Caroline Myss – You don’t have time to waste.

Key wellness & self-care / productivity strategies from the workshop (Caroline Myss)

• Shift from “processing wounds” to action

  • Stop spending time “feeling sorry for yourself” or endlessly “healing wounds.”
  • Move into what she calls “get on with your life” behavior: heal this minute, then the next.

• Reframe purpose around spiritual truth and daily significance

  • Live according to what you know is true in the “invisible/sacred world.”
  • Treat every thought as meaningful and every person as significant (her emphasis: “every single thing matters”).

• Choose your “team” (values alignment)

  • Decide whether you’re living as part of the “good guys or bad guys.”
  • Practice being more giving than taking, and more responsive than dead (wakeful engagement).

• Practice fearlessness via guidance + trust

  • She describes a personal pattern: when guidance tells her “Don’t think fear,” fear drops out immediately.
  • The implied self-care method is to replace fear-thinking with trust/guidance in the moment.

• Use near-death insights to motivate life priorities

  • She finds it important that many modern near-death accounts (especially from Nancy Ryan) emphasize:
    • a shift in worldview (“I was wrong… where am I?”),
    • urgency about the life mission,
    • the need to live with greater meaning and love.

• Stop demanding simple, single-cause explanations

  • Healing/life is not reducible to “one negative thing.”
  • Wellness requires accepting complexity (past/future influences, multiple layers), and letting go of the compulsion to “know why everything happens.”

• Claim internal power to “co-create” reality

  • A major paradigm shift she teaches: power is not something external coming toward you.
  • Instead: you create your experience through what you give meaning/attention to (she uses a “pen” example—once it’s relevant, it changes your mental and emotional focus).

• Practice trust through “not knowing where you’re going”

  • Life choices as rehearsals for deeper trust—acting before having full control.
  • Self-care angle: let go of control-fixation and practice guidance-led decisions.

• Use a powerful end-of-life reflection as a motivation tool

  • Before closing, she prompts participants to answer:
    • “If you died tonight, did you live your life to its fullest potential?”
  • If not, then articulate the “why not” (what fear or sabotage is operating).
  • This “why-not” inquiry becomes the focus for future discussion in the workshop.

• Gratitude/compassion action practice

  • She illustrates her values with a lived example: she chased a person who needed help because she thought, “angels come in disguise.”
  • Takeaway: small compassion acts can be treated as meaningful spiritual practice.

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Presenters / sources mentioned

• Caroline Myss (speaker)
• Nancy Ryan (near-death experience presenter; discussed as someone Myss watched and later invited)
• N. Ken Ring (founded the International Association of Near-Death Studies; referenced as part of Myss’s background)
• Teresa Baba (quoted: “When God gets into the walls of your soul…”)