Book Review Create Your Own Destiny by Rachel Madorsky

“Create Your Own Destiny! Spiritual Path to Success" is a unique work. Although there have been many biographies of healers, this autobiography presents a chance to discover the inner world of a healer and her story offers everyone the opportunity to explore their own blueprint for access to the inner world.”

– C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Energy Medicine

President Emeritus Holos University

Graduate Seminary

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“Rachel Madorsky is an important bridge, much needed in this time of trial and transition. A natural healer, she has nevertheless taken the trouble to become well-credentialed and well-experienced in the conventional realms of healing; as nurse, engineer, and college professor. We are in much need of those who can span the separation between the powers of the Higher Mind and the accustomed world of the healing sciences. Rachel and her book serve this purpose well, filling the pages with abundant case illustrations. Our great enemy, in terms of realizing our powers of divine healing, is that of conventional "doubt". "Create Your Own Destiny!" serves to relieve much doubt.''

– Maurie D. Pressman, M.D.Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

at Temple University and Emeritus Chairman of Psychiatry at

the Albert Einstein Medical Center, Former President,

ISSSEEM. Author of "Visions from the Soul: Enter the

Supermind" and Co-Author of "Twin Souls."

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“As Rachel progressed in her book of healing, she came across many diverse factors that she deals with her own particular style and point of view. The theory of karma, rebirth, self in healing and many related topics are touched upon by the author. She says, "the body cannot be healed without changing one's inner self". Thus, healing is not simply curing a disorder; it is realigning oneself in harmony with the universal forces. The importance of nutrition and clean environment are also stressed. Clean environment takes a new meaning in today's electromagnetic pollution of the surroundings. There are many ways of protecting oneself from such unseen pollution, however, the methods are not easy.

Many patients’ responses to healing are of interest; eventually, all of us will be going through illnesses in our own lives. While the cause of illnesses is often difficult to determine, its containment could be similar. In this book, Ms. Madorsky has drawn extensively from "…factual materials about the patients" she has healed. The mind-body problems are interwoven into one aspect which interacts to provide either a balance or otherwise in a person.

The book is an excellent introduction to health and healing; it is a journey for each one of us as we awaken to the awareness of the infinite potentials of the energy that could help us in many ways. I wish the author all success.”

– T. M. Srinivasan, Ph.D. Former President, ISSSEEM.

Editor of “Energy Medicine Around the World”

Evolving Knowledge

"..... For the person struggling to find answers to a health crisis, this book gives some places to look for understanding and a model for fitting together the answers. The experiences of others are offered as examples and options...

One of the messages of the book is that even on this level, there is hope for different outcomes if one has the courage to choose to seek answers through exploration and intuition. Intuition is held as the final judge of truth as it applies to the individual seeker...

...The fundamental basis of Rachel Madorsky conclusions, however, remains her personal experiences and informal experiments. These are not totally idiosyncratic. Her ideas are congruent with other teachings — the American mystic Edgar Cayce, for example, as well as many other healers of the natural variety. Her work also seems to resonate with shamanic traditions from Asia, South America and the native people of North America. Perhaps some future scientists will unravel the mysteries of reincarnation, karma and the energy bodies that permeate the wisdom teaching of many cultures. Rachel offers some good clues as to where to look..

Overall, the book Create Your Own Destiny! Spiritual Path to Success gives a fascinating look into the mind and practices of a rare individual — a natural healer who has taken up the lonely task of understanding and using her gifts for the good of those who find their way to Rachel Madorsky practice...

Nonetheless, the book is a valuable one-of-a-kind look at a work in progress, the evolving knowledge and beliefs of a natural practitioner of an ancient healing tradition. Enjoy the trip. Be open and listen for that which speaks to you and your situation.

– Jerry E. Wesch, Ph.D., Former President, International Society

for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine

Powerful Channel

Create Your Own Destiny! Spiritual Path to Success is an important guidebook in identifying who is really the master of one’s health, for good health is much more than taking a few pills when one becomes ill. Healing is a whole mind-set with spiritual implications and cosmic forces.

Create Your Own Destiny! explains that our bodies and minds are not two entities to be treated separately in the healing process but are woven into one. The body cannot banish a cancerous growth without first joining forces with the mind to provide a united front against the invading force. The path to healing is fiercely guarded and only those with spiritual maturity may pass. Those who do not change their inner selves cannot expect to make the journey.

Both healer and patient must work in concert to regain good health. This book was written at the request of the author’s patients who felt that her voice needed to be heard and that her vision needed to be unveiled. As such, this book is truly a powerful channel to regaining one’s health, for good health is not to be taken lightly. Good health must be held closely in the mind to preserve it. – Peggy Grillot, author

"The writing style of "Create Your Own Destiny!" is outstanding, and the ideas are conveyed in a compelling manner. It is one of the few books I have come across in which nearly every sentence contains a wisdom worthy of contemplation. It will help many people, more than author realize.”

– James L. Oschman, Ph.D. Author of "Energy

Medicine: the Scientific Basis and Energy Medicine in

Therapeutics and Human Performance."

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Four Karma Cycles Out of Five

Rachel Madorsky focuses her life accumulating knowledge about the healing of both the physical body and spiritual aspects of our existence in her book "Create Your Own Destiny."

Various chapters focus on Karma Cycles, Another Path to Knowledge, The Invisible Reality, Your Health, Destiny, Vision, Healing Ethics and the Search for Truth. Her case studies are many and interesting, the majority being about people with cancer.

Rachel believes in the importance of fortifying your spiritual condition in the struggle to recover and reveals the steps necessary one must take should illness exceed permissible boundaries. She discusses the untapped bioenergetic forces provided by a healer. Through observations, infections are secondary events that often distort the understanding of the prime cause.

She is concerned that we have grown apart from Nature and its knowledge. That our parents and grandparents distanced themselves from respect for the laws of the universe. For this reason, she believes there must be an atonement for the extinct plants and animals and joy for those we have struggled to save. We must understand that there are other types of energy, which we haven't yet learned about, which in time will give us a sense of where we stand in the universe. We must realize the consequences of nuclear experiments and our lack of self control and distance with higher forces over us.

Rachel informs us about the true states present in the world in order to have balance: positive and negative, good and evil and health and disease. She speaks of the role of a healer, of a Quasiworld, invisible to our universe, about karma cycles being influenced by the sins of our ancestors and what we must do to change our future. She believes nothing in our lives will be changed if we do not restructure our inner spiritual meaning, know and give real love and understand that we must respect and obey human nature and higher forces.

CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY can be intense, but I found it to be helpful in understanding topics I'd never explored before. We often wish we knew more than instinct whispers to us but do we really listen and learn? I think in reading Rachel's book I'm going to go beyond my genuine love for nature and become a better person. It's never too late to learn.

– Denise Fleischer

www.gottawritenetwork.com

January 29, 2006

Excellent Introduction

As Rachel progressed in her book of healing, she came across many diverse factors that she deals with her own particular style and point of view. The theory of karma, rebirth, self in healing and many related topics are touched upon by the author. She says, "the body cannot be healed without changing one's inner self". Thus, healing is not simply curing a disorder; it is realigning oneself in harmony with the universal forces. The importance of nutrition and clean environment are also stressed. Clean environment takes a new meaning in today's electromagnetic pollution of the surroundings. There are many ways of protecting oneself from such unseen pollution, however, the methods are not easy.

Reviewed by T.M. Srinivasan, Ph.D.

Former President, ISSSEEM

Editor of “Energy Medicine Around the World

Madorsky Speaks Her Truth

Rachel Madorsky's Create Your Destiny! is a fresh approach to the healing arts. It is decisive, straight forward, and bracing. And it is likely very, very true. Having been coddled by books about healing in the past, we may not like the notion that our ancestors' pasts may affect our health today through a sort of spiritual retribution, but it is worth hearing. In fact, it could save our lives.

Madorsky is a true healer, and for those of us not lucky enough to live where she practices, this book explains the mysteries, debunks conventional thought, and tells us succinctly, and with genuine concern, WHAT TO DO should we find ourselves burdened with health problems, even the most dire. I recommend this to anyone who thinks he knows how people get sick and how they get well, anyone concerned with the health of a loved one, and anyone who enjoys learning more about the mystical universe we live in.

Reviewed by Ian Lapidus-Saltz

Jaguar Mind

www.jaguarmind.com

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Powerful in their Simplicity

Destiny, Karma, Inspiration, Self-help, Spirituality are all combined in this delightful enlightening book "Create Your Own Destiny!" by Rachel Madorsky. Through her own experiences author discusses how they intertwine and more important how they can benefit us the reader. Even introduces us to her inner world and quasi-friends.

With simple techniques, although quite powerful in their simplicity, we are instructed how to apply in our everyday life. It is through these techniques she hopes to help us to empower ourselves.

Reviewed by Barrie Switzen

Executive Producer

The Woman's Connection(sm)
"Events Shaping Women's Lives"
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I Made 1st Step Toward My Destiny

I read this book when I found myself seek and searching for answers and solutions to my problem. Rachel's personal life experience, intuition and deep analysis summarized in this book really tell you what to do if you find yourself or someone you love seek.

This book not only helped me to better understand grounds for my problem but also helped me to understand myself. I feel that I made 1st step toward creating MY OWN DESTINY when I got the book.

This book should be on the desk of everyone for guidance and assistance.

Reviewer: A reader from Oak Brook, IL

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Ideas and Concepts that will Enrich

"Spirituality," "Destiny," "Karma," "Searching for truth, meaning and knowledge," "Path to success." These are buzzwords and phrases one can find on an abundance of book jackets and in hundreds of sermons and articles. But to Rachel Madorsky they are far more — they are a way of life. They are part of a concept that guided her to explore her own life and the lives of others. They guided her through an often-difficult path to find a way to use her knowledge to help others. And they guided her to write a book that she hopes will enrich the lives of all that read it — even if they do not agree with all of its concepts.

I am one of the latter. As a fervent believer in the scientific basis of medical science, I worry that in the search for total well being some may sidestep the known to explore the unknown - and in doing so will not take full advantage of all that traditional medicine offers. At the same time, I also know there are many questions science alone cannot answer. We live in a Universe that our generation has only just begun to explore. Exploration, and the ability to keep an open mind, are key strengths of "Create Your Own Destiny!"

Indeed, there are valid scientific studies that show a relationship between the immune system and a person's attitude. How often have we said to a friend in pain, "I'll think good thoughts for you," or advised them to "think positive."

Some common skin disorders are known to be exacerbated by anxiety — eczema and psoriasis among them. Depression has been linked to a variety of physical ailments. Psychosomatic medicine is a recognized and growing specialty.

Meditation, biofeedback, alternative medicine. These no longer are merely the domain of individuals considered to be outside the traditional community of medicine; they are valid areas of scientific study. The power of prayer is being studied in universities that years ago would have scoffed at that concept.

Without denying the experiences reported by Rachel and others, I do not personally believe that charms and incantations, or wishing will keep disease or death from our doorstep. All else being equal, I do not accept that the difference between one person living and another dying rests with how many people pray, or the intensity of religious observance.

But I also cannot answer why a smile from a child can make a headache go away. Or why laughter among friends soothes an aching back. Why the memory of a loved one's voice brings courage and strength in the face of danger or great strife, or comfort on a difficult day.

Rachel says, "We are responsible for the transmission to our children and grandchildren of our experience and our ability to love all the things on earth. Human experience and wisdom are accumulated through years and generations."

I believe that to not explore our spirituality - to deny outright that we have some connection to the past, present and future through the bonds of family and friendships — would be to deny that life itself exists. Moreover, to deny that our own actions and mind-sets are critical to our success would be akin to never taking responsibility for our own lives.

Create Your Own Destiny! stimulates thought by raising the possibilities of the unknown. It did that for me. Rachel puts forth her experiences for all to see. She presents ideas and concepts that will enrich some readers, and raise doubt in others.

Above all, Create Your Own Destiny! portrays Rachel Madorsky's own path to discovery — a path from which we can all glean something of value. Rachel had the courage to search for her own truth and then to share it with others. Just imagine what we might learn if we all had that courage?

Reviewed by Marion E. Gold
A Chicago-based writer and author, and Former President of the
Illinois Woman's Press Association

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Uplifting and Useful

Have you ever wondered what makes a spiritual healer? What parts of themselves do they employ to heal? What higher powers do they avail during treatment? Create Your Own Destiny! answers those questions and more.

This is an ideal book for both the initiated and uninitiated with spiritual healing. Ms. Madorsky provides an insider's view of what a healer senses and thinks before, during and after a session. Written in a reader friendly and anecdotal style, she shares her experiences in helping others heal. She cites her experiences with various patients, describing her treatment techniques and what she learned while working with that patient. As the book title exclaims, Ms. Madorsky emphasizes that each one of us holds the key to good health which can be achieved not only by the all-important exercise and good nutrition regime, but by a close and loving relationship with one's Soul.

The book is also laced with advice and history of the Soul. Ms. Madorsky explains her firm connection to the Quasiworld, her word for the invisible phenomenon surrounding all life on earth that manifests in the form of guides or angels or spirits. She explains how she elicits help and insight from her Guides and the essential role this relationship plays in her daily practice with patients. At the end of the book she includes prayers for guidance and health, a short and entertaining lesson in reading palms for good health, and her interpretations of universal dream symbols.

I recommend this book. Throughout I feel Ms. Madorsky's heartfelt desire to relieve suffering. I find Create Your Own Destiny uplifting and useful in my own day-to-day interlacing with my Soul.

Reviewed by Mary H.

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Terrific Source

Create your Own Destiny! focuses on the author’s desire to educate readers in healing methods and that we each have a choice about our own health. In addition to traditional medicine, the author, Rachel Madorsky, reveals that accepting the assistance of a truly gifted healer can allow us to live a healthy life considering both physical ailments and past-life experiences. Case studies are presented by the healer and her patients in such visual and auditory detail that the reader is pulled into the experience.

The author/healer’s vast knowledge also includes the areas of scanning (medical diagnosis), meditation, palmistry, dream interpretation and past-lives knowledge. The book includes her son Nathaniel’s poems, which provide an interlude between the wealth of information provided to people who either need healing or want to explore their own healing abilities.

Madorsky includes prayers to recite on certain occasions, such as before trips; or when one has migraines or ulcers, and tells us that words chanted in a certain way have more power. Substantiation for this fact is deep in the roots of Judaism, which encourages Jews to recite at least 100 blessings per day and provides blessings and rituals for all life events.

One chapter reveals her mother and grandmother’s home remedies and shows that ancient wisdoms passed down through the generations greatly influenced her life and path. Her “reluctant acceptance of her destiny to be a healer” demonstrates the author’s spiritual growth and journey shared with her patients. True spirit emerges to show us a glimpse of the author’s underlying humility, sense of duty, family, love, and strong faith.

Madorsky trained as a nurse and studied and taught engineering which explains her scientific approach of testing and documenting her healing actions. It is refreshing to read Madorsky’s questions about ethical practices, her role as a healer with limitations and sharing her sadness when clients sought her aid too late or she was instructed that she was not to play a role in their lives for her own well being. Her success using metaphysical methods dictated to her by her “quasi-quides” fulfills her healer’s mission.

One reading of Create your Own Destiny! is not enough to absorb everything. Madorsky’s vast spiritual knowledge and exceptional healing stories stand on their own merit. Sections on dream symbols and meanings, a glossary of terms and illustrations reinforce the author’s goal to open the door to in-depth spiritual healing. It’s a terrific source for a healthy spiritual journey.

Reviewed by Linda Blatchford

Freelance writer, editor

Member of STC and NWU

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Unique - Combines the Spiritual

with Physical Health

Rachel explores energy fields and the Karma cycles in a way that allows you to develop inner healing. She explains how using positive reinforcement can help you deal with the negativity in your life which will allow you to "Create Your Own Destiny". Rachel's life is part of the story, how she learned she had the gift of healing when she was a little girl in Russia, how she immigrated to the U.S. and is using her gift to help others. It is an interesting and thought-provoking book that will help you bring balance to your life and understand the healing process.

Reviewed by A reader from Gastonia

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Secret Knowledge

This book has extremely helpful information and guides readers to action. The author shares with the reader her secret knowledge, unveiling all details of her craft, calling for cooperation. The book depicts her trust and deep sympathy for people. She has the most sincere desire to help and — like a child — opens her soul, not just depth of her skill and art, confident her trust is not misplaced. This book shows the author as an extremely easygoing person, a person with vast knowledge and a kind nature. In spite of being constantly faced with human weakness, sins, and sometimes an ingratitude that sometimes underlie terrible diseases, Rachel does not blame anybody.

Create Your Own Destiny! encourages readers to reconstruct their lives by reconsidering and changing their outlook. Rachel gives practical advice that is easy to follow that will help any person who wishes to be cleared spiritually and physically to live life to its fullest.

The world is filled with different kinds of people. However, if each person fairly judges his spiritual worth, he will want to reconsider and change his life. To want to change, as Rachel reiterates, it already a step forward. And the aura of our society, our world, our nature becomes purer.

I was struck with the description of how it is possible to be cleared of burdensome memories that shackle a person, preventing him from moving forward to a fulfilled existence here on earth. Fire is a clearing force — one of the three given to us from above. I knew it, but in my "vanity of vanities" overlooked it. "At the light of a candle, write everything, that weighs you, then burn the paper, giving the fire your pessimistic thoughts and dark memories. Live with a pure and unburdened heart." This book frequently calls to us "to stop and to look back ". As one very wise person once told me, "You live on a limit of the opportunities. Imagine what will be if you remove those limits?” Stop, look back, and remove those limits.

By indulging in bad habits, we let in different kinds of weakness. We pay a great deal of attention to our external self through our choice of clothes and cosmetics, but ignore our inner self. We care for our families by cleaning house and preparing meals, but we overlook the most important feature — care for the family atmosphere and mental health of each member.

Rachel asks families not to offend each other. Do not reproach each other. Support each other with all your heart then your life will be filled with light. And ask the same in relation to your own organism. Take care of yourself and of each part of your body as it is a unique creation, harmonious and active. Help your organism physically and mentally, and you will see how your organism responds with gratitude to your care.

Have you thought about what you’re giving to your body to support it? More often we simply take, giving nothing in exchange, which results in an impasse and illness. Create Your Own Destiny! — is the perfect title of the book. Its main idea focuses on “You,” as part of nature created by the Creator, the gift of speech and consciousness is given to you. The book encourages you to review and reconsider your life and to ask and receive pardon for earlier misdeeds now, don’t wait too long.

Reviewed by R. Galin, writer

On-Line

Depths Of Our Souls

I consider my meeting Rachel and her book: Create Your Own Destiny! God sent. It’s not just a book to read, wonder and put aside, it’s meant to be a manual.

Rachel persists in drawing our attention to our past where the causes of our misfortunes are usually rooted (where roots of our misfortunes are found). She does her best to instill in our minds the necessity of reconsidering our past, our lives, coming to honest conclusions and repenting as the only way out for a person who desires to go on living happy and healthy. And the most precious thing of the book is that she doesn’t just say that we should do the above-said but she gives practical advice how to do it. And that advice is not something sophisticated, but very simple and easy to follow or sometimes just long-forgotten truths.

In the depths of our souls, we can estimate our lives and deeds, but we busy ourselves day and night in order not to think about them. We think it is justified and consider and believe that we keep this marathon for the sake of our closest and beloved ones. Rachel insists that it is for the sake of our beloved ones that we should stop and look back at our lives and reconsider all past deeds honestly even if some of us will have to start with a clean sheet.

A very unusual thing about Rachel is that she doesn’t reject traditional medicine but complements it. She even helps people who are undergoing courses of chemotherapy and radiation. She repeatedly stresses the necessity of seeing a doctor for diagnosis and treatment.

Rachel relies on her readers and treats them as close friends, revealing and sharing her innermost secrets of her knowledge and experience, sincerely believing that she will be understood correctly and the precious information will not be misused.

Reviewed by P. Radriks

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