Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential by Caroline Myss (English) Pap

Description: Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential by Caroline Myss New York Times bestselling author and medical intuitive Caroline Myss has found that when people don't understand their purpose in life the result can be depression, anxiety, fatigue, and eventually physical illness—in short, a spiritual malaise of epidemic proportions. Myss's experience of working with people led her to develop an insightful and ingenious process for deciphering your own Sacred Contract—or higher purpose—using a new theory of archetypes that builds on the works of Jung, Plato, and many other contemporary thinkers.Myss examines the lives of the spiritual masters and prophets—Abraham, Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad—whose archetypal journeys illustrate the four stages of a Sacred Contract and provide clues for discovering your own. Myss explains how you can identify your particular spiritual energies, or archetypes—the gatekeepers of your higher purpose—and use them to help you find out what you are here on earth to learn and whom you are meant to meet. Exploring your Sacred Contract will shine a light on the purpose and meaning of your life. You are meant to do certain tasks, you are meant to have certain relationships.In coming to know your archetypal companions, you also begin to see how to live your life in ways that make the best use of your personal power and lead you to fulfill your greatest—in fact, your divine—potential.Both visionary and practical, Sacred Contracts is a bold, powerful work of spiritual wisdom. Without a doubt, your most intriguing challenge in life is to recognize your spiritual commitments and live them to the fullest. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description As a medical intuitive, Myss has found that people often don't understand their purpose in life. The resulting spiritual malaise leads in turn to depression, anxiety, fatigue, and physical illness. To help people find this purpose our individual Sacred Contract — Myss has developed a process for deciphering your own Contract using a theory of archetypes that builds on the work of Jung, Plato, and contemporary thinkers.With her signature motivational style, Myss explains how we can identify our particular spiritual energies, or archetypes, and use them to find out what we are here on earth to learn and whom we are meant to meet. Both visionary and practical, Sacred Contracts is a unique tool for self-discovery and a powerful work of spiritual wisdom. Back Cover A Powerful Program for Discovering Ones Purpose in Life New York Times bestselling author and medical intuitive Caroline Myss has found that when people dont understand their purpose in life the result can be depression, anxiety, fatigue, and eventually physical illness-in short, a spiritual malaise of epidemic proportions. Mysss experience of working with people led her to develop an insightful and ingenious process for deciphering your own Sacred Contract-or higher purpose-using a new theory of archetypes that builds on the works of Jung, Plato, and many other contemporary thinkers. Myss examines the lives of the spiritual masters and prophets-Abraham, Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad-whose archetypal journeys illustrate the four stages of a Sacred Contract and provide clues for discovering your own. Myss explains how you can identify your particular spiritual energies, or archetypes-the gatekeepers of your higher purpose-and use them to help you find out what you are here on earth to learn and whom you are meant to meet. Exploring your Sacred Contract will shine a light on the purpose and meaning of your life. You are meant to do certain tasks, you are meant to have certain relationships. In coming to know your archetypal companions, you also begin to see how to live your life in ways that make the best use of your personal power and lead you to fulfill your greatest-in fact, your divine-potential. Both visionary and practical, Sacred Contracts is a bold, powerful work of spiritual wisdom. Without a doubt, your most intriguing challenge in life is to recognize your spiritual commitments and live them to the fullest. Author Biography Caroline Myss is the author of the "New York Times" bestselling books "Invisible Acts of Power, Sacred Contracts, Why People Dont Heal and How They Can, " and "Anatomy of the Spirit, " and is a pioneer and international lecturer in human consciousness. In 2003, she founded the CMED Institute, an educational program that specializes in intensive classes on archetypes, personal power, and mysticism. Her audiotapes include "Entering the Castle" (Hay House) and "Why People Dont Heal and How They Can; Spiritual Madness;" and "Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice" (Sounds True). Her work is feature Review "Caroline has done it again. With her brilliant writing style she is forging ahead to a new frontier of spirituality: awakening your full potential and revealing your contract with God."--Sylvia Browne, author of The Other Side and Back "Caroline Myss has weaved her magic spell once more. Having read her new book, I have a deeper experience of my own Sacred Contract."--Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love "From the Hardcover edition. Review Quote "Caroline has done it again. With her brilliant writing style she is forging ahead to a new frontier of spirituality: awakening your full potential and revealing your contract with God." -Sylvia Browne, author of The Other Side and Back "Caroline Myss has weaved her magic spell once more. Having read her new book, I have a deeper experience of my own Sacred Contract." -Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love From the Hardcover edition. Excerpt from Book Chapter 1 What Is a Sacred Contract? A contract isnt about saying what you meant. It is about meaning what you say. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1899-94, physician, poet, and humorist) When I was a young girl, my father always told me, "I dont care what you do when you grow up, so long as youre a nurse or a teacher." I can still remember my fury when he would say that, because I was interested only in writing. The very idea of teaching school was out of the question. Yet today, in spite of all my efforts to avoid life in the classroom, I am a teacher--of workshops, of theology, of motivation--and whats more, I love it. I feel distantly connected to the nursing part of my dads directive too, through the healing effects my work has had on many people. My father passed away in 1989, and in the early 1990s, as my mom and I were discussing my work, I said to her, "Well, he won after all." Then I realized that Dad hadnt "won" some sort of game or struggle to control what I did with my life. My Contract had won. My father had been able to glimpse aspects of it, as many parents can, although their vision is often clouded by their own expectations and wishes for their children. Even without knowing about archetypes, Dad had seen something in me that evoked his understanding of the greater function and meaning of a nurse and teacher, and he related it to the career choices that were common for young women at the time. Still, my Contract does contain the archetypes of the Teacher and Healer, which have manifested through the events of my life, even though I have never formally studied healing or teaching. My higher education has been in journalism and theology, but my work in medical intuition simply "happened." I did my first intuitive reading almost by accident, and then another, and another. Word spread through the neighborhood, and soon I was doing ten to fifteen a week. My growing reputation led to invitations to lecture on my work, which in turn led to invitations to teach workshops. The most extraordinary feature about how I learned energy anatomy was the precision with which my education was organized. Again, it simply "happened." Within a period of seven to ten days, three people with the same illness would approach me for help. Each one would prove to be coping with similar but slightly different life problems that had contributed to the development of their illness. By the time I read all three individuals, I felt I had grasped the major energy stress factors behind their conditions. Shortly after I completed one trio, another three people in quick succession would contact me for help. Again, each would prove to have the same illness. Gradually my understanding of energy anatomy led me to realize that our biography becomes our biology. Once I understood that principle, my education seemed to move in another direction. Whereas my previous readings had focused on assessing an individuals physical and emotional chronology, I suddenly began to perceive images that had no apparent connection to the person. In reading a woman who wanted to understand her neck pain, for instance, I got the image of a pirate in her energy field. She was a housewife from the Midwest, so this information meant absolutely nothing to her. Yet while subsequently undergoing relaxation and visualization exercises with a hypnotherapist, she also sensed the pirate energy in her field. She "saw" him slashing her throat with his sword. Curiously, she also felt more positive associations, including wild lawlessness and liberated sexuality. These conflicting impressions of the pirate energy indicated to her that she was being choked or controlled by her life circumstances while yearning for a freedom that she could not consciously voice. Reading another woman a short time later, who complained of severe arthritis in her hands, I kept seeing the image of an artist. When I mentioned this, however, she was baffled, insisting that she had no artistic talent whatever. Nonetheless I suggested that she take up pottery as therapy for her arthritis. She began by making simple clay vases and in time flowered into a gifted potter who now produces artistically sophisticated pieces. Finally, while reading an Australian salesman named Jimmy who had been seriously depressed for several years, I saw a strong actor in his energy field. But Jimmy had never done any acting even though he did want to, because, he said, he was still "in the closet" and was afraid that if he acted, it would "come out" that he was gay. He was, in fact, already acting--as if he were straight--but the blocking of his talent and identity had made him implode emotionally. A few years later I was thankful to hear from Jimmy that he had pulled out of his depression and now acts in summer stock. He takes his stage work seriously, and he is no longer hiding his sexuality. When these odd images first began to emerge, they seemed so disassociated from the people I was reading, so off, that I felt that I had somehow lost my intuitive accuracy. Yet these readings ultimately proved helpful for every person. Then one day in 1991 everything fell into place for me. I was listening to a conversation between two women in one of my workshops. Within five minutes of meeting, they had exchanged the ordinary details of their lives, such as where they lived and what kind of work they did. After the basic physical details, they then spoke about what life experiences had brought them to a spiritual workshop. Suddenly they found a life pattern they shared, an energy link that was immediately noticeable in their heightened response to each other. Their children were grown, their marriages were happily established, and they had arrived at a natural transition point in their lives--they were tired of being everyone elses "servant." Now they wanted to serve themselves. Retired and liberated, they wanted to pursue their own interests and to develop their own spirits. As I listened to these kind souls describe the pattern of their lives, I was seeing through their conversation to its symbolic level. As good mothers and marriage partners, they had acted in behalf of others for most of their lives, but having accomplished this early mission, they were now striking out on their own, as the Servant of myth and legend must. When the biblical Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers, for instance, he bided his time and did the work requested of him through many years of service. But then he used his singular gifts as a dream interpreter to earn his freedom and become a great leader in the land--going from Servant to Master. All of a sudden the vivid but mystifying images that I had been getting in my recent readings made sense. The Pirate, the Artist, the Actor, and the Servant were not part of the individual, physical chronology that I had been used to reading. Rather, these images were a part of each persons spiritual chronology, a personal mythology that had begun even before they entered their physical lives. These images were archetypes, energy guides that could direct people toward their spiritual purpose, their Contracts. The mythic lightbulb that got turned on that afternoon has stayed on ever since. From that point on, every reading I did opened with an evaluation of a persons spiritual chronology, the archetypal patterns that express themselves through his personality and life experiences. And just as trios of people with the same physical illnesses had contacted me for intuitive readings, people with the same archetypal patterns began contacting me in a relatively short period of time, though spread over months rather than days. Some of my first readings, for example, were for several people who had the Wounded Child archetype, a pattern of emotional scars from childhood. Then I met a few who had in common a dominant Victim archetype. Just as before, each of these people reflected slightly different aspects of these archetypes as a result of their individual personalities and life experiences. As I began to work purposefully with the archetypes in my readings and to teach them in my workshops, I gained further insights about how they function within our psyche. When Jung proposed his theory of the collective unconscious, he defined it as mainly populated with countless psychological patterns derived from historical roles in life, such as the Mother, Trickster, King, and Servant. Along with our individual personal unconscious, which is unique to each of us, he said, "there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature that is identical in all individuals." This collective unconscious, he believed, was inherited rather than developed. I have observed that some archetypes step out from the backdrop of this great collective to play a much more prominent role in peoples lives, and that each of us has our own personal alignment of key archetypes. Through a process of research, reflection, trial, and error, I ultimately concluded that a unique combination of twelve archetypal patterns, corresponding to the twelve houses of the zodiac, works within each of us to support our personal development. These twelve patterns work together in all aspects of your life. They can be particularly vivid and perceptible in your problems or challenges, or in the places where you feel incomplete. And they can be particularly useful in healing painful memories, or redirecting your life, or finding a way to express your untapped creative potential. In a sense each archetype represents a "face" and "function" of the Divine that manifests within each of us individually. Humanity has always given names to the many powers of heaven and tried to identify the qualit Details ISBN0609810111 Author Caroline Myss Short Title SACRED CONTRACTS Language English ISBN-10 0609810111 ISBN-13 9780609810118 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 158.1 Illustrations Yes Year 2003 Publication Date 2003-01-31 Edition 1st Imprint Three Rivers Press Country of Publication United States Alternative 9781564559364 Subtitle Awakening Your Divine Potential Pages 464 Place of Publication New York Residence Oak Park Chicago Chicago Chica, IL, US Qualifications PhD Publisher Harmony DOI 10.1604/9780609810118 Audience General/Trade We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:8226635;

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