The best way I know of to have serenity and peace is to trust my intuition.

I have found, in my own life, the lives of my patients and workshop participants, that one of the biggest and most painful stumbling blocks to serenity is refusing to listen to our own inner truth or denying it exists. When we doubt and negate our own hunches, it creates stress and tension, and can wreak havoc in our lives. Intuition is the potent inner wisdom that guides us. When we shut ourselves off from it, we can throw our lives off track. It happened to me.

As a psychiatrist and intuitive, I combine spiritual awareness and intuition with mainstream medicine. With patients and in my workshops, I listen with my intellect and my intuition, a potent inner wisdom that goes beyond the literal, the rational. 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.

Relying on my own insights has brought greater clarity and serenity to my life, even when the insights are painful, difficult or sad. I’ve described my journey in my memoir Second Sight which is meant to assure anyone who has ever thought they were weird or crazy for having intuitive experiences, that they are not! I believe we can all find greater peace and purpose in our lives when we trust our intuition. It can liberate us from many of the fears and doubts that work against serenity in our lives. Embracing inner wisdom, now, can heal us from times that we felt we had to quell or ignore that part of ourselves...

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© Copyright Judith Orloff, MD. This article was originally
published at our website, SoulfulLiving.com, in October 2003, as part of Soulful Living's "Serenity" Issue.

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