body-based, concrete referents that take the edge off the sensation that you are looking blindly into empty air for information.

assistance. I was unprepared for this

we must not abuse this truth by blaming ourselves or any patients for becoming ill.

behavior motivated by the fear of internal growth qualifies as an addiction.

I could not accept that my only dream career—being a writer—would not come true. Having no backup dream, I descended into a poisonous, gluey depression, a classic “dark night of the soul.”

detachment is essential to accomplishing an accurate evaluation. Nothing causes more interference than the need to be “right” or to prove that you can do an intuitive evaluation.

You need to become conscious of what gives you power. Healing from any illness is facilitated by identifying your power symbols and your symbolic and physical relationship to those symbols, and heeding any messages your body and intuitions are sending you about them.

prolonged depression often precedes the development of a physical illness.

Spiritual maturation includes not only developing the ability to interpret the deeper messages of sacred texts, but learning to read the spiritual language of the body.