Sacred Power: Medical Intuition and Why People Don’t Heal
Humans are blessed with an innate potential, or “sacred power,” the highest aspect of our being and living. However, many of us don’t access this power and instead, live below our potential, spiritually, health-wise and in many other ways. The good news is that Caroline Myss, a leading expert in medical intuition, energy medicine, human consciousness, and higher living, in partnership with Gaia, has created an engaging online series entitled “Sacred Power,” designed to inspire, teach, and gently challenge us to live wholly and with the power of our mystical inheritance.
Caroline Myss is recognized for her many accomplishments, including developing the field of Energy Anatomy, as well as her educational institute, CMED (Caroline Myss Education), offering a wide range of online, on-demand, and in-person programs. Caroline is the author of five New York Times bestselling books including Anatomy of the Spirit, The Creation of Health, Why People Don’t Heal and How the Can, Sacred Contracts, Invisible Acts of Power, Entering the Castle, and Defy Gravity. In addition to her books, Caroline is the host of a weekly Hay House radio show and maintains an energetic international workshop and lecture schedule.
The series begins with exploring Medical Intuition, an emerging field of science that develops the critical role that inner, or soul healing, has on one’s well-being. It involves the stories we tell ourselves and others about our individual suffering and how it negatively impacts our health. In Myss’s words, “Your biography becomes your biology” — our body’s emotional field interacts with our cells and tissues; our internal and external experiences, positive and negative can be transformed into a source of power and healing.
According to Myss, every human being is the owner of an intuitive intelligence or sacred power: “99 percent of the time, you are listening to this intuition, responding to it, and never even notice it.“ Myss doesn’t consider medical intuition a gift that is simply dropped into our laps. She believes it is a skill that needs to be developed and fostered so that we are able to notice, pay attention to, and act upon the “energetic signals” that come our way, every day. But what exactly is “medical intuition” and how do we develop it?
Medical Intuition: Our Body’s Energetic Data Bank
Myss herself would be the first to say that she was an unlikely candidate for the medical intuitive field she helped to create. Despite being a co-founder of Stillpoint Publishing, which was dedicated to books on consciousness and personal development, she had little interest in the subject of the books:
“I wasn’t the least bit interested in them. I had no desire to meet any healers myself. I refused to meditate. I developed an absolute aversion to wind chimes, New Age music, and conversations on the benefits of organic gardening. I smoked while drinking coffee by the gallon, still fashioning myself after an image of a hard-boiled newspaper reporter. I was not at all primed for a mystical experience.”
What changed for Myss? She could no longer ignore the deeply profound messages and insights she was receiving about other people’s health. She began exploring her capacity as a medical intuitive and sought out the guidance of C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon. In 1996, they opened the Institute for the Science of Medical Intuition, a research establishment dedicated to funding medical intuitive training for medical practitioners.
More than two decades later, thousands of medical intuitive have changed the way we view and receive medical treatment. In addition to this impact, Myss has worked to empower regular people to learn how to access their own medical intuitive skills. In fact, she believes we are living in a highly energetically charged time in which we are capable of intense transformation, a period she refers to an “Energetic Renaissance” in which the choices we make are drawing more power for ourselves and the world. What does this translate into as far as personal empowerment?
Sacred Power and Healing Tools
Myss defines intuition as the “natural ability to not just sense energetic data that fills this dimension of the invisible world, but to interpret it, to understand energetic data.” She teaches that this ability is ever present; however, obstacles to wholeness and health occur when the data is ignored because we are resistant to the messages. If the obstacles are removed, we have access to a mystical ability, an inner voice which Myss defines as our “cosmic guidance system” whose purpose is the overall management of our well being and optimum health. Below are aspects of our mystical ability to note:
- Every person lives in an energy field
- We leak energy, or power, when we are scared, threatened, or stressed
- Energy is never contained; our bodies share stress with our entire being and others
- Our energy field holds “anchors,” energy that targets our cravings, trauma, and wounds and creates psychic weight
Central to the cosmic guidance system and healing tools is the seven chakra system, which Myss divides into two channels: the lower three being our physical world, the one of survival; the upper four, our emotional world with the heart chakra identified as the turning point to the divine energy system. The chakra system contains the sacred energy that is inside all of us, and when we embrace the divine design, we allow those energies to speak through what Myss calls our “bio-spiritual ecology.”
However, despite the availability of this energetic toolkit, Myss recognizes that many people choose to stay in their wounded state, asserting that this state provides a level of social collateral, as well as an accepted form of intimacy. She calls the resistance to healing “woundology” and can be the impediment to transforming one’s personal state of suffering into a font of power.
Our Wounds: Breaking Through the Patterns of Woundology
Myss acknowledges that healing is intimidating, that it can change relationships, and literally shake up one’s world. Moving past our wounds into wholeness is not only an act of bravery but is in direct opposition to our accepted social language in which, as Myss says, “pain has privileges…we expect to be rewarded or compensated for our suffering.” Despite this, Myss asserts that we’re not destined to stay wounded; we’re meant to move past the “consciousness of our wounds.”
When we heal from our wounds, we move into wholeness and our full health and life potential. One of the challenges is that we have close to no positive role models, or iconic whole people to emulate. Another challenge is that wholeness is often viewed as being an unapproachable, solitary state which can make us feel we will not be able to be in a relationship as wholly healed beings.
In the face of the social acceptance of wound intimacy, how do we move past our wounds? Myss counsels that in order to heal our wounds, we must learn the “vocabulary of healing,” moving past words such as “blame” and “deserve” as they represent powerless strategies.
She says that forgiveness is the key to healing and is a “mystical act of the soul.” Our wounds are meant to be healed and while they do happen to all of us, we can choose to view them as critical soul challenges provided to “enhance and build our character” and once healed, we’re able to empower others to do the same.
Myss advises that the next time a friend or loved one begins to speak the language of wounding, instead of adding to that vocabulary of woundology, to make the choice to focus the conversation on a positive and empowering experience. She shares that one of the most difficult choices we can make is the day we stop responding to the power of other’s wounds. Yet, this choice is also liberating and life-affirming.
The path to healing requires courage, but it is one that allows us to live in our sacred power, which is our birthright. Thankfully, that birthright is not a solitary quest; it is a shared birthright and Myss believes that all of us are meant to heal and that in the grand cosmic scheme, “we’re all in this together.”
Caroline Myss is coming to the GaiaSphere event center for an exclusive weekend-long seminar“Revolutionizing Spirituality,” on August 16-18, 2019. The unique event will explore “the next wave of expanded consciousness” and provide an intimate and immersive experience for participants. Learn more about this event here.
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10 Tips To Manifest Money and Abundance in Your Life
Manifesting money and abundance is a process that unites intention, energy, and focused action. It’s not just about wishing for wealth but about cultivating a mindset aligned with prosperity and opening yourself to receive it in all its forms. In this article, we explore how to manifest money and abundance with clarity, awareness, and practical tools you can use in your daily life.
Table of Contents
- What Does It Mean To Manifest Money and Abundance?
- 10 Tips To Attract Money and Abundance
- Manifesting Money From a Spiritual Perspective
- Spiritual Practices To Boost Money Manifestation
- Common Mistakes When Trying To Manifest Wealth
- How To Maintain an Abundance Mindset Long Term
What Does It Mean To Manifest Money and Abundance?
Manifesting money is a deep process of connecting with the energy of prosperity and worthiness. It’s a conscious practice where you align your thoughts, emotions, and decisions with the energy of wealth. Learning how to manifest money begins with recognizing that your financial reality is directly influenced by your inner state, your beliefs, and your capacity to receive.
Manifesting money is not solely based on techniques or rituals, but rather on the profound transformation of your relationship with value, worthiness, and the flow of resources. To sustain the manifestation of abundance, it’s essential to feel in tune with the idea of thriving—without guilt, fear, or resistance. This way, you make space for financial opportunities to flow more easily into your life.
From the law of attraction perspective, manifesting wealth means focusing your attention on what you do want to experience, not on what you fear losing. If your thoughts are constantly centered on lack, you’re likely to keep replicating that experience. In contrast, by cultivating a mental and emotional frequency rooted in gratitude, trust, and purpose, you begin to attract situations that mirror that abundant energy.
10 Tips To Attract Money and Abundance
Manifesting money and abundance requires focus, clarity, and actions aligned with a prosperity mindset. These ten tips will help you strengthen your connection to the energy of money, transform your relationship with wealth, and create a clear path toward manifesting abundance in your life.
- Clarify your financial goals: Knowing exactly how much you want to earn or save allows you to focus your energy. Clear goals are a powerful point of attraction for money.
- Transform your limiting beliefs about money: Identify thoughts like “money is bad” or “I’m not capable of thriving,” and replace them with empowering beliefs. What you believe is reflected in your financial reality.
- Practice gratitude to attract more abundance: Being thankful for what you already have opens space to receive more. Gratitude raises your frequency and strengthens your connection to abundance.
- Visualize your financial success: Imagine in detail scenarios where you already live in abundance. This practice reinforces your intention and tunes your mind to prosperity.
- Create powerful wealth affirmations: Repeat phrases like “Money flows to me easily” or “I deserve a prosperous life.” Affirmations reprogram your subconscious and keep your focus on abundance.
- Take actions aligned with your financial goals: Intention alone is not enough—you also need to act. Each daily decision can bring you closer to or further from the financial reality you want to manifest.
- Practice generosity and detachment: Sharing from the heart activates the flow of giving and receiving. At the same time, letting go of the need to control the outcome allows money to come through unexpected channels.
- Surround yourself with positive influences about money: Connect with people and content that maintain a healthy relationship with prosperity. Your environment directly affects your financial perception and energy.
- Use the law of attraction to your advantage: Focus on what you do want to experience, not on what you fear losing. Money manifestation happens when your vibration matches abundance, not scarcity.
- Celebrate your financial achievements, even the small ones: Celebrate your progress, even the small steps. Acknowledging each achievement boosts your self-esteem and connection to prosperity. Celebration keeps you in a high frequency that attracts more opportunities.
Manifesting Money From a Spiritual Perspective
Manifesting money and abundance is not only a mental or emotional process—it is also deeply spiritual. From this perspective, money is not an end in itself, but a form of energy that can flow to you when you are in harmony with your purpose and with life itself. When you understand this, you stop chasing money from a place of lack and begin to attract it from a state of wholeness.
Spirituality invites you to let go of excessive control and open yourself to receiving from a place of trust. This means recognizing that you deserve to thrive—without guilt or sacrifice. Instead of seeing money as something separate from the sacred, you learn to integrate it as part of your evolutionary path, using it with awareness, gratitude, and coherence.
From this view, money manifestation becomes a practice of alignment—between your intention, your energy, and your action. It’s not about obtaining wealth at any cost, but attracting it consciously and ethically, knowing that by raising your own frequency, you’re also contributing to collective well-being.
Spiritual Practices To Boost Money Manifestation
Spiritual practices are concrete tools that help you raise your vibration and align your mind and emotions with abundance. Adding them to your routine strengthens your connection to worthiness, dissolves internal blocks, and helps you maintain an open and receptive attitude toward the flow of prosperity.
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Meditation Focused on Abundance
Meditation can help you observe and release thoughts of lack, connecting you with the internal feeling of having enough. By practicing it regularly, you train your mind to remain in a state of gratitude, openness, and possibility.
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Conscious Writing of Financial Desires
Writing down your financial goals clearly and from the heart helps you give concrete shape to your intentions. This practice reinforces your focus, activates your creativity, and allows you to identify beliefs that may be limiting your ability to manifest money.
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Visualization of Financial Prosperity
Creative visualizations invite you to imagine in detail scenarios where you already live in abundance, activating positive emotions and a vibration aligned with prosperity. This practice is especially effective for reprogramming your subconscious and facilitating the manifestation of that financial reality in your life.
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Positive Affirmations to Attract Money
Positive affirmations are powerful tools to focus your mind on abundance and strengthen your belief system. Repeating phrases like “I am open to receiving abundance in all its forms” or “Money flows to me with ease and joy” reinforces your inner confidence and aligns your energy with the wealth you wish to manifest.
Common Mistakes When Trying To Manifest Wealth
When starting to work on manifesting money and abundance, it’s common to make certain mistakes that can block the process. Recognizing them early allows you to make the necessary adjustments to align your energy and actions with a true prosperity mindset.
- Focusing only on the result: Putting all your attention on money without enjoying the process creates anxiety. Manifestation works best when you trust the journey, not just the outcome.
- Holding on to scarcity beliefs: Thinking that money is limited or that you don’t deserve it blocks the flow of abundance. These beliefs must be identified and consciously transformed.
- Forcing instead of flowing: Trying to control how and when money will arrive creates resistance. The key is to act with intention and let go of attachment to the outcome.
- Neglecting concrete action: Manifestation is not about waiting without movement. Without aligned decisions and clear actions, intention loses its power.
- Comparing yourself to others: Measuring your progress against someone else’s wealth creates frustration. Manifestation is a personal process that unfolds at your own pace.
How To Maintain an Abundance Mindset Long Term
An abundance mindset is not built overnight; it’s the result of consistent practices, conscious decisions, and a sustained connection to worthiness. Maintaining this way of thinking means choosing, day by day, to focus on what you already have, what you can create, and what you are already attracting into your life. Abundance is cultivated through intention, but also through repeated habits that reinforce your financial and emotional well-being.
To sustain the manifestation of money over the long term, it’s key to regularly review your beliefs about money. Some may resurface without you realizing it, especially during times of uncertainty or challenge. That’s why it’s helpful to rely on practices like meditation, conscious journaling, or regular use of affirmations to keep your energy aligned with prosperity.
It’s also important to celebrate your progress, even the small ones. Acknowledging what you’re achieving keeps you motivated and strengthens the perception that abundance is already present in your life. This attitude not only raises your vibrational frequency but also strengthens your confidence to continue creating wealth from a place of calm, clarity, and inner commitment.
