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Awakening Intuition

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While I was encouraged by the convincing introduction, which describes what intuition is, how intuition is already speaking to us and how by listening to it we can live a fuller and healhtier life, I find the author does not fulfil the promise of her introduction or the book title on how to accomplish this.
The book basically lays out in loose terms how our body speaks to us through illness if we ignore or fail to resolve the issues that cause emotional stress in our lives. She divides the body into seven emotional centers and their accompanying organs, and lays out what kind of emotional issues are connected to each center. She thus exposes the mind-body health relationship by linking emotional issues to the body areas they affect. She proceeds to give examples of what kind of diseases can arise if one of these emotional centers is out of balance (usually power vs. vulnerability balance). She draws on her experiences as a medical intuitive to demonstrate these mind-body links, either by using readings of her patients or by using her own personal life stories.
While her readings and experiences are interesting and even fascinating, there is a lack of thoroughness in linking diseases and emotional issues that makes it unqualified as a real guide for people who want to find out what emotional issue is at the core of their illness. The book is even more lacking in giving people practical advice or guidance on how to deal with their emotional issues if they do find out what they are. As far as actually awakening, developing and exploring your intuition, this topic is not addressed until the very end of the book in a few short pages.
I find too much of the book is not really useful to other than perhaps people totally new to the concept of intuition and the mind-body health link.
It does not exhibit the wisdom and insight that guides or encourages other people towards health, and there are many other books in this genre that I would recommend above this one in that regard.
I wish the author would have included more information on techniques to let your intuition speak to your conscious mind, shown wisdom and advice on how we can deal with and heal from emotional stress, and offered a better and more thorough guide for readers to link their specific diseases with corresponding emotional counterparts.

One finds books by various serendipitious ways.My route was from World Peace Advocate John HagelinThe Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man to Christianne Northrup Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom (Revised Edition): Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healingto Lisa.It was a point last year in March where I had renewed my search for an easy way to access my intuition.

I was fascinated by Dr.Schultz's life experiences. I was also intrigued by her decription of the mind/body connection. I felt a growing sense that this book had not come my way by chance. Its insights were supposed to be used. Soon,Iwould discover. In two weeks I learnt that a close relative of mine.a young,bright,gregarious woman had quit college with extreme depression. I quickly understood that my role was to keep others focused on healing her.One year later she is back in school. She is on medication but a network of friends prayed for her and sent her love.

Later that year, in June, I suffered what was decribed as a 'silent heart attack'. It was a frightened experience which I went through alone for about four hours. In that period I drank water,kept my circulation going with my chi machine and meditated. I think I handled this experience without panic because I insisted in 'talking' to my body, to affirm that mind could influence physical body. I got though that period and am more healthy and in tune with my body.

One major insight I got from this book is that people like me who are fluent with words do not easily get in touch with their intuition. She suggested that using dreams was a good route for me. I knew this from past experiences so I returned to writing down my dreams. It has helped me.

A lot depends on which point in your life you read his book. I happen to be a meditator of thiry years and to have had several intuitive experienes. I've also met many gifted intuitive people. Therefore I did not approach the material with any great scepticism.

Also I felt strongly that I needed to learn the material that Dr. Schultz was explaining. People who are very left brained may find what Dr. Schultz says as so much "mumbo jumbo".

Even for readers familar with right brain theory may find Dr. Scuhltz's book not easy going. It's a book to buy and re-read.
I'd advise doing what I now do--opening the bok at random and reading that section.

This book pulls uneasily in two directions. For me, the most helpful parts concerned learning to identify the psychological/spiritual problems that foster physical illnesses. Much of what Schulz said on that topic chimed in with my own experiences: for instance, I come from a family whose habit is to suppress negative emotions and express positive ones only in extremely restrained ways; is it any wonder we've all got high blood pressure? Her approach to the meaning of illness is far less simplistic than Louise Hay's (whose list of what illnesses signify reminds me of those booklets you see at the supermarket check-out counter: "If you dream of a black dog, this means ... "). Although Schulz leans heavily to the mental side of the mind-body relationship, she generally manages to avoid what Joan Borysenko labels "New Age guilt," i.e., "illness means that you're not spiritually advanced enough." And although she occasionally sounds as if she's promoting the view that illness is ONLY a mental problem, in general I felt her insights were sound and useful.
Less helpful, to me, were the parts on intuition: although I agree with her that everyone has it and simply needs to become more sensitive to it, the book didn't teach me a whole lot about how to enhance this faculty in myself. And while her personal history is fascinating and (generally) relevant to her main point, I found her endless examples of medical intuition in action rather tedious: the cases themselves are often extremely relevant, but she could have left out a lot of the "look how insightful I am" parts! Again, the book is messy and sprawling -- in many sections, I felt that a more ruthless editor could have allowed her to make her point while eliminating the irrelevant material. I feel the book is worth reading, but it could have been at least 1/3 shorter and just as informational -- and probably a lot easier to read!

The topic is so worthy of exploration. In this age of left-brain worship, it's critical that someone with Dr. Schulz's qualifications gives us a treatise on why the right brain should be celebrated for its powers, and why its "messages" should be heeded more. Yet this book winds up being a treatise on Dr. Schulz, on how dazzling she finds her own intuitive powers, to an almost maddening degree. The reader is repeatedly told that awakening intuition is important, but is never, in this longwinded book, given the tools to do it.

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.

Without question sections of this book are intriguing and well-written, medical research is cited to support the role of intuition, and it reinforces the importance of knowing yourself and making healthy decisions. In the end, however, I was disappointed and irritated with this book. It is far too long, more than a little repetitive, condescending at times, and overly simplistic. In addition, there are several occasions when the text reads more like an autobiography of the author's numerous illnesses/ailments than an exploration of the importance of the mind/body connection.

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.

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 intuition with our weakest areas, her quiz allows us to begin learning our own intuition with out strongest areas. This sets us up for success rather than failure.



As I trotted down the down the steps leaving work yesterday, I was thinking the massage I was going to get, and my massage therapist. As I hit the bottom of the steps, I noticed a sharp pain in my left lower leg, just below the knee. As soon as I noted it, it went away. As my massage therapy was about to commence, I gathered the nerve and asked my therapist if she had any leg pains lately. She revealed that on that morning she had awakened with a pain in her left lower leg, just below the knee, and of a severity that made consider skipping her morning walk routine. Deciding to go ahead with her walk despite the pain, it did decrease as she walked, but it had not gone away entirely. That experience has made me very excited about what I have learned already from my first reading of this amazing book

I ordered this along with other Mona Lisa Schulz products through Amazon. I was enthusiastic about the prospect, mostly because of Christianne Northrup's friendship and endorsement of Mona Lisa. Regrettably, I ordered the products before having a personal phone consult with Mona Lisa. If the phone consult had happened first, I would not have ordered anything. I very much regret the product orders and the consult.

I am a very chronically patient and have been very sick and bedridden for a number of years. My experience was that Mona Lisa was one of the most incompassionate practitioners I personally have encountered. I was prepared for directness. However, I was not prepared for extreme callous rudeness in the process. I am still stunned and devastated ....and out $450 for the consult. When you first call to try to find out how much is the consult price they won't tell you. That sould be the first clue. You must leave your phone number where she insists on calling you back personally where she rapidfires a prepared sales list of "all of the comprehensive services" you will receive. It felt a bit "car salesman" strategy which should have been my next intuitive sign that something didn't feel right about the process. My intuition was telling me NO...but I am so sick I proceeded against my own instincts. Something I now regret.

Prior to the cost inquiry for the consult I had already ordered some of her products... including her oracle cards, Awakening Intuition book, and the multi-cassette series Body Talk with Christianne Northrup MD. The phone consult process was so disappointing that I can not in good faith recommend any of. Perhaps, with the exception of The Body Talk cassettes which includes Christianne Northrup MD (thank goodness as she gives heart and balance to the product). The other Schulz products; e.g., oracle cards and the book have sat unused because of the negative emotional experience with the phone consult. I am disgusted with it so will donate them to Goodwill unused.

Other reviewer ratings for the Awakening Intuition book criticized that she talks too much about glorifying herself and her skills rather than hoped for educating/awakening intuition in the reader.
As I said I could not bring myself to read the book, but can say that my personal phone consult was consistent with those comments. She definitely likes to talk about herself....a lot....which runs the clock out on your $450 hr. Then at the end of the consult, in what seemed like her own mid-sentence, she abruptly changes course and says "thank you for calling...goodbye" and hangs up abruptly without waiting for a reply making the client feel hung up on. It was very strange.

I have dealt with other far more professional medical intuitives so maybe I had other expectations based on more positive experiences. Maybe she was just having a really bad day on the day of my consult, but at $450 for one hour, I was sadly disappointed that the client (me) didn't receive a more compassionately honorable service. I am on disability and unable to work (which she knew) .....so $450 was a huge amount of money for me, but I was putting that much faith and trust in her. Faith & Trust that I now know was misplaced. But, my instincts warned me, which I ignored. Just verifies....listen to your inner instinct when it talks to you.

My main concern and reason for posting this is my concern for anyone else like me who is seriously chronically ill and may be contemplating a personal phone consult. Each has to decide for themselves on these things. The consequences are ours to live with. For me, I experienced a lot of unnecessary emotional pain from the process of a phone consult with her. I pray that others are different. And, I pray she reads this and is helped to understand how damaging her process can be to someone chronically ill.

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