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...
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