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"Second Sight" Excerpt

 

I am thrilled to announce that my beloved book Second Sight is being released today! I wrote it with all my heart, knowledge, and a deep love of intuition. I've written a new introduction about the progress we've made in intuitive medicine--and there are many surprises in this Three Rivers Press edition with the hot pink cover! Plus don't miss all the Special Gifts I'm offering with it. I hope you enjoy the book, share it with friends, and let it help you trust your intuition, now and always. Book and gift available at:

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I love you all and I'm grateful for your support,

Judith

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"Second Sight: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Extraordinary Story and Shows You How To Tap Your Own Inner Wisdom" is the story of my exile between two worlds--intuition and mainstream medicine. SECOND SIGHT reveals my journey from an intuitive child, alone with confusing abilities, to a psychiatrist who comes out of the "intuitive closet" to defy medical taboos. My book also teaches you empowering, practical techniques to awaken your own intuitive powers to transform your health and life.

 

Today I am treating you to a one-time book-launch offer with a special "Act On A Hunch" gift collection from myself and friends Rev. Michael Beckwith, Dr. Daniel Amen, Shirley MacLaine and many more. Plus receive the first lesson from my new "Emotional Vampire Course" from the Daily Om!

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In this book you'll discover how to:

~ Use intuition to "read" yourself and others

~ Open to the magic of synchronicities and déjà vu

~ Remember and interpret your dreams

~ Use intuition to heal yourself

~ Cultivate intuitive empathy without absorbing people's negativity and stress

 

Here are some wonderful reviews of Second Sight:

"Second Sight is a page turner, inspiring, controversial." ~ Joan Borysenko PhD

"One of those rare books that has the potential to create shock waves and revolutions within a profession." ~ Larry Dossey MD

"Exceptional! Dr. Orloff is the kind of physician we wish we all had." ~ Caroline Myss

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P.S. The entire "Act On A Hunch" gift collection is yours FREE with your book order -- but ONLY when you get it before the cut-off date.

From Positive Energy by Judith Orloff MD”

As a physician in practice for over twenty years, I know that your beliefs set the tone for health and healing. Positive attitudes accentuate wellness, negative attitudes impair it. Our beliefs trigger biochemical responses. No organ system is apart from our thoughts. Beliefs set a tone for certain health realities to occur. In “Positive Energy” I discuss 5 tips for keeping a positive attitude. The first is, try to focus on what’s good in the ‘Now” rather than catastrophizing about what danger lurks in the future. Negative fear based thoughts increase the stress hormones in your body, and stop the blissful flow of endorphins, our brain’s natural pain reducing neurochemicals.’ The second is to take a few minutes to meditate each day on a positive image: a waterfall, sunset, the night sky, a child’s face. This calms your physiological system and allows you to take a mini break from the stressors of the day. The third, is to practice positive self-talk. This is a form of affirmation that will neutralize the tendency to focus on what is negative. For instance, if you are tired tell yourself, “Honey, it’s okay to take a rest” instead of beating yourself up over not being a super person who goes nonstop. Or “you’ve done a great job” when you know you’ve done your best in a work situation or in the process of healing from an illness. This emphasis on what you’ve done well will help keep your body calm and healthy. The fourth is to be grateful for what is working in your life rather than obsessing on what has gone wrong—always focus on the love you have and know the enormous value of this, The fifth tip is to practice anonymous acts of service whenever you are feeling unhappy or in a bad mood. Reaching out to help others in a small way—for instance, helping someone across the street, letting someone in front of you in traffic, being emotionally supportive of a friend—serves to open your heart and generate positive energy so you feel better and so does someone else. Having a positive attitude is something that you practice over time. The more you get in the habit of doing it, the more successful you will be. A positive attitude is something you develop over time. It doesn’t mean being Pollyannaish or saccharine. It is being able to find the best in things, and in yourself. We may not be able to control all the events of our lives, but we can control our attitude.

Dear Friends:

I am excited that a new updated edition of Second Sight is about to be released. Intuitive medicine has progressed so far in the last decade and I am honored to be a part of that progress. I pride myself in being a bridge between traditional medicine and intuition. I hope the book inspires you to trust your inner voice always!

Here is an excerpt from the new edition of Second Sight that has a new introduction by me and contains other surprises!.

"I'm a psychiatrist and intuitive in Los Angeles. What I do isn't my job. It's my life's passion. With patients and in workshops, I listen with my intellect and my intuition, a potent inner wisdom that goes beyond the literal. I experience it as a flash of insight, a gut feeling, a hunch, a dream. By blending intuition with orthodox medical knowledge I can offer my patients the best of both worlds. Now, listening to intuition is sacred to me, but learning to trust it has taken years. I've described the details in my memoir Second Sight which is meant to assure anyone whoever thought they were weird or crazy for having intuitive experiences, that they are not!"

READ MORE at http://www.drjudithorloff.com/Free-Articles/Personal-Journey.htm

Purchase Second Sight at Amazon.com

Dear Friends,

Check out this sneak preview of my upcoming PBS special "Emotional Freedom Now!" based on my book Emotional Freedom. This segment is Transform Frustration with Patience, something we all need to know. I am excited to preview my new show on my blog. Hope you can check it out on your local PBS station in December!

Peace,
Judith

Dear Community,

I wanted to share with you my intuitive take on suicide in this excerpt from "Emotional Freedom." Feel free to share with friends or whoever can benefit.

In healing,
Judith

Suicide: A Perspective Beyond Time and Space

Adapted from Dr. Judith Orloff’s new book “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life” (Harmony Books, 2009)

The dark night of all dark nights is the hopelessness of wanting to die.

In this state, you can see no promised land beyond depression.

Over the years, several of my patients have attempted suicide. One did die: a heavy metal rocker with a sapphire-blue Mohawk and a sensitive soul. But super-stardom could never allay his depression or persistent back pain for which none of the many specialists he consulted could locate a medical cause. Legions of fans revered him, but he didn’t revere himself. He felt happy and pain-free only on stage, immersed in his music and adulation. When he killed himself, we hadn’t met for many months, but I was deeply saddened. I’d been his safe place for two years; we’d been very close. I did everything I could think of to help him, but he was on a runaway course. Plus, he was surrounded by shark-like managers who urged him to go on tour despite his precarious condition. Intellectually, I realized all this, but still I lamented my inability to save his life. I’ll always miss him. I’ll always recall those days I’d visited him after a previous suicide attempt. He was on a locked psychiatric ward along with others who were psychotic, suicidal, and homicidal. To me, it’s a crime to put someone who’s depressed in with that mix. I wish I could’ve sent him to a peaceful retreat with sunlit porches and hammocks to dream on. But our mental health system isn’t organized like that. All those needing intensive care go to the same hellish ward in traditional hospitals. So I saw him there until he was no longer suicidal. Against my advice he went back on the road too soon. I was greatly afraid for him. Then, four months later, I got the call: he was found dead in his London hotel room after slashing his wrists.

Most suicides are preventable with skilled interventions. I know people--including those on a spiritual path--who at dark times have considered taking their lives. (Suicide is the eleventh leading cause of death among Americans.) If you’ve had these thoughts, they’re nothing to be ashamed of. But I also know that suicide isn’t the answer. Freedom comes when you persist in searching for the light until it’s visible again.

In service to our growth, life asks an extraordinary amount of us. That used to anger me. Some situations seemed unendurable. Watching my ebullient, talented mother waste away from cancer, struggling to find strength to be there for her without disintegrating, I’d inwardly protest, “I can’t do it. I don’t have it in me.” But I did--and had to see that. So must you. Try to keep reaching beyond pain towards a greater power within. My spiritual teacher says, “Heaven is not a dead-end road.” With hope and the proper support, you will find it.

For years I believed suicide was an option we had the right to choose if things got rotten enough. I no longer feel this way except, possibly, with terminal patients in constant physical agony. From deepening my intuition, I came to realize that holding onto suicide as an out separated me from the essence of living. A commitment to staying in my body through it all was mandatory for being fully alive. Thus, to be more present, I’ve vowed to follow the wisdom of whatever life brings.

Weigh this critical point: Leaving your body doesn’t make emotional challenges disappear. The soul’s work continues. What I intuitively sense about its destinations is that who you are here is who you’ll be there too, albeit without the physical form you’re accustomed to identifying with. I don’t mean this punitively. I’m simply saying you’ll eventually have to face your demons. Personally, I’d rather do it now than drag out the ordeal. I prefer to go onto other things. For those who believe in past lives, facing the self is unavoidable. Whether now or in distant eons, you must do it. This is good. This is purifying.

I’ve had an ex-boyfriend and some acquaintances commit suicide when depression became unbearable. Two by overdosing, one with a gun. Though I wasn’t in regular contact with these people at the time they took their lives, I was notified by mutual friends the day each suicide happened. While I was shaken by both these losses and the terrible desperation that must have occasioned them, I was also curious about where these people went and their subsequent state of being. So I tuned in, simultaneously inquisitive and anticipatorily weary about the kinds of pain I’d encounter. What did I find? None of them were in places I’d ever want to be, and each felt utterly lost. Always there was severe confusion, a swirling-through-limbo vertigo that made me nauseous. Where they were at felt like the alarming, abrupt plummeting of an airplane during turbulence--but cube that by the speed of light and picture if it didn’t let up. Still, despite the dire straits they were all clearly in, I also intuited a beneficent force surrounding them, though it didn’t seem as if they recognized it. They felt totally alone. When tuning into the lawyer who’d shot herself in the head, I found her disorientation was so jolting I could barely stay with it. This panicked woman had no idea where she was. Dizzying, disjointed memories of her life were bombarding her at such speed, “overwhelmed” didn’t begin to describe her condition. I suspect it took a while to find her bearings and proceed to a calmer place. From what I could intuit, the violence of her suicide made the transition even more chaotic. Once I got the gist of her experience, I wanted out of that vision so I didn’t risk absorbing such angst.

I share my perceptions with you to offer what I sensed about suicide. As you can see, it may not be a way out of anything, as many depression sufferers envision. Though the pain in question may be temporarily put on the back burner, suicide seems to create another set of problems and a tumultuous journey. Even so, I’m certain that the soul eventually finds clarity and gets all the chances it needs to master emotional obstacles.

My duty as physician and healer is to talk people out of suicide. I can be effective  because I absolutely know there’s hope for everyone and that depression is a distortion. It swallows the light, making misery seem like the only truth. But it is not. You must remember that. If ever suicide starts looking good, stop, regroup, and fight to find hope. Reach out for help. Don’t be seduced by the voice of depression.

Dear Ones,

Emotional Freedom is about trusting the flow of life, trusting, trusting, trusting. When I meet resistance in myself, when I push too hard, when my desires overcome my intuition, this Leonard Cohen song  "If It Be Your Will" realigns me. It softens all that is rigid in me and I can breathe into the flow again. Hope you enjoy it.

Peace and love,
Judith

A passage in Emotional Freedom that addresses clenching versus flow and what to do when things aren't happening on your time table is in Chapter 7 Facing Frustration, Building Patience on Page 183.

Dear Community,

I am thrilled to invite you to a workshop I'm giving June 5-7 at  Kripalu Institute in the sublime Berkshire Mountains of Mass. I look forward to this time of retreat to get a break from the mundane world to replenish. I hope you can join me.

With love,
Judith

I love animals. They are powerful conduits of unconditional love. My editor wanted me to remove this story from "Emotional Freedom" about a dog's compassion because it wasn't between two humans. I disagreed and kept it in. Here is an excerpt from the last chapter of the book called "Facing Anger, Building Compassion". I hope you like it. I hope you know that love exists between all sentient beings.

Judith



Compassion also provides the crucible for healing miracles to occur. One of my workshop participants told the following story. Two years before, she’d longed to get pregnant but she had a rare, serious type of kidney disease. Her doctor warned that pregnancy would overly stress her body, even endanger her life. Still, this woman’s desire for a baby was so strong she decided to risk it. Fortunately, she stayed well those nine months and her disease stabilized, which isn’t typical during pregnancy, a great relief to her, her husband, and the doctor. However, in that same period, her young Golden Retriever, her constant companion and ?soul-mate? with whom she was so attuned, was diagnosed with kidney failure. Soon after the birth of her daughter, this loving animal died, as if having held on just long enough to see her through.

Though cynics would dismiss as “mere coincidence” the fact that both contracted the same rare disease--especially when the dog had been perfectly healthy--I read this quite differently. For me, it seems rather to be a moving reminder of the interconnectedness of our hearts and the power of compassion. There was a special love between this woman and her dog. Could it be possible for one life to so empathize with another that it can sense, even assume illness? Certainly, something to contemplate. As a physician I know that love can create miracles that defy logical explanation. Selfless giving resonates with such mystery. How wondrous and far reaching compassion can be among all living beings. Each of us is capable of limitless love. The monumental implications of this fact continue to reveal themselves over the years, always giving me chills and re-clarifying my emotional priorities.

Excerpted from "Emotional Freedom" by Judith Orloff MD

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Judith


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Greetings,

Judith Orloff MD, bestselling author and UCLA psychiatrist, invites you on a remarkable
journey where you can embrace more happiness and mastery over negativity than you
may have ever known. Our world is in the midst of a meltdown. She describes how to
stay intuitively and spiritually centered in our times.

In "Emotional Freedom" Dr. Orloff states:
"I’m presenting the unique process I use with patients to view emotions as a path to
spiritual and intuitive awakening. I synthesize traditional medicine with energy
medicine to offer you new tools to master emotions and become heroes in your own
life. Inner peace leads to outer peace in the world.”

Publisher's Weekly's review of “Emotional Freedom" says this:
"Dr. Orloff regards emotions as a training ground for the soul, and views "every victory
over fear, anxiety, and resentment as a way to develop your spiritual muscles.""
“Emotional Freedom” has rave reviews from Deepak Chopra, Dr. Candace Pert,
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Hope you enjoy the book!
Judith