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The First Prescription: Awaken Intuition And Rejuvenate Yourself

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Updated: January 23, 2006

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>Techniques for Sensing Positive and Negative Energy

Excerpt from Positive Energy © 2005 by Judith Orloff, MD Three Rivers Press

Judith Orloff, MD: "We were the blind leading the blind, but so curious."
In the mid-eighties when I’d just begun to expand my traditional psychiatric practice to include intuition and energy, I did plenty of experimenting. My good buddy for the first few years of this exploration was Michael Crichton, filmmaker, author and Harvard MD. A towering six-foot-nine, Michael has a wicked mix of intellect and humor with a cynical edge. For me, he was the perfect companion to investigate a dimension of health I’d never heard of in medical school: our body’s subtle energy system.

My world has never been the same; this was my initiation into Energy Psychiatry. I want to share with you our discoveries, and what I’ve been learning since.

Being able to sense and direct our life force gets positive energy going: we exude it, attract it, and can read it in others. Our subtle system is the engine that drives well-being. Acupuncture activates energy by placing tiny needles in meridian points in the body. So does exchanging good vibes with people.

First, I’ll teach you what energy feels like, a sublime experience that intuition conveys. You may perceive it as colors, light, or positive and negative vibes.

This program makes real for you what Energy Psychiatry is based on: that our bodies and spirits are microsystems of energy, and that health is about balance, which intuition helps us achieve.

Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown.

Michael and I set out to experience energy, a real adventure given our “rational” medical backgrounds.
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