The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses That Promote Health and Healing
by Caroline Myss, C. Norman Shealy M.D.
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Author: C. Norman Shealy M.D., Caroline MyssEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-04-14
ISBN: 0609803239
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Book Review: Spirit takes an honoured place in healing
Summary: 5 Stars
"The human spirit is real," writes Caroline Myss in "The Creation of Health...." She is right. The beauty of this book is that its authors describe a clear pathway: It leads from stress to the disenchantment of a person's mind with its role or its body. That carries into many manifestations of dissatisfaction and disease. Stress breeds illnesses, openly or camouflaged in many ways.
But a solution is at hand. Our authors direct us to hope: "Something of great value is being universally introduced into our world." That thing of great value is Spirit, not to be confused with our thinking mind. If we nurture and encourage it, Spirit becomes that supernal quality which can control the repetitive, destructive thoughts that our minds recite over and over again.
I offer the authors one correction: Spirit and its healing properties are not being "introduced" to the modern world. They are being rediscovered, introduced again. Lacking modern technologies and medical science, our ancestors in primal societies worked with Spirit or the spirits to heal or correct all sorts of ailments. Spiritual healing techniques across the ancient world were (and remain) remarkable for similarities rather than differences. Spirit (and spirits) have always been potent healing tools.
Repair the Spirit to repair the mind, thereby easing the stress that fosters illness and disease: that is what Myss and Shealy explain so well. Believe them! But also question them. Why does their final section, "How to Create Health," take just one twelfth of their book? There are as many spiritual paths to healing now as there were in the ancient world. Still, it is hard to fault this duo of accomplished authors who end a fine book by calling a section "Become an Elegant Spirit." If one can do that, one will thrive in health and sanity.
Robert Fripp is the author of
Spirit in Health: Spiritual roots in modern healing
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Summary of The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses That Promote Health and Healing
A collaboration between a traditionally trained physician and a medical intuitive, The Creation of Health illuminates the deep connection between emotional dysfunction and physical illness. It describes the role that emotional disturbances play in the most common diseases and ailments from the common cold to arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.After providing an introduction to intuitive medicine and its history, method of diagnosis, and relationship to traditional medicine, Myss and Shealy detail the deeper emotional and psychic reasons why illness develops in the body. Dr. Shealy offers a traditional account of a particular disease or ailment, while Dr. Myss sheds light on the deeper causes through her corresponding energy analysis.
Confirming the link between illness and emotion, The Creation of Health puts forth a groundbreaking vision of holistic healing.
Who can help asking "Why?" when they develop a disease? According to theologian and "medical intuitive" Caroline Myss, Ph.D., and co-worker C. Norman Shealy, M.D., who is a physician, neurosurgeon, and expert on pain and stress management, the answer goes further than a medical explanation. The Creation of Health explores the emotional, physical, and spiritual patterns that form health and the stresses that can cause disease.
Myss identifies eight dysfunctional patterns that lead to illness. Being aware that "negative attitudes create negative responses within the physical body" allows you to make changes toward health after identifying your emotional, psychological, and spiritual stresses. The most interesting chapters discuss specific diseases in terms of lifestyle factors, stress, and psychological patterns and energy factors, with case studies. A heart attack, for example, is "an explosion of energy attempting to break down an emotional barrier ... caused by warehousing fears and anger," says Myss. The authors alternate, rather than co-write, chapters and topics, so you know whose perspective you're reading. The theoretical sections are not easy reading, but the insights you can apply to your own health make the work immensely worthwhile. --Joan Price
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