Mona Lisa Schulz

Your Intuitive Brain and Medical Intuition
June 23-27

This course will provide an overview of how to combine and apply the insights about the brain (the science of wiring of emotions, thoughts, personality, gender and behavior in the brain) and Medical Intuition (the connections between emotional states and physical illness). The last two decades of brain research have revolutionized our scientific understanding of how mood, anxiety, perception, attention, memory, intuition and decision-making is wired in specific networks in our brain. At the same time, a rapidly growing body of medical literature is documenting the physical effects of emotions on the body. To create optimal health, we need a basic understanding of how, why, where and when specific emotional and mental patterns can set the stage for physical illness. We also need to understand how intuition comes to us through unique changes in mood, anxiety, attention, dreams, images, and physical symptoms in our body.

At the end of the course, participants will have an understanding of how their brain is wired. They will learn how gender and handedness is wired in the brain and how certain styles of mood, anxiety, perception, attention, memory and intuition may affect health. Finally, participants will learn how to best work with their own and their patient's intuitive brain-body style to enhance awareness and healing in both a personal and professional setting.

Monday
It Takes Two: Right Brain/Left Brain, Women's Brains, Men's Brains • Gender, hormones and the brain • Your unique genius, the pathology of superiority • Handedness and Health: stress and hormones shape the brain and body • Dyslexia, Autism, and other atypical brain styles • Menopause, and hormonal treatments re-wire the brain.

Who am I anyway? Am I my resume? Emotions and Personality • Empathy, morality and criminality • Velcro/Teflon relationship styles • The wiring of self-esteem, satisfaction and addiction.

Intuition Practice: Left brain/Right brain Intuition • Women's and Men's Intuition.

Tuesday
Blue Moon: Depression, irritability, and moodiness across the lifespan • Ambivalent emotions: apathy and being stuck • Emotional Incontinence and moodiness, stoicism and aloofness • PMS and menopause: cycling hormones and hemispheres • An antidepressant primer: dancing the "SSRI Shuffle" • Other ways to balance brain-body mood.

I'm All Shook Up: Fears and Phobias, Anxiety and Obsessions • The emergency broadcast system • The anxiety/depression continuum • Post-traumatic Stress Disorders • Buffering your body for anxiety, serenity and courageousness • An anti-anxiety primer.

Intuition Practice: Psychic Sickness • "I feel for you": the downside of being too porous and empathic • Addicted to Love: the intoxication of being a savior.

Wednesday
I Can See For Miles and Miles: Perception and Attention • ADHD: A culturally-defined disorder? • Attention, gender and hormones • A stimulant primer • Maximizing your attention potential: Environmental and educational strategies.

Intuition Practice: Clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience.

Thursday
What's Too Painful to Remember, We Choose to Forget: Memory and Wisdom, Aging and Trauma • Memories you talk about, memories you re-enact • Gender, hormones, and learning and memory styles • Stress, distress and memory loss • Aging: the wiring of wisdom • Alzheimer's disease and other dementias • Pumping up your brain body circuits for learning and memory.

Intuition Practice: Dreaming • Peeling away thought patterns that clog the channels for intuition.

Friday
I Say a Little Prayer: Intuition and Mysticism, Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness • The science of Medical Intuition: The 7 Emotional centers: Your body's language for intuition • Modern day "stigmata": carrying emotions for loved ones • Immune disorders, obesity, heart disease, chronic illness and other windows for intuition.

Mona Lisa Schulz MD, Ph.D., a clinical assistant professor of Psychiatry at Vermont School of Medicine, is a practicing neuropsychiatrist, specializing in brain injury, dementia, stroke, and psychiatric aspects of medical illness. She also works in the field of medical intuition, teaching individuals from all over the world how their intuition can reveal the connection between their health problems and their emotional states. Her approach and the science that supports it are summarized in Awakening Intuition (Harmony, 1998) and The New Feminine Brain (The Free Press, 2005).