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Myss describes herself as a medical intuitive, and believes that we all have such capabilities. She describes intuition as our "emotional apparatus upgraded to a perceptual skill" working as a vehicle for gathering information. 39 She says that intuition is our birthright, and it is a "natural by-product of the flowering of a mature self-esteem and sense of empowerment  not power over, but power to be (italics ours)."40 In the book The Creation of Health Myss teaches that all response patterns created by human attitudes and affecting our health essentially fall into four basic areas: issues of power, responsibility, wisdom, and love.41 Myss and Shealy conducted research from 1985 to 1987 in which Myss did her intuitive diagnoses over the telephone, given only the name and birthdate of Shealy's patients. The patients were with Shealy in his Missouri office, while Myss diagnosed from twelve hundred miles away with a 93 percent accuracy rate.
Both Myss and Brennan are able to do psychic diagnoses from a distance. This suggests that the aura of prana or chi surrounding our bodies consists of information rather than energy. It may be that some people access this information field most easily through psychic sight or clairvoyance, which is analogous to remote viewing. Others may experience the information kinesthetically, which allows them to "feel" the emotional scar tissue that Myss "sees." The renowned early-twentieth-century American psychic Edgar Cayce diagnosed illness and prescribed remedies to over thirty thousand people from a distance while in an unconscious state. He attributed his reputed high degree of accuracy to the consciousness of each of his patient's body cells, which he said communicated with his unconscious mind, and told him what was troubling them.42
Diseases As Unhealthy Conversations
We know from the work of neuroscientist Dr. Candace Pert, the former head of the brain biochemistry section at the National Institute of Mental Health, that surface molecules on the walls of our bodies' cells, called receptors, regulate physiological functions as well as brain communication in the body.43 Our brains, affected by our feelings and ideas, promote the

 
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