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"I knew that was going to happen!"
Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D., is taking her afternoon coffee break at Starbucks. She indicates a teenage couple, explaining that the girl really cares for the guy, but he wants nothing to do with her. Moments ago, the girl tried to lean her head on his shoulder, and he shifted an inch away. No one noticed except Schulz, who shared in the unspoken drama.
"I pick up on people's thoughts and feelings, so being around crowds is hard for me," says the 43-year-old neuroanatomist, neuropsychiatrist and medical intuitive. "That's why I prefer to live alone. People need their mental privacy--and I hear so much in my head. I need my peace."
By virtue of a rare neurological syndrome that twisted her spine "like a pretzel" in childhood and gave her learning disabilities, attention-deficit disorder, epilepsy and a brain uniquely adapted for intuition, Schulz has not had a "normal" life. She's undergone grueling back surgeries and wears a neck brace to sleep. Yet she is fit, fast-moving and impulsive, has a ready laugh, and is in love with knowledge, animals and life.
The intuitive abilities that enabled her to overcome her problems offer a lesson in how to cope with our own vulnerabilities. In her book Awakening Intuition, Schulz argues that emotional and physical symptoms are avenues of personal intuition, shortcuts to understanding what is going on in our lives.
Waking up to the truth
Schulz has always felt different, due to her dyslexia, her sensitivity, her hyper-activity, and her tendency to get the right answers to math problems without knowing how she got there. At age 12, her spine suddenly bent 120 degrees. A rod was placed down the spine, and she spent her seventh grade in bed.
In college, Schulz often fell asleep at inopportune times. Because she was working to put herself through school, and because she ran and biked so much, she wrote it off to exhaustion. But after falling asleep while carrying a tray full of food at the school cafeteria, she was finally diagnosed with a form of epilepsy that produces sleep attacks.
Medication turned her life around, but she had to give it up due to rare and potentially fatal side effects. Nothing else worked. Though she had wanted to be a doctor and a scientist as long as she could remember, she felt her life was over, and it nearly was. While jogging over a bridge one day, she fell asleep and was hit by a truck.
She turned to acupuncture and a macrobiotic diet and ultimately sought advice from a medical intuitive. "She said, 'Your brain freezes and thaws, freezes and thaws. Once you start to learn to use that part of your brain where your intuition is, you will stop falling asleep,'" Schulz recalls.
Soon after, she picked up a copy of Louise Hay's book You Can Heal Your Life and practiced affirmations that began her healing process. It took a few years, but Schulz began to invite back the intuitive "guesswork" she had first felt in childhood--and for which her brain, with its outsized right hemisphere, was particularly suited.
The sleep attacks subsided and remained under control. Schulz completed an M.D., a Ph.D. and a psychiatric residency. Now, in her writing, research and teaching, she works to demonstrate that science supports the existence and validity of intuition.
Schulz is the research partner of author Christiane Northrup, M.D., whose books, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause, are sprinkled with tributes to Schulz's friendship and profound intuitive skills. Together, they have recorded an audiotape series called Body Talk: No-nonsense, Common-sense, Sixth-sense Solutions to Create Health and Healing.
Schulz consults in Massachusetts , New York , and Nashville , Tenn. , but she spends most of her time at her country home in Yarmouth , Maine , doing intuitive reading by telephone. Someone calls and tells Schulz his or her name and age. She then discerns via clairvoyance and clairaudience the person's physical condition and emotional state, and explains how the two are linked.
Schulz is quick to caution that she is not practicing medicine during her readings. All she's doing, she asserts, is helping people to discern by direct, nonrational processes what they already know, and to trust that knowledge.
"There was a force in the universe that made things happen in my life in a way I couldn't control," Schulz observed. But she also knew she was "simultaneously endowed with the power to influence what happened to me." It's a power available to all of us willing to listen to our inner resources.
It's a brain thing
Intuition is the capacity to make correct decisions based on insufficient information, says Mona Lisa Schulz.
"It's not spiritual," she says, dismissive of such a concept. "It's anatomy, how your brain is wired. The wiring for your gifts and talents and genius is the same as for your loose screws and areas of difficulty."
And, she notes, everyone has access to intuition depending on how their own brains are organized.
People who are left-brain-dominant are logical and sequential and trust their rationality; they're mostly open to intuition through dreams, when that part of the brain is shut down. The brain's right hemisphere is considered visual, gestalt-oriented and more receptive to intuition.
"Our left-hemisphere-oriented culture tends to dismiss or belittle intuition," says Schulz. Ironically, you do need the left brain's analytical capacity to interpret, understand and apply your intuition. In other words, intuition is a function of the whole brain.
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Dr. Schulz believes that all of us were born with intuitive ability and the capacity to read energy fields, but that this innate ability gradually diminishes over time because it has been culturally feared and devalued instead of cultivated. One of the many joys in her life is teaching healthcare professionals and others how to acknowledge, trust, and develop their own intuitive skills.
With her extensive training in health and brain research, Dr. Mona Lisa A. Schulz (a.k.a. "Dr. Mona Lisa") has been a practicing Medical Intuitive for almost two decades. Dr. Mona Lisa received her doctorate in Behavioral Neuroscience from the Boston School of Medicine. Medical intuition is the direct perception of the emotional and psychological patterns that form the basis for a person's state of health or disease. A medical intuitive perceives patterns of energy and information that are beyond the scope of conventionally accepted definitions of space and time. Dr. Mona Lisa believes that all of us were born with intuitive ability and the capacity to read energy fields, but that this innate ability gradually diminishes over time because it has been culturally feared and devalued instead of cultivated. One of the many joys in her life is teaching people how to acknowledge, trust, and develop their own intuitive skills. Dr. Mona Lisa has completed her first book Awakening Intuition, , which not only scientifically validates medical intuition, but is also a practical guide for those seeking to tap into their own medical intuition, to address and heal the root patterns associated with their health problems. Dr Mona Lisa's latest book, The New Feminine Brain is an action-oriented, solution-based manual that teaches people how to access their intuition, in order to identify and change the emotional patterns that predispose them to, or exacerbate illness.
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