a healer if they're too sensitive. Healers are strong. In my opinion, healers have different ways of being healers and some are sensitive and some are strong and some are sensitively strong.
She gave her opinion about bartering. Maybe it's just my experience but it seems that in the business world, people barter as well as get paid money. So, it's nice that she has the opinion but there are other ways and it might be beneficial to have the information about why people barter. If this is an informative CD, maybe other perspectives have to be considered.
She strongly connects money with self-worth. I have experienced the negative side to this in that someone was trying to sell their artwork and trying to figure out their "self-worth." They were in great distress because they didn't know their worth. So, I disagree that self-worth is connected with money. Someone told me that for someone to work, they have to have their heart, mind, and pocketbook aligned. I like that opinion better than the way Myss expressed it.
The second CD about the shadow healer and the wounded healer were really confusing for my understanding about what it is have a shadow or a wound.
I strongly advise not to get this CD. I definitely plan on selling my copy. It was not worth it. My studies have covered a lot of these things and more.
Book Review: Essential Guide to Discourage Healers
Summary: 2 Stars
Although I feel much of Caroline Myss' work is incredible and her span and wealth of knowledge is priceless, this work is filled with discrepancy of thought, negative attitudes and a prevailing grudge against those who have chosen the field of alternative healing or healing arts. Her advice seems to be presented as though it is coming from a place of tough love, but it is not...it is just plain tough and discouraging. Because I have enjoyed so much of her works, I pushed through it and found many good kernels of truth, but you have to wade through a lot of negative and downright rude personal stories and 'advice' to get to something useful...I prefer the facts without so much negative commentary.Book Review: disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
With a title claiming "Essential Guide for Healers", and having high regard for some of her other works, I was excited to hear this set. I was expecting a positive, motivational, educational, enlightening experience - instead, I was weighed down with her seriously negative attitued about what healing artists other than herself were bringing to the world. It was painful, but I listened to the entire 4 discs, waiting for some of the kinds of gems that have come from her other works. The 3rd and 4th discs were somewhat less negative than the first two, but disappointing is the best one word review for this work. Wasted money - I don't even feel good about passing it along to anyone else.Book Review: Healer or Dennis Miller ?
Summary: 2 Stars
As a medical practitioner who uses alternative healing methods I am an advocate of Caroline's approach, however this work is not very helpful. Despite the title, it is oriented ONLY toward psychic healers, and she rants excessively and it seems illogically at various sacred cows.