As early as the mid 20th century physicians aspired to become great diagnosticians, to have the power to understand disease and the complexity of illness. These physicians understood the need to use their intuition to make the right diagnosis so that the right problem was ultimately treated. Making the right diagnosis and understanding human nature, as well as why people became sick, is the best way to insure healing.

Making the right diagnosis required intuition, or as it was often referred to by those physicians and lay people who understood the concept, as either “clinical or diagnostic acumen” or as having a “high index of suspicion.” Without this “high index of suspicion,” which clearly came from inner knowing, experience, and practice, a physician was merely a technician who might fall onto the exact right treatment only through trial and error while treating symptoms. While this physician might by research, luck or limited skill, come upon the right diagnosis, if his treatment did not work, he might never clearly understand why the medications or treatments he prescribed were not effective.

For many physicians this was entirely okay. Cure, healing or elimination of illness is not necessarily their goal. Instead, today, for most physicians the goal is more often than not symptom relief and pain reduction. Acceptance of persistent or intermittent discomfort, pain or the progression of the disease process is expected, and in the end, the average physician expects and accepts this as nothing more then the inevitable result of being sick to begin with.

Today the ancient codes associated with medicine are less part of the practice of medicine then ever before. With the rise of technology, laboratory and diagnostic techniques, x-ray, CTScans, MRI's, DNA investigation all that is needed is laboratory evidence for making a diagnosis. Whether there are mental, emotional or spiritual factors or causes involved is often unimportant, as long as there is some essence of a physical cause that can be found. With our current diagnostic technologies, and awareness of physical aspects of the problem, the average physician often believes that he can now know the full and total cause(s) of any disease, with this information under his belt he now either can simply cut it out or drown the problem in medications. The modern Western practitioner now believes that all illness is caused by some physical cause, whether this is bacteria or viruses, genetic abnormalities, tumors, imbalances of hormones, injuries or some physical cause yet to be discovered, the way they treat their patients’ tody is to consider most, if not all illnesses, as deficiency of one or another medication, surgery or physical treatment of some sort. Issues such as lifestyle, diet, willingness to live or die, mental, emotional and spiritual factors have simply become interesting side notes which may only generate interest by family members, fringe practitioners and  kooks and nuts. Science is where it is at, even when this science comes at the price of being heartless, sterile and devoid of the humanity that once occupied the now sick individual.

What I have said above is not meant to belittle the technology we are now developing nor the people who rely upon it or depend on its findings. Instead to reaffirm and demonstrate that the person who is sick is not a test tube, not a number, not a bug nor a specimen, but rather a living and breathing human being with feelings, fears, guilt, shame and pride. He or she is sick not just because a bacteria jumped into his or her lungs or involved organ, not just because a deficiency of some medication, nor just because of bad genetics or corrupt tissues, but because of a multitude of factors and causes the great majority of Western medical doctors are totally unaware of. Factors such as faulty belief systems, guilt, emotional distress (stress), destructive or harmful lifestyle habits, inadequate diet or nutrition, lack of knowledge, unresolved physical, mental, emotional and spiritual conflicts that need to be resolved before healing can finally take place.

The ancient knew this, the venerable diagnosticians and intuitive diagnosticians knew this, but over time their voices have been quieted and displaced by mediocrity, the rush and need to rely on technology, and the movement toward treating symptoms, rather than causes.

Today millions of men, women and children, suffer from illnesses that are not being helped by Western medical techniques. Many die for lack of finding the true cause of their illness. Many more suffer endless pain physical, mental, emotional and spiritual because they do not know what to do or where to go. Often because their well-meaning doctor cannot find a treatment that works or a cure that saves them, simply because the current medical system is not set up to heal, rather only to treat.

Unfortunately, the current philosophy in medicine is to disbelieve and see as an enemy anything that does not exactly believe the way they do. I am right, everyone with a divergent opinion or belief systems, are wrong. Yet, these two systems were always meant to work together, not as enemies, not in opposition, but as brother/sister healing systems, as father and mother, brother and sister, as partners in the healing of those men, women and children who have taken ill and who need healing.

While the benefits from the current Interventive medical system, the “you get sick and we will fix you medicine,” are great, it not for all illnesses and not beneficial in all cases. In some situations a more integrated approach is required. Western medicine, with all of its benefits and values, is meant to work together with integrative medicine and all of its benefits and values, in order to help people heal and get well again.


About The Intuitive Healer

The skill of Intuitive Healing is an old one. It was a common method used by healers for thousands of years. In the current Western medical model this process, clinical or diagnostic acumen, has been attributed to many of the great healers of our time and throughout history. The currently accepted rules which drive Western medicine require that in order for a diagnostic methodology, treatment or procedure to be considered medically appropriate, it must be scientifically proved and consistently reproducible through scientific experimentation. This may be great when testing a machine, surgical treatment or a drug, but it almost immediately falls apart when we test ways to cure people. Creating a cure often required going past drugs, surgery and machines, it often requires involving the emotions, the mind, and the spirit and doing what is best for the individual in order to heal them.
Physicians are generally not encouraged to develop skills as Medical Intuitives. This is because they often believe that they cannot learn and use both scientific tools for determining cause and intuitive skills as trying to understanding of mind, body, emotions and spirit does not lend well to the scientific methodology, reproducibility and need for proof. Because of this, the skills necessary to learn and to use intuitive healing are neither taught nor encouraged in medical schools.

Medical intuitive ability, however, can and often does come naturally to physicians and non-physician healers. Over the years many intuitive healers have learned and practiced their skills as part of the medical system and outside of the medical system. Some medical Intuitives can diagnose illness, even actually be aware of tumors, cancers or a disease processes within the body long before they have been officially diagnosed or visualized using medical testing procedures. Once diagnosed, some medical Intuitives can see the cause and long term effects of illness, as well as how they can be cured or reversed. Still, others can do both.

Some medical Intuitives have very broad abilities, while others have more narrowed or focused abilities. Some can only see certain types of illnesses or diseases while others can see everything.

The great majority of medical Intuitives such as Edgar Cayce, Carolyn Myss are not physicians, and  do not have either medical not scientific background or training. This frequently often limits their ability to help patients by working with their physicians to facilitate healing.

As a physician, I have spent the past thirty years working with people to help them determine the causes of their illnesses and how they can be healed. The process I use is a combination of medical history taking, mental, emotional and psychic impressions to “see” the illness process, how it is affecting the individual, his or her family, and their life in general. Historically Intuitives where often referred to as “seers,” as they could “see” things that were not always obvious to others. My area of seeing comes from what I like to refer to as “process.” That is, I can sense or visualize the events and the “process” which originally caused the individuals illness, where it is going, how it is affecting their family, friends and work and ultimately how this illness process can be cured.

I am especially oriented to illness caused by stress (70% to 80% of all of the illnesses seen in medical practice) and nutritional excess and deficiencies. By working with and listening to my patients I am often able to form a “picture” of the process by which the illness has occurred, the stresses and factors that have caused it, how these have undermined the individuals immune, defensive and repair systems, why this is happening, and what can be done about it.

I do not believe that this is anyway magical nor that it is a talent unique to me. I believe that everyone has some ability to “see.” I believe that it is in fact, built into all of us. While still a child, at the tender age of 11, I made the decision to become a medical doctor. I believed intuitiveness was something that all medical doctors had. In the early years of my medical practice I recognized that medical school had not only worked to trained me not to use this capacity, but that the rigorous, scientific training and emphasis on proof actually caused me to lose some of these skills. For years I felt something was missing and then when I myself developed a series of illnesses which shook my belief in medicine, I found that when I acted to heal myself that I also rekindled my interest in healing my patients and my ability to “see” what was causing their illnesses.

With time my skills improved and I soon recognized the wisdom of the illnesses I had suffered and how it was redirecting my life, causing me to have to learn more about stress, nutrition and healing than I had been taught in medical school. I began to recognize that true healing occurred from understanding the interaction and integration of mind, body and spirit. With this under my belt, I set out on a “hero’s journey” to explore and ultimately find the missing keys to healing my patients rather than simply treating them.

This journey has put me on a new road, one on which I was alone, one which was entirely unfamiliar, however, along the way I met others who struggled with similar issues and I learned from them and taught some of them what I had been learning. One of the biggest problems I faced was the fear and ridicule of other physicians who saw my journey as a threat to their image of the “hallowed halls of their scientifically-based belief systems.” Many of the physicians I met along the way could neither understand my interest nor how or why I had change my direction. During this journey the world itself began to change as more and more physicians and scientists, people like Bernie Segal, Dean Ornish, Arnold Fox, Andrew Weil, O. Carl Simmington and many others began speaking out and writing, publically announcing that there was a new paradigm for healing, one where understanding mind-body-spirit did not replace medicine, but did replace the older and now more limited Western medical model.


How Can Intuitive Healing Help You?

If you are presently suffering from any illness and you are not steadily getting well, eliminating the illness process or fully returning to complete and total health, wellness and well-being, then you may have an illness that should be dealt with by a skilled medical Intuitive. Whether stress, a nutritional problem, or an emotional or spiritual conflict is part of its underlying cause is essential to know, if you wish to cure it. If your symptoms are progressing or worsening then you either have not looked for or found the conflict that underlies it. You are not learning what you need to know to help you to learn and grow from your illness or solve your unresolved conflicts and heal yourself then you need help. In order to heal it is essential that you find the cause or causes that are undermining your healing process. In order to heal, you will need to find the exact reason why your immune, defensive or repair systems are not functioning for you, but instead are working against you.


Do I Have to Stop Seeing My Doctor or Stop Taking My Medications?

Absolutely not! Under no circumstances are we suggesting that you either abandon standard medical treatment nor that you not seek competent medical attention for any illness. What we are instead suggesting is that you add an additional dimension to your medical care. It would not be smart to stop medical treatment, nor to self-diagnose, nor to self-medicate. Anyone who has a medical problem requires an accurate diagnosis as this is essential to determining the cause and reason for the illness in the beginning. Also, it may take time, even when you know the cause of your illness is to find and implement appropriate solutions, and to make the changes you may have to make in order to finally heal yourself. After all, most illnesses take years to develop and even though healing occurs when the problems which have caused them are found and resolved, it will still take time for the process to reverse itself. During this time it is crucial that you are monitored medically to make sure that healing is uncomplicated and steady.

The key is to maintain control over the symptoms and the illness process is that you remain as healthy as you can and that you allow healing to take place at the rate and time your body, mind and spirit require it make the changes that are needed to repair and bring you back to full and total health and well-being.

In our next article we will for a very brief time leave healing and talk about illness and how it affects people. We will return shortly to the topic of healing, but first it is important to lay the ground work for understanding what healing is really all about.

Allen Lawrence, M.D. is a graduate of UCLA, UC Irvine Medical School, Internship at USC County Medical Center, Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars Sinai. Dr. Lawrence has a Masters Degree in Human Nutrition and a PH.D. in Human Psychology. Dr. Lawrence practices Integrated Medicine, Prevention and Wellness at the Preventive Medicine Centers of the Desert in Palm Springs, California. Dr. Lawrence specializes in Hormonal Therapy, Stress Management and Healing.

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