Welcome, bright viewers,
to this week’s edition of
Healthy Living, featuring
Dr. Judith Orloff,
who will discuss intuition,
constructive energy
and spirituality
and how they can be used
to achieve physical
and emotional healing.
Dr. Orloff is a
board-certified psychiatrist
who has been recognized
by US publication
Body and Soul Magazine
as “one of
our nation's top doctors.”
As the newspaper
USA TODAY states,
“Dr. Orloff voices
the message
that intuition works as
a potent therapeutic force
that can help us
lead smarter, saner lives.”
Dr. Orloff is a member of
Natural Health Magazine's
Advisory Board,
an Assistant Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry
at the University
of California,
Los Angeles, USA
and a lecturer.
She is also author of
the international bestseller,
“Emotional Freedom,”
which has been
made in to
a public television special
in the United States
and DVD entitled,
“Judith Orloff, M.D.:
Emotional Freedom Now!”
Her other bestsellers
include
“Positive Energy,”
“Dr. Judith Orloff’s Guide
to Intuitive Healing”
and “Second Sight.”
Let’s now find out
how intuition came
into Dr. Orloff’s life.
The way I got into it was
that when I was a little girl
I was raised
by two physician parents
and I have 25 physicians
in my family,
but I was a little girl
who had these
very strong premonitions
about things.
I would predict deaths or
illnesses or earthquakes,
something like that,
and it scared my parents
so much
so that they forbade me
to ever mention
my intuitions at home.
And so my healing path
and my development
has been how to
integrate intuition
into my life as a woman,
and also in my
psychiatric practice,
so that I can use it
in my daily life
and also teach
my patients and readers
how to use it too.
When I treat patients,
and in my books,
I talk about
how to integrate intuition
into health and healing.
“Emotional Freedom,”
published in March 2009,
encourages readers
to overcome
negative emotions
by reacting to them
constructively.
Here’s Dr. Orloff
with more on her book.
“Emotional Freedom”
is about how to become
non-reactive to emotions,
so you’re not just reacting
when your buttons
get pushed.
It’s about using
emotions as a path
to spiritual awakening,
to be able to
tune into your intuition
and find out
the deeper meaning
of whatever emotion
you go through.
It can be anger,
it can be frustration,
it could be any emotion,
but there’s a spiritual
meaning to every emotion
that you go through,
and you can use intuition
to tune in,
to find out what that is.
Fear is a huge emotion
that saps people
of their power.
Part of emotional freedom
is just to make
a commitment to the best
of your ability not to lead
a fear-driven life.
And so I have my patients
list their top five fears,
whatever they are,
so they’re
very clear about it.
And then really
outline ways you could
find courage
to transform those fears.
And one area where
that comes up
is in relationships.
And I speak about in
“Emotional Freedom,”
the emotional vampires
who can drain
your energy.
And I bring this up
because this is the
spiritual challenge too,
and it’s an intuitive
challenge to be able
to pinpoint the people
in your life
who are draining,
or who are positive.
And with the draining
ones to take steps to set
limits and boundaries
with them and
work with yourself.
What spiritual work,
what intuitive work
do you have to do
on yourself when you’re
around these people?
And I go through
different types of
emotional vampires,
the one being the narcissist.
Narcissist is the
“me, me, me person,”
and they’re only really
happy about you if
you go along their plan.
What life lessons
can we learn if we go
through a depression?
Dr. Orloff provides
her thoughts.
A beautiful example
of what you can gain
from depression
is deep empathy for others
and compassion
for yourself.
Because when you
go through something
as strenuous as depression,
people tend to
beat themselves up a lot.
But part of
the lesson of depression
is learning self-compassion.
And when you can be
compassionate
and loving with yourself
and moment by moment,
try and listen intuitively
to what's good for you
in the depression, and
what can be most loving
and kind to yourself
and being around
loving and kind people
as you are going through
your healing process,
that in itself
is a tremendous lesson.
And depression
is also a good way
to beat down the ego.
And it’s very painful,
but depression
can teach you humility,
and it can teach you
how to be humble
and not arrogant,
and not think
you could do it all, or
know everything to know.
As a psychiatrist, it’s
a very essential process,
to really gain that humility
in your life.
So you can gain that
from depression,
gain humility,
deep compassion
for yourself and others.
After this brief message,
we’ll learn more about
Dr. Orloff and her work
as a psychiatrist.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
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It’s very important
that a doctor learns
how to tune into the soul
of another person,
of the patient.
Because when you just
go into a doctor
and they just give you
the lab results
and then you’re out,
it’s like nothing happens
there’s no healing
that happens.
You’re given maybe
a direction but there’s
no deep soul healing.
Welcome back to
Healthy Living here on
Supreme Master
Television.
Dr. Judith Orloff is
an Assistant Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry
at the University
of California, Los Angeles
and author of the
international bestseller
“Emotional Freedom,”
as well as
“Positive Energy,”
“Dr. Judith Orloff’s Guide
to Intuitive Healing”
and “Second Sight.”
If you happen to go
through a depression,
I hope everyone can look
at it from the standpoint
of emotional freedom,
in terms of
“What spiritual growth
I can gain?”
Rather than,
“This is just tormenting me,
I want it to be over.”
You see,
that’s the linear mind.
With emotional freedom
there are two ways
of looking at things,
one is the linear mind.
The linear mind never
wants to experience
any pain;
it just wants it to be over.
But the intuitive mind
knows that there is
a deeper meaning
to this pain and suffering,
and to be able to use it
to transform the pain
and suffering into
something more positive.
And it's about learning
how to work with pain
without letting it totally
consume you.
To see it
as the spiritual teacher,
whether it's physical
pain, emotional pain,
psychic pain,
whatever it is,
to use it as a vehicle for
transformation. You see,
it's how you look at it.
Besides being a psychiatrist
who treats patients
using conventional
Western medicine,
Dr. Orloff also incorporates
her deep knowledge
of intuition, energy,
and spirituality
to help her patients
resolve issues.
Basically
what happens is that
a patient will come in,
and I will listen
with my traditional
medical knowledge about
what they’re saying.
Let’s say they have
a relationship problem
or stress at work
or they’re depressed,
or they’re anxious,
and I’ll listen to
what they’re saying,
but I’ll also
tune into my intuition,
and I’ll be open to
any images or impressions
or flashes of insight or
senses of energy that I get
in addition to compliment
my traditional
medical knowledge.
And so I combine
all of that information
to help patients.
Dr. Orloff shares
with her patients how
they too can get in touch
with their intuitive side
thus enabling them
to enhance their
emotional well-being and
better face life’s challenges.
I absolutely teach
every patient
who comes to me how
to tap into their intuition
to be healed.
Because I believe
that tapping into
that inner wisdom,
that still small voice inside,
will tell us the truth
about things.
And my patients
will inevitably, hopefully,
leave therapy
and they’ll need to have
these empowering skills
of how to listen to
what’s inside,
that precious inner voice
that I see
as being connected
to the greater sense
of spirituality.
That spirit talks through
that intuitive voice.
And once you can get quiet
and get beyond
the chatter of the mind
to go in and tune into
something deeper,
then that really gives you
access to something
powerful inside, and
when my patients learn
how to do this,
when they learn
how to tune into
their gut feelings,
when they learn
how to tune into know
whatever forms of
information comes through,
whether it’s visual
or auditory,
they can use this in
whatever stressful situation
they have in their life
so that it’s empowered
from within.
Not only is Dr. Orloff
transforming the lives of
her patients and readers,
she is also helping
medical professionals
understand the benefits
of using intuition
in their practice.
And what I am
trying to do with
emotional freedom
and intuition
is to teach psychiatrists
and therapists
how to tune in
and be with the person
and prescribe things
other than medication.
Meditation itself
can cause the endorphins
to flow in the body,
which are the body's
natural pain killers,
and through even
a three-minute meditation,
you can shift out of
the stress cycle of cortisol,
the stress hormone
surging through your body
and causing anxiety,
to calm endorphins,
to relaxation response,
natural pain-killers
which are opiate-like.
They are
very blissful hormones
that you can get
going in your body through
a meditation practice,
or through exercising.
I have spoken at
the American Psychiatric
Association meetings
about intuition, so they’re
beginning to open up,
and I think
the holistic practitioners
are definitely open.
We thank
Dr. Judith Orloff
for sharing her wealth
of knowledge on intuition
and finding
emotional balance in life.
May Heaven bless her
and her work that is
bringing peace and joy back
into many people’s lives.
For more details
on Dr. Orloff,
please visit:
www.DrJudithOrloff.com
Books by Dr. Orloff
are available
at the same website
Please join us
next Monday
for the second and
final part of our interview
with Dr. Orloff
on Healthy Living.
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thank you for joining us
today on our program.
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Welcome, inspired viewers,
to this week’s edition of
Healthy Living,
once again featuring
Dr. Judith Orloff, who
advocates using intuition,
constructive energy
and spirituality
to achieve physical
and emotional healing.
Dr. Orloff is a
board-certified psychiatrist
who has been recognized
by US publication
Body and Soul Magazine
as “one of
our nation's top doctors.”
As the newspaper
USA TODAY states,
“Dr. Orloff voices
the message
that intuition works as
a potent therapeutic force
that can help us
lead smarter, saner lives.”
Dr. Orloff is a member of
Natural Health Magazine's
Advisory Board,
an Assistant Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry
at the University
of California,
Los Angeles, USA and
an international lecturer.
She is also author of
the international bestseller,
“Emotional Freedom,”
which has been
made in to
a public television special
in the United States
and DVD entitled,
“Judith Orloff, M.D.:
Emotional Freedom Now!”
Her other bestsellers
include
“Positive Energy,”
“Dr. Judith Orloff’s Guide
to Intuitive Healing”
and “Second Sight.”
Intuition is about
being receptive.
But just know the basic
difference between
thinking and intuition.
Thinking is
A plus B equals C.
Thinking is analyzing.
Intuition is tuning in
and receiving –
big difference.
And intuition comes
through in transmissions;
it goes fast, very fast.
So you have to catch it.
So many people
miss intuitions because
they’re thinking, and
they come in very fast
and it’s as if you don’t
even remember it.
You get the information
that comes in, but
it’s so fast, like a flash,
in and out, you forget it
or you dismiss it or
you say something like,
“This is so weird,
this doesn’t make sense.”
That kind of thing.
“This is so weird,”
is a statement
that the mind makes
all the time about intuition.
And I want you
to be prepared for this,
because when you’re
making decisions,
and you’re taking a risk
and you’re
listening to something
other than the mind,
you’re listening to
your intuition,
the mind will have
a commentary on it.
We live in
an over-technologized
culture.
Everybody is thinking,
scheming, and
trying to figure things out.
And in Western culture,
we’re not given
the kind of support, and
the kind of enthusiasm
to develop the still,
small voice inside,
to take time and say,
“Don’t think so much.”
Dr. Orloff has
several strategies
to quiet an active mind
and hear the inner voice
of intuition.
One method involves
making changes to one’s
life on a physical level.
I am big believer
in physical exercise
to really move the body
because a lot of people
just sit all the time.
They sit at the desk
at work, they sit,
and mental health
and emotional health
are so dependent
on the body moving
and dancing or running
or walking, or some kind
of Tai Chi, or Qigong
or something like that
to get the body's energies
moving.
Because if somebody just
sits day after day after day,
it can't be good
for the body, it can't.
It has to have
some kind of movement.
Another approach that
Dr. Orloff recommends
to bring forth
one’s intuition
involves looking within
and practicing
inner contemplation.
One of the techniques
that I talk about
in “Emotional Freedom”
is the three minute
meditation,
which is learning
how to follow the breath
to get very quiet inside,
so that they learn
how to go into
their still place inside
and then listen,
and maybe focus on
a positive image or
focus on something very
spiritual that moves them.
And in those three minutes
to just stay calm, focused,
and then tune into
their intuition,
because the intuition
comes from that still space.
And everyone who wants
to learn emotional freedom
or tune into their intuition
has to be able to find
that still space inside.
So with each patient
and all my readers
I really emphasize
that my spiritual practice
is meditation.
Dr. Orloff believes that
overanalyzing an issue
can lead to one’s intuition
being blocked, thus
making a choice between
different alternatives
a steeper challenge.
To overcome this obstacle,
she has another technique
to make it easier to access
the tool of intuition.
There was a recent article
in Science Magazine
that said it is better
to sleep on big decisions
than make them right away.
This is a huge leap
for a very conventional
journal to make.
When they were evaluating
how decisions were made,
they found with subjects
that if somebody slept
on a decision
if you have a big decision
to make, let’s say about
a move or about a job,
if you sleep on it,
the result of your decision
will be better than
if you just
keep thinking about it.
And the result of
the Science (Magazine)
article was that
over-thinking can stop
good decision making.
This is big.
This is something
you really need to know.
When you’re stuck
in a problem
and you don’t know
how to get out of it,
what you need to do
is balance the thought
with the intuition.
I’ve known this
since I’ve been a little girl.
I sleep on decisions,
I dream about decisions
and then that helps me
make them.
But however in traditional
western culture,
this is not a given.
And the Science
(Magazine) article
was a major step ahead
in getting through
to the scientific community
that maybe thinking isn’t
the only answer.
After this brief pause
we’ll hear more
from Dr. Judith Orloff
about tapping
into one’s intuition.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
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Welcome back to
Healthy Living, here on
Supreme Master
Television, featuring
Dr. Judith Orloff
who is an Assistant
Clinical Professor
of Psychiatry
at the University of
California, Los Angeles,
an international lecturer,
and a best-selling author.
Dr. Orloff has recently
released a revised edition
of her book,
“Second Sight:
An Intuitive Psychiatrist
Tells Her Extraordinary
Story and Shows You
How To Tap
Your Own Inner Wisdom”
and kindly shared with us
some details
about the work.
Tell us a little bit more
about the book and
what is the book about?
How is it different from
that “Emotional Freedom”?
“Second Sight”
is part memoir and it's
part “how to” in terms of
developing intuition.
So “Second Sight”
is my journey
about how I came into
my intuitive voice.
And then the second part
of the book is
how to develop intuition,
such as how to remember
your dreams and
interpret your dreams,
and how to look into
the dream world
for guidance and intuition,
which is
a very powerful way
that I tune into intuitions
through my dreams
every morning.
The first thing I do is
remember my dreams
and interpret them
before I start the day.
We asked Dr. Orloff
to give an example
from her own life
of drawing upon a dream
for help when she was
facing a challenge.
For instance
when I was writing
“Emotional Freedom”
I was writing the chapter
on frustration, and
when I wrote the chapter
I intentionally
invited frustration in
so I could learn from it
to develop patience.
That’s part of how I write it,
it’s very experiential.
But when I was writing
that chapter
I developed writer’s block
as part of the frustration.
And I kept pushing,
and pushing and
nothing would come out,
and I couldn’t get in touch
with my creativity
and my ideas, and
I kept forcing and forcing,
everything was wrong.
And then I had a dream
with a phone number,
and then I called it
the next day,
and it was funny because
a man answered the phone
and he said, “UCLA
(University of California,
Los Angeles)
labor and delivery room.”
I was pushing so hard
and I got
the exact right place.
So it made me laugh and
it made me lighten up,
cosmic humor.
And so
it was the synchronicity;
I was on the right track
but just lighten up
a little bit.
So that phone number
and that experience
helped me to lighten up
via the dream.
Dreams are a powerful
vehicle for intuition that
we can tap into every night.
And every one
can be taught
how to do this;
I have a technique
where I teach people
to have a dream journal.
Keep a pen
by the dream journal,
and then ask a question
before you go to sleep
at night.
And it could be,
“How can I have
better health?”
Something like that.
And then you go to sleep,
wake up and
in the morning,
the first five minutes,
you stay quiet,
in a hypnagogic state
between sleep and waking,
and remember the dreams,
write it down and then
see how the dream
answered your question.
Decision-making
on a significant matter
can be daunting at times
and cause stress
and anxiety in our lives.
Here’s a tip
from Dr. Orloff on how
to make better choices
by using intuition.
Now, to make intuitive
decisions about anything,
there are a number of steps
to go through.
Step one is
develop your belief system.
Step two is listen to
your body or your gut.
Step three is
learn to tune in.
Step four is
notice your energy level,
and step five is
listen to your dreams.
These are five ways
that you can apply to
intuitive decision making,
and with any decision
that you’re about to make,
you can apply all these.
And if one doesn’t work,
you go to the next.
So, I use all of these
in consort
as a psychiatrist;
with patients
I’m constantly using
these intuitive techniques
as I’m listening to
somebody, intuitively.
It’s very important
to listen intuitively.
To close,
here are some thoughts
from Dr. Orloff
about the future integration
of intuition into the field
of Western medicine.
I have hope that
eventually intuition will
just be part of medicine.
And it’s about combining
traditional medicine
and intuition, it’s not
using one or the other,
it’s knowing when to use
either or both.
And so it is just
accumulating wisdom
from any source.
I listen to people
in my life.
When I wake up
and I go out of my door
every day,
I listen to the wisdom
that comes to me
from every source.
I don’t have a bias,
I just listen.
I am very grateful;
whatever is given to me
I’ll receive.
And I think that’s the same
that can help patients,
just being open
to all wisdom sources
as a physician,
and incorporating that
to help others,
that’s my philosophy.
Thank you
Dr. Judith Orloff
for assisting others
to achieve better health,
both physically and
mentally, higher spirits
and enhanced well-being
through your work.
We wish you the very best
in your efforts
to bring intuition
into the practice
of Western medicine
and all your
other future endeavors.
For more details
on Dr. Orloff,
please visit:
www.DrJudithOrloff.com
Books by Dr. Orloff
are available
at the same website
Astute viewers,
we’ve enjoyed
your company
on this week’s edition of
Healthy Living.
Up next is
Science and Spirituality,
after Noteworthy News.
May we all enjoy
everlasting inner peace
and contentment.