Este libro ayudó a cambiar el rumbo de mi vida

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	• Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing Caroline Myss Three Rivers Press, 1996 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 118 reviews view larger image
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Este libro ayudó a cambiar el rumbo de mi vida

Caroline anima tiernamente al lector a asumir la responsabilidad sobre su cuerpo, su vida y su posible enfermedad, pero sin utilizar el sentimiento de culpa. Suaviza la mirada hacia los demás y hacia uno mismo, y teje una visión sobria y conmovedora con las historias arquetípicas que todos vamos viviendo en nuestro viaje.

Utiliza los sacramentos cristianos, los chakras y la simbología de la cábala de una manera interesante, pero no es necesario creer en estos sistemas para sacar provecho del libro.

Como menciona en algún lugar, "la curación es cuestión de tomar consciencia, no de la enfermedad, sino de la fuerza vital que antes nunca se ha abrazado".

No le va a gustar a todo el mundo, pero a pesar de sus pequeños defectos creo que a mucha gente su enfoque le resultará muy positivo e inspirador. Tal vez usted sea una de estas personas. Anímese y véalo por sí mismo.

Blessings.

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for most of my life, I have felt that a connection exists between our psychological and emotional experiences and the illnesses we develop, that in many ways our illnesses represent a metaphor for the emotional and spiritual crises that we go through. over the course of the last few years I have been exploring different forms of spirituality and healing practices that integrate spirituality with an understanding of the body. in a lot of places I would read references to the idea I described above, of illness as a manifestation of spiritual crises, but no one ever really seemed to go in to the subject at great length. so I was excited when I found Myss's book, as it seemed to delve deeply into this subject, and also explored the relationship between healing and mysticism.

Myss's book is definitely the most throrough discussion of the subject to date. she manages to weave together anecdotes with her discussion of the chakras in a succinct and artful way. she combines narrative with her theories, so you get a really good sense both of the principles she explains and how they manifest in people's lives.

her treatment is heavily drawn from and slanted towards Judeo-Christian traditions. her underlying idea is that personal development is an issue of spiritual power, which you could also call self-respect. Myss sees power as a tangible thing. when we do not keep our word, we lose power. when we are betrayed and do not stand up for ourselves, we lose power. when we master a skill or have a reconciliation with a loved one, we gain power. this concept to a certain extent goes against some people's conceptions of what spirituality is within the context of Christianity and Judaism, as it places the focus of spirituality on the individual and his or her relationship with God, rather than focusing on service and devotion. however, Myss's personal morals show throughout the book, and these are clearly drawn from her own religious upbringing. personal development may be about power, but we gain this power by, basically, being good Christians.

in many places, Myss's tone becomes somewhat preening and arrogant. I like to contrast an anecdote about smoking cessation in this book with one in Donna Eden's Energy Medicine. Myss tells us of a former prostitute attending one of her seminars who continued to smoke one or two cigarettes a day. Myss tells the woman that she is still "losing power" to her addiction as long as she smokes any cigarettes at all. Eden, on the other hand, describes a situation in which a woman discovered the relationship between smoking and anxiety, and used certain techniques to dissociate smoking and anxiety in her own mind. the woman, Eden tells us, continued to smoke one cigarette a day for a number of years "almost like a mantra."

in another instance, Myss tells us that once we have become "spiritual adults," a single act of littering constitutes an ethical choice with complex ramifications. in another instance, she advises a man to reconcile with his family despite years of sexual abuse, even though his family will still not acknowledge wrong-doing on their parts. and in another incident, she describes how she basically tells an incest victim she needs to "get over it" if she wants to grow spiritually. while Myss may have a point, one wonders whether "taking the high ground" was that appropriate in this situation, or if a more gentle approach might have resulted in the woman actually listening to and understanding what Myss had to say.

in essence, my criticism is that while Myss seems to show a great deal of experience with and insight into the nature of spiritual healing, she also seems to let her ego and her own personality get in the way of what she has to say. in the introduction, she advises the reader to accept what he or she finds useful and reject anything that sounds wrong. this seems rather odd for a comment placed at the beginning of three-hundred pages of moralizing, and I am lead to wonder whether she is sincere in that statement or if she just put it there because it seemed like the right kind of thing to say at the beginning of a book about spirituality.

I do recommend this book, as Myss has some very interesting things to say, and the book itself is filled with beautiful, compelling and often heart-breaking stories about a rare subject: the emotional and spiritual lives of "everyday" people. however, Myss's dogmatic style and her own obviously unresolved emotional issues made getting through the book a little trying for me.

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