This interview took place years ago, while Malana was still practicing as Dr. Nancy Stern. Some details in it are out of date: the class price, the old website address, the phone number. See current pricing and how to reach her now.

Linda Lawson: This is Linda Lawson again with BlogTalk Radio, and we're on with Dr. Nancy Stern, who is a medical intuitive. The field of medical intuition and spiritual healing has definitely gained more popularity in the last 20 years, and Dr. Stern is one of those people with that gift. Welcome to the show, Dr. Stern.

Malana: Yeah, thank you. I'm thrilled to be here.

Linda: Thank you so much for coming on the show. So first of all, for our audience, can you explain exactly what is medical intuition, and what is a medical intuitive?

Malana: Medical intuition works many different ways, and I like to call it spiritual medical intuition, because there are so many forms of medicine. The American Indians had their medicine, and their medicine was a very spiritually honoring type of medicine, and that's the medicine that I try to do. I would call it medicine of the soul, and I believe that when we have a physical problem, it's not really the physical problem, it's really an issue in our consciousness that needs to be resolved, and as we look at the issues in our consciousness, then the body will follow suit.

So to me the art of medical intuition is looking at a person in a very holistic way, looking at the soul, looking at the heart, looking at the mind, the old patterns, the belief systems, the patterns from childhood and other times in one's life that have been, some of them helpful and some of them could have been interfering in a person's progress on different levels in their life. So what I do is I look at all of that. I look at the person as a very whole being, spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, and I work to help them connect with all parts of their being, so that parts that were lost, parts that were hurting, parts that were ignored, can all be acknowledged and healed, and that person can come into wholeness with all of who they are, so that even then the physical body can heal.

Linda: Whatever has gone on in someone's life, whatever is going on in someone's life, manifests itself in physical ways, or can manifest itself, and it is in your profession that you look at the spirit of what is affecting that spirit to help heal it.

Malana: Yes, I try to help a person connect to their spiritual nature. I try to help them connect to their physical body. I try to help them connect to their feelings, their emotions, their mental beliefs and patterns, and bring everything together with love and acknowledgement and peace. Sometimes you have to acknowledge the lack of peace in order to get to the peace, but I help bring everything together so that a person can connect, and in that connection, in that wholeness, that's where healing occurs.

Linda: Dr. Stern, how long have you been a medical intuitive?

Malana: I have been doing healing work since I was sixteen years old. I remember I had a friend who had been in Vietnam and had some difficult relationships in the past, and he told me about all his problems, and I used to just listen to him, but one day it just came to me. I was sixteen, but it just came to me: I really needed to go into deep prayer for this friend. So I spent quite some time, it might have been maybe an hour, in deep prayer for him, and he asked me the next time he saw me, "Have you been praying for me?" And I said, "Yes." And he said, "Well, when was it?" And I told him approximately the time, and he said, "Well, at that time I saw this flashing light come around me, and I felt my heart being healed on a very deep level," and he thanked me so much.

Linda: And what would you attribute that white light to be?

Malana: That was Holy Spirit, or God.

Linda: So at that point did you realize there was a special gift you had been given?

Malana: I just knew that I loved to pray, and I knew that I could feel the presence of God when I would pray, and that I could feel God's wisdom guiding me when I would go into prayer for someone, showing me how I needed to pray, and how long I needed to pray, and in what way I needed to pray, so that the healing could occur.

Linda: When did that translate into a career, and how did you begin to prepare for that?

Malana: Well, I was interested in psychology and I studied that at UCLA, that was my bachelor's, and I was planning to become a child psychologist, because I'd had a dream. I had been praying for guidance, what to study and what to do for a career, and it came to me in a dream, the words "Dr. Stern," and it woke me up, and so I figured, well, that must be the answer to my dream, I'm supposed to become a PhD in psychology. And so I was headed that direction, but then I started getting interested in chiropractic, and I prayed some more, and it just came to me that that would be a good thing to do. So I did get my degree as a doctor of chiropractic, and I continued to do my prayerful work for people at the same time.

I even remember an older Hispanic lady who came to me when I was in the clinic, the last year of chiropractic school, for treatment of her knee, because she was very crippled, very difficult for her to take any steps, and you could see she was in severe pain. […] I went into deep prayer for her, and I went back to her childhood, and I saw that there was a need to heal this inner child, and I had a vision of a beautiful little girl running through a field of daisies, and I knew she had been healed. […] It was a beautiful thing to see, and she got better from that point on.

Linda: For someone who doesn't understand how this works, you're saying that you pray for the person. What is it you see? Let's say someone comes to you with an ailment, Parkinson's disease, whatever it is, when you connect with them, what is it, can you describe visually what you see?

Malana: Sometimes I just let God show me, and sometimes God will give me words, sometimes God will show me something. If I want to I can see a detailed picture of the whole body, but usually what I try to do is ask God to show me what the priority is, what we need to look at first to help bring about the healing for that person. And I always like to go to the soul level first, because the soul level is where everything starts, that's our connection to God, to our divine nature, and as we connect on that level, then everything beneath that can fall into alignment and heal. So I always go there and see what God shows me on that soul level. It might be that the person is having a lot of resentment from the past, it might be that they have hatred, it might be that they feel like a failure, it might be that they've had hurts in love relationships, it might be that they felt rejected from their parents. So many different things can be held in our consciousness, and a lot of times it's a basic thing, like "I am not worthy of healing," "God doesn't want good for me," "God doesn't love me." These are such basic beliefs that have to be cleared up in the process of healing.

Caller (Jeanie, California): I've been working with her for over 20 years. I have called her long distance, I've never met her, but I have spoken to her on the phone and asked for her help and guidance for over 20 years with just a variety of issues… in my mind she is a miracle worker. She prays for me, she gives me affirmations, she does this really amazing thing where she can send energy into water long distance and then I drink it, and I have… I just want to say that I have grown and become more intuitive, and I'm more able to tune into my own connection with God because of Dr. Stern.

Linda: How did you hear about the field of medical intuition, and how did you hear about Dr. Stern?

Jeanie: I was living in Oregon, this is back in the 80s, and I met a woman who asked me if I wanted the name of a good psychic, and I didn't even really know what a medical intuitive was then. She's so much more than a psychic, yes she can see what's going on inside of my body, but it's so much more than just a psychic.

Linda: Dr. Stern, what percentage of your clients do you see face to face?

Malana: Maybe 15%, something like that.

Linda: So the majority you never see.

Malana: Right, but I see them in their spirit, and that's the important thing. I've just seen that healing works no matter what, because it's through consciousness that healing occurs, and God's consciousness is everywhere, and all we have to do is connect to that infinite field of consciousness, and the healing can occur.

Linda: What for you have been some of your most dramatic cases?

Malana: I can think of so many. […] I can think of another time, one of my students in my healing light class mentioned to me that she was having some problem with her eyesight, and this was in our group healing, where people who have taken my classes come once a month for a group healing and blessing circle, where we bless the earth through prayer and sending healing energy, and we also bless and send healing to everyone who comes. […]

I can think of a client who had an injury where she fractured her finger at work, and she had been required to get it x-rayed because it was an injury that had occurred at work. We worked, we released all the emotions around that issue with the finger, and I held her whole body, her mind, her soul. […] They classified it as a mistake.

Linda: What other types of work do you do or offer?

Malana: I teach my classes, different types of healing work, and I also do energized water, like Jeanie mentioned. I send frequencies into water, and I do this either long distance or in person, people just get some distilled water from the store.

Linda: Explain exactly how the healing water, the energized water, works.

Malana: This water is holding frequencies, and it can be programmed for different frequencies, so there are different types of water that I make, and then people drink that water, and it actually causes a shift in their energetic field, and it will help free them from negative programming from the past, protect their energy field so that they're not so susceptible to the energies of people and things in the environment around them, and clear them from past negativity of traumatic events that have interfered with their life. I've seen very many good changes as a result of drinking the different types of water, as well as using vials of energized water. I have people fill up little vials of water, and then I energize that water, and without ever having to open the vial they can just swish it around in their drinking water, and that will actually cause a shift in their consciousness, which then causes a shift in the outer world as they drink that water. For example, someone who might want to lose weight, I can make them a vial of energized water called weight loss, and they drink water that has been energized with that field vial, and it's always reused over and over, and that little by little causes a shift in their energy field, so that their body and their mind will be more free to lose the weight.

Linda: For people who don't understand what energy fields are, can you explain how that relates to our human bodies?

Malana: Around our physical body we have energy bodies, and people have classified them in different ways, there's the soul body, the emotional body, the mental body, the physical etheric body, and these bodies are like layers around the physical body. There's also the chakras, which form part of the energetic body as well, and there are seven major chakras, starting at the crown of the head and going down to the tailbone area. These energy centers, and these layers in the field around the body, are very important in how healing works.

Linda: So all of us, every human being, emits some form of energy?

Malana: Yes, animals and plants and even rocks, everything emits energy, and all of those in some way are interconnected and affect each other.

Linda: How does one's belief in God affect your energy field?

Malana: I think trusting the goodness of God is such a key thing, because so many of us have grown up with the teaching that God is here to punish us, that we might go to hell if we don't do things a certain way, that God is a punishing, fearful, judgmental God. I think that this is such a block to so many people's healing, I think that this is a belief that has to be rooted out, that fear, the fear of a punishing, angry God, and replace it with the understanding that God is love, and that God only wants good for all of us, because we are beloved children of God, we're her beloved creatures, and we reflect her, and we are the image and likeness of Father/Mother God. As we understand that, that shifts everything.

Caller (Dalton): I'm in a relationship, and I was wondering how the best way to treat my girlfriend would be, without making her upset.

Malana: What's coming to me, Dalton, is to forgive her for anything, any miscommunication, sometimes we take things the wrong way or we jump to a conclusion. I'm just seeing that there's a need to let whatever needs to be gone, just let it go, and to ask God to help you see her as God is seeing her, in that light of forgiveness and compassion. I also see, value yourself, that as you value yourself you will be able to set the standard for your life and how others are treating you. I feel that valuing yourself will help shift the relationship between you and her as well.

Caller (Emily): How do I stay calm and not lose my temper?

Malana: What's coming to me about that, Emily, is to be in touch with all your feelings, to acknowledge them all, because the more we reject a feeling, the more it comes back and bothers us. I'd like you to breathe in the awareness right now: "I am willing to honor every feeling." Just breathe that awareness into your whole being right now, with three deep breaths. […] "I'm willing to forgive myself for the past." […] "I am a good person." I want you to breathe in that awareness now, also with three deep breaths.

Malana (to both callers): Watch your thoughts before whatever it is you say, because rage will beget rage, if one person is agitated, that person's vibration is going to affect the other person, and it becomes hard to speak and resolve from a peaceful center. I'm not saying that's always easy, but at least be able to begin to try to start from there.

Linda: Doctor, how do you work with couples?

Malana: I do sometimes work with couples, and sometimes I work with family relationships, mother-daughter, different relationships in families. I even work with animal and owner relationships, and I'd like to share one story about an animal, if that's okay. I remember one time I was working with a dog, the owner had brought this dog to me because he had a problem with his leg, he was limping, and she couldn't figure out what was going on. I started to work with this dog, and I kept calling the dog the name of her old dog, over and over, and finally I realized this is a message, this dog is holding the energy of the other dog that she used to have, but that she'd had to put to sleep. I asked the dog, "Are you upset about Buddy?" because Buddy was the name of the dog that had been put down, and the dog went "oh," he was just answering me so clearly. I talked to this dog and the owner, and I asked the owner to assure this dog that she was not going to put him down, and to apologize to him for having to put down the other dog. What had happened is the other dog had bit somebody, so she had felt she had to put that dog down, but she explained to this dog that he wasn't that way, and that there was no danger of him being put down, and apologized. We just worked with that dog and put him at ease, so that he could feel safe, and right away during the session the dog's leg got better. So that shows it's not only people that hold these emotions that can block them physically, it's also animals.

As far as relationships with people, I can think of times when I've worked with mothers and daughters, daughters going through their teenage years, not seeing eye to eye with their parents. I've worked with the parents to help shift their consciousness of the child, and then worked directly with the child through distance healing, working with their soul, so that those two people can come into harmony. I can remember another case where a couple had been having trouble ever since they got married, and so I worked with them both over the phone, and I also made them a vial for a happy marriage, and they used the vial very faithfully, and they worked with me a few times, and it's been quite a few years, but things have definitely shifted significantly for them.

Linda: You've been doing this type of work now how long?

Malana: Like I said, I've been healing people since I was 16, I've been doing it professionally for over 20 years, maybe 25 years.

Linda: How have you seen the field of medical intuition change within the last 20 years?

Malana: I can see that more and more people are interested in alternative healing, they see that there has to be more than just drugs as a solution, more and more people are opening up to things like organic food and the possibility of energy fields around our body, more and more people are aware of things like chakras, and aware that your consciousness can affect your body. I think consciousness is opening up to these possibilities. I definitely see conventional medicine and science being more receptive, the fact that some MDs are doing this kind of work and writing books on the subject, that schools like Harvard have an alternative medicine department, and they're teaching things like the importance of attitude and emotions and prayer, they're actually doing research in these subjects.

Linda: How does someone go about using a medical intuitive, and how does someone know if a person is valid or credible?

Malana: I would say that you need to feel honored by the person that you work with, you need to feel a sense of sincere caring. You should be feeling better from working with someone pretty soon, you should see a shift in your consciousness, because as the consciousness shifts, that's where the body is going to shift. You could talk to people who've worked with that person before, that might be one way. To me, I feel like you should start seeing a shift right away, there should be a shift in some area even from one session, it might just be feeling more peaceful, more accepting of things, or it could be a big shift where everything feels better.

Linda: This is one of those fields where you also have to look at references from someone else, something to show there's a track record. If three months down the road, or six months down the road, or a year down the road, you're still waiting for something to get better, that's a little long.

Malana: Yeah. I've always said, and will always say, I think the greatest profession is one who's in the role of some type of minister, that person is the shepherd of God's souls. That's why when you're dealing with medical spiritual intuition, that is extremely sacred.

Linda: We're down to the last few minutes, Dr. Stern, is there anything else you would like to add?

Malana: I would just like to say that I really find that it is a sacred thing to be able to serve in this way and bring about healing, because I've seen so many times when people try so many things and nothing seems to work, and the reason in my view of why it doesn't work is because we have to go to the soul, we have to look at what's in the heart, what's in the mind, and so many of us don't realize that's where everything starts. If we can go to that level, we will see that everything else will fall into place so much easier, it will not be such a struggle to get where we want to be, in our health, or in our relationships, or in our finances, because when our soul, our heart, our mind is in the right place, and everything's connecting, everything will be easier in whatever area of our life it is.

Linda: Thank you so much, thank you everyone for listening in today.