If You Hear the Message is a highly readable and inspiring account of Patricia Heller's transformation from living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) to becoming a spiritual and self aware healer. She takes us on her journey from curing her `incurable' illness to investigating healing hands, past life regression, shamanism, manifesting greatness, automatic writing, heart centred transformation, her inner gypsy woman and many more. The book is actually an excellent survey of the healing modalities in America over the past fifteen years. The title refers to what she calls "listening to the universe". When you hear the same message three times, it is time to pay attention.She gives several examples of when she heard messages three times before she got it. In a heart centred transformation centre in the Arizona desert she heard the teacher tell someone to move her energy to her heart and `let it go'. This didn't make any sense to her at all. The second time she was in awe standing over the Grand Canyon.She turned to her teacher and told her how it was so beautiful it hurt her heart. She was told to `let it go.' She looked at him as if he was an alien. Let go of what, she thought? During a full blown attack of CFS at the centre she was again told to `let it go' when the penny finally dropped. She realized that holding onto her anger was making her physically sick. She had to hear it three times before she was able to really hear it and `get it'. That was her last attack of CFS.
In case you are thinking there isn't a modality Patricia doesn't like, rest assured that she approaches them intelligently and with a healthy scepticism that is often absent in books of this type. The road she is on is long and winding, full of insights, pot holes, blind alleys and magnificent vistas. Patricia takes us on the tour with excitement, passion and humility, without trying to make us into converts or convince us that she has found `the path' to enlightenment. In a graceful and humble way, she describes what she found on her own quest for enlightenment and if there is a piece you can take away from it then she has done her job.
Readers are rewarded by Patricia's insights and warmth; she does an excellent job of writing clearly and extracting the meaning out her experiences. I marveled at her curiosity and capacity to absorb and integrate so many different teachings and to draw important lessons from them that have relevance for a general audience. This book is especially exciting for those who are or who are thinking of going on a similar journey of self discovery.
As a coach I am constantly reminded that it is not the events that shape our lives so much as how we respond to them that is what makes us who we are. This book demonstrates how a woman with spunk, determination, courage, curiosity, a great sense of humour overcame a seemingly hopeless situation and the death of her husband to arrive in a place of wisdom, compassion and happiness. You owe it to yourself to read this book!
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This is a book about listening. It's also about seeing, feeling, and sensing. When one learns the language the universe speaks, one can hear, see, feel, and sense the message and discover that everything happens in our lives for a reason.
Patricia Heller's journey of discovery can help anyone searching for answers. While overcoming a debilitating, supposedly incurable disease, Heller discovered:
- how to heal illness by finding what we repress from ourselves and the world;
- the meditations, tools, and encouragement to accept that it's never too late to live a magical life;
- the Four Insights for achieving even the most challenging of goals.
Heller says there is no 'right' way to approach change, just as there is no right age, teacher, or doctrine. With laugh-out-loud anecdotes, she shows that while a transformational journey can be awe-inspiring and command reverence, a little irreverence now and then keeps things balanced. If You Hear the Message Three Times, Listen is a creative and empowering memoir certain to resonate with readers seeking real change in their life.
Our lives are guided by intuition, synchronicity, and coincidence. If we listen, we can hear messages that are always there helping us on our way.
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