Interview with Leda Green, Medical Intuitive

Kirk VandenBerghe: It is my pleasure to interview you. I’d like to begin by asking you to tell me about your background, medical intuition, and how you began doing this fascinating work.

Leda Green: I was born in Tehran, Iran in 1958. My parents immigrated to Israel when I was four years old. I started my first year of school at the age of five and studied in Israel till the end of 10th grade. I left Israel to live in New York in 1974, where I completed my high school and my academic education in International business and system analysis. As minors, I studied French and psychology.

I returned to Tel Aviv in 1980, left to London, and stayed there on and off for five years. I got married and when I gave birth to my first son, I decided to stay permanently in Israel. I have worked under many titles, but only 14 years ago I have started doing what I am doing at the present.

In the spring of 1994, after giving birth to my youngest son and ending my career as a business owner, and thinking that I was primed for a mystical experience, I gradually recognized that my perceptual abilities had expanded considerably. For instance, a friend would mention that someone he knew was not feeling well, and an insight into the cause of the problem would pop into my head. I was uncannily accurate, and word of it spread through the local community. Soon people were phoning me to make appointments for an intuitive assessment of their health. By 1995 I was doing readings for people who were in health crises and life crises of various kinds, from depression to cancer.

To say I was in a fog would be an understatement. I was confused, uncertain, and a little scared. They were, and still are, experiences like impersonal daydreams that start to flow as I receive a person’s permission. It’s like the difference between looking through a stranger’s photograph album, in which you have emotional attachments to no one, compared to looking through your own family’s photo album. The impressions are clear, but completely unemotional.

At first, I felt that each appointment was a high-risk experience. I got excited when I made an accurate “hit,” because it meant that my sanity was intact. I felt as if I were suddenly responsible for explaining the will of God to dozens of sad, frightened people, without any training. Deep in my soul, I knew that I was connecting with something that was essentially sacred, and that knowledge was splitting me in two. On the one hand, I feared that I would become incapacitated, like mystics of old. On the other hand, I felt destined for a life in which I would be evaluated and judged by believers and skeptics. I was fascinated by my newfound perceptual ability and was compelled to keep on evaluating people’s health, in immediate physical health and the related emotional or psychological stress. But I could also see the energy surrounding that person’s body. I saw it filled with information about that person’s history. And I saw that energy as an extension of that person’s spirit. I began to realize that our spirit is very much a part of our daily lives, it embodies our thoughts and emotions, and it records every one of them, from the most mundane to the visionary.

Since then I have worked wholeheartedly as a medical intuitive. This means that I use my intuitive ability to help people understand the emotional, psychological, and spiritual energy that lies at the root of their illness, dis-ease, or life crisis. I can sense the type of illness that has developed, often before the individual is even aware of having an illness at all. The people I work with usually are aware, however, that their lives are not in balance and that something is wrong.

No dramatic “first event” ushered my intuitive abilities into my life. They simply woke up inside me, easily, naturally, they had always been there, awaiting the appropriate time to emerge. When I was growing up, I had always been alert intuitively, reacting continually to my gut instincts, as most do. What’s unusual about my intuition is that I can evaluate people with whom I have had no contact, whatsoever. The more I have used my intuition, the more accurate it has become. Now it feels ordinary to me.

It was not easy, even after pledging to cooperate with it, to perfect my intuitions. I had no models and no earthen teacher, although eventually I had the support and guidance of medical colleagues. Now, however, after 14 years of continuous work, the skill fells like a sixth sense to me. This means that it’s time for me to teach others about the language of energy and medical intuition.

By working with my intuitions, I have identified the emotional and psychological causes of illness. Being medically intuitive has helped me learn not only about the energy cause of disease but about the challenges we face in healing ourselves. Healing can mean recovering from an illness and also that one’s spirit has released long held fears and negative thoughts toward oneself or others. This kind of spiritual release can occur even though one’s body may be dying physically.

I limit my assistance to helping people interpret the emotional, psychological, and spiritual stress and factors underlying the development of their illness. I discuss specific medical treatments or surgical procedures and refer clients to physicians. I studied the physical anatomy of the human body through books. I treat clients and try to help them resolve the spiritual issues at the root of their emotional or physical crisis. I learned that my skill is of most value in the stages before a physical illness actually develops.

Medical intuition can help physicians who understand the human body to be both a physical system and an energy system, who have a spiritual context for the human experience, to identify the energy state of a physical illness and treat the underlying cause as well as the symptoms.

I would be very pleased to transmit my own intuitive skill to every one with whom I encounter. It is through years of practice that one will fully develop his/her own intuitions. I am lecturing about this subject all over Israel at places such as schools, private homes, hi-tech companies, hospitals,and many other places. I cannot help but feel that medical intuitives will eventually become essential members of health care teams, both in this country and around the world.

The conventional medical world is on the brink of recognizing the link between energy or spiritual dysfunction and illness. It is inevitable that it will someday cross the divide between body and spirit. In the meantime, we can learn the language of energy and the skill of symbolic sight.

Kirk: Can you provide a specific example of a client session; what you saw, heard, and/or felt within your intuition, and how it assisted the client?

Leda: My aim when I make a connection with people is to bring them to consciousness and assist in changing their thinking habits. A connection is made by a client and me. Here are some situations that can evolve:

• A client that can be healed over the phone, from far;
• A client that comes to my clinic for various meetings.

With the first option, I usually calm the patient down. I give him or her a very definite time range to when the pain or the problem is going to be solved and he or she is requested to share with me the outcomes. Usually, the conversation takes about ten minutes.

This is very specific and refers to a very specific problem. Most of the time, the problem is solved. When I receive repetitive phone calls I suggest that he or she may come to a personal meeting. As I suggested in the above answer, the pain is not only physical.

When the client arrives at the clinic we sit facing each other and I usually ask the client to tell me why he or she has come to see me. After I hear them share, I give them my analysis or my diagnosis to the problem. Sometimes it does not match. In order to make my work more understandable I will share a story about a real situation.

Sheila, forty-eight, introduced herself to me over the phone by saying, “Something is wrong with me.”

“OK, what?” I asked.

“I can’t sleep. I can’t think. I don’t function around the house. I can’t do anything anymore. I am very sad,” she said.

As I scanned her energy, I noted that her mind, symbolically speaking, was not in her body. It was filled with images that had nothing to do with her present life, but that involved a spiritual life in a different country and different era.

I asked her if she was exposed to any books lately, and she ran down a list of books all related to the Jewish holocaust from the spiritual point of view. Then she said, “I keep thinking that I belong in Poland. I have never been there and my parents are not even survivors. I get this feeling that I am supposed to go there, and I can’t let go of that idea.”

As we discussed the intensity of her feeling, I explained to Sheila, that sometimes people are called to places, and that it might be a wise choice to follow that feeling.

She started to cry, saying that she was terrified of leaving and terrified of not leaving. She said that she feared the unknown. She said, “I respect the people I work with, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to help people through my work, but I have felt continually empty, and I can’t stand it anymore.”

“I do believe you need to follow that voice you are hearing,” I said.

Three months later Sheila left her position as an Occupational Psychologist and took her first trip to the concentration camps in Poland. When she got back she joined a foundation that prepares and guides teenagers about the holocaust and physically takes the teenagers to visit the concentration camps in Poland.

She calls me sometimes to keep me updated, and each time she expresses a sensation of life coming into her body. “I feel an energy flow into me every time I start with a new group,” she said. “I am beginning to understand this substance called energy. I dismissed it as imagination before going to Poland, but I now think there is some conscious force in this universe that continually supports life, and that this force flows through us.”

Sheila had found her ordained path. The journey toward becoming conscious is often more attractive in theory than it is in practice. Pursuing consciousness theoretically through books and conversations allows us to fantasize about getting to the promised land without actually having to make any changes in our lives. Even the thought that a promised land exists can temporarily make a person feel great. To some extent, workshop addicts are doing just that: getting high on conversation, but returning to their homes and their lives exactly as they left them.

I think it would be useful to share another story. A few years ago I met a young man named Jan, who complained about constant back aches. We met regularly every week to reduce the pain and during those sessions I discovered he needed to heal other hurting bones. I also talked to him of consciousness and business practices. He said he felt very inspired after each meeting, which focused on applying to business the principle of holistic health, such as having a positive attitude and combining the strength of the mind and the heart.

His back pain was getting better, but he started realizing that his present job environment didn’t match his internal rules; these new internal rules were so different from the work’s external rules. (Editor’s Note: “Rules” in this context are synonymous with “personal values;” values are our beliefs about what we hold to be important in life.) He finally accepted that no greater gift could have been given to him than motivation to leave his situation that he could find a more suitable working environment. Shortly thereafter he began to pursue his new life, with no more pain.

Becoming conscious means changing the rules by which we live and the beliefs we maintain. Our memories and attitudes are literally rules that determine the quality of life, as well as strength of our bonds with others. Always, a shift in awareness includes a period of isolation and loneliness as one gets accustomed to the new level of truth. And then always, new companions are found. No one is left alone for long.

Eventually, our minds become overloaded with information and the day comes when we can no longer straddle two levels of perception simultaneously. At some point the process of change itself moves us forward.

Our expansion into the realm of consciousness always uses the energies from the universe combined with the inherent desire to find our ordained path; a path of service that allows us to contribute the highest potential of our mind, bodies, and spirits.

Kirk: Thank you for including those wonderful examples. My final question for today’s interview is this: In general, is there a favorite practice that you notice yourself recommending to your clients? A practical method of self-development that have found to be useful for a wide range of people?

Leda: Energy medicine is a holistic philosophy that says the person is responsible for the creation of his or her health. Therefore, at some level, he or she participated in the creation of this illness. He or she can participate in the healing of this illness by healing oneself, which means simultaneously healing the emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual being.

Healing and curing are not the same thing. A cure occurs when one has successfully controlled the physical progression of an illness. Curing a physical illness, however, does not necessarily mean that the emotional and psychological stresses that were part of the illness were also alleviated. It is possible that an illness will recur in such a case.

Healing is an active and internal process that includes investigating one’s attitudes, memories, and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one’s full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one’s external circumstances in an effort to recreate one’s life in a way that serves activation of will, the will to see and accept truths about one’s life, and how one has used one’s energies; along with the will to begin to use energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health. An energy connection occurs between the consciousness of the patient and the healing capacity of the therapy and sometimes even of the therapist.

I recommend a method that I use myself on daily basis:

• love yourself;
• Love and honor one another;
• fear nothing;
• watch what you eat;
• exercise daily;
• listen to your inner feelings;
• seek only the truth;
• solve a problem/difficult situation separately - one at a time;
• accept the present moment.

As a daily act of meditation, draw your attention consciously to what you have and give thanks to the things that you have.

Imagine how tiny stars are entering your body and charging your energy with power and strength.

Feel yourself connected to all of life.

Bless the life you have agreed to live and the people that make up your life.

Focus on the energy releasing negativity and fear from you–reexamine your intention.

Evaluate your own code of behavior, let the energy guide and assist you maintaining your personal standards and honoring your own dignity. Let those tiny stars lead you to love and compassion.

Evaluate how well you extend love to others as well as to yourself, including the loving energy contained within acts of forgiveness.

Evaluate the quality of the thoughts you are holding about other people as well as yourself.

Examine the fear that exists within you and let the light enter that fear and give you the courage not to act in that negative manner again.

Request wisdom and insights for the situations in which you feel confused or frightened.

Remember that each of us has a special gift to offer this life and that each of us is inevitably led to that path. Let the energy connect you with the divine. Let the divine energy enter your mind, body, and spirit, and breathe that energy into your being.

During this meditation evaluate daily the health of your body, your mind, and your spirit. We are meant to move toward self discovery and spiritual maturity, to be ready and able to live a life that matters to us and those around us. We are meant to choose to live a spiritual life.

Kirk: Thank you for expressing that beautiful meditation. Is there anything else you would like to share?

Leda: Meditation is a wonderful word and a wonderful act, but it is nothing separate that we do in our very busy life. It is part of our life, a good meditation is anything that we do: enjoying a juicy apple, waking up in the morning to a new day, making love, sleeping well, swimming, running, going to work, studying, being with a friend, being with our families, enjoying the rain, enjoying the sun…accepting our present and being thankful for what we have TODAY.

However, if it is hard for any of us to feel (understand from inside) the meaning of the above, I have another suggestion, I often share this with my patients.

When I was in the university in one of the creative writing tests we were asked to write an essay defining the issue ABSTRACT. At first I panicked, but 15 minutes later I wrote: “This is abstract,” I handed the paper and left. I was certain that I failed, but I got an A. I shared with you this little story, because I see life as an abstract and I actually fit in there whatever there is. How is it done? There are many ways and one of my favorite is: Imagine you enter a totally white space, it could be a room, a balloon, a hall–totally white. When you enter the room and its only door is shut behind, you see that you are in a totally homogeneous place without any windows, doors, ceiling, floor, and all is totally white. The terminology in this space is light or energy. Everything is being defined in this space as a light or as an energy. The root of the matter in this space is the light or energy. While you are in this room (space), you create your own world. Whatever you want to have or bring into your life you may think it in this space and it will materialize outside of that space in the outside world. The more you practice, the better it becomes and the faster you get what you want.

My best advise to you all is to stop wanting, throw away from your vocabulary the word “must,” “want,” and “desire.” Start practicing the word “prefer.” Gradually, eliminate even the word “prefer.” Take one day at a time, planning for the morrow from the present resources. Be thankful for whatever you have…be thankful for every little thing you receive, because nothing in our life is coincidental.

Thank you.

Kirk: Thank you, Leda. Best wishes in your work.

Please visit Leda Green’s web site at http://www.ledagreen.com. Her email address is leda [at] ledagreen.com, Israel phone 011-972-544-998-725, and U.S. contact phone is Natalie Filtser at 917-690-3245. Presently, she visits the U.S. once every three months to meet with people who desire help.