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Oct 28, 2003

It is with great pleasure that I share with you the gift that Judith Orloff, M.D., has become a contributing author to our site. Judith is the author of two magnificent books, Second Sight and Intuitive Healing: 5 Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness. These two books are absolutely intriguing, as is Judith herself. She is an extremely gifted intuitive and combines her personal background as an intuitive with her expertise as a physician. Judith is the type of physician we all wish we had, quite frankly....
In addition to her "cosmic credentials", Judith is a board-certified psychiatrist and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA.

I know you'll enjoy reading Judith's articles and her books. I consider her among my dearest friends, but aside from that bias, I also consider her to be a true visionary.

Caroline Myss

Greeting everyone,

Thank you for all the positive responses about my last installment of Caroline’s newsletter. How to keep our energy high is a hot topic. Yes, many of us “sensitives” absorb energy from others, particularly negative energy, and get exhausted by it. It’s essential that we learn strategies not to do that. Please refer to my book Guide to Intuitive Healing in chapter 7 on Centering and Protection for many techniques. In that chapter I also talk about energy vampires, those people who sap our energy. Here’s an introduction to dealing with them which is part of the third step to intutive healing I discuss in the book. We need to combat these creature so they don’t suck the life from us!

Much love,
Judith

Newsletter #4
Intuitive Healing Step 3; Sense Your Subtle Energy

What is an Energy Vampire?
by Judith Orloff MD

Relationships are always an energy exchange. To stay feeling our best, we must ask ourselves: Who gives us energy? Who saps it? It's important to be surrounded by supportive, heart-centered people who make us feel safe and secure. It's equally important to pinpoint the energy vampires, who, whether they intend to or not, leech our energy.

Positive energy in others can be rejuvenative. For instance, you're nervous about a job interview, but the minute you meet your prospective boss you relax. He's so calm and welcoming, you calm down too. Or perhaps you have a good friend around whom you always feel loved. These are energy-givers, those we must gravitate towards.

In contrast, energy vampires exude negative energy that drains. Vampires range from the intentionally malicious ones to those who are oblivious to their effect. Some are overbearing and obnoxious; others are friendly and charming. For example, you're at a party talking to a perfectly nice person, but suddenly you're nauseous or weak. Or how about the co-worker who drones on about how she broke up with her boyfriend for the tenth time? Eventually, she feels better, but you're spent. The bottom line is that on a subtle energy level these people suck you dry.

Tips for Dealing With Energy Vampires
1.Take an inventory of people in your life who give energy, and people who drain. Specifically identify the energy vampires, and begin to evaluate ones you'd like to limit contact with or eliminate. Plan at least one complete afternoon with people who give off positive energy and avoid drainers. Notice how this beneficially affects their physical and emotional well-being.

2.Protect Your Energy: Set Clear Boundaries

It’s crucial to limit the time you spend discussing a vampire’s gripes. When approaching her, remember: the difference between being a bitch and setting boundaries is attitude. Instead of saying, “You’re selfish and self-obsessed, I can’t take you anymore,” which a part of you likely feels, take a breath and shift to your heart.

3.Meditate. Sitting in meditation is a life-line to your center, to the earth. it will ground you when you’ve been struck by a vampire. By calming the mind, you can re-align with your essence. Close your eyes. Focus on your breath. Then gently extend your awareness downward to strata, bedrock, minerals, and soil. From the base of your spine begin to feel a continuity with the earth's core. Picture having a long tail that roots in that center. Allow the earth's energy to infuse your body and stabilize you. If you meditate for five minutes or an hour this is sacred time.

4. When you’re with vampires you can’t get away from visualize a protective shield of while light surrounding every inch of you. This lets positive energy in, but keeps negative energy out—particularly efficient for vampires at family dinners or social events where you’re trapped.

Judith Orloff M.D is now part of the Myss Expert Forum located in the resource section on the home page of myss.com and can be reached through her website www.drjudithorloff.com

Judith Orloff, M.D is a board certified psychiatrist and practicing intuitive, author of the bestsellers Second Sight and Intuitive Healing and the upcoming book Positive Energy. She is assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and an international workshop leader.

January 2004 - Intuitive Power; Your Natural Resource
Caroline Myss- Judith Orloff
Donald E. Stephens Seminar Center
Jan. 10, 2004
5555 North River Road
Rosemont IL. 60018
877.507.6977
Judith Orloff

I am bursting with excitement about the workshop Caroline and I are giving together in Chicago on January 10th, 2004. It’s an amazing opportunity for the two of us to come together with each other, and you the audience. As a psychiatrist and intuitive it took me many years to overcome my fear of coming out the closet about integrating intuition and medicine. Now, thankfully, that fear is behind me. I’m thrilled to share what I’ve learned with you. Intuition isn’t just something “intuitives” do. In this workshop I want to teach you how to tune in and use intuition for health and healing. I want you to be able to ask me questions that you might’ve been afraid to ask anywhere else. This workshop will offer a safe place for everyone to express their deepest intuitions, dreams, and come together as a community of people who won’t stand for letting our intuitive voices be squashed. It will be a day of total empowerment and fun. I look forward to meeting you all!

Caroline Myss

Judith and I are extremely excited about the January 10th workshop. Both of us have a passionate interest in intuition, both from the perspective of how one can utilize intuition as a tool for self-diagnosis as well as learning to discern the nature of spiritual intuition. I have long noted the conflicts people have with their intuitive skills, striving to become clear at internal guidance while fearing the content that often arises. I have believed for a long time that a great deal of the anguish people experience is the consequence of not realizing how intuitive they are, largely because so often intuition is associated with seeing the future as opposed to guidance that responds to every moment of life. Intuition is as active within our biology as it is within our dreams or gut instincts. I love exploring the various manifestations of intuition in our every day life, particularly because I recognize that so many people now live in two different worlds that often collide with each other given the reality of our lives. I hope you will consider joining us on January 10th. Judith and I are planning to make this a spectacular workshop.

Caroline Myss - The Miraval Retreat

Spiritual Enchantment: Discovering Your Intuitive Resources
Date/Time:
January 15-18, 2004
Schedule:
Thursday, January 15th
6pm-9pm Opening Session
Friday, January 16th
9am - 12noon Session
Saturday, January 17th
9am - 12noon Session
Sunday, January 18th
Departures
Description:
Intuitive abilities are your first and most primal natural resource. In so many instances, the struggles and confusion people have within their lives are due to their efforts to repress their intuitive abilities, believing that they lack the "gift" of being intuitive. But intuitive sight is the most natural sense you have, and developing a rapport with this inner resource is the one experience that transforms the manner in which you will embrace the rest of your life. Many techniques have been developed to assist people in awakening their intuitive skills, but working effectively with any skill depends upon the quality of a person's self-esteem along with their ability to engage with life as an empowered, elegant spirit. In this retreat, becoming an "elegant spirit" and developing your interior voice is the focus, an experience that will hopefully be delightfully enchanting.
Holding this retreat at Miraval is very much a part of creating the enchantment of this workshop because it is such a rare gift to be able to pamper your body, relax your mind, and explore your spirit all in one. Last year's workshop was absolutely delightful, and certainly a major reason for this was that due to the intimate size and setting of Miraval, we "took it over" and had the entire spa to ourselves...which made the environment we shared even more incredible.
Finally, let me add that January is a perfect time for this retreat because there is something so nice about beginning the New Year with an experience that makes you feel good about who you are and the gift you bring to this world.
The workshop will be organized as follows:

exploring the nature of intuitive abilities
investigating the fear of becoming intuitive
how intuitive skills redirect your future
identifying your Sacred Contracts and archetypes
a bit about the mystical life....
~ Caroline Myss

To reserve your space for this event please call (800) 232-3969.

Eckhart Tolle
The Pathway to Inner Peace
October 19, 2003 - Chicago
Last public appearance in North America until 2005!

Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, the NY Times bestseller and one of Oprah's "Favorite Things," and soon to be released STILLNESS SPEAKS, has the rare gift of being able to convey the deepest spiritual truths with uncomplicated clarity and in a form which resonates with our current time and needs. His message? There is a way out of suffering and into peace.
On-Demand Workshop Schedule
The live event workshop was recorded and is available for showing in your private home via a webcast Internet stream. You will be able to watch the entire 4 hour workshop from the comfort of your own home right here on your personal computer. Purchase tickets for the On-Demand event from this link ECKHART TOLLE
The On-Demand event will be available beginning 10/21/03