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Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing: Five Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness

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This is an insightful resource book for those who are either beginners or well on the path to understanding how to use intuition in every area of their lives. Filled with exercises, questions to ponder, tips and case histories of her patients, this book is written in an easy conversational style. Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing has made it okay for us to trust our "inner voice" again. We each have this inner guidance connected to our spirituality within us. Dr. Orloff shows us how to use this "voice" to fully connect with our love ones, understand our doctors and our healing and even how to avoid absorbing other people's negative energy. I have highly recommended this book to my friends!

With warmth, humor, and poignant examples from her own life, Dr. Orloff presents a rational case for the value of intuition, by describing five easy steps to follow for paying attention to our beliefs, body, subtle energy, inner guidance and dreams. Many of us receive early warning signs of troubled relationships and problems with our health, yet find it difficult to recognize and heed the wisdom we have access to. If you've ever wondered how to differentiate between hearing true inner guidance and suffering from an over-active imagination, this book is for you! Orloff also provides invaluable tips for how to get clear intuitive "reads" in the most trying times and challenging situations.

One of the things that impressed me most about INTUITIVE HEALING is Orloff's courage to present the advantages of psychic intuition directly to the medical community, in a culture that historically has denigrated all things psychic. Orloff builds a crystal-clear case for the value of intuition, which often is the best (and sometimes the only) source of accurate and timely information in life-or-death situations. Orloff describes how we need not fear death, but can learn to access tremendous reserves of strength by welcoming the energy of death into our lives and learning to better understand death on an intuitive level.

INTUITIVE HEALING is priceless for anyone in need of medical care, and equally valuable to those who simply desire to develop intuitive abilities. I give this book my highest recommendation!

In Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide To Intuitive Healing: Five Steps To Physical, Emotional, And Sexual Wellness, Dr. Judith Orloff (Board-certified psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA) integrates intuition and classical forms of Western medicine. She explains that we are keepers of innate intuitive intelligence so powerful that it can prevent illness, relieve anxiety and depression, enhance sexuality, help us choose the appropriate doctor, and even accelerate the healing process. Dr. Orloff describes how to use these intuitive gifts everyday to clarify spiritual beliefs, choose relationships, find a fulfilling career, learn how to use remote viewing to "read" people, and to understand and effective use dreams. Dr. Orloff also maintains that sex is not simply a physical act, but it is an intuitive path as well. Through focusing on both the physical and the energetic aspects of self we can sharpen intuitions through receptivity to the erotic forces of life and nature, awakening to full-bodies, heart-based human sexuality. Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide To Intuitive Healing is highly rewarding, insightful, inspirational, instructional, thought-provoking, quality of life-enhancing reading.

After publication of her first book, "Second Sight," I fully expected Dr. Orloff's courage to be rewarded by her getting excommunicated from the (left brain only please) psychiatric profession. But now, she teaches classes in intuitive healing to her peers, many of whom are thirsty to escape the tight little island of drugs and analysis.With "Intuitive Healing," Dr. Orloff has broken even newer ground, bring the expanded world of intuition out of the 'woo woo' and the realms of experts into the daily (and nightly) life of the reader.Dr. Orloff conducts you through the basic life situations of health, death, emotions, relationships and sexuality; demonstrating how one can harness the mighty powers of intuition, remote viewing and dreams to understand, solve, heal and be guided through the questions and problems life constantly provides. Her style is passionate and convincing and the many anecdotes from her patients, friends and family clarify and highlight how this all can work. And fortunately, Dr. Orloff avoids the cold clinician's approach and unselfishly breaks ranks with her profession by sharing the qualities and adventures of her own intuitive life and development.

Dr. Orloff has written an extraordinary book. Reading it has proven to be a profoundly inspiring and transformative experience for me. She has convinced me that I must listen to my heart more often and let love, not fear, motivate my thoughts and actions. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in getting closer to becoming the best person they can be.

Orloff's guide was recently recommended to me by someone at Children's Hospital. In reading it, my feeling was, "Finally! Someone who understands the way medicine should be practiced!" The best health care providers are not only technically competent, but also LISTEN and act as a PARTNER with their patients. Orloff describes how physicians and patients can partner together. She also notes that one way to find a practitioner willing to partner with you is through the American Holistic Medical Association, http://www.holisticmedicine.org/ahma/public?action=findDoctors. My own father was able to find a good physician this way.

As a spiritually based coach (...) with an extremely strong belief in and support of how Orloff describes self care, I am thrilled to offer Orloff as a resource to clients who seek more information in this area.

The Table of Contents for this book is:
Part I: The Body
Ch.1 What is Intuitive Healing? A First Look at the 5 Steps
Ch.2 Visions of Health and Prevention
Ch.3 Sacred Healing Partnerships
Ch.4 If Illness Comes: How You Can Use Intuition to Heal Yourself
Ch. 5 Death as Healer and Teacher
Part II: Emotions and Relationships
Ch. 6 The Emotional Path of the Warrior
Ch. 7 Centering and Protection
Ch. 8 Finding Light in Darkness
Ch. 9 Honoring Relationships
Ch. 10 A Final Good-Bye
Part III: Sexual Wellness
Ch. 11 Passionate Sex, Deep Spirit
Ch. 12 Awakening Sexual Power
Ch. 13 Sexual Energy's Healing Gift
Afterword
Selected Reading
Resources
Index

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I started reading this book recently because I was having trouble dealing with my energy, emotions, and other people's energies. As an empathetic sponge, I would unknowingly absorb any surrounding energy, positive or negative, which resulted in a lot of bodily stress.

I thought having this stress in my body was normal because I didn't understand it, nor did I question it until a perceptive friend brought it to my attention. Now, I am taking steps to correct my way of processing energy before it becomes problematic.

After applying some of the exercises and suggestions, I find that this book is very effectively teaching me how to recognize and work with my own energy. Orloff suggests, "Be observant of energy, not overly focused on it" and "If you are mindful of your body's subtle energy and become accountable for it, your health will improve." (p. 35) Meaning, I don't have to be a passive victim of stress; I have the power to change my situation, once I am aware and take responsibility (as opposed to assigning blame or making excuses). It's about being proactive for my own issues--very empowering stuff!

While some of this might sound like simple common sense, Orloff goes into great detail in explaining how thoughts, energy, and beliefs affect the body. Sure, one can gloss over the details and get right to the 5 steps, however, I think it's very important to understand the process so that the steps make sense. The 5-step method can address just about any given difficult situation one may encounter. I like how the 5 steps are repeated in a variety of contexts throughout the book, the repetition drills it into memory.

The new comfort and peace I feel with myself now was unexpected, and through this work, I am finally learning to trust my intuition. This book has been and still is an outstanding catalyst for my personal growth. Thank you for writing such a profoundly helpful book, Dr. Orloff!

Reading Judith Orloff's book provided me with a clearer understanding and experience of the meaning and uses of intuition. I have been a self-confessed skeptic when it came to topics such as spirituality, intuition etc. However, reading this book helped me to tie in my own intuitive and spiritual experiences in ways I had never before understood. Judith's five steps to intuitive development gave me a useful and practical framework that took the subject of intuition from something that was mystical or abstract to a truly down to earth day and practical level. I particularly liked Dr. Orloff's treatment of sexuality because it gave me a greater appreciation of the varied experiences that were possible. My understanding of my own sexuality was expanded as a result of reading what Dr. Orloff had to say about this topic. The relationship of nature and spirituality to sexual experience has been eye-opening. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in healing because this book delievers what it promises.

Dr. Judith Orloff pours her heart and knowledge into this rich guide on how to use our intuition to heal and contend with any situation. A wide range of spiritual disciplines ranging from energy healing, dreams analysis and tantra are tied together in a readable fashion by anecdotes drawn from Dr. Orloff's wealth of experiences. In addition to her work as a psychiatrist, she seems to have "lived and seen it all" (almost) ranging from psychic visions at a young age, a near-death experience, the loss of her parents, drugs, to life in a half-way house . She draws on these experiences to create a web of stories and teachings that inspire us to use our intuition for spiritual, physical, psychological and sexual healing. I recommend this book to anyone open to the new paradigm shift that is occurring in our medical system, and particularly to those wanting to integrate and enrichen the various facets of their personal development (aka healing) through intuition. Thank you Dr. Orloff for this great gift.