Health Intuition: A Simple Guide to Greater Well-Being

Finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Health Category!

A simple, straightforward guide for improving health and well-being by learning to hear and heed intuitive knowledge and wisdom.

For more than a century, Americans relied heavily on allopathic physicians to diagnose and treat illness. In the past 20 years, however, a dramatic shift in attitudes toward health and healing has taken place, with more and more people now looking within themselves for healing.

Provocative without being controversial, Health Intuition offers a simple, effective, and practical approach to improving health by using one's intuition. In a clear, easy-to-follow fashion, author Karen Kassy lays out common problems, patterns, and issues that block individuals from optimum health--and more importantly, describes how to discover and solve them. Using intriguing anecdotes and case studies, Kassy, a practicing health intuitive, demonstrates the principles of health and shows how they apply to--and can be used by--anyone. Health Intuition's strength lies in its simplicity and timeliness, building on popular theories and presenting them at an easily accessible level.

This guide to using intuition to solve physical, emotional and psychological issues draws on the work of Caroline Myss (Anatomy of the Spirit), Barbara Ann Brennan (Light Emerging) and the author's personal experience as a health intuitive. While Myss accesses information from the human energy field through the seven energy centers, or chakras, in the body and Brennan uses the chakras and auras, Kassy's method involves gaining medical data directly from a person's energetic field. Here, she briefly describes various ways that intuitives work and how to tap into inborn intuitive abilities to break down patterns of illness, emotional trauma and addiction. From the examples of long-distance psychic readings Kassy has doneAprovided only with a person's name and ageAreaders may get the impression that readings are similar to finding one's way in the dark. Interpreting the data without experience could be problematic for novices, but Kassy also supplies guidelines for finding a qualified health intuitive. Those who have enjoyed Myss's books, which delve into spiritual practices and religious symbolism, and Brennan's, which contain much scientific background, will find Kassy's book basic. But those who are new to the idea of health intuition, this volume will serve as an introduction to a complex field. Of primary value is Kassy's emphasis on building a foundation for health with good nutrition, exercise, self-nurturing activities and effective barriers against energy-draining people and situations. Her life story also may resonate with many readers who are committed to taking part in their own healing process. (Sept.)
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According to Kassy and Gawain, Americans are searching for answers to life's tough questions from self-help groups or psychic hotlines when all they really need to do is tune into themselves. Both authors are interested in using intuition as a means of achieving optimum health and life fulfillment, and both agree that the more one practices intuition, the more easily answers will arrive. Kassy, who holds a master's degree in intuition/energy medicine from Greenwich University, here writes for healthcare workers and psychologists. Like psychic healer Edgar Cayce, she requires only a name and an age on paper in order to do a reading of a client's health-related illnesses. Arguing that many maladies are caused by Americans' diet of highly processed junk foods, Kassy recommends a visit to a nutritionist. Because she believes that illness is created when our physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual natures are out of sync, she also tunes into negative patterns that adversely affect them. Intuitive power even works with animals, she asserts. Her chapters are filled with anecdotes, case studies, and readings. Gawain is self-taught, and her name has been a household word in the New Age movement since her book Creative Visualization was published in 1989. Based on Gawain's belief that everyone is born with intuitive powers that end up being suppressed, Developing Intuition is written in a workbook style, containing exercises on relaxation, breathing, and meditation techniques. Gawain's book will better suit intuition beginners, while Kassy's more detailed work will serve a wider, alternative health audience. Both are recommended for public libraries. Other authors writing in this vein are Caroline Myss (Anatomy of the Spirit, Harmony, 1996), Marcia Emery (The Intuitive Healer, St. Martin's, 1999), Mona Lisa Schulz (Awakening Intuition, Random, 1999), and Judith Orloff (Second Sight, Warner, 1997).DLisa Wise, Broome Cty. P.L., Binghamton, NY
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