The Creation of Health The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses That Promote Health and Healing

by Myss, Caroline; Shealy, C. Norman; Siegel, Bernie S.

• ISBN13: 9780609803233
• ISBN10: 0609803239
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-14
• Publisher: Harmony

Summary

A collaboration between a traditionally trained physician and a medical intuitive,The Creation of Healthilluminates 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 Healthputs forth a groundbreaking vision of holistic healing. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author Biography

Caroline Myss, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned pioneer in energy medicine and the author of the New York Times bestselling books Anatomy of the Spirit, Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can, and Sacred Contracts. Her work is featured on her popular website, myss.com. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.


C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Shealy Institute for Comprehensive Pain and Health Care in Springfield, Missouri, and founder of the American Holistic Medical Association.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(4)
Preface	xiii	(4)
Acknowledgements	xvii
I: Understanding the Nature of Energy in Creating Health	1	(150)
1. Shifting Our Thinking about the Cause of Illness	3	(38)
Patterns that produce disease
The issues of power, responsibility, wisdom, and love
Traditional medicine vs. intuitive diagnosis
The real origin of disease
Alternative healing
2. Traditional Medicine Draws Closer to the Holistic	41	(18)
Effect of personality
Importance of prevention
The holistic perspective
3. Enter Intuitive Medicine	59	(24)
Symptoms and creativity
Intuitive diagnosis
Cayce, Liechtman, Bach, Saraydarian, and Myss
Intuitive diagnosis works
4. Intuitive Diagnosis and the Human Energy System	83	(46)
What it is and how energy flows
Effects of positive and negative stress
Life issues reflected in the chakras
Where does karma fit in?
Effects of environment and violence
5 How We Heal	129	(22)
Transforming ourselves
Ego pain vs. soul pain; personal vs. impersonal self
Religion vs. spirituality; will to live vs. will to heal
Time vs. present moment
Illness, the teacher
II: How Our Acts and Attitudes Generate Disease	151	(156)
6. The Popular Way to Die: Heart Disease, Stroke, and Cancer	153	(36)
Energy analysis of heart disease, with case studies
Energy analysis of stroke, with case studies
Energy analysis of cancer, with case studies
7. Why Do We Get Acute Diseases and Injuries?	189	(34)
Energy analysis of disease, infection, and the immune system
Coming down with AIDS, herpes, shingles, and other acute diseases
Why accidents?-case studies
8 How Stress Causes Chronic Disease	223	(32)
Coming down with epilepsy, MS, ALS, and other chronic illnesses
Case studies of chronic negative patterns
9. Why Do We Have Chronic Pain?	255	(22)
Energy analysis of chronic pain syndrome
Pain examples-migraine and other severe types of pain
Case studies of people with chronic pain
10. How Mental and Emotional Disorders Originate	277	(30)
Energy analysis of emotional disorders
Relationship of stress to mental and emotional problems
Case studies on Alzheimer's Syndrome, Drug and Alcohol Addiction, and Panic Attacks
III: Stress: The Common Denominator of All Dysfunctions	307	(36)
11. Low Self-Esteem Leads to Sexual Conflicts	309	(14)
Societal hypocrisies cause stress
Stress results from low self-esteem
12. Psychosomatic Illness Is Stress Illness	323	(20)
Effects of the stress cycle
Illness resulting from stress
Even a placebo works
We are what we think
IV: How to Create Health	343	(42)
13. Stay Healthy	345	(22)
Practice good nutrition
Take physical exercise
Develop mental attitudes attuned to the spiritual
Other alternatives for staying healthy
14. Become an Elegant Spirit	367	(18)
Understanding our planetary situation
Choosing survival
Looking to the future
Index of Diseases	385