Practical Intuition: How to Harness the Power of Your Instinct and Make It Work for You Paperback – September 29, 1997

This was a really enjoyable and useful book. Highly recommend.

Fun to read. It helps unlock more of what you know, but may not know that you know. The word "REAL" comes to mind. Real is about light, shedding light. What would you realize if you were to shine a light on some important question the way this experienced teacher does? You could have health improvements, wealth improvements, or love life improvements. I have had improvements in health that are fantastic, it surprised the doctors! These exercises helped me know the best path for healing. This would be fun to do with a friend or group. Laura does have Instagram sessions Live, and they are really great for playing with these exercises.UPDATE: I get practical life help on @Lauradayintuit morning Lives on Instagram. If you have ever "prayed" get ready to uplevel and see your reality become that and more! We get practice on her Lives that is invaluable. Plus we practice "readings", and so many other exercises. She is such a dear person! The Livestreams happen when she is up and awake, times vary so I signed up for notifications.

I've had this book for about 10 years. I was elated to purchase the recent Kindle edition, because I re-read this book regularly. Although I am naturally very intuitive, this book helped in the past, and still does, to refresh and strengthen my intuitive skills.I LIKE# Having read the hard copy version and the digital version with nearly a decade of difference, I can honestly say that this book is as relevant today (2021) than it was published first in 1997.# The book is very practical, has no pretense or mambo-jumbo and includes examples of students' responses to the exercises we do. The book is written in a very approachable way, as if you were in one of Day's workshops.# Day debunks what intuition and psychic abilities are. This being the case, the book will appeal to people who are way far from the occult and esoteric bunch that you usually associate with this sort of subjects with. In fact, Day has taught how to use intuition to businesses, medical practices, film productions, therapy and healing groups, venture capital groups, and families.# Day's intuitive lessons are the best I've found anywhere. I've read many books on intuition, each one with their own tools, techniques and valid ways of tapping into our sixth sense. Yet, Day's books are the only ones that I regularly re-read or consult.# Most of the exercises are wonderful and enlightening. Some of them really wow. I especially loved exercise no. 26: The Circle Technique.# Some of Day's digressions in chapter 30 re about intuition, oneness, interconnection and social ecology, space and time, predestination, spirituality and so on are still relevant 30 years after the book was written.# The double-blind reading experiment described in chapter 31.# Herewith some of my fav pearls of wisdom:-- "If you want an outcome and your intuition says no, ask why."-- "Make it a rule never to mimic a trained and licensed professional in a given field."-- "Intuition should add to good judgement, not replace it."-- "Intuitive information is always objectively valid, and it is always right. It’s in the interpretation of intuitive data that errors are introduced."-- "Reality is nothing more than a consensus."-- "Intuition teaches us that things are separated neither in space nor in time. There is no past or present or future."DOWNSIDES>> The book has a chatty anecdotal conversational tone that might not be for everyone.>> Although I value the way that Dy compares how dreams and intuition are similar and different, as a dreamworker I don't personally agree with some of her statements she mades about dreams.>> The wording of some of the exercises is not clear enough. Exercise 22 and the chapter on intuitive polarities it relates to are especially confusing to me.>> Day says that the more random an intuitive technique is, the more likely it is to work. She also states "The key difference between intuition and these other divining techniques is that with intuition you’re not using external cues to help you – or to lead you astray." For that reason she says that, for example, tarot readings aren't as good, as, say, the I Ching. I Tarot/oracle cards are chosen randomly (flip out or random selection) to start with. Also, oracle/tarot decks have different imagery and depictions of similar archetypes, sometimes to the point that the same card on a different deck provides you with different intuitive elements. You can mix and match several decks to get an intuitive reading made of a mix of cards coming from them. If everything is related, as Day says, and everything is meaningful for an intuitive reading, a card is as valid as anything else.>> The exercise between number 24 and 25 was never numbered.>> Chapters 27 and 28 bear the same title, but the former is devoted to carer and finances and the other to general personal matters. Why not titling each chapter accordingly?RECOMMENDATIONI would advise to complement this book with the Intuition in Love, Intuition for Success and How to Rule the World from your Couch, because they are the best intuition tools out there.KINDLE EDITIONOverall, this is a good Kindle edition, with pagination markers instead of location markers, something that I always prefer. On the other hand, I noticed some minor editorial mistakes: -- "the progression of a season . if you don’t receive such clues" in p. 128.-- "Intuitive information is o rich and complex", p. 162.-- The pair high/low is listed twice in exercise 21.-- "anything, tell them to pretened", p. 184.

This was the first book by Laura that I purchased. I have since gone on to purchase some of her other books and to participate in her Boot Camp. I have also bought this book for my daughter.This book is a great place to start working with Laura's techniques for developing your intuition. The exercises are insightful and useful - I go back to this book and redo the exercises periodically to continue to develop my skills.However this book has brought me so much more than a way to practice my intuitive skills. It has brought me to Laura herself and the incredible community (called The Circle") that she has brought together. Laura gives so much to this community each day on her IG lives and through the various workshops she leads. Through this community and working with Laura's methods I have learned to trust my intuition more than I ever believed possible. She focuses us on evidence - what evidence do we have that our intuition is guiding us - so we can trust when we get information that it is indeed guiding us.I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to start their journey in developing their intuitive skills. I also recommend joining the IG lives each day. You will be glad you did!

Just purchased another hard copy of this book as a gift for a friend. If you have any interest in digging deep into yourself, your life, what you could do, what you want to do, etc. please buy this book as a gift for yourself. Yes, you will learn that tapping into your intuition will take a bit of discipline and focus. But the rewards will be extraordinary and on a very practical basis.You will learn to separate the illusion of separateness between yourself and others. We actually are all interconnected.If you’re feeling scattered, lost, confused, wondering what direction your life will or should take, read this book please. It will be like opening up a door to a room that you didn’t know existed in your house, and that room is full of wonderful surprises!