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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

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!

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!

When I first met my inner physician, I was quite surprised. I expected some kind of white cloaked intern in a somber gray room crassly lit with fluorescents, clutching a clipboard, eager to give a quick diagnosis. However, the image that unfolded before my inner eye was that of a Peruvian medicine man, strong and clear eyed, emanating compassion and steadfastness as he stood before me with open arms. He revealed a kind of compassion I rarely encountered in most of the licensed doctors, allopathic as well as holistic, that I've dealt with in my life. Most of all, I didn't feel afraid of this inner doctor who hadn't the least trace of institutional arrogance in him, who didn't take himself too seriously and wouldn't pretend to have all the answers I seeked. This was no card carrying member of the AMA! He wasn't lording over me like some mythical medic dispensing divine favor. In fact, I felt quite relaxed and at peace with myself and with him as we stood face to face, on a level playing field, high on the Nazca plains, near the edge of an enormous earth glyph of a Hummingbird, backdropped by the majestic Andes Mountains. He wasn't going to tell me to schedule yet another appointment at the front desk. He would be there for me anytime I wanted. All I had to do was close my eyes, center myself and take a few relaxing breaths and call upon him. I would not have met my inner physician if it weren't for Dr. Marcia Emery's gift to us, The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician, recently published by St. Martin's Press. Nor would I have had the opportunity to meet the 'Internal Governing Board' of my body, mind, heart and spirit, a kind of inner board of directors one can consult with in order to harmonize and balance. I probably would have continued to ignore them for the rest of my life. Also, I would not have discovered, within myself, innovative perspectives on persistent health problems and how to use creative imagery to gain more revolutionary insights into the nature of disease itself. Dr. Marcia Emery observes that in her workshops "...people in attendance are taking responsibility for their wellbeing by attracting the cures and conditions that will maintain or restore optimum health and wellness." I would have missed the opportunity to take on such an attractive commitment myself if it were not for her book. Experiencing Dr. Emery's work has deepened my appreciation for intuition itself, something, in my cynical and jaded past I've regarded as merely a means to read the future with, much like a Tarot card reader or Scryer of crystal balls does. Intuition is an all too often neglected if not overtly discouraged aspect of our psyches which has many beneficial dimensions and qualities to it. It is these latent qualities that the author encourages us to bring out of ourselves, cultivate and realize. The word intuition has its Latin origins in tutelary, a kind of guardian angel that keeps us out of trouble, as well as a teacher or tutor who oversees and inspires our education throughout our lives. The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician puts us in touch with an original intuition, connecting us with our inner teachers and guardians as well, in a way that feels quite natural, not at all alien. What is most profoundly enjoyable about this work is the ease of its accessibility. Accompanying the easy to follow exercises are vivid and effective examples of workshop participants's first hand accounts which describe the healing successes, the very cures and conditions they attracted using Dr. Emery's 'Mindshift Method', The 'Mindshift Method' involves a series of progressive techniques which enable even the most stubbornly logical of us to shift effortlessly from our analytical minds into the intuitive wellsprings at the heart of our beings. The author helps us see clearly through the smokescreens of our fears and doubts, enabling us to access our intuitive selves in ways which deeply stimulate and sustain the healing process. One gets the impression that some kind of higher wisdom guided the good Dr. in the writing of her book, a wisdom, like that possessed by our inner physician , she graciously acknowledges and reassures is directly accessible to us all. Following the exercises within The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician is not only rewarding but profoundly encouraging as well. For me, I immediately sensed an inner confidence growing, a much welcomed assurance that I could manage and sustain my health and well being in a positive and transformative way. I sensed that I wouldn't have to be solely dependent on others outside of myself for my health. I suggest that the publicity department at St. Martin's Press send out copies of The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician to various board members of the FDA, Health Insurance Companies, Regents at Medical Schools and presidents of Pharmaceutical combines. I wonder what their inner physicians look like! Would they be as pleasantly surprised as I was when I first met mine?

Drenched with light and clarity, this book is an empowering and practical guide to accessing one's inner wisdom. Reading Marcia Emery's book inspires joy, and the freedom of true knowledge and acceptance of oneself. Marcia Emery's various exercises for communicating with your inner wisdom are not only effective, but will put you in touch with an infinite source of love and joy. Awaken your intuition - and more energy than you've ever known!

This is the friendliest, most personal book I ever read on intuition. I felt like the author was speaking to me directly. I use something from the writing exercises almost every day. It is really enjoyable to read, but most of all, I feel like I can use the tools and techniques to increase my trust in myself and my intuition. What a relief!

Marcia Emery is a dedicated writer and speaker on the subject of intuition. She developed the first workbook on intuition that was part of a college course. She's not only a great teacher, but her sense of whimsy is evident in her writing. As a documentary producer, I have had the pleasure of interviewing Marcia for my documentary, The Intuitive Factor: Genius or Chance. If you have not read her books, please do. You'll enjoy your style.

It was certainly a pleasant surprise to learn how amazing we really are. We are more than we know. To be able to tap into another side of us and look at a bigger picture is amazing. We have perhaps grown up believing that we let others heal us or we aren't capable of knowing enough to be in charge of our health....whether that is physical, spiritual, or emotional. In this great book, we learn that we can connect to all of them. I find it a powerful experience to know this is available to us, not just from reading the book, but it has been there all along. It seems like this is the age of "awareness". Miss Emery has shared a wonderful talent she has with us all. I am so glad I purchased this book.

Marcia Emery is a dedicated writer and speaker on the subject of intuition. She developed the first workbook on intuition that was part of a college course. She's not only a great teacher, but her sense of whimsy is evident in her writing. As a documentary producer, I have had the pleasure of interviewing Marcia for my documentary, The Intuitive Factor: Genius or Chance. If you have not read her books, please do. You'll enjoy your style.

This book is an easy to read and understand how to increase your God given gift of intuitive healing.