| One finds books by various serendipitous ways.My | | | | intuition that I needed at that time.Today she is |
| route was from World Peace Advocate John | | | | back in school. She is on medication but a |
| Hagelin to Christianne Northrup to Mona Lisa | | | | network of friends prayed for her and sent her |
| Schultz. | | | | love. |
| I read an article by Dr. Hagelin in which he | | | | Later that year, in June, I suffered what was |
| recounted how he reconnected with his | | | | described as a 'silent heart attack'. It was a |
| schoolmate Dr. Northrup. He had a link to Dr. | | | | frightening experience which I went through alone |
| Northrup's newsletter. In that newsletter I read | | | | for about four hours. In that period I drank |
| about Mona Lisa Schultz who was a friend and | | | | water,kept my circulation going with my Chi |
| colleague of Dr. Northrup.It was a point in March | | | | Machine and meditated. I think I handled this |
| 2003 where I had renewed my search for an | | | | experience without panic because I insisted in |
| easy way to access my intuition. | | | | 'talking' to my body, to affirm that mind could |
| Dr. Mona Lisa Schultz is a physician, practicing | | | | influence physical body. I got though that period |
| psychiatrist and holds a PH.D in and behavioral | | | | and am more healthy and more in tune with my |
| neuroscience--the study of the brain and | | | | body today. |
| intelligence. | | | | One major insight I got from this book is that |
| She is also practices as medical intuitive, giving | | | | people like me who are fluent with words do not |
| clients psychic phone readings on physical health.In | | | | easily get in touch with their intuition. Dr. Schultz |
| these readings she also links physical ailments to | | | | suggested using dreams as a method for |
| the client's spiritual and emotional beliefs. | | | | accessing intuition. I was comfortable doing this |
| Schultz claims that all significant life experiences | | | | because in the past I had successfully recorded |
| are encoded in our cells and these long-forgotten | | | | and interpreted several vivid dreams.So I returned |
| memories blindly continue to influence and form | | | | to writing down my dreams for analysis. It has |
| the way we react to life experiences. These | | | | helped me. |
| memories and forgotten emotions speak to us in | | | | A lot depends on which point in your life you read |
| a language unique to each individual. She firmly | | | | this book. I happen to have been meditating |
| believes that intuition exists and can be accessed | | | | regularly for over thirty years and to have had |
| by everyone. | | | | several intuitive experiences. I've also met many |
| Dr. Schultz battled debilitating injury and disease | | | | gifted intuitive people. Therefore I did not |
| herself and eventually taught herself to | | | | approach the material with any great scepticism. |
| understand her body's symbolic language. She | | | | Also I felt strongly that I needed to learn the |
| suggests that we do the same so that we can | | | | material that Dr. Schultz was explaining. People |
| respond to the body's needs early . In that way | | | | who are very left brained may find what Dr. |
| the body does not have to develop full-blown | | | | Schultz says as so much "mumbo jumbo". |
| disease to get our attention. | | | | Even readers familiar with right brain theory may |
| I was fascinated by Dr. Schultz's life experiences. I | | | | find Dr.Schutz's book takes some careful reading. |
| was also intrigued by her idea of the mind/body | | | | It's a book to buy and re-read. |
| connection. I felt a growing sense that this book | | | | I'd advise doing what I now do--opening the book |
| had not come my way by chance. Its insights | | | | at random and reading that section. |
| were supposed to be used. Soon,I would discover | | | | Today's society encourages what we may term |
| why I felt this way. | | | | as learned helplessness.We become dependent on |
| In two weeks, I learnt that a relative of mine- a | | | | outside experts to tell us what our body is saying. |
| young,bright,gregarious woman had quit college | | | | As a result many of us drift unaware into |
| with extreme depression. I quickly understood | | | | diseased conditions. Dr. Schultz uses her scientific |
| that my role was to keep myself and others | | | | knowledge and perspective to show that our |
| focused on healing her.I spent a lot of time | | | | bodies and minds are wired to give us |
| directing healing energy to her.I am grateful to Dr. | | | | information.We can be healthier and happier if we |
| Schultz for giving me the confidence in my | | | | tuned in to this connection. |