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The
Power Of Intuition
by Judith Orloff, M.D.
I'm a psychiatrist and intuitive in Los Angeles. What I do isn't my job.
It's my life's passion. With patients and in workshops, I listen with my
intellect and my intuition, a potent inner wisdom that goes beyond the
literal. I experience it as a flash of insight, a gut feeling, a hunch, a
dream. By blending intuition with orthodox medical knowledge I can offer
my patients and workshop participants the best of both worlds.
Now, listening to intuition is sacred to me, but learning to trust it has
taken years. I've described the details in my memoir Second Sight which is
meant to assure anyone whoever thought they were weird or crazy for having
intuitive experiences, that they are not! This brief synopsis gives you a
taste of the book.
I grew up in Beverly Hills the only daughter of two-physician parents with
twenty-five physicians in my family. From age nine, I had dreams and
intuitions that would come true. I could predicts illness, earthquakes,
even the suicide of one of my parent's friends. This confused and alarmed
me, as it did my parents who were entrenched in the hard-core rational
world of science. At first they tried to write my intuitions off as
coincidence. Finally, though, after I dreamed my mother's mentor would
loose a political election--which to my horror, came true--she took me
aside and told me, "Never mention another dream or intuition in our
house again!" I'll never forget the look in my dear mother's
exasperated, frightened eyes, nothing I ever wanted to see again. So from
that day on, I kept my intuitions to myself. I grew up ashamed of my
abilities, sure there was something wrong with me.
Luckily, I've had many angels in human form who've pointed me to my
true calling as physician. In the sixties I got heavily involved with
drugs in an attempt to block my intuitions out- obviously not something
I'm recommending to you! Following a nearly fatal car accident at
age sixteen when I tumbled over a treacherous 1500 foot cliff in Malibu
Canyon, my parents forced me to see a psychiatrist. This man was the first
person who ever "saw" me--not who he wanted me to be, but who I
was. He taught me to begin to value the gift of intuition, and referred me
to Dr. Thelma Moss, a intuition researcher at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric
Institute. She was to become my mentor and guide to developing my
intuitive side.
While working in Thelma's lab I had an amazingly specific dream which
announced, "You're going to become an MD, a psychiatrist, to help
legitimize intuition in medicine." When I awoke, I felt like someone
was playing a practical joke on me. I'd never liked science, and I was
bored around all my parent's doctor-friends. I was a hippie living in an
old converted brick Laundromat with my artist-boyfriend in Venice Beach,
working in the May Company's towel department. (I've had a great love of
towels and sheets since!) The last thing I envisioned doing was medicine.
But because I was beginning to trust my intuition, I enrolled in a junior
college just to see how it would go. So one course became two, became
fourteen years of medical training--USC medical school and a UCLA
psychiatric internship and residency.
The irony was, that during my medical training I strayed far from the
intuitive world again. Traditional psychiatry equates visions with
psychosis. Working in the UCLA emergency room, I'd keep seeing psychotics
who were wheeled in screaming, strapped to gurneys, accompanied by cops
with billy clubs. These patients professed to hear God and to be able
predict things. They also felt their food was poisoned, and that the FBI
was on their tail. No one tried to sort through this mishmash of claims.
Typically, patients would shot up with with Thorazine, hospitalized on
lock-down inpatient units until their "symptoms" subsided.
Seeing this so many times I doubted whether it was safe or appropriate to
integrate my intuitions in medicine.
When I opened my Los Angeles psychiatric practice in 1983, I had every
intention of it being traditional; I'd use medications, psychotherapy, but
I didn't intend for intuition to play a role. My practice was
extremely successful. Since I was a workaholic and also loved helping
people, I had twelve hour days, though very little personal life. But then
I had a heart-wrenching wake-up call that changed everything. It was an
intuition that a patient, on antidepressants, was going to make a suicide
attempt. Because she was doing so well--nothing supported my hunch--I
dismissed it. Within a week she overdosed on the antidepressants I'd
prescribed and ended up in a coma for nearly a month. (Had she not
survived I would've been devastated.) The hardest part, though, was that I
thought I'd harmed her by not utilizing a vital piece of intuitive
information. This was intolerable for me. From then on, I knew, as a
responsible physician, I had to integrate my intuitions into my work.
After this episode, my journey to bring intuition into my medical practice
began. I didn't know how I'd do it, but I put out a silent prayer to the
universe to help me. Soon, I began meeting people, more angels, who showed
me the way. Gradually I grew comfortable with my intuition, set out to
write "Second Sight." This took me seven years to complete
because I had so much fear about coming out of the closet as an intuitive.
I was afraid of what my physician-peers would think, that they'd mock me
or blackball me from the profession. My mother warned, "They'll think
you're weird. It'll jeopardize your medical career." Ah Mother: I
loved her, but thank god I didn't listen. Finding my voice as a
psychiatrist and intuitive has been my path to freedom.
Sure, there's a risk when you stretch yourself, but the rewards are
enormous. Now, I'm blessed to travel around the country giving workshops
on intuition to auditoriums full of extraordinary people--health care
professionals and general audiences alike--who long to embrace their inner
voice. I'm heartened to see that many physicians are eager to deal with
patients in the new way I offer. Recently I gave an intuitive healing
workshop at the American Psychiatric Association convention, a annual
gathering of the most conservative psychiatrists in the world. I'm pleased
to report the response was wonderful.
I'm sad to report that my mother didn't live long enough to see this. In
1993 she died of a lymphoma. But, on her deathbed, she decided to tell me
our "family secrets." She told me, "I want to pass
the power onto you." I was astounded to learn that I came from a
lineage of intuitive healers on her side of the family--my Jewish
grandmother who did laying on of hands in a shed behind the pharmacy she
and Grandpop ran in Philadelphia. East coast aunts and cousins I'd never
met since I grew up in California. Also, my mother, herself, had a strong
inner voice which told her how to treat patients for over forty years.
She'd listened to this voice and secretly used her innate healing powers
to keep her lymphoma in remission for many years. "Why didn't you
tell me?" I asked her. She said simply, "I wanted you to lead a
normal, happy life, not to be thought of as weird like your grandmother
was." Oh Mother... I'll always be grateful for what she shared,
but, still... she'd waited so long. Even so, I believe in the wisdom of
the paths we've been given. Mine has been to fight for what I believed in
despite what my parents or anyone said. An invaluable but rugged lesson in
empowerment.
These days, no matter what I'm going through, especially when my heart is
torn in a million pieces my intuition has sustained me. I hope that my
journey in "Second Sight" can help you. One thing I'm certain
of: if you follow your intuitive voice, you can't go wrong. Stay true to
it. Intuition is about empowerment, not having to conform to someone
else's notion of who you should be. It's about being true to yourself, and
all the goodness that comes from that.
____________________
Judith Orloff, M.D is a board
certified psychiatrist and practicing intuitive, author of the bestsellers
Second Sight, Guide to Intuitive Healing and of Positive Energy,
due out from Harmony Books, April 2004. She is assistant clinical
professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and an international workshop leader. Dr.
Orloff can be reached at www.drjudithorloff.com. |
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