Awakening Intuition: Using Your Mind-Body Network for Insight and Healing

With it's title so matching my current interests, I'd have probably read this book anyway. Seeing the title, I picked this book up at my Massage Therapist's office. When I saw the author had two doctorates, I immediately started reading as I awaited my therapy session. Dr. Schulz takes nothing for granted, and starts from the basics, using her wonderfully broad scientific knowledge to logically explain what generally defies logical explanation. She starts with a broad range of examples of intuition in many different circumstances and by many different types of people. Next she moves to intuition of dreams and common symbols. From there she moves on to explaining many differences between men and women by differences in the lateralization of brains and connections between right and left hemispheres. Part Two addresses the inner voice and the language of intuition. In this largest section, Dr. Schulz carefully goes through part of the body, organ system, or chakra, and correlates the emotions most affecting those organs, and examples of effects on the body parts in health and disease. She is not afraid to share details from her personal life and health issues. Awareness of her own health issues has helped her make sound decisions many times in her life. Her candor only makes her more real, and an even more likable teacher. Seldom does one person combine the left brain knowledge and the right brain intuition to be both a competent healer and an amazing teacher. What made Dr. Schulz so entirely credible for me is that she has a firm grasp of the entire field of neuropsychiatry, and can site studies when making her points. In Part Three she goes over how to begin developing our intuition. What is quite interesting and practical, is that she gives a little test to determine if one is very left brain dominant, hypo- or hyper-frontal lobe, or not in touch with their body. Mona Lisa has run countless workshops helping all variety of folks get in touch with their intuition. Medicine is dominated by folks that are very strongly left brain dominant, because of all the facts to learn and the logical thinking needed to make diagnoses in the traditional medicine fashion. If she can get a female surgeon in touch with her already strong intuition, I know she has the ability to help each person discover how their intuition will reveal itself to them. Very left brain dominant folks frequently get their best intuition through interpreting the symbols from their dreams. Other may hear words, and receiving pictures is a very common mode. The body intuitive often get the messages as specific sensations in their body. Interestingly, she makes the point that anorgasmic folks are unlikely to be in touch enough with their bodies to begin developing their intuition with bodily sensations. She makes the helpful analogy of the health club or gym, with it's many machines to exercise and develop each part of a body. Rather than start learning i

With the availability of today's broad spectrum of metaphysical, holistic, and spiritual books, Awakening Intuition truly stands out among them. I admit it has the world's worst title - dull and over used - but the contents are not to be missed. Mona Lisa Schulz is a gifted medical intuitive, having worked intimately with Carolyn Myss and especially Christiane Northrup. Add to this the fact that she has a M.D. and a Ph. D., and is a practicing neuropsychiatrist and neuroscientist and you might be more willing to accept her psychic abilities. In Awakening Intuition she very clearly divides and explains our human system of body and brain, working to assist the reader in the full understanding of the physical, and then taking the necessary leap to metaphysical realizations. Her aim is always to explain how you, the reader, can open up to your own intuitive sense of self. Schulz walks you through it. (My favourite chapter is on memory and the body, of course. It spouts off my belief on perceptionally reframing your past traumas 'in terms of what importance or relevance it has in your life', as a way of healing the intensity of traumas that are still affecting you today.) Truly an empowering work.

I was completely engaged while reading Awakening Intuition and found the relationship between our stored body memories and illness, fascinating. I thought the information and research in the book was wonderful and my favorite chapter was the end where examples of intuition seminars were discussed. I would recommend this book highly and truly enjoyed its contents. Since I am already a fan of Dr. Christiane Northrup after reading Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, I was interested in the book when I saw she wrote the foreward and I was not disappointed. Thanks.

This is one of those books I told other friends about and they went and bought it and are READING it. I found it FASCINATING, length and all. The numerous examples serve to reinforce the awakening. Repetition is often used as a learning tool. But each example is equally fascinating, and I think the Doctor is way too modest to use them as braggadocio. I have long intuited myself that there are specific emotions connected to specific illnesses. Dr. Schulz has verified that for me and saved me that painstaking research, although there is always more room to explore these ideas. I highly recommend this book for the student who wishes to further develop or begin learning about how your emotional state affects your health. That of course, is not all it affects, but that is what Dr. Schulz' book is about. It's easy to read and interesting, even if you don't have a medical background. I certainly feel more enlightened, and wish that everyone could understand what Dr. S! chulz is trying to say. The truth will set you free. THANK YOU DR. SCHULZ

There are dozens of books on the how to of developing intuition; that isn't Schultz's intent in this book. She's speaking from her personal experience as a medical intuitive, an ability she developed on her own, because of her own physical problems. As for the length: I had no problem with it. Ruthless editors proliferate in the industry. But editors who allow a writer to write from the heart are rare. Schultz is telling you her story, her experience, her conclusions as an MD and an intuitive. As for the accuracy of the material, the litmus test for me was when I handed my father the book and told him to read the part about the Parkinson's patient. "This is me," he said.