Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing: 5 Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness
by Judith Orloff
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Book Reviews of Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing: 5 Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness
Book Review: For Us Patients: Help Comes From Within
Summary: 5 Stars
Many doctors focus on the vast amount of knowledge medical science has amassed, even though the technology often provides cures that outpace our ability to heal from those cures - such as in the field of organ transplant. In other types of illnesses patients are left despairing that our only cure lies in the chaos of what is not currently known to traditional medical science. So we are left to passively wait for answers to come from outside ourselves. This is often the case when our physical or mental illnesses are labeled "chronic" or "incurable." Our resulting passivity overwhelms any last vestige of hope, and we move to the margins of life. What draws me to Dr. Judith Orloff's "Guide to Intuitive Healing"? As a twelve-year heart transplant survivor, her book rekindles for me the glimmer of hope that healing is possible in the face of all odds. Her work supports the growing belief that our Souls are in charge, not our doctors or our medical regimens or whatever the latest new pill on the market. While she by no means suggests that we abandon the medicines and treatments that help many of us, she shows us that we can engage our Selves - utilizing our awarenesses, our dreams, our intuitions, and the very physicality of our bodies - to work in tandem with what is offered in treating illness. And for those of us who fall through the cracks, having already pushed the limits of what is offered, the tools she provides can help open up this dialogue within, taking us to new avenues of healing not yet commonly discussed.
Dr. Orloff is among a small cadre of M.D.'s who walk between two worlds. And do so with grace. I count her among published physicians such as Brian Weiss, Bernie Seigel, Andrew Weil, Larry Dossey, Ken Hamilton, Gerald Jampolsky, Deepak Chopra (to name a few) who have taken risks to push medicine and their peers beyond comfortable limits. In doing so they work to close a growing gap between physician and patient, a gap most physicians seem to spend their professional lives encouraging.
At a time when medicine and our current healthcare systems appear paralyzed and at a crossroads, more concerned with the health of providers than patients, Dr. Judith Orloff's book is refreshing in its ability to meet us in the quiet of our own homes. It recognizes our power to know ourselves and what ails us in a way that no other person outside our own skin can. No matter how expert. Because it is in the dark of night, away from our doctors and our office visits, our clinics and our hospitals, where we most often cry out for help. "Guide to Intuitive Healing" goes a long way to answer this cry, teaching us to hear the song of our own Soul's truth. Therein lies our healing.
Many thanks to Judith Orloff for taking the time to write this book.
Book Review: An advocate for Sensitives
Summary: 5 Stars
Dr. Judith Orloff `s Guide to Intuitive Healing aids the reader in getting back in touch with the essential self and all the natural abilities that process implies. For anyone who wants to explore wellness at all levels of being, Dr. Orloff is a great source of wisdom and experience. She is finely tuned to human sensitivity, as well as compassionate and credentialed. I highly recommend her book.Book Review: a wonderful guide by a courageous individual
Summary: 5 Stars
i have read all of dr.orloff's works to date and have found each one to be more enlightening. she is an example of what the future holds for healing and the treament of the whole person,through sickness and health. her second book,which is the subject of my review,is the product of not just a wordsmith but of an artist. she is able to communicate rather "mysterious"concepts and make them plain. in this her genius is similar to albert einstein's,ie even the most difficult of concepts of reality should be capable of expalnation in terms that a child should be able to understand. the book organizes a rational approach to what on the surface appears to be irrational. she makes intuition become a more orderly and reliable process by showing how to systematically approach it. she builds on the concept of empathy and intuition as a natural part of everyday life that we can learn to tap into on a regular basis.in this day and age of "evidence based medicine" dr.orloff truly gives evidence of this tool that can be used,similarly to that of a routine lab test,in the decision making process of healers. i am a psychiatrist with subspecialty certification in forensic psychiatry. in the course of my forensic practice, i encounter a great deal of unpleasantness on a fairly regular basis. in particular, the chapter in her last book on centering and protection,will help me maintain my compassion and energy in working with this difficult population of mentally ill criminal offfenders.i have learned a great deal from her consistent approach and will lead to a greater incorporation of intuition into my medical practice.her book was written in such a caring and compassionate way as to make me feel as if she was my own personal teacher.this book is a classic and will likely hold a similar place in history as the works of freud and jung,but in a kinder and gentler way. i eagerly anticipate the next work of this trailblazer who shows us a most humane way of practicing not only medicine but of living.Book Review: a wonderful guide by a courageous individual
Summary: 5 Stars
i have read all of dr.orloff's works to date and have found each one to be more enlightening. she is an example of what the future holds for healing and the treament of the whole person,through sickness and health. her second book,which is the subject of my review,is the product of not just a wordsmith but of an artist. she is able to communicate rather "mysterious"concepts and make them plain. in this her genius is similar to albert einstein's,ie even the most difficult of concepts of reality should be capable of expalnation in terms that a child should be able to understand. the book organizes a rational approach to what on the surface appears to be irrational. she makes intuition become a more orderly and reliable process by showing how to systematically approach it. she builds on the concept of empathy and intuition as a natural part of everyday life that we can learn to tap into on a regular basis.in this day and age of "evidence based medicine" dr.orloff truly gives evidence of this tool that can be used,similarly to that of a routine lab test,in the decision making process of healers. i am a psychiatrist with subspecialty certification in forensic psychiatry. in the course of my forensic practice, i encounter a great deal of unpleasantness on a fairly regular basis. in particular, the chapter in her last book on centering and protection,will help me maintain my compassion and energy in working with this difficult population of mentally ill criminal offfenders.i have learned a great deal from her consistent approach and will lead to a greater incorporation of intuition into my medical practice.her book was written in such a caring and compassionate way as to make me feel as if she was my own personal teacher.this book is a classic and will likely hold a similar place in history as the works of freud and jung,but in a kinder and gentler way. i eagerly anticipate the next work of this trailblazer who shows us a most humane way of practicing not only medicine but of living.Book Review: This book opened my heart
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been on the healing path for several years and have been helped along the way by the works of Caroline Myss, Belleruth Naparstek, Marilyn Williamson etc. However Judith Orloff's "Guide to Intuitive Healing" was for me the thread that bound the pearls of wisdom of all the others I mentioned. I lost my life partner of 27 years a little short of 2 years ago, the pain of which I have been carrying with me. I always felt that he was with me protecting and guiding my life, but doubted the reality of it attributing my feelings to a projection of my pain. The joy of realizing that my intuition is accurate is a quantum leap in my on going healing process. Dr. Judith Orloff's book has added a quality of joy and love to my life, casting a light on the shadow of loss I had been living with.Miracles happen and Judith is a miracle worker!
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