LEWISTON – Women walk with intuition’s inklings.

Just ask Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz, a medical intuitive and neuropsychiatrist, who spoke Saturday morning about intuition to a crowd of approximately 160 women at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center.

Her talk was part of the 10th Women’s Conference held at St. Mary’s. “Think about your area of genius, or area that makes you unique,” Schulz said, “The thing that makes you odd is going to help you find out where your intuition is.”

Women have more access to the right side of the brain, she said, adding that that provides them with greater connectivity between their body, the left side of the brain and the right side of their brain. Because of that women can simultaneously put on eyeliner, talk about their feelings and plan for shopping, Schulz said, kicking off her heels for more comfort.

Traditionally, men, by contrast, compartmentalize and think about one thing at a time, she said. “Womens’ brains are messy,” Schulz said.

The right side of the brain is more important to intuition while the left side of the brain allows one to verbalize intuition, she said.

When women hit menopause they often get a constant influx of intuition, Schulz said, adding that it can be hard to give voice to it.

Unexpressed intuition can manifest itself in a flaring up of a genetically predisposed illness, she said. Women more genetically predisposed to ailments like, for example, heart disease and depression can experience increased problems with their particular ailment if they do not express their intuition, Schulz said.

“The problem with intuition is it’s hard to put words to it,” she said. “You just know something is wrong. It’s important to verbalize intuition.”

“Intuition is more primed for negative things,” Schulz said, adding that intuition is protective in nature.

She offered from her own past the example of her mother in Rhode Island sensing Schulz in trouble time zones away in Oregon at the very instant Schulz got run over by a truck.

“You feel it in your gut,” she said. “Your hair will stand up.” Women enmeshed in being mad and sad can have a hard time hearing their intuition. “Anxiety is intuition run amok,” Schulz said.

Each woman experiences intuition differently, she said. They can hear words in their head. They can feel it physically. They can have an emotion sweep over them. They can sense it in their dreams. Dreams can lead to “unbridled intuition,” Schulz said.

Find out what makes you different, Schulz concluded to the resounding applause of a standing ovation. “That’s what makes you intuitive.”

Carolyn Honaker of Turner said the talk “was very good.” She said she “connected with a lot of the different things said.”

Healthy women mean healthy families, Marguerite Stapleton, the hospital’s vice-president for mission effectiveness, said, adding that healthy families mean healthy communities. St. Mary’s, she said, is dedicated to preserving that healthiness in Lewiston/Auburn.



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