HEALING | Integrative Healing Medical Intuition A New Frontier in Health Assessments by Rita Louise At the height of the Renaissance, Galileo Galilei and his newly discovered telescope viewed the moons of Jupiter for the first time. The priests and religious leaders of the era refused to look through the telescope, fearing that they would have to acknowledge this new information and be forced to revise their model of the world. As we move into the new millennium, the face of health and healing are taking on a whole new look. With it, a new paradigm in the assessment of health is making its way to the forefront, its tool: medical intuition. As the name states, medical intuition is a science in which a practitioner, using a highly developed sense of intuition, "looks" into the body, evaluating it on energetic levels. According to medical intuitives, people are more than just a physical body. Instead, humans are made up of a vast array of interconnecting energies and energetic fields, with physical diseases appearing as an external manifestation of disturbances to these energetic fields. A medical intuitive easily detects these disturbances. A medical intuition evaluation can provide invaluable information as to issues of the physical body, but it can also identify mental and emotional factors that act as direct contributors to health issues. Intuitives also can identify potential physical conditions before they reach a dysfunctional state. Medical intuitives do not diagnose disease. Instead of labeling a disorder, an intuitive can identify the location of inflammation in the body, evaluate the health of a gland or organ or validate a strong emotion that is impacting health. Many times, a medical intuitive can identify imbalances within the body long before it fully manifests as disease. It is as if a medical intuitive can let you know that you are driving around on bald tires before you find yourself sitting on the side of the road with a flat. Medical Intuition is a complex blending of both modern science and esoteric religion, both of which provide a vocabulary and conceptual framework from which a medical intuitive works. These concepts help the practitioner explain and clarify what is being seen, felt or experienced on energetic levels. A solid understanding of the form and function of the physical and energetic bodies is also critical to this work. Without this framework, which quantifies what is being experienced, the information gathered by the medical intuitive would make no sense to both layman and practitioner alike. There are three ways a medical intuitive can access information: clairvoyantly, clairasentiently and clairaudiently. Most medical intuitives receive information utilizing all of these intuitive abilities. Clairvoyance refers to the ability to the ability to "see" pictures in your mind's eye, in this case the inner workings of the body, an image of a situation or an emotion that is currently being processed. They are able to see our life force energy, or chi, as it flows through the body. They are able to detect where this energy has stagnated or become blocked. Clairsentience refers to the ability to "feel" energy or emotions in the body. Medical intuitives who use this ability typically scan the body using their hands, seeking out changes in temperature, energy vibrations or fluctuations in the density of the aura or body. Clairaudience refers to the ability to hear information intuitively. These individuals ask spirit, their higher self, God or the universe for specific insights. Health information is presented to them in the form of a few words, a sentence or even an indepth conversation. As a Naturopath and practicing medical intuitive, I have spent more than 10 years working with clients on these levels. It never ceases to amaze me the depth and breadth that this skill has to offer. Working with a client one day, I intuitively saw red, inflamed and swollen tissue in and around his sinuses and nasal cavity. I asked him if he had a cold or if he suffered from sinus congestion. He told me he hadn't. A couple of weeks later, I received a call from this same client. He informed me that the day after our session, he suffered from one of the worst sinus headaches he had ever experienced in his life, with the pain and congestion taking a full week to finally clear. I had another client who sat down for an evaluation. As I started to scan her body, I noticed that her spine was twisted and contorted. I asked her if she had scoliosis where her spine, instead of twisting in the traditional S-type pattern, instead twisted on its axis. She confirmed my observation. Another client came for an evaluation with complaints of arthritis-like pain and inflammation in her hands and feet. When I evaluated her body, I noticed a dysfunction in her kidneys. I also noticed that her kidneys seemed extremely acidic. Later on my observations were confirmed by her blood work. She wasn't suffering from arthritis, but gout. By far, the majority of the clients I see with health concerns share one thing in common -- an emotional trigger. Science is now starting to recognize the impact of emotions on health, but the implications go deeper than the effects of stress on blood pressure. A medical intuitive can provide in-depth insights into the emotional triggers that give rise to a condition of disharmony in the energetic system, thus creating a state of disease in the physical body. Let me give you a few examples. A few years back, I had a client who came to me for an evaluation. When she sat down for her session, I observed an area of dark, stagnant energy sitting over her heart. When I assessed this energy further, I perceived that she had unresolved issues with her mother. After sharing this information with my client, she quickly told me that she had been adopted and never knew her birth mother. I found out later in the session that my client had recently recovered from quadruple bypass surgery. I also worked with a woman who was diagnosed with Graves Disease, an autoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid gland. To the casual observer, my client appeared strong, outspoken, open and ready to share her thoughts and opinions with anyone, regardless of whom they are. When I appraised her thyroid intuitively, it was easy to see that this extremely strong, communicative woman, was completely shut down when it came to talking with her husband, choosing to stuff all of her thoughts, ideas, feelings and emotions. She decided it was better to not say anything when it came to issues in their marriage and "keep the peace." The result: the manifestation of a disease in the energetic area of communication. Her husband, in turn, handled the stresses and strains of life and their relationship differently. As a quiet, self-contained man, he is either unable to or unwilling to share his thoughts feelings and emotions, choosing in its place to bottle them up. The result: he walks around like a pressure cooker with no release valve. It was no surprise to me when I found out that his blood pressure was running dangerously high. To attain health, balance must be achieved not only within the physical body, but also with our thoughts and emotions. It is only with an understanding of where our energy has deviated from a state of health, along with the strength and determination to work through these unresolved issues, that true healing will ever be achieved. Medical intuition can provide you with this depth and breadth of information. Disclaimer: Medical intuitive are not medical doctors. This means that they are not allowed by law to diagnose, treat, alleviate, mitigate, prevent or care for any disease of any kind, in anyway. If you have a health condition, it is important that you consult your primary care physician. Rita Louise, N.D., of Body, Mind & SoulHealer, helps people rediscover their wholeness on physical, emotional and spiritual levels. She is the author of the newly released book, The Power Within. To have Dr. Louise speak to your organization or to schedule a session with Dr. Louise, contact her directly at (972) 475-3393 or visit her website. Copyright © 2001 Rita Louise SEPT 2001