The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician

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Summary: Nothing new here.
Review: There is nothing new in this disappointing book. If one had never read a book on New Age topics it is a good book but if you are looking for something new you won't find it here.

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Summary: This book really has helped me trust myself more...and relax
Review: This is the friendliest, most personal book I ever read on intuition. I felt like the author was speaking to me directly. I use something from the writing exercises almost every day. It is really enjoyable to read, but most of all, I feel like I can use the tools and techniques to increase my trust in myself and my intuition. What a relief!

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Summary: highly recommended
Review: When I first met my inner physician, I was quite surprised. I expected some kind of white cloaked intern in a somber gray room crassly lit with fluorescents, clutching a clipboard, eager to give a quick diagnosis. However, the image that unfolded before my inner eye was that of a Peruvian medicine man, strong and clear eyed, emanating compassion and steadfastness as he stood before me with open arms. He revealed a kind of compassion I rarely encountered in most of the licensed doctors, allopathic as well as holistic, that I've dealt with in my life. Most of all, I didn't feel afraid of this inner doctor who hadn't the least trace of institutional arrogance in him, who didn't take himself too seriously and wouldn't pretend to have all the answers I seeked. This was no card carrying member of the AMA! He wasn't lording over me like some mythical medic dispensing divine favor. In fact, I felt quite relaxed and at peace with myself and with him as we stood face to face, on a level playing field, high on the Nazca plains, near the edge of an enormous earth glyph of a Hummingbird, backdropped by the majestic Andes Mountains. He wasn't going to tell me to schedule yet another appointment at the front desk. He would be there for me anytime I wanted. All I had to do was close my eyes, center myself and take a few relaxing breaths and call upon him. I would not have met my inner physician if it weren't for Dr. Marcia Emery's gift to us, The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician, recently published by St. Martin's Press. Nor would I have had the opportunity to meet the 'Internal Governing Board' of my body, mind, heart and spirit, a kind of inner board of directors one can consult with in order to harmonize and balance. I probably would have continued to ignore them for the rest of my life. Also, I would not have discovered, within myself, innovative perspectives on persistent health problems and how to use creative imagery to gain more revolutionary insights into the nature of disease itself. Dr. Marcia Emery observes that in her workshops "...people in attendance are taking responsibility for their wellbeing by attracting the cures and conditions that will maintain or restore optimum health and wellness." I would have missed the opportunity to take on such an attractive commitment myself if it were not for her book. Experiencing Dr. Emery's work has deepened my appreciation for intuition itself, something, in my cynical and jaded past I've regarded as merely a means to read the future with, much like a Tarot card reader or Scryer of crystal balls does. Intuition is an all too often neglected if not overtly discouraged aspect of our psyches which has many beneficial dimensions and qualities to it. It is these latent qualities that the author encourages us to bring out of ourselves, cultivate and realize. The word intuition has its Latin origins in tutelary, a kind of guardian angel that keeps us out of trouble, as well as a teacher or tutor who oversees and inspires our education throughout our lives. The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician puts us in touch with an original intuition, connecting us with our inner teachers and guardians as well, in a way that feels quite natural, not at all alien. What is most profoundly enjoyable about this work is the ease of its accessibility. Accompanying the easy to follow exercises are vivid and effective examples of workshop participants's first hand accounts which describe the healing successes, the very cures and conditions they attracted using Dr. Emery's 'Mindshift Method', The 'Mindshift Method' involves a series of progressive techniques which enable even the most stubbornly logical of us to shift effortlessly from our analytical minds into the intuitive wellsprings at the heart of our beings. The author helps us see clearly through the smokescreens of our fears and doubts, enabling us to access our intuitive selves in ways which deeply stimulate and sustain the healing process. One gets the impression that some kind of higher wisdom guided the good Dr. in the writing of her book, a wisdom, like that possessed by our inner physician , she graciously acknowledges and reassures is directly accessible to us all. Following the exercises within The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician is not only rewarding but profoundly encouraging as well. For me, I immediately sensed an inner confidence growing, a much welcomed assurance that I could manage and sustain my health and well being in a positive and transformative way. I sensed that I wouldn't have to be solely dependent on others outside of myself for my health. I suggest that the publicity department at St. Martin's Press send out copies of The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician to various board members of the FDA, Health Insurance Companies, Regents at Medical Schools and presidents of Pharmaceutical combines. I wonder what their inner physicians look like! Would they be as pleasantly surprised as I was when I first met mine?