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

by Mona Lisa Schulz, MD, PhD

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New York: Harmony/Crown 1998 397pp $25 (hb) 30pp of notes and refs

Mona Lisa Schulz is a neuropsychiatrist and a highly gifted medical intuitive. She shares how difficult it was growing up very intuitive, because she would know things without sensory inputs or any ordinary way of having acquired the knowledge. For instance, at the age of five, she was able to come up with answers her older sister's math homework problems - not knowing where the answers came from. Her family was very uncomfortable with this, and Schulz learned to equate intuition with disapproval and therefore blocked the expression and development of much of her natural ability. Though she continued to use her intuition to good advantage in her studies, and won football pools so often that she was barred from participating in them (even though she knew nothing about football !), she still blocked much of her intuition.

As often happens with intuitives and healers who shut off their gifts, Schulz developed problems that challenged her to examine herself. She suffered from excessive sleepiness and had severe injuries. A medical intuitive advised her that she could learn to stop her sleeping spells with her mind. She also predicted that if Schulz did not get her mind and body "in sync," she would never heal.

Schulz was skeptical, and asked for more detailed intuitive impressions. When she was told of a specific childhood incident involving a closed, with minute details of the closet, she was more convinced. Using self-healing methods, she healed herself.

As Schulz developed her intuitive gifts, she found herself attuned to unexpressed emotions that contributed to the diseases of people she helped.

As a physician, Schulz is able to offer a variety of explanations for how various problems manifest from mental and emotional problems into physical dysfunctions and diseases. Likewise, she has helpful suggestions for how to deal with problems - some from her own intuitive awareness and some from relevant studies.

For instance, Schulz notes that

. . . the left brain is primed for mostly positive words such as "joy," "happiness," "love," and "cheer," while the right hemisphere picks up negative-toned words. It's been found that before ovulation, most women's ability to hear words occurs chiefly in the left hemisphere, or the right ear. After ovulation, however, the right brain picks up the tempo. Now the women hear more words such as "grief," "anger," and "depression." This is more than an explanation for PMS. What's happening is that the brain is allowing women to hear things they don't usually want to hear. As they turn inward premenstrually, they may actually be getting more access to matters they need to hear about but ignore during the rest of their cycle. Might this be a part of intuition? . . . "

This book is full of intuitive observations on medical problems. Highly recommended, especially to those with medical backgrounds.

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