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Author:
Mona Lisa, having posed herself before the artists and readers of the pen , must now live the power/vulnerability she so aptly describes. While she shouldn't be trusted under the hood or near the transmission of a car, I believe she has made superlative contributions in neuropsychiatry and medical intuition. She has "...read nearly everything that's been written about neurological control of the body's movement."

Book:
-pages: 397 info-packed (3000-word review would be sketchy.)

-citations: 28.5 pages (8% of content), topic-grouped, predominantly from prof. journals.
-index: comprehensive, 700 entries
-definitions: ample
-accessibility: complexity made readable. (sample ref: "A Left and Right Hemisphere Callosal Transfer Deficit of Non-Linguistic Alexithymia")
-rigor: anecdote, personal experience and hard research are balanced.

Main Theme:
"Disease is a message that we need to receive so that we can re-evaluate some aspect of our lives and...probably change it."

Intuition:
confident, certain, sudden, emotional, nonanalytic, gestalt, empathic, unworded, creative; "the process of reaching accurate conclusions based on inaccurate information." Types: clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience, déjà vu, dreams... But, "Intuition without grounding in the world is useful to no one."

What of dreams?
Why would they be God/Nature-given? How might dreaming have enabled preservation of the species? Certainly humans contemplate actions/consequences while awake. Perhaps this continued into more complicated scenarios during sleep when the brain was not burdened with the senses and conscious behaviors. Perhaps throughout prehistory, when humans contemplated hazard, a frightening dream appeared, and the future genetic survivors backed off.

Balancing:
For avoiding illness Schulz calls for balancing of power and vulnerability in areas of trust/mistrust, activity/passivity, competence/incompetence, responsibility/irresponsibility, aggression/compliance, winning/losing, isolation/intimacy, independence/helplessness, morality/immorality, self-expression/holding back, rigidity/flexibility, receptivity/un-receptivity, rationality/non-rationality, purpose-in-life/detachment-from-life, and even left-brain/right-brain functioning.

Autonomous Health:
Schulz explains that multiple personality disorder brings different illnesses within each personality. In one individual only one/some personalities will have migraines, allergies, drug reactions, poor eyesight, right handedness or even burn marks. (references from: Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinics of North America; Journal Clin. Psychiatry; J. Nerv. Ment. Dis; Dissociation (3 ref's); and Brit J. Psychiatry) This confirms illness choice and the need to tune in to our intuition, emotions and bodies regarding predictions/preventions/causations of ADD, addiction, alcoholism, bowel disease, eating disorders, fibromyalgia, fibroids, epilepsy, immune system failure, infertility, Lou Gehrig's disease, trauma, mental illnesses, spinal pain and injury, others.

Information Selections:
-belonging: every body system is affected by belonging.
-brain use: awake/asleep, 10%/100%.
-cancer, breast, if brave-cheerful-stoic...while hiding anger, sadness, grief, bad relationships.
-cancer, breast, if over-nurturing, over-sacrificing, over-giving/[*_*]\
-cancer, breast, predicted by response to trauma, not trauma.../[*_*]\
-cancer, cervical, passivity, pessimism, submissiveness.../[*_*]\
-cancer, prostate, loss of power'[-_-]'
-dreams and childbirth: anxiety and conflict in dreams enabled easier deliveries.
-dreams depict status of organs and warn of specific illnesses.
-dreams work as dry runs and lay down neuronal pathways for behaviors.
-dreams, frightening: if immed. discussed go to verbal memory, otherwise to body memory.
-eating disorders: brain areas for food and sex are proximate in women/[*_*]\
-emotions, basic: love, joy, anger, sadness, fear, shame
-emotions, suppression: inability to discuss intense emotions usually transforms into a symbolic language of symptoms and eventual illness...
-friendlessness risk: as great as smoking, obesity.
-heart, rabbits: ones on high cholesterol diet receiving human attention - little build-up.
-infertility drugs, 3x uterine cancer risk/[*_*]\
-infertility, male: ambivalence, guilt, work anxiety, pressure, relationship conflicts'[-_-]'
-intuition in any field "separates the men from the boys."
-in-vitro fertilization: if shaky relationship, eggs may visibly reject sperm in a dish/[*_*]\
-Jonas Salk's intuition book: creativity (involves) interaction of intuition and reasoning.
-left/right brain hemispheres: women more connected and can switch more easily/[*_*]\
-memory is stored in body areas and organs which communicate with the brain.
-mentally disordered persons, unusual intuition.
-messenger: through intuition your brain brings unwelcome, but needed, information.
-morality: flexibility and balance vital to eyes, ears, nose and brain
-organs: we will incur disease in the body organs associated with emotions split off.
-sinusitis: mucous lining shrinks and expands with emotions.

Selected Reference Titles:
arthritis: Personality and Chronic Arthritis
asthma: Paroxysmal Vocal Cord Motion in Presumed Asthmatics
bereavement: Impaired Natural Killer Cell Activity...
breast growth: ...Hypnotic Suggestion and Breast Growth/[*_*]\
cancer, breast: Psychosomatic Survey of Cancer of the Breast/[*_*]\
cancer, cervical: Relationship of Sexual Activity to Cervical Cancer
cancer, children: Life Events and the Occurrence of Cancer in Children(-.-)
cancer, u & c: The Psychological Setting of Uterine and Cervical Cancer/[*_*]\
cancer, attitudes: Mental Attitudes in Cancer
common cold: Social Ties and Susceptibility...
diabetes: Emotional Factors in Precipitation of Recurrent Diabetic Acidosis
dreams: Physiologically Diagnostic Dream
handedness: Scrotal Asymmetry and Handedness'[-_-]'
heart, women: Behavioral Barriers to Cardiovascular Health in Women/[*_*]\
heart: Psychosocial Factors and Myocardial Infarction
job loss ...Experience of Leaving a Job (health)
MS: Etiologic Significance of Emotional Factors in...Multiple Sclerosis
Parkinson's: Type of Personality Susceptible to Parkinson's Disease
pelvic pain: Childhood Sexual Abuse and Conseq. in Adult Women(-.-)/[*_*]\
psychosomatics: ... Family Influences and Psychosomatic Illness'[-_-]'/[*_*]\(-.-)
psychosomatics: ...Diabetes, Arthritis, Thyroid...Muscular Tensions and Infectious Diseases
technical Technical Intuition in System Diagnosis...
thyroid: Life Events in the Pathogenesis of Graves' Disease
thyroid: Thyroid Hot Spots: A Psychophysiological study

Our Gifts and Humility:
Imagine you are a perfectly fine specimen of the human body/mind/spirit, primarily dedicated to preservation of the species - but someone else is in charge. This is a conscious personality, relatively superficially created by contemporary society, who eats trash, uses drugs, overworks, underloves, undersleeps, provokes strangers and rejects all self-care information as the products of nuts. What would you do if you were this complex being with this "idiot" in charge? Might you scream out in dreams? Might you create a harmful-product-rejecting allergy? Might you create a mental/physical disorder to remove yourself from excessive demands or a threatening environment? We need to heed intuition's messages and warnings as we cultivate a deep respect for our millennia of development, and we need to understand that what goes on every second in our body/minds is hundreds of times more complex than anything we could ever consciously consider.

Bill Norwood

This is one of those books I told other friends about and they went and bought it and are READING it. I found it FASCINATING, length and all. The numerous examples serve to reinforce the awakening. Repetition is often used as a learning tool. But each example is equally fascinating, and I think the Doctor is way too modest to use them as braggadocio. I have long intuited myself that there are specific emotions connected to specific illnesses. Dr. Schulz has verified that for me and saved me that painstaking research, although there is always more room to explore these ideas. I highly recommend this book for the student who wishes to further develop or begin learning about how your emotional state affects your health. That of course, is not all it affects, but that is what Dr. Schulz' book is about. It's easy to read and interesting, even if you don't have a medical background. I certainly feel more enlightened, and wish that everyone could understand what Dr. S! chulz is trying to say. The truth will set you free. THANK YOU DR. SCHULZ

While I was encouraged by the convincing introduction, which describes what intuition is, how intuition is already speaking to us and how by listening to it we can live a fuller and healhtier life, I find the author does not fulfil the promise of her introduction or the book title on how to accomplish this.
The book basically lays out in loose terms how our body speaks to us through illness if we ignore or fail to resolve the issues that cause emotional stress in our lives. She divides the body into seven emotional centers and their accompanying organs, and lays out what kind of emotional issues are connected to each center. She thus exposes the mind-body health relationship by linking emotional issues to the body areas they affect. She proceeds to give examples of what kind of diseases can arise if one of these emotional centers is out of balance (usually power vs. vulnerability balance). She draws on her experiences as a medical intuitive to demonstrate these mind-body links, either by using readings of her patients or by using her own personal life stories.
While her readings and experiences are interesting and even fascinating, there is a lack of thoroughness in linking diseases and emotional issues that makes it unqualified as a real guide for people who want to find out what emotional issue is at the core of their illness. The book is even more lacking in giving people practical advice or guidance on how to deal with their emotional issues if they do find out what they are. As far as actually awakening, developing and exploring your intuition, this topic is not addressed until the very end of the book in a few short pages.
I find too much of the book is not really useful to other than perhaps people totally new to the concept of intuition and the mind-body health link.
It does not exhibit the wisdom and insight that guides or encourages other people towards health, and there are many other books in this genre that I would recommend above this one in that regard.
I wish the author would have included more information on techniques to let your intuition speak to your conscious mind, shown wisdom and advice on how we can deal with and heal from emotional stress, and offered a better and more thorough guide for readers to link their specific diseases with corresponding emotional counterparts.