For over four decades, Ellen Meredith has been guiding people to reconnect with their innate healing intelligence. A medical intuitive, conscious channel, and author of several beloved books on energy medicine, Ellen developed her signature “Energy Dialogue” approach by listening deeply—to spirit guides, the body’s language, and the wisdom that lives within each of us. In this interview for Mystic Mag, she shares how symbolic communication, intuitive tools, and simple energetic practices can empower anyone to heal from within and awaken to their full, vibrant self.
How did you first develop your “Energy Dialogue” approach to self-healing and energy medicine?
In the 1970s, I first got to know my inner teachers – spirit guides who I call my Councils. I have dialogued with them daily for over 50 years. A few years into this unexpected training process, my Councils said: “You are going to move to California, become very sick, and in the process of healing, you will become a healer.” And that indeed happened. When I fell sick, my MD sent me to see a complementary practitioner who practiced Applied Kinesiology – the origin of muscle testing, rooted in Chinese medicine. I discovered as she worked on me, that I could see (meaning see, hear, feel, know, smell, sense) the energies she was working with, and could even tell when the testing was inaccurate. I could look at the wall of nutritional supplements and just know which one I needed, including the dosages. It was news to me! After I recovered, she asked me to come in and consult with her clients who were not progressing, and that launched my professional practice as a medical intuitive and conscious channel.
My private practice grew to full-time within a year. It was rooted in both interacting with the clients’ energies AND guidance from my own Councils and the clients’ Councils. Dialogue was at the root of everything I did. I have always felt that the task was not just to provide channeled guidance, but rather to help my clients hear their own Councils and find their own truths.
I credit Donna Eden with my emphasis on self-healing. 23 years into my practice, I discovered her work and immediately signed up for her training program. There I gained additional tools to help students heal themselves. I have come to believe, with all my being, that energy is the language used by our body, mind, and spirit to create this life we are living. So HEALING, by implication, is a communication task!
What inspired you to create the DIY Divination tool, and how does it support intuitive development?
In the late 1980’s I taught in a Masters’ Program in Arts and Consciousness. My favorite course to teach focused on Divination – the use of symbolic language to access intuition and inner knowing. I asked students to create their own divination tools and was AMAZED at what creative systems they came up with. One woman created a box of cards, with 500 evocative images she’d cut from magazines, to use as a self-help fortune-telling tool. When the Internet launched, in the early 90’s, it occurred to me that people would really LOVE an interactive way to access their own guidance. So, I worked with a programmer to develop the first version of my DIY Divination Tool.
All Divination tools use symbols + intuition to help the reader gain insight into a particular question. Given my emphasis on self-healing and helping people find their own truth, it was natural to create a tool with images that could speak to everyone and help them recognize (and practice) communicating with their own Wiser Self via imagery.
How do your books—like Your Body Lives Your Story—guide readers in accessing their own inner guidance?
In Your Body Lives Your Story I propose that your mind does not just reside in the brain – in fact, it lives throughout your multi-dimensional self. So, it makes sense that if you learn to travel to different dimensions of your Self, and different places within your energetic nature, you can interact with your own being and tap into the built-in wisdom.
Each of my books offers readers both self-healing tools and tools for accessing guidance, including the guidance of the body, mind, and spirit and one’s own Councils. I use both explorations (called Play with It!) and guided visits to help readers navigate their inner and outer dimensions. And for Your Body Lives Your Story I also provide MP3 recordings and videos to help bring the practices alive.
What unique benefits do your energy-medicine videos and digital courses offer to people exploring healing independently?
First of all, my teaching and approach to energy medicine is rooted in everyday experiences and grounded concepts. I try to teach in ways that speak to people at all levels – beginners to seasoned healers – because I offer both tools and explanations that make sense to people’s everyday experiences. You don’t need to learn an abstract explanation of consciousness or know the complexities of a modality like Chinese Medicine to use the material I offer. Instead, like language, I help students build their own healing vocabulary, while exploring and getting to know their own instruments. It is a non-medical (energetic vs chemical) approach to healing, but the tools are robust and make a difference, mostly without requiring months of repetition and discipline. They each stand alone or can be studied in sequence for people who want to use the materials as a curriculum.
As your professional practice remains closed, what advice do you have for individuals using your published resources to deepen their own healing journey?
I recently turned 70 and my goal at this stage of my life is to codify my 41+ years of practice to make it accessible (and affordable!) to anyone who wants to deepen into better self-healing and better awareness of their own gifts and potentials. I wrote the books in a style which I hope makes them enjoyable to read and easy to follow. So, I would say: start by reading the books. Listening In: Dialogues with the Wiser Self (1992) is a channeled book; The Language Your Body Speaks (2020), Your Body Will Show You the Way (2022), and Your Body Lives Your Story (2025) all focus on energy medicine for self-healing and tools for awakening. Some are available in multiple languages.
I’ve also posted lots of free videos on my YouTube channel, @ellenmeredith.
The video courses in my download store offer a more in-depth training for practitioners who want to learn how to use energy-dialogue style healing with clients.
