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Summary: about the author's intuitive powers, not yours
Review: The topic is so worthy of exploration. In this age of left-brain worship, it's critical that someone with Dr. Schulz's qualifications gives us a treatise on why the right brain should be celebrated for its powers, and why its "messages" should be heeded more. Yet this book winds up being a treatise on Dr. Schulz, on how dazzling she finds her own intuitive powers, to an almost maddening degree. The reader is repeatedly told that awakening intuition is important, but is never, in this longwinded book, given the tools to do it.
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Summary: A must read
Review: There are dozens of books on the how to of developing intuition; that isn't Schultz's intent in this book. She's speaking from her personal experience as a medical intuitive, an ability she developed on her own, because of her own physical problems. As for the length: I had no problem with it. Ruthless editors proliferate in the industry. But editors who allow a writer to write from the heart are rare. Schultz is telling you her story, her experience, her conclusions as an MD and an intuitive. As for the accuracy of the material, the litmus test for me was when I handed my father the book and told him to read the part about the Parkinson's patient. "This is me," he said.
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Summary: mesmerizing
Review: This book is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the mind-body connection. Schulz brings her profound insight into areas that some of us sense but can't verbalize. She does this through anecdotes backed up (and footnoted) by current medical research. But more than this, her personal voice comes through loud and clear. You like this woman as a person and wish there were more intuitive MDs just like her. She's a pioneer. She's also very funny; in a story about clogged drains, I laughed as I have rarely laughed when reading a book like this.
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Summary: Helpful insights, but could be at least 1/3 shorter
Review: This book pulls uneasily in two directions. For me, the most helpful parts concerned learning to identify the psychological/spiritual problems that foster physical illnesses. Much of what Schulz said on that topic chimed in with my own experiences: for instance, I come from a family whose habit is to suppress negative emotions and express positive ones only in extremely restrained ways; is it any wonder we've all got high blood pressure? Her approach to the meaning of illness is far less simplistic than Louise Hay's (whose list of what illnesses signify reminds me of those booklets you see at the supermarket check-out counter: "If you dream of a black dog, this means ... "). Although Schulz leans heavily to the mental side of the mind-body relationship, she generally manages to avoid what Joan Borysenko labels "New Age guilt," i.e., "illness means that you're not spiritually advanced enough." And although she occasionally sounds as if she's promoting the view that illness is ONLY a mental problem, in general I felt her insights were sound and useful.
Less helpful, to me, were the parts on intuition: although I agree with her that everyone has it and simply needs to become more sensitive to it, the book didn't teach me a whole lot about how to enhance this faculty in myself. And while her personal history is fascinating and (generally) relevant to her main point, I found her endless examples of medical intuition in action rather tedious: the cases themselves are often extremely relevant, but she could have left out a lot of the "look how insightful I am" parts! Again, the book is messy and sprawling -- in many sections, I felt that a more ruthless editor could have allowed her to make her point while eliminating the irrelevant material. I feel the book is worth reading, but it could have been at least 1/3 shorter and just as informational -- and probably a lot easier to read!
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Summary: When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Review: This is one of those books I told other friends about and they went and bought it and are READING it. I found it FASCINATING, length and all. The numerous examples serve to reinforce the awakening. Repetition is often used as a learning tool. But each example is equally fascinating, and I think the Doctor is way too modest to use them as braggadocio. I have long intuited myself that there are specific emotions connected to specific illnesses. Dr. Schulz has verified that for me and saved me that painstaking research, although there is always more room to explore these ideas. I highly recommend this book for the student who wishes to further develop or begin learning about how your emotional state affects your health. That of course, is not all it affects, but that is what Dr. Schulz' book is about. It's easy to read and interesting, even if you don't have a medical background. I certainly feel more enlightened, and wish that everyone could understand what Dr. S! chulz is trying to say. The truth will set you free. THANK YOU DR. SCHULZ
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Summary: This is not a HOW TO book in any regard.
Review: 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.
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Summary: ...divides and explains our human systems...
Review: With the availability of today's broad spectrum of metaphysical, holistic, and spiritual books, Awakening Intuition truly stands out among them. I admit it has the world's worst title - dull and over used - but the contents are not to be missed.
Mona Lisa Schulz is a gifted medical intuitive, having worked intimately with Carolyn Myss and especially Christiane Northrup. Add to this the fact that she has a M.D. and a Ph. D., and is a practicing neuropsychiatrist and neuroscientist and you might be more willing to accept her psychic abilities.
In Awakening Intuition she very clearly divides and explains our human system of body and brain, working to assist the reader in the full understanding of the physical, and then taking the necessary leap to metaphysical realizations. Her aim is always to explain how you, the reader, can open up to your own intuitive sense of self. Schulz walks you through it. (My favourite chapter is on memory and the body, of course. It spouts off my belief on perceptionally reframing your past traumas 'in terms of what importance or relevance it has in your life', as a way of healing the intensity of traumas that are still affecting you today.) Truly an empowering work.
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Summary: Better borrowed than bought
Review: Without question sections of this book are intriguing and well-written, medical research is cited to support the role of intuition, and it reinforces the importance of knowing yourself and making healthy decisions. In the end, however, I was disappointed and irritated with this book. It is far too long, more than a little repetitive, condescending at times, and overly simplistic. In addition, there are several occasions when the text reads more like an autobiography of the author's numerous illnesses/ailments than an exploration of the importance of the mind/body connection.
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