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 The Hidden Language of Intuitionby Susan Hannibal (This article first appeared in the June, 2003 issue of Positive Health Magazine in the United Kingdom.) Energy medicine and intuitive diagnosis have come to the forefront of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM), meridians and chakras have gone mainstream. Many medical and psychological intuitives, and a steadily increasing number of mental health clinicians and physicians, understand the model that says disruption in the balance of the energy system due to trauma is the root cause of many physical and emotional problems. Healing comes when that trauma is neutralized, which releases the blocked energy and restores balance. A medical and/or psychological intuitive perceives and translates the energetic code of buried emotional and physical trauma in the body, mind and spirit. Living with intuition It recently occurred to me that some of the frustration that I've felt much of my life is the result of a gift that I've seen as a curse for years. I am a visionary. Visionaries think (and live) 'outside the box.' Being highly intuitive as well as visionary doesn't mean that I'm smarter than anyone else, or that I'm privy to the ancient secrets of the universe. It means that my brain takes a freeze frame of the big picture, on levels seen and unseen, instantly analyzes it and computes the bottom line. One would think this ability to be a great asset, but it's taken me years to realize why people are not amused when I brightly announce how well things would turn out if only they'd do X! Most visionaries that I know possess a finely tuned intuitive sense that allows them to pick up the underlying 'blueprint'- a pattern of cause and effect, hidden motivations and personal agendas - in a relationship, a corporate structure, virtually any situation where people are involved. As an intuitive healer, I pick up the underlying connection between spiritual, physical or emotional illness and the energetic causes. Some intuitive people see clairvoyantly, others hear, feel, sense or even smell or taste. Intuitive 'hits' come in several forms or styles. I was about 12 the first time I got one. My 3-year-old niece was visiting, and she was playing upstairs. I was in my room doing homework, when suddenly I got a feeling of dread and alarm in my solar plexus, and I knew my niece was in trouble. I dashed into the playroom and found her finishing off a bottle of cherry flavored baby aspirin. She was taken to the hospital and recovered. When I was 17, I was sitting in English class and suddenly I knew my grandfather, who was dying of cancer, had passed on. I glanced up at the clock, it was 1 p.m. When I got home, my mother told me that he had died at 1p.m. A few weeks before the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, I was watching teacher Christa McAuliff on TV, riding a bicycle around NASA. As I watched, I heard a voice quietly speak to my mind, She's going to die. How did I know these things? I'm not sure, and I don't know if there's any way to be sure. I believe that we are all hard-wired for intuition. Everyone has had the experience of 'knowing'in their gut, whether something or someone was dangerous. This is the survival level intuition we are all born with. We have common language for intuition as well. Here are a few examples: 'I knew it in my heart,' 'I got chills when I heard you say that,' 'My stomach lurched when I met that person. Development of this level of primal intuition into a more refined, accurate intuitive ability takes practice, like any other skill. When I first started to receive intuitive impressions during 'readings' for clients, as I concentrated my attention on a client's chakra system, the information was only a line or 2 in each chakra. Now it's close to 1/2 page. This brings us to a fascinating question. Is medical intuition, the ability to 'scan' someone's psyche, spirit or body a learned skill or a spiritual gift? I think it's both. As a Christian, I have been given the spiritual 'gift of discernment' as described in 1st Corinthians, chapter 12, that is, the ability to determine if evil spirits are present in a person, and to determine which spirits or energies they are, as well as to 'read energy' and discern a person's emotional wounds, traumas, fears etc. I believe the Holy Spirit through my relationship with Christ guides me. The accuracy of my readings runs close to 100%, which I attribute to Christ. If I make a mistake, it's because I misinterpreted a symbolic image or mixed up facts. The first time I see a new client or talk with one on the phone (distance doesn't seem to matter), I do a 'reading' or intuitive assessment of their energy. I am looking at their emotional landscape or 'energetic blueprint' through the chakras, to find the root cause of any trauma that needs to be healed. I open with a prayer, asking first that whatever level of healing they need , physical, mental, emotional or spiritual, should be done for them whether I know about it or not. I also ask for guidance and protection for both of us, and that any information I need to help them will come to me clearly, accurately, completely and will reveal the root of any problems. I end with a prayer that I be used as a clear vessel for divine guidance and healing for them, and I detach from any outcome. I close my eyes and with intention, scan each chakra, beginning with the base, and write down any impressions I get. The impressions come in a variety of ways: descriptive words (e.g. powerless, gutted, raped, suffocated); first person sentences in quotes (e.g. "I'm not good enough," "People take from me what I don't want to give," "I'm here to serve others," feelings of physical pain or emotional charge that move fleetingly through me (e.g. I will feel a momentary tightness in my jaw or feel intense grief in my heart and throat); symbolic or actual visual images (e.g. my client being run over by a steamroller, another client holding her abdomen and rocking back and forth, crying). Appointment with Destiny I didn't know it, but as I entered my 40's, the visionary and intuitive gifts I'd brushed aside for years were about to be expanded, refined, and tested. It was apparently time for my 'sacred contract' (Myss, 2002) to be fulfilled. I never meant to become a healer, it just sort of happened. In the summer of 1997, heaven yanked me - kicking and screaming - out of my marriage, my home, my job and life as I knew it, and thrust me headfirst into THE FEAR OF BEING ALONE. It was a classic 'dark night of the soul' spiritual crisis. I was in a serious depression, paralyzed with fear, and there was nowhere to look but up. When I'd been out of my marriage for about 8 months, various intuitive/psychic abilities began to surface one at a time. Most people associate the word "psychic" with the ability to predict the future, and I don't do that. I see into the past. One day in 1998 I was visiting the Mission at San Juan Capistrano in southern California. As I sat on a bench in the huge courtyard, admiring the myriads of rose gardens, suddenly a 3-dimensional vision appeared of 2 brown-robed monks, one tall, the other a bit shorter, standing together, facing me about 15 feet away. I couldn't see their faces. The hoods of their robes covered their heads, and they wore long belts of white rope. I stared, blinked, looked away, looked back, and they were still there. I realized I was somehow looking through a portal into another dimension. Tourists were walking about without comment. I also realized that although they seemed solid and opaque to me, at the same time I could see through to the roses behind them. After about 2 minutes, they vanished. I was quite shaken. When I mentioned the incident to my Reiki teacher, a 5th generation British clairvoyant and medium, she calmly noted that it was no big deal, that it was only my "3rd eye" opening up. When I first started my medical intuition practice, it seemed like a first year internship. I found that most people had relatively simple issues, fears and phobias, anger or grief. As my skills sharpened and I did deeper levels of my own healing, people with more complicated cases began to show up; multiple personality disorder, self-mutilation and cutting, eating disorders and addictions. If people need medication or psychiatric care, I always refer them out. One of the tenets of healing practice is to know your own limitations. Decoding the energetic signature of trauma Decoding and then tracing and healing the root cause, whether repressed or conscious, is one of the keys to resolving patterns and diseases on all levels. On the emotional level, we need to learn how to interpret and translate the symbolic nature (read the energy) underlying traumas and/or fears. Then, the painful event can be brought into true healing, into feeling neutral or unimportant when we recall it. Sometimes, fears, phobias and other emotional problems are rooted in seemingly unrelated events, repressed memories or even past lives. "Sheila" came for help with fear of flying. She did not like anything about the flying experience; being belted into the seat, not being able to leave or get up easily, not having any control. She had no history of claustrophobia. The energetic signature that I picked up in her field told me that sexual abuse was the root of the problem. Who would ever think those 2 events were connected? I was sure I must be wrong, and kept scanning for another more 'suitable' answer, but the impression was so insistent I finally gave up and asked Sheila directly, 'Who held you down?' She was momentarily stunned, then told me that when she was 7, her grandfather had molested her and held her down on a couch. She had never told anyone. We applied some meridian 'tapping' (see http://www.emofree.com) to that memory, and the fear of flying cleared shortly by itself, without any direct treatment. Tracing the threads I've learned that it's necessary to trace the threads of trauma in our lives to learn how it has impacted not only the choices we make but the lens through which we see ourselves and the world. Healing means more than just cognitively re-framing what happened to us and gaining coping skills for our pain. It means wholeness - love and acceptance of self, peace and balance. It means forgiveness for others as well as ourselves; seamlessly re-weaving the rips in our being - mind, body, soul, and spirit. I've seen dozens of clients who have had months or years (in one case, 30 years) of conventional psychological or psychiatric treatment, including years of anti-depressants, and still these people have not healed. Why? Outwardly they seem stable and able to cope effectively. But many still have years of toxic emotional waste stored in their chakras, meridians, neck, back, knees, organs, etc. The by-products of that emotional toxicity silently fuels negative core belief patterns that sabotage and re-route, or even derail their lives. Traumas give birth to addictions, destructive beliefs, obsessional thinking and behaviours that effectively block healing, until resolved completely, on all levels. The reading: interpreting the language of trauma Case report The following is an actual reading that I did in January 2002. The text is exactly as I wrote it , in 'intuitive shorthand'. For readers who may not be familiar with them, I've noted the emotional themes, issues and challenges traditionally associated with each chakra. From January through March, 2002 in ten 90-minute sessions, I worked with 55-year-old Patsy, who has agreed to be interviewed for this article. The Reading:
Sue Hannibal met with one of my patients, LL, a 47 y/o woman, who had intermittent suicidal ideation and guilt associated with the death of her sister. The suicidal ideation was particularly strong when Ms. Hannibal met with my patient. Sue did a reading and some Seemorg Matrixwork on LL. The reading accurately zeroed in on themes of fear, vulnerability, trust and not using her voice. The matrixwork unlocked the suicidal ideation in one session. I considered the work that Sue did to be valuable. Howard Richmond, M.D. Psychiatrist Encinitas, CA USA References and resources: Emotional Freedom Technique, founder, Gary Craig Seemorg Matrixwork, founder, Asha Nahoma Clinton, Ph.D, LCSW Allergy Antidotes, founder, Dr. Sandi Radomski, LCSW, ND Eden, Donna and Feinstein, David, Energy Medicine: Balance Your Body's Energies for Optimum Health, Joy and Vitality, New York: Penguin/Putnam 1998 Gerber, Richard, Vibrational Medicine for the 21st Century: New York: HarperCollins 2000 Myss, Caroline, Anatomy of the Spirit, New York: Crown 1996 Schulz, Mona Lisa, Awakening Intuition, New York: Random House 1998 |
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