Granting You Three Wishes

Practical Intuition
by Laura Day

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Just Imagine, You Can Ask Anything . . .

I'd like you to imagine that you're about to be granted a special audience with an all-seeing individual. It's hard to believe, but this person can tell you anything you want to know about any person or event in the past, present, or even future.

Now, just like Aladdin's genie, this omniscient being has granted you a wonderful gift: the answers to any three questions of your choosing. Any three. What questions would you ask?

They wouldn't be trivial — you have been granted just three, after all. This would not be the appropriate time to focus on where you left your car keys or whether you should substitute chestnuts for walnuts in your mother's Thanksgiving recipe for turkey stuffing. You wouldn't want to waste this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

No, these questions would involve major life issues. Very likely they would concern your career or your relationships. Your questions might be about obstacles or opportunities you're likely to encounter in the coming months and how best to deal with them. Or perhaps there is a mystery from your past you'd like to solve once and for all.

Since you'll want to be able to use the information, you wouldn't ask about events decades from now. You'd ask about issues you could verify one way or another in the next six to twelve months, a few years at the outside. If you asked about the meaning of life, for example, you would not ever be able to verify whether the answer you were given was correct.

Exercise 2
So, What Would You Ask?

Right now, get a pen and a piece of paper and come up with three questions. They can be about personal or business matters. They can be about yourself, someone you know, or someone who hasn't even come into your life yet.

Three questions.

Don't be shy, really let loose. No one is going to see these questions but you. Don't think any of your questions are silly. "Will my breasts ever grow?" would have been my main question in the years between childhood and adolescence!

These need not be yes/no questions. They should be varied and not overlapping, though they don't have to be in any particular order.

Again, ask questions you really want answered.

Don't worry about whether you've phrased your questions perfectly. In the next chapter you will be editing them.

If you have trouble narrowing your wish list down to three, brainstorm with as many questions as you'd like. Once you've completed your longer list, use process of elimination to select the three questions you would most like answers to.

When you've finished writing them, label the list Exercise 2 and place it in your intuition notebook.

Here's My Promise

By the time you've finished this book, you will have detailed answers to your three questions. You don't need to do research, ask an expert, or call the Psychic Hot Line (a psychic 900 number).

How, you ask? Well, do you remember that person I mentioned whom you can consult, that remarkable individual with access to answers about any question?

I was talking about you.

As you will discover shortly, you are already intuitive. You access your "sixth sense" unconsciously all the time. You simply aren't aware of your intuition, or haven't learned to recognize it. Trust me: You have the ability — right now — to get useful information instantly on any topic at any time, whether intellectually you know anything about it or not.

This book will help you develop your conscious control over this amazing faculty. Through the exercises you will answer each question not just once but over and over, from different perspectives and in different time frames. Incidentally, there is nothing preventing you from answering other questions on your own as you hone your intuitive ability. The limit to three is simply so I can walk you through the exercises in an organized way. I know this program works because over the past decade I've helped thousands of people tap their intuition. By the end of this book, you'll be using your intuitive powers like never before.

Remember, I'm not going to answer your three questions. You are.

That means you'll have to complete the exercises conscientiously. Since they're all about the major questions in your life, I'm sure they'll have your complete attention. Besides, they're brief and fun, and they'll give you instant feedback on your progress.

If You Have Any Doubts

You may be skeptical that anyone, much less you, can answer these questions. I don't blame you. Many of my students begin as skeptics.

So I'm going to ask you to do something I ask of them. If you don't believe you can answer these questions, I'd like you to cultivate an attitude you may have forgotten since childhood. I'd like you to pretend.

Excerpted from Practical Intuition by Laura Day. Excerpted by permission of Broadway, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

About the Author

Laura Day has been teaching her private seminar, "Practical Intuition," all over the world for the past ten years. Her students include doctors, journalists, CEO's, financial analysts, and celebrities. She lives in New York City with her son, Samson.