yourself at all times as an energy being as well as a physical one. The energy part of yourself is the transmitter and recorder of all your thoughts … - Caroline Myss

Recognize defensiveness as an attempt to keep new insights from entering your mental field.

Maintaining the health of our individual first chakra depends upon addressing our personal tribal issues. If we feel victimized by society, for example, we should deal with this negative perception so that it doesn’t cause us to lose energy. We can, for instance, get therapeutic support, become skilled at an occupation, seek a more symbolic view of our situation, or become politically active to change society’s attitudes. Nurturing bitterness toward the cultural tribe embroils our energy in a continual inner conflict that blocks access to the healing power of the sacred truth All Is One. Our respective

in 1972, the revelation that a vice-presidential candidate — George McGovern’s running mate, Thomas Eagleton — had undergone psychotherapy was reason enough to have him removed from the ticket. The notion of working through a trauma therapeutically was still unfamiliar,