Defy Gravity by Caroline Myss

The Next Level of Holistic Wellness and Personal Development

Oct 19, 2009

Defy Gravity, recently released by medical intuitive and best-selling author Caroline Myss, provides a deeper perspective for those on a spiritual healing path.

Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason, latest book by world-renowned speaker Caroline Myss, challenges readers to explore the depths of their soul, while detaching from a victim consciousness, and claiming responsibility for healing one's own life.

In Defy Gravity, Myss initially explains the unrealistic attempt people make to rationally explain why an illness or crisis occurs. Myss presents the power of prayer and spiritual connection in order to understand how physical illness can manifest from underlying energetic, emotional, and psychological imbalances.

The "Dark Night of the Soul" was a poem originally conceived by St. John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic. Myss refers to the "dark night" as a prolonged period of sadness or isolation that can ultimately result in personal transformation.

In the first stage of the soul's dark night, the habits and beliefs of reason, world order, logic, ego and intellect of the mind are actively broken down and brought to the surface of awareness. The second or passive stage of the dark night involves one's true source of wisdom, power, and pure love – the soul.

Myss claims that people remain stuck in a cycle of illness and struggle until they confront and unravel the dark passions and fears that consciously or subconsciously direct their thoughts, feelings, and actions.

The seven passions related by Myss include pride, avarice, wrath, sloth, and envy. They are an aspect of the dark night that can require introspection, reflection, prayer, and moral support from loved ones in order to completely process and gain insight.

Myss emphasizes, "The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing...comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark passions and continuing onward to discover not what has been taken from you, but what you have yet to give and who you have yet to become."

The seven graces, such as reverence, piety, understanding, fortitude, and knowledge, are the foundation for starting a new path of healing based on an authentic connection to inner spiritual wisdom.

In addition to basic traits like increased self-esteem, holistic healing and growth require an awareness of laws and knowledge from the mystical realm. Myss concludes that these truths are revealed to people through an inner awakening, not merely from outside sources or learning materials.

The five mystical laws described by Myss are associated with keeping focus on the present, giving forgiveness, seeing suffering as an illusion, trusting in divine paradox and synchronicity, and aligning mind, body, and soul for harmonious healing.

As a medical intuitive, Myss is psychically able to interpret subtle energy blockage and depletion in a one's aura and chakra system and relay how this corruption and debris can affect the physical body.

Now in the age of energy medicine and evolution of consciousness, the world community is progressively acknowledging and researching the interrelationship between subtle energy, the nature of thoughts and feelings, stress, and physical disease.

For those looking for the next step in holistic healing and personal development, Defy Gravity offers more than the elemental advice of "say affirmations and meditate."

Caroline Myss teaches readers how to deconstruct self-defeating emotions, beliefs, and fears in an effort to empty the old, dark passions and make room for a new life filled with grace and transcendent love.

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