Health Intuition: A Simple Guide to Greater Well-Being (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "Students and clients are always interested in how I started in this unusual profession as a health intuitive..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This guide to using intuition to solve physical, emotional and psychological issues draws on the work of Caroline Myss (Anatomy of the Spirit), Barbara Ann Brennan (Light Emerging) and the author's personal experience as a health intuitive. While Myss accesses information from the human energy field through the seven energy centers, or chakras, in the body and Brennan uses the chakras and auras, Kassy's method involves gaining medical data directly from a person's energetic field. Here, she briefly describes various ways that intuitives work and how to tap into inborn intuitive abilities to break down patterns of illness, emotional trauma and addiction. From the examples of long-distance psychic readings Kassy has doneAprovided only with a person's name and ageAreaders may get the impression that readings are similar to finding one's way in the dark. Interpreting the data without experience could be problematic for novices, but Kassy also supplies guidelines for finding a qualified health intuitive. Those who have enjoyed Myss's books, which delve into spiritual practices and religious symbolism, and Brennan's, which contain much scientific background, will find Kassy's book basic. But those who are new to the idea of health intuition, this volume will serve as an introduction to a complex field. Of primary value is Kassy's emphasis on building a foundation for health with good nutrition, exercise, self-nurturing activities and effective barriers against energy-draining people and situations. Her life story also may resonate with many readers who are committed to taking part in their own healing process. (Sept.)
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From Library Journal

According to Kassy and Gawain, Americans are searching for answers to life's tough questions from self-help groups or psychic hotlines when all they really need to do is tune into themselves. Both authors are interested in using intuition as a means of achieving optimum health and life fulfillment, and both agree that the more one practices intuition, the more easily answers will arrive. Kassy, who holds a master's degree in intuition/energy medicine from Greenwich University, here writes for healthcare workers and psychologists. Like psychic healer Edgar Cayce, she requires only a name and an age on paper in order to do a reading of a client's health-related illnesses. Arguing that many maladies are caused by Americans' diet of highly processed junk foods, Kassy recommends a visit to a nutritionist. Because she believes that illness is created when our physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual natures are out of sync, she also tunes into negative patterns that adversely affect them. Intuitive power even works with animals, she asserts. Her chapters are filled with anecdotes, case studies, and readings. Gawain is self-taught, and her name has been a household word in the New Age movement since her book Creative Visualization was published in 1989. Based on Gawain's belief that everyone is born with intuitive powers that end up being suppressed, Developing Intuition is written in a workbook style, containing exercises on relaxation, breathing, and meditation techniques. Gawain's book will better suit intuition beginners, while Kassy's more detailed work will serve a wider, alternative health audience. Both are recommended for public libraries. Other authors writing in this vein are Caroline Myss (Anatomy of the Spirit, Harmony, 1996), Marcia Emery (The Intuitive Healer, St. Martin's, 1999), Mona Lisa Schulz (Awakening Intuition, Random, 1999), and Judith Orloff (Second Sight, Warner, 1997).DLisa Wise, Broome Cty. P.L., Binghamton, NY
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 250 pages
• Publisher: Hazelden (September 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568385633
• ISBN-13: 978-1568385631
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,115,446 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to let your intuition guide your life changing decisions, December 1, 2000

By A Customer

Karen Kassy's book is a priceless guide to contacting your own inner intuitive guidance system. The clearly written instructions and guidelines are easy to follow. Within the first week after reading the book I was able to receive very helpful, clear guidance involving business matters and health matters, especially from the aspect of stress reduction.

Chapters include a description of Kassy's work as a medical intuitive aiding others with her intuitive readings of their health problems, and chapters outlining medthods for readers to follow in doing their own intuitive work.

She is very careful to give thorough explanations as well as suggestions for conserving your own energy when working with problem situations and people.

Her confidence in everyone's ability to contact their own intutive energy is very reassuring. She writes with the tone of a very caring teacher and friend.

Her book is the perfect gift for the new year.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Health Intuition: A Guide to Greater Well-Being, October 23, 2000

By A Customer

Karen Kassy's Health Intuition: A Guide to greater Well-Being is wonderful! She demystifies the field of health intuition through her systematic,clearly written and well organized book. Kassy is very grounded in her approach to intuition, bringing a very understandable mainstream perspective to the work. Her words are simply written and understandable, yet very powerful. She is adept at explaining not only what health intuition is but gives straightforward exercises so that her readers may develop their own intuition.

Kassy's work seems in the tradition and is of the excellence of Carolyn Myss, the medical intuitive pioneer. The book is filled with examples of Kassy's own experiences and fascinating work. She touches on the causes behind the cause of illness and seems to want to empower the reader to help themselves.Her tools for self discovery are excellent! Her instructions developing intuition are so clear and so well organized that it seems that anyone can do it! I would recommend this book to anyone from healthcare professionals to lay people, people suffering from health challenges to those that want to remain healthy.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A rare gift, February 8, 2003

By A Customer

I have read Ms. Kassy's book. It is easy to read and packed with wonderful insights and suggestions. Because of its tone i contacted Ms. Kassy and received a most empowering and helpful health "reading"- (way) beyond my expectations!
I hightly recommend her voice in the wilderness of intuition and health information and misinformation. It is clear, concerned and informed- on the page- as well as on the telephone.
Thank you, Ms Kassy!