This is a follow up to last week’s blog. I just finished teaching a group of insightful students in the first part of the Certification in Medical Intuition course. I really enjoyed each one of the students. It was rewarding to see them all grow so much in just a few short days!

In the style of Medical Intuition Body Scan (Lori Wilson’s Total Body Intuition) that I teach, all the information comes from the body. This style is not a psychic reading, nor does it involve channeling, a guide, or following a map of chakras, archetypes or diseases. The Body Scan is the process of gathering information from each individual body.

During a Body Scan, the body may share physical, emotional, and spiritual information or patterns that are contributing to symptoms of discomfort or even interfering with healing. While attending to the body of the client, I use Body Scan techniques to clarify, source, and track information to its root cause. The information shared by the body can guide the client to choose a method of healing that fits the root cause of their symptoms.

Many years of experience with the Body Scan process has taught me that each person’s body processes and holds the experiences of their lifetime differently. I am often surprised by what the body shares and how specific the information can be to correlate with the client’s symptoms and next level of healing.

Contact me for an appointment to have your own Body Scan. If you are interested in taking the Certification Course in Medical Intuition in Iowa City, please contact me for more information.

I am excited to be in Sacramento, California to begin teaching the certification course in Medical Intuition, Lori Wilson’s Total Body Intuition. I have been teaching for Lori’s education company, Inner Access 101, since 2003. I thoroughly enjoy teaching, just as I enjoy all of my work. What is Medical Intuition and what does a Medical Intuitive do? In this course I am teaching, that is exactly what the students will learn.

Many times I have clients ask the same question. Medical Intuition is a tool of supplementary insight used to gather information from the body to find the root cause of symptoms or conditions that have manifested as physical discomfort or disease.

The body carries everything we experience in our daily lives. The body hears, feels, and senses all of our daily activities throughout our lifetime. How these experiences are stored in the body can contribute to problems later. Medical Intuition practices are particularly helpful in providing information about conditions or symptoms that have eluded traditional methods of diagnosis or understanding.

A Medical Intuitive does not diagnose, but only reports what the body shares. In this way, a Medical Intuitive is a facilitator and respectful follower of what the body shares. A Medical Intuitive completes a Body Scan in a systematic fashion using the intuitive connection with the body to gather information shared in a broadcast, head to toe scan, and an organ and systems scan. The scan is very thorough and in depth in order to provide information from the body. The Body Scan is not a healing process or modality. Once the Body Scan information is shared, the client may make healing choices.

For more information, please read my webpage or call or email to set up an appointment.

Once you have tracked your food intake on www.myfitnesspal.com, you can begin to notice your nutrition patterns. It is important to look at your food diary as a weekly review to be able to figure averages of intakes of particular nutrients over the timespan. This is especially important if you are monitoring your food intake to lose weight. By looking at the diary on a weekly level, you are able to see where you are doing well and where your ideal food plan breaks down.

Here is an example of how to tailor your food plan for weight loss or maintaining your ideal weight:

Take the total calories you should consume each day and assign percentages of those calories to carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. This will give you the totals you can track each day with www.myfitnesspal.com.

Here is a mathematical look at a 1500 calorie per day food plan:

• 50% of those calories should be carbohydrates. 1500 calories x 50% = 750 carbohydrate calories. This is equal to 187.5 grams of carbohydrates per day.
• 30% of the calories should be proteins. 1500 calories x 30% = 450 protein calories. This is 112.5 grams of protein per day.
• 20% of the calories should be fats. 1500 x 20% = 300 fat calories. This is equal to 33 grams of fat per day. Most of these calories should be good fats, not saturated fats.

Don’t forget that you need to adjust this example to your individual calorie needs and exercise level.

All of us must remember that losing weight is not just about food intake. We must also exercise 3 or more times a week at your target heart rate for 30 minutes. We all need to find the exercise of choice for us, whether it is running, walking, biking, or practicing yoga.

By examining your food intake, it is easier to understand where you have been in order to get to the place you want to be!

Do you know what you eat and how much you eat every day? I have found it beneficial – and so have many of my clients – to record my daily food intake in a food diary. It is very enlightening to see exactly what was consumed in a day. How do you know where you are going if you don’t know where you are now? The food diary allows us to assess what we are eating in order to recognize the changes we need to make.

The amount of food is as important as the quality of food we eat. We must manage our portion sizes. Reading labels is also important to understand the nutrients we are feeding our bodies. Labels not only list the ingredients, but also the carbohydrates, protein, and kinds of fat that are in each serving size. Until you track this information, you may not be aware of the true amount of carbs, fats, and protein in your food intake. You might be surprised at what you are truly eating!

A client recently shared her computerized food diary with me, and it was great! An easy way to track your food intake is with this informative, fee website: www.myfitnesspal.com.  This website has a master list of food, and you can also build your own list if a food item is not already listed. At the end of the day, you simply list your food choices and the site will summarize your total calories, carbs, protein, fats, cholesterol, sodium, sugars, and fiber consumed. You may also add your workout time and type of exercise to calculate the calories burned, which you may compare with your caloric intake.

Try this great tool for a week, and you will notice where your food plan may be out of balance. Bring your food diary to your next appointment, or set up an appointment with me today to review your food intake habits.