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

by Mona Lisa Schulz M.D. Ph.D. (Author), Christiane Northrup M.D. (Foreword)

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Awakening Intuition explores the idea that learning to use intuition and understanding its connection with memories, dreams, and healing can strengthen your body against disease and enrich your life. Using case studies, author Mona Lisa Shultz portrays her belief that emotions and diseases are linked, what areas of the body are affected by what kinds of feelings, and how we can tune in to the cause of an ailment. Indeed, Schultz describes curing herself of a brain disorder using intuition, and claims she keeps her Graves' disease in remission solely through this work.

Schultz's basic treatise is that the body is continuously sending us messages through symptoms and symbols to get our attention. By heeding these messages and using intuition to decode them, we can make changes that enhance our health and emotional well-being.

Schultz is a physician, neuropsychiatrist, and neuroscientist who has worked as a "medical intuitive" for more than a decade. Far from claiming extraordinary powers, Schultz believes we are all intuitive and can train ourselves to tap into our resources. "It's a real down-to-earth capacity that is available to anyone willing to tune in his transmitter and listen in to what's being broadcast," writes Schultz. "The information it offers us is practical, and it can immeasurably improve and enrich our lives." --Joan Price --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Schulz has an M.D., a Ph.D., and a positive outlook. As a child, she learned that showing how brainy she was was more acceptable than showing her intuitive power. Yet she gradually allowed intuition to become a major component of her medical practice, and this book reporting many cases of "medical readings" explains why and some of how she does this. Intuition is not rare. With practice, which Schulz describes, each of us can use it to improve life and relationships. Schulz draws on the body's emotional centers and the body's memories to assist her work, to which she brings acute observation, remarkable experience and memory, and deep empathy. Her novel attitude is shown by her speaking of a gardener as seeing that the weeds are too big rather than that the flowers need to grow bigger. She occasionally skates near the edge of credibility, though, as when she states that personality traits can cause parkinsonism. Basically, she encourages giving emotions full expression and living life positively. William Beatty --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (April 20, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609804243
• ISBN-13: 978-0609804247
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #48,073 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book should be given a different title., August 20, 2005

By	celeste - See all my reviews

I am very disappointed with this book. I suppose my expectations were raised after seeing that the book was recommended by Dr. Christiane Northrup, M.D., one of my favorite authors, the sole reason I purchased Awakening Intuition.

"Awakening Intution" contains VERY little information concerning how one can develop or awaken his/her intuition. Indeed, the title is misleading and inappropriate. The book is mostly filled with case studies and examples (many tragic) of people who did not deal with emotional issues/thought patterns that subsequently caused disease/illness in their bodies. Mona Lisa focuses on illness NOT the development of intuition.

I also dislike the author's writing style. While Mona Lisa Schulz does seem to have a healthy sense of humor, I think her writing is nonetheless terribly dry. Mona Lisa Schulz repeats herself throughout the book, which was poorly edited (it should be half as long). The book reads like one long chapter.

Again, rather than discussing intuition and how one can develop this quality, she focuses on her life as a medical student/neuropsychiatrist/neuroscientist and the patient/clients with whom she interacted. After 150 pages I felt sick.

I realize we each have our own tastes and many readers may actually enjoy the book. I, however, would most definitely not recommend this book.

70 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This is not a HOW TO book in any regard., January 19, 2004

By	Danny W. (NH, United States) - See all my reviews

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.

37 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful Insights about right brain/left brain functioning, January 8, 2005

By	Milton Drepaul "The Resume Expert --http://ww... (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

One finds books by various serendipitious ways.My route was from World Peace Advocate John Hagelin to Critianne Northrup to 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.