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Borders.com presents

Dr. Caroline Myss
Author of "Why People Don't Heal And How They Can"

October 5, 1998

Borders.com presents "NetCafeLive" with Dr. Caroline Myss, author of the book, "Why People Don't Heal And How They Can", who discusses health issues concerning healing and inner wounds.

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RobinCCC: Borders.com(tm), in association with Talk City(tm) Welcomes You! Tonight please welcome our special guest Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Caroline Myss has spent more than 15 years studying why some people heal, while others do not. She is here to discuss her new book "Why People Don't Heal And How They Can." Please welcome to Talk City-Caroline Myss!

Caroline Myss: Thanks!

RobinCCC: Hello Dr. Myss. Thank you for joining us tonight. What does the role of a medical intuitive involve and when did you first realize you had this ability?

Caroline Myss: I can only answer it from me. My role as a medical intuitive is that I assist people in interpreting the data that is present in their energy field, and in their cell tissue. I use the principal that one's biography becomes one's biology. In terms of realizing when I had it, so to speak, I was always, like everyone else, intuitive, and mine simply and gradually refined itself in this direction. So there wasn't a single moment when the light went on but a gradual realization of my strength.

RobinCCC: Your book speaks of about inner wounds. What are they and how do they affect our relationships with others and ourselves?

Caroline Myss: There are numerous inner wounds, everything from childhood traumas to feelings of rejection, to the wounds that the overly sensitive can have, in terms of not getting the right seat in an auditorium that they wanted. In other words, everything can potentially cause a wound, depending on the person you are dealing with. Here again, all wounds affect relationships and again, it is relative to the wound and the maturity of the person. An angry person can make life miserable for the person he or she is angry with, and this is just one example of how you can let a wound influence you and your behavior.

RobinCCC: What are the five myths of healing? How can they be overcome?

Caroline Myss: The first myth is that "pain is a negative" - instead of recognizing the fact that pain could very well be a guiding point as to what's really going on inside of you. And repressing pain, either through creating distractions in your life, or through medication, is often an unwise choice because you're missing the message in pain. Another myth is: my life is defined by my wound. So people will say, "Oh, I am a twice-divorced person," or "I'm a widower," or "I'm an incest survivor"- this is not your identity . These are experiences, but people will use these experiences as if they were one's identity. The question is, why would someone do that? My observation is that presenting one's wound, on lead, is a way of establishing a level of power around oneself, and vulnerability that is often very manipulative. Another myth: "Being Healthy means being alone." Many people are terrified of healing because they believe that healing means no longer having any emotional needs, or no longer being able to reach out for emotional support. Our definition of healing, right now, is that a healed person is invincible, and that model needs to be reconstructed rapidly. Here's another myth: "All illness is the result of negativity." Here again, that is not true. While negativity is certainly a factor in the creation of illness with people, and indeed can be the origin, that concept eclipses the fact that illness can be a product of genetics, toxicity, the environment. Further, illness can often-times be a form of divine guidance, in that it can cause a person to change his or her life into another direction which becomes the "greatest thing that could ever have happened to them." And the 5th myth: "True change is impossible." This myth refers to the response people often have to the demands their healing program presents to them. For example, if a person is under serious stress, health-wise - cancer for example - and that stress seems to involve ongoing abuse in a marriage, then it's obvious that the healing process has to include a reconsideration as to whether or not to remain married to that person. More often than not, I've seen people remain with their partners, saying to me, "I simply can't change that much."

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