Medical Intuition

The word healer has many meanings, but these days it may be used to mean someone who can sense the body's energy field. With training this is a skill that anyone can learn. If you rub your hands together until they are warm, then extend your hands and slowly move them toward your body, see if you notice sensation in your palms. Some feel tingling or heat or a thickness or resistance. Medical intuition uses this energy sense to do "hands-on" healing—or even tune into another person to heal from a distance.

Given only a small amount of personal information—perhaps only a name—an intuitive healer may be able to describe a person's health problem and its emotional and spiritual roots, and suggest treatments. Intuitives may hear words or phrases, see images, have feelings in their own body, or receive symbolic, dream-like images.

This type of healing is a mystery. Barbara Brennan, a former physicist and founder of the largest school for energy healing, believes we can all receive healing—and learn to heal. She believes that we have a human energy field (HEF), or aura, and that a universal energy field (UEF) surrounds and connects everything.

Energy and well-being

Some doctors work with medical intuitives because they believe that clues about the nature of illness can lead patients on a path of self-discovery. One famous pair is Dr. Norman Shealy, graduate of Duke University Medical School, and pain expert and medical intuitive, Carolyn Myss. They met in 1985 and began to talk about patients; their medical and intuitive diagnoses match more than 90% of the time.

Medical intuitives are now sharing information through books and teachings. They can help us call on our own intuition, or inner knowing, to learn more about our energy anatomy and becoming partners with our doctors in our well-being.