Marcia Emery - The Intuitive Healer

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Contents

Chapter One:

Chapter Two:

Chapter Three:

Chapter Four:

Chapter Five:

Chapter Six:

Chapter Seven:

Chapter Eight:

Chapter Nine:

Chapter Ten:

Chapter Eleven:

Chapter Twelve:

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO

Mr. Lynn Buck Charlson, a true visionary, who has generously supported my work in the field of intuition over the past eight years.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The process of writing a book, from its inception until the final page, has many parallels with the birthing process. My gratitude to everyone who helped midwife this book is expressed in the following quote from Flavia.

Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our heart, and we are never the same.

The people seen and unseen who helped me breathe life into and create this book all left footprints on my heart. I acknowledge them for their contributions throughout the gestation and birthing process.

I honor the voice that speaks through methe source of all life who has many names and descriptions. For me, it is the godlike energy, that still voice within, that inspired and truly created this work.

Although my mother, Naomi Rose, is no longer on this earth plane, her essence continually inspires me, as I still feel her pride in my creative and communication skills. She is joined in the spheres by my father, Dr. David Gelfand, favorite uncle, Dr. Louis Gelfand, grandfather Paul Magnus, and father-in-law, Wendell Emery. I can see their smiling faces as this book is presented to the world.

I am grateful to Candice Fuhrman for leading me to my literary agent, Bonnie Solow, and for providing invaluable input as this book was being created. I highly praise Bonnie for her extraordinary inner vision, which helped to elevate this book to the highest level.

This book has felt complete as a work of art thanks to the adept and skilled editing of Doug Childers, who amplified its brush strokes in an exceptional way.

To Heather Jackson, Rebecca Koh, and the staff at St. Martins Press, I express my gratitude for recognizing the value of this work. My appreciation to Mary Marin for reading the preliminary drafts of this book.

My thanks to my dear friends who have supported my work in articulating intuition. They include Jeffrey Mishlove, Pete Raynolds, Colleen Mauro, Sharon Franquemont, Nancy Rosanoff, Roger Frantz, Barbara Schultz, Victor Beasley, Michele Grace, Karen Kramer, Janis Marshall, Lars Spivock, and the staff of the Life Science Foundation.

To my chiropractor, Patrick Tribble, who is a magnificent model of an intuitive healer.

And to my beloved husband, Jim, I want to give you the most priceless gem of all, my eternal gratitude for always being there to take care of me in many ways with your unending supply of love.

FOREWORD

Writing a book about intuition is not an easy task. In many ways, its like writing about how air travels through cheeseclothits real, to be sure, but impossible to hold. Marcia Emery has succeeded in this sizable task, giving us a book on intuitive instruction that is both a pleasure to read and immensely useful.

In The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician, Marcia fulfills her promise of taking us on a step-by-step guide into our own sensory system. She offers exercises that encourage us readers to articulate our strengths, our fears, and our blockagesall of which form the core toward helping us to know more about why it is we become ill.

I have always believed that we are intuitive by nature. Intuition is our most natural sense, even more than sight, touch, or hearing. In my own workshops on Intuitive Development, I went through a transition. During the early days when I first began teaching this subject, I felt obligated to produce some type of exercise that would guarantee that my students would be clear intuitives by the end of their week with me. But no matter what type of exercise I came up with, nothing seemed to provide full proof.

Then the light went on in my head. I realized that these individuals were coming to me not because they wanted to develop their intuition, but because their intuition was already incredibly well developed. What they did not recognize was that their doubt or confusion was, in fact, the energy of intuition urging them to make some new choices in their lives. These students, and many to follow, were under the mistaken impression that intuitive ability was the capacity to see the future so clearly that no errors would be made, particularly in the decision-making arenas of money, occupation, or romance. They believed that intuition was the ability to foresee and avoid pain, mistakes, or financial loss.

That is not intuitive ability. Intuition is the ability to interpret the energetic information that is always a part of every aspect of life and to use that energetic information for making wise choicesnot safe, but wise. Intuition does not promise an end to all pain; in fact, pain and pleasure should not even factor into our understanding of intuition. Intuitive ability has much more to do with learning to rely upon our natural wisdom than it does with developing a means of protection. The very essence of the need to protect is fear, whereas wisdom is linked to the recognition that life is essentially a learning experience. As such, pain and pleasure are partners. To focus only on pleasure and safety is like desiring to live only in sunlightan impossible goal.

No matter how much we focus our attention on attaining and maintaining health, we will each inevitably face challenges in this area. These challenges are simply a part of life. Thus, there is great wisdom in learning to respond to our innate intuitive sense that we are in a situation which is causing us to lose power. In paying attention, and in then making an appropriate decision to reverse the situation, we maximize our chances of remaining healthy and avoid having to become ill in order to learn that we do not want to be in certain toxic situations or relationships.

Of course, you must bear in mind that intuition requires personal courage in order to thrive. You cannot decide to be conveniently intuitive, incorporating only information that does not upset you or cause you to make any changes in your life. In developing this skill, you must be willing to honor it as a sight you will use without blinders. You cannot expect clarity on demand. The biggest block to intuitive development is the fear that comes with being clear-sighted, because clear-sightedness means that you must make clear choices. Choice means change, and change frightens people even more than dying.

Marcias wonderful book can become a powerful tool. I encourage you to follow her exercises, doing each of them with a serious focus of mind and heart. Moreover, I would ask you to pay attention to your own fear of how your life would change were you to become a clear intuitive. In doing these exercises and paying attention, you will learn a great deal about your own comfort level with becoming a more intuitive individual. And last but not least, enjoy the journey through the pages of this book. I know I did.