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 INTUITIVE HEALING

What is it?
DEFINITION AND EXPLANATION OF INTUITIVE HEALING
Intuition is our capability to obtain immediate knowledge and insight without any direct observation or logical reasoning.  Intuitive Healing is a group of various complementary therapies meant to increase the effectiveness of conventional diagnosis and treatment of body, mind and spirit.

What is it used for?
CONDITIONS INTUITIVE HEALING MAY BE HELPFUL FOR
- Physical health and wellness
- Clarity, sense of purpose and/or fulfillment
- Emotional healing
- Spiritual and energy healing 

Where did it come from?
HISTORY OF INTUITIVE HEALING
For thousands of years, healing practitioners have recognized that healing should not be thought to be limited  to just the physical body. It is believed that people are made up of various physical and energetic elements.  Humans can be thought to be, in essence, the embodiment of our belief systems dictated by our genealogical and environmental influences.

Perhaps the earliest forms of intuitive healing came in the form of oracles, shamans, dream interpreters, and medicine men or women, who had only their intuitive tools to work with. As scientific understanding of health and the body develope, intuitive healing continues to thrive alongside modern medicine because it fulfills an important human need to recognize our inherently multidimensional nature.

Intuitive healing can be used alone, or included in modalities such as:

- Shamanic Healing
- Medical Intuitive Readings
- Channeling (conduits of information directly from immaterial beings such as spirit guides)
- Mediums (interpreting communication from immaterial beings such as spirit guides)
- Psychic Work or Clairvoyance (reading the energy of the clients)
- Animal Communication
- Psychics
- Angel Therapy
- Past Life Regression
- Energy Healing (Reiki, Healing Touch, Therapeutic Touch, Pranic Healing)
- Vibrational Medicine Healing

What is it based on?
THEORY OF INTUITIVE HEALING
Intuitive healing involves accessing the inner voice of intuition, then utilizing that knowledge to help someone else heal. 

Intuitive healing is integrative. It respects the intelligence of the analytical mind but also calls on a deeper wisdom for guidance. Intuition and the analytical mind are partners in understanding.  However, the intellect can be constrained by its logical focus.  In comparison, intuition has a wider scope, can delve past surface observations, and assist in developing solutions.

When looking at health from an energetic viewpoint, it is commonly agreed that areas of congested energy in the subtle energy bodies can manifest as physical or emotional pain.  Decline in health is generally associated with poor functioning due to stuck energy.

Intuitive healing practitioners may help conditions resolve as they guide clients to open the channels of energy so that flow is balanced throughout the body.  Clients may also learn to increase the power of their intuition as well. Often, an intuitive healing practitioner can help open the client to their own intuition or help facilitate their process.

Intuition is natural and everyone has it, but intuitive healing practitioners have trained themselves or studied with teachers over time to cultivate and strengthen their intuitive powers.  Some practitioners see things, such as images, colors, auras or snapshot-like flashes.  Others hear sounds or voices, have "gut feelings or a strong sense of "knowing," or perceive physical sensations such as heat, cold, energy.  Each person has their own unique intuitive style, and some combine several methods.

The goal of most intuitive healing practitioners is to help their clients understand how they sequester and free energy blockages in their bodies. Then they can help empower their clients to utilize that information to release old patterns and attain awareness that other choices are possible.  As clients begin to experience the free flow of energy within themselves, desired health or fulfillment can be achieved. 

How is it done?
WHAT A SESSION OF INTUITIVE HEALING IS LIKE
Intuitive healing sessions vary widely amongst the type of work and practitioners.  Sessions are commonly conducted in person or over the phone, and may last between thirty to ninety minutes.  Some practitioners may initiate the session with a short “energy check up," consisting of checking the client's grounding and energy boundaries. Many times the practitioner does not ask a lot of questions of the client.  In fact, most prefer that the client does not volunteer any information at all before the session or reading begins. 

The client is generally free to ask questions.  The intuitive practitioner may exhibit compassion but most often will not volunteer answers as much as offer questions for the client to consider, opening up avenues for him/her to explore. As clients work with an intuitive healing practitioner, it is common for them to become more familiar with their own "signature energy," and get better at detecting the energy patterns in themselves and others.

Who does it?
INTUITIVE HEALING PRACTITIONERS
Currently there are no state or federal laws that regulate intuitive healing practitioners.  Some practitioners may also be licensed health care professionals, such as doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers, massage therapists, nutritionists, or acupuncturists.  With the increase of integrative medical practices, practitioners may be found working in conjunction with a health care professionals in a clinical setting.

As interest in this field increases, there are several training programs offering education in metaphysical arts and certification is available from various sources for medical intuition and intuitive medicine counselors, as well as continuing education credits in these subjects for nurses and bodyworkers.