 Every one of us has at one time or another blamed an action on intuition, but most of the time we don't really believe that it really exists. Judith Orloff is both a psychiatrist and intuitive. What that means is that she combines her knowledge of medicine with intuitive thinking in order to give her patients the best possible treatment. For Orloff, listening to intuition is sacred, but it has taken her many years to learn to trust it. Many of us probably feel the same way when we get one of those "gut feelings" and wonder if we should follow it or consider something more concrete. In fact, some people who have more frequent episodes of intuition think they are crazy, but that is not even a possibility.
Orloff comes from a family of twenty-five physicians, the only daughter of two physicians. She began having dreams and intuitions that came true at the early age of nine. She was able to predict illness, earthquakes, and once she even predicted the suicide of one of her parents' friends. Everyone originally tried to shrug it off as coincidence until she predicted that her mother's mentor was going to lose and political election and did. From that moment on she was forbidden from even mentioning anything about dreams and intuition. From that day forward she kept everything to herself, thinking there must be something wrong with her.
After a near-fatal car accident at the age of sixteen, her parents insisted that she see a psychiatrist, and she was fortunate to find one who understood her and taught her to value her gift of intuitive thinking. He referred her to an intuition researcher who became her mentor and gave her the assistance she needed to full develop her talent. She began to truly trust her intuition after she had a dream in which she was told she would be a psychiatrist with the purpose of helping people understand intuition and apply it to medicine. She didn't even like science, but she tried it because of her trust in her own intuition and dreams.
People fear the unknown, but Orloff attempts to teach her patients and workshop participants how to trust rather than fear intuition. In her patients, she incorporates both medical and intuitive thinking into her sessions, and in her workshops, she teaches her students how to make the most of their gift of being able to see things in dreams and intuition.
What people fear most with intuition are people who think they are not normal, and this is a line of thinking Dr. Orloff attempts to reverse. When she started her practice, she had planned to use traditional treatments but changed her mind when one of her patients overdosed on prescribed anti-depressants and was in a coma for nearly a month. That was when she made the decision in incorporate both traditional and intuition therapy. It was something she felt she had to do in order to give her patients the best treatment possible, and she has not looked back.
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