I’m defining Intuitive Healing as a potent form of inner wisdom, not mediated by the rational mind. Accessible to us all, it’s a still, small voice inside. It’s an unflinching truth teller committed to our well-being. You may experience intuition as a gut feeling, hunch, a physical sensation, a snapshot-like flash, or a dream. Always a friend, it keeps a vigilant eye on our bodies, letting us know if something is out of synch. We each possess an intuitive healing code within us that contains the blueprints for our health, happiness and survival of everything that is good here on earth. This code is written in a language of silence, metaphor, imagery, energy, and knowings that may seem alien until we are taught to decipher it. I want to share what I know of this code with you, although I'm always learning more. As you begin to understand its nuances, its secrets, the code will seem like the most familiar language of all, one you uttered before you ever had a memory of anything material, one that doesn't require a spoken voice to comprehend.

My expertise is as psychiatrist and practicing intuitive. My wish is to introduce you to practical techniques I use in my life and teach to patients every day about using the power of intuition to heal. You can learn to truly listen to your body's needs. You'll recognize warning signals and act on them to prevent illness. I'll give you skills to access vital information from meditation, dreams, and remote viewing (a way of intuitively tuning in) to make sense of your life when it's most confusing. The insights you gain from these techniques will lend reason, compassion, and meaning to events such as illness, loss, or despair that the rational mind alone has a limited capacity to appreciate. You'll be shown a method of utilizing your body's subtle energies to heal pain, panic, depression and other symptoms.

Reach back in your experience. See if you can't remember a special time when you listened, really listened, to what seemed invisible, yet felt so true. Maybe it was an inner call to enter a career, a sudden inexplicable attraction to the person you were destined to marry, or simply a strong impulse to contact a good friend you haven't seen for years. That indisputable sense of rightness is an echo of the code I'm speaking of. You deserve such certainty about all decisions. Even if you feel out of touch with it now, let me help you find it again. This is the kind of intuition I've built my psychiatric career and personal life around. Without it, I don't feel complete. Without it, my patients only get a fraction of who I am as a healer, and suffer as a result. Without it, I miss the joy, clarity, and vision to positively catalyze changes in my patient's lives and my own.

This is not a fringe phenomenon. It has gone mainstream. So many of us are tired of staying numb and asleep and long for the kind of exhilaration only intuitive and spiritual awakening can bring. Come wake up with me. Begin to lift the veils before your eyes. Heaven is not some far away place, separated from life. Intuition will enable you to see the beauty, passion, and exquisite light that have always been there.

I use the phrase “intuitive healing” to emphasize the intuitive ingenuity we all have to tap into, to maintain and optimize our life force. My main theme is simple: Our intuition can open us up to our spirituality and show us how to be more healthy and whole. If you’re in good health, you’ll want to know about intuition because it can help you stay well and recognize messages that prevent illness. If you or your loved ones need healing, you’ll want intuition to show you the way.I’d like you to think of healing in the broadest terms. It may involve a complete resolution of symptoms, a “cure,” or it may not. On a profound intuitive level, it also pertains to the self-knowledge and soul growth achievable during illness, or as death approaches. Our perception of these passages is key. In good health or ill, if we aim for self-compassion and a deepening link with the divine, we’re engaging in an act of love, one that is inevitably transformative.

To map out the healing process I'm presenting a framework of five intuitive steps, bringing definition to a fundamentally nonverbal realm. You can depend on these steps, as I do, to clarify all aspects of your life. Count on them to guide you. They can augment decisions you make about traditional medical care or offer creative alternatives.

The five steps are:
• Step 1. Notice Your Beliefs
• Step 2. Be In Your Body
• Step 3. Sense Your Body's Subtle Energy
• Step 4. Ask For Inner Guidance
• Step 5. Listen To Your Dreams

No matter what you're dealing with, these steps are cogent tools. I urge you not to leave your healing to chance. By being accountable for your intuitive needs you can better nurture yourself.

Intuitive healing is a three part process:

The Body - Intuition and your subtle energy system play a vital role in maintaining your physical health, in self-diagnosis, pain control, and in accelerating healing.

Emotions and Relationships - Your path as a spiritual warrior is to dig to the core of your emotional life, and mend wounds with compassion. Intuition leads to breakthroughs in anxiety, depression and emotional blocks, even if traditional psychotherapy hasn't. Energetic centering and protection are an integral part of this process. Intuition can strengthen your relationships, salvage bad ones, and help you select well-matched partners.

Sexuality - Sexual energy is a powerful connector, an oasis for nurturing our troubled spirituality. Sex is more than physical love: it is an intuitive way of being in the world; an energetic opening to life, nature, spirit. It can make you feel vibrant and bring vitality to the rest of life. Awaken your sexuality whether you are in a relationship or not, and direct erotic power to heal symptoms from depression to back pain.

There comes a time when we must decide if we are committed to a life based on heart. If so, then with regard to healing this means coming to compassionate terms with the light and dark forces that shape us. Nothing is excluded. Remember this when you greet all the angels and beasts on your path. As your heart opens, so does your intuition. Your intuition will teach you how to see and how to love. It instills in you a renewed faith to face anything.

M.D. is psychiatrist, energy and intuition expert, and author of the bestselling books Positive Energy, Guide to Intuitive Healing and Second Sight.
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