The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician [Hardcover]

Marcia Emery (Author), Carolyn Myss (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1999

Just as a traditional physician uses a stethoscope to diagnose illness, you can use your "intuitive stethoscope," your inner physician, to detect emotional and physical imbalances that are often the cause of disease. As Dr. Marcia Emery shows throughout this book, our words, thoughts, and feelings are vibrantly alive and have an impact on our bodies. By learning to access and successfully interpret the language of your inner physician, you can be forewarned of a health emergency, validate of invalidate a diagnosis, and identity and eradicate thoughts, speech patterns, and actions that have a negative influence on your health. In fact, you can often avert or even reverse a state of illness and find resplendent vigor.

For decades noted psychologist and intuition expert Dr. Marcia Emery has been teaching men and women to cultivate their intuition using Mindshift Method, a technique for traveling from the logical mind to the intuitive realm. Once in this intuitive state, the mind becomes receptive to mental imagery and can interpret such images in highly effective ways. The intuitive mind is generally able to make the correct evaluation and decide about a course of action. It also provides bursts of creative inspiration and even glimpses into the future.

In The Intuitive Healer Dr. Emery helps you guide the power of your own intuition to matters of health and healing. She shows you how images, symbols, and messages issued forth from the intuitive mind serve as a kind of personalized medicine chest of healing salves. Through inspirational anecdotes and step-by-step exercises, Dr. Emery teaches you to call on your inner physician to prescribe that saving ounce of prevention or provide a timely remedy for what ails you. Techniques such as word association, meditation, body scans, mind mapping, relaxation, and dream analysis are just some of the practices you'll learn that allow you to talk to your trusted inner guide every day.

In addition to uncovering and taking control of health issues, you will see how your body is made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by heredity, culture, belief systems, relationships, nutrition, and the interplay of all these factors. By understanding how your mind, spirit, and emotions have an impact on your physical body, you are better equipped to eliminate stumbling blocks to robust health.

Written with great sensitivity plus all of the expert knowledge of a leader in the field of applied intuition, The Intuitive Healer is an essential guide on the path to alternative healing and optimum well-being.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Do we really know what's good for us? "Yes!" the author of this book would yell, and in about as profound and important a way as could possibly be imagined. This is one of a series of books and programs that Marcia Emery has written on the subject of intuitive healing. Her basic premise is that each of us has an inner guide--an "inner physician"--whom we need to learn to access and listen to. Why? Because, says Emery, this inner guide (essentially, our own intuitive mind) can help us maintain health, predict and avert health problems, suggest remedies in times of illness, and steer us towards a healthier way of functioning that will offer long-term prevention.

Emery describes intuition as "that unerring and inexplicable knowing beyond logic and volition. It lies at the roots of spontaneity, humor, creativity, inspiration, and even genius. And it is an especially powerful ally in the healing process." It is how scientists make groundbreaking discoveries, and how native peoples discover healing plants in the wild.

Emery's book is a practical how-to manual that each of us can deploy "to access the wisdom of your mind for greater healing and well-being." She offers tips, techniques, and exercises, such as meditation, affirmations, dreamwork, relaxation, body scans, and word association, together with heartening anecdotes and case studies. The benefits claimed for this approach--from testing medical diagnoses to averting illness--are profound indeed, and this book makes for a user-friendly, thought-provoking guide. --Dan Fielder

From Publishers Weekly

This author's previous work (Dr. Marcia Emery's Intuition Workbook) has focused largely on introducing the use of intuition in career and business matters. Now psychologist Emery turns her attention to personal health, again employing her eight-step "Mindshift Method" of defining the problem or question, releasing mental blockages, releasing physical tension, eliciting symbolic imagery, interpreting these symbols for the particular individual, resting, revisiting the imagery and its possible meanings and, finally, applying the information received for healing. Emery claims that everyone has an "inner physician," communicating through dreams, "lightning flash[es] of knowing" and subtle perceptions of all five senses, offering messages to warn about, diagnose and suggest remedies for all kinds of ailments. Based on the premise that "every symptom is a cry for help, signaling something amiss on the mental, emotional, and/or spiritual level," Emery stresses the importance of finding the hidden lesson, seeing the big picture and accepting that "not everything and everyone can or should be healed" in the wished-for manner. Emery provides readers with numerous exercises to practice in this instructive guide to engaging the mind in order to heal the body.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 231 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1st edition (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312199023
• ISBN-13: 978-0312199029
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,237,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An insightful manual for empowering personal healing, August 1, 1999

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The Intuitive Healer--Accessing Your Inner Physician (a book review) by Ellen Louise Kahne

In a vivid dream, you see doctor telling you that you have cancer, but you don't believe him. In fact, you call him a quack for trying to put such ideas into your head. Months later, you notice a red bump on your nose and go to a doctor who takes a biopsy. He insists you "prepare yourself" for immediate cancer treatment. Remembering your dream, you go for a second opinion only to find out that the first doctor's suspicions are false! This is exactly what happened to Marcia Emery, psychologist, professor, intuitive educator, director of education for the Intuition Network, and a physician's daughter.

Dr. Emery long ago learned to trust the inner voice she calls your "inner physician" and to tune out the distracting "cocktail party," the voices of our societal programming and conditioning. Marcia Emery's book is an intuitive "how to" manual to attune us to our authentic inner voice so that we can recognize and traverse the route to health and vitality, our own "road to Wellville." The Intuitive Healer is a comprehensive resource manual which synthesizes and combines many traditions of healing, explaining them in a clear and practical, useful way.

A pioneer in intuitive training, Dr. Emery spells out her "mindshift" method to create and maintain health. She explores the underlying causes of dis-ease and dis-comfort. Her approach is simple and easy to follow. For example, when your back goes out of alignment, Dr. Emery suggests that you begin to explore this by asking yourself, "what facet of support is out of alignment in my life and what can I do to take responsibility for my own healing?"

Step by step, you learn to let go of mental tension, using positive affirmations and focusing words, images, word association, soothing music, breathing techniques, even awakening your intuition by taking a sensory, imaged mental vacation to a place of peace and healing. In this way, the impediments are cleared away that interfere with clear insight and the highway to "Wellville" is opened for travel and accurate perception.

According to Marcia Emery, there are keys to interpreting the imagery which you see and receive during meditation and in dreams. It is through dreams and symbolic imagery, even daydreaming, that we all tap into the intuitive knowledge of the universe and the wisdom which we each carry within for our own healing. Just recalling your daydreams during third grade math class and remembering your teacher's reactions to your reveries, will convince you that all of your childhood educational programming was designed to root out your natural ability to let go and tune in to your true inner voice. When you learn to intentionally meditate and shift your mind into intuitive high gear, authentic information from your intuitive self accurately unfolds.

Dr. Emery reports the example of Dr. Jean Slane who nodded off during a meditation and received vital health information about one of her pregnant patients. She dreamed that the expectant mother could no longer write from left to right, she reversed everything. In her dream, a dream therapist told Dr. Slane that it would be dangerous for her patient to write forward. Keying in to this information, the doctor realized that the dream related to a breech birth. She had planned to turn the baby for a normal delivery, but discussed this first with her patient and opted for a breech delivery, which turned out to be the right medical decision. Amazingly, It so happened that the baby's great grandfather had the same dream as Dr. Slane.

Marcia Emery is well versed in the healing power of the human mind and many healing arts, including using intentional touch for healing. She includes exercises and space for journaling your results, so you can test and improve your accuracy as you learn to flex your intuitive muscles.

Not all illness is curable, sometimes the inner physician (or higher consciousness) chooses the lesson of a fatal illness. This doesn't mean that illness is our fault, but it may carry an important lesson for us and for our families and, often, an opportunity for growth. Healing can take place on many levels, even if physical healing is not possible. Often, relationships and issues can be healed through coming to terms with illness. Your inner physician invites you to de-stress, forgive, center yourself in prayer and/or positive affirmation and become an inner "Peace Worker." It's almost like hearing a kindly aunt say "take your shoes off, put your feet up, make yourself at home--in your own body, mind and spirit." Take The Intuitive Healer to the waiting room for your next medical check up and and mindshift into conscious daydreaming, you may get a priceless second opinion.

Copywright EllenLouise Kahne, 1999, all rights reserved.

This article, by Ellen Louise Kahne, first appeared in New Living, August, 1999. Kahne is a certified Reiki Master, founder of the Reiki Peace Network and Reiki University

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I got immediate results!, July 23, 1999

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This review is from: The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician (Hardcover)

I saw Dr. Emery speak earlier this week. After her talk I decided to try her techniques to address the pain in my neck and shoulders. Pain like this is unusual for me since I do Pilates. While still thinking very deeply about Emery's work I sat down to brush my 8 year old daughter's hair. This is a nightly ordeal, since she's tenderheaded and gets enraged at tangles. I suddenly became aware of the pain intensifying and understood that the brushing is a real 'pain in the neck.' Very calmly I told my daughter that brushing her hair before bed was too tense for both of us; we were too tired and grouchy at night. I said that we'd do her hair after dinner and make her 'sleep braid' then. She agreed with no fussing at all, and in that instant, the pain completely disappeared! Our new routine is very calm and peaceful. I'm also trying the book's techniques with my children. Thank you Dr. Emery!

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intuition and Healing, September 13, 2000

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This review is from: The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician (Paperback)

Dr. Marcia Emery's book is a much needed addition to the literature on Intuitive Healing. It is practical, easy to read, and will guide readers how to access intuition--even those who've never been able to do this before. Pick up this book and learn to tap into the healing power within you. Marcia is a forerunner in the work of intuitive healing, a practitioner of high integrity, with a true love for the healing work. I highly recommend this book!