It’s always been my understanding that intuition operates most clearly and effectively under conditions that I call “balance.” This suggests to NOT rely upon your intuition for making decisions and assessments when you are out of balance, like overly emotional as in a state of anger, disappointment, stress, sorrow and the like. Intuition is a spontaneous feeling but not an emotionally charged impulse that comes from a state of unbalance. You know the difference.

Some would call balance a state of being “normal.” But the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has found a way to make normal not so normal and, in fact, a “mental disorder.” Allen Frances, who was the chairman of the 1994 (APA) DSM publication that determines what is normal and who needs psychiatric help, writes of how his panel contributed to three false “epidemics” – attention deficit disorder, autism, and childhood bipolar disorder. This professor emeritus and former chairman of the department of psychiatry at Duke University says that these “disorders” identified many “patients” who would have been far better off never entering the mental health system. Wow!

If I were identified as one of the disturbed persons, I would certainly not think I was normal and would not trust my intuitive inner guidance. Instead, I would be taking a pill. Of course, this intrusive “medicine” would lead me far astray from my naturally balanced self by destroying my sense of personal control and responsibility – which is what intuition does for us.

According to the upcoming DSM, let’s see if you and I are sick and not to be trusted by following our own intuition.