People Don't Heal Audio Book Term Paper

She admits that she has no formal education as a health professional, and has merely worked in a publishing firm that published books on healing. Her spiritual orientation is a fusion of various religions, which makes some of her rhetoric seem like the self-help literature she claims to despise in her discussion of "woundology."

Forgiveness, of course, is central to her credo, as only through forgiveness can we heal. Christian doctrine figures prominently in her analysis. Her philosophy is also influenced by her belief that astrology affects healing. She also discusses the concept of chakras from Indian mysticism. She speaks the influence of karma, and how holding onto illnesses can result in bad energy revisited being upon you. Thus Myss' words would not be useful for someone who is not spiritually oriented, and could even have the unintentional result of angering someone in intense physical pain, who might feel that she is implying that the cancer, or heart disease is his or her 'fault.' A parent with a young child suffering from a disease would be particularly outraged listening to Myss' words. How could a sick young child be holding onto the past and refusing to heal? Myss' words, however tangentially, touch upon the role that mental activity, like stress, can sometimes play in the creation of a holistic state of physical or mental health. A failure to heal is clearly the result, sometimes, of a refusal to let go of the past, but Myss' rather muddled rhetoric is hardly the 'total' solution to the failure of medicine and therapy to address all of the ailments in the world.