What Is Intuitive Healing?

Intuitive, or metaphysical, healing (the terms can be used interchangeably), refers to the relationship between our emotions and physical body. The two are not disconnected, but actually interact continuously on an energetic level. Physical symptoms, discomforts and illnesses all share emotional counterparts. The conduit between them is elastic and accessible. We can use our minds and thought patterns to access this conduit. This is the domain of metaphysical healing. Until you learn how to harness this energy and "mind-set" personally, an Intuitive healer can help guide you.

How Does an Intuitive Healer Do This?

There are seven energy sites, or "chakras," located in the human body. Shamans, Reiki practitioners, and Metaphysical Healers all refer to these sites. They run up the spine from chakra one at the coccyx to chakra seven at the crown of the head. Each chakra governs a primary bodily system (i.e. chakra four oversees the heart, blood vessels and circulation, while chakra five governs the respiratory tree, including the sinus, ears and lungs.) Associated with each chakra and the correlating bodily systems are a grouping of corresponding emotions. In other words, certain emotions link to certain body parts and chakras, and vice-versa.

Let us take chakra five for an example. Our authentic voice, joy and self expression are conveyed here, with lungs, diaphragm, larynx and breathing all in interplay. Words, song, sharing, and communication all ring forth from chakra five when we are living in harmony energetically. If we are sad, grieving, filled with sorrow, or have shut down speaking our truth for a prolonged period, the energy of these downward-spiraling emotions will settle in at the site of chakra five.

Unresolved negative energy/emotions, a stymied voice or remnant sorrows will compromise the respiratory tree and its functions over time. Soon, physical symptomology can manifest, as a call to the conscious (thinking) mind that something is imbalanced. If we can honor this warning signal (akin to a dashboard light blinking), and tend to our emotions and body, the symptoms can clear. If we cannot do so on our own, an Intuitive Healer can be of help.

A cold, bronchitis, pneumonia, earaches, allergies and asthma are chakra five symptom/illness states all pointing to unresolved grief, sadness, choked-off words, or even not listening to our own voices. If you are repeatedly trying to communicate something to a partner, boss, spouse, and they cannot "hear" you, the frustrated energy you hold around this dead-end will gather in the respiratory tree, at chakra five.

A metaphysical healer is trained to perceive the energy patterns of the chakras for an individual. This is done via our sixth sense of Intuition, a skill we all possess, but which has become more acute and honed by training in Metaphysicians. Once they glean an understanding of the emotions "behind" a symptom picture (i.e. headaches, cancer, kidney stones), and can share this with you, healing exercises can be implemented to begin energetically shifting the "holding pattern" at the chakra site.

Metaphysical healers usually can guide an individual to employ self-help techniques to effect energy shifts, as well as direct you to other professionals (such as Reiki practitioners, acupuncturists, chiropractors, homeopaths or some medical physicians) who may be accessory technicians when more frank physiology is at play.

Please understand that Metaphysical work should never replace necessary medical care. The two approaches can be complementary to one another however. Coming to value and work with our own inner powers of consciousness regarding changing our energy patterns can be an empowering and transformational process. Metaphysical healing, biofeedback, Epigenetics and other forms of mind-body work are fascinating healing vehicles, utilizing the gift of inner resources born to each of us.

-------- Katina I Makris, CCH, CIH is a Certified Classical Homeopath and a Certified Intuitive Healer. She currently offers Intuitive (Metaphysical) consultations. She can be contacted at katina.makris@comcast.net to schedule an appointment.