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List Price: $20.00 | | Publisher: Villard Books/Random House
Salesrank: 1022954
Released: September 9, 1996 |
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Editorial Review:
Laura Day has tutored Deepak Chopra, George Soros, Demi Moore, and hundreds of others to make use of their own intuitive powers. It's a power we all have, a power that anyone can use--some call it "gut instinct," others the "sixth sense."
With Practical Intuition, Laura Day teaches you how to harness this remarkable hidden ability. Through exercises, first-person accounts, and real-life examples, she shows you how to make intuitive decisions about everything from stock-market picks to your love life--consciously and to your benefit.
Backed by the support of her world-famous clients, students, and admirers, Practical Intuition is sure to become one of the biggest self-help debuts in recent history.
Description of Practical Intuition: How to Harness the Power of Your Instinct and Make It Work for You:
Laura Day, who has been "intuitive"--her word for "psychic"--since youth, here asserts that you, too, can milk your sixth sense for all it's worth. While Day's gift comes naturally to her, she contends that anyone can improve his or her natural intuitive instincts. While you may not win the lottery on your next try, this book may very well help you think more deeply and more clearly, helping you to function at a higher level than before. (Finding your car keys, for example, may not be a half-hour long process anymore.) Your attitude will undoubtedly have a great effect on your degree of success with her program. (If this helps at all, try to remember that Brad Pitt is a devout Day supporter, and James D. Watson, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the DNA helix, has endorsed Day's intuitions.) At any rate, the book is filled with plenty of brain-stretching exercises, and who can't use some of those?
Practical Intuition: How to Harness the Power of Your Instinct and Make It Work for You Reviews:
Rather chewy and difficult to swallow! 
2009-06-28 - I have read all the major books in this genre, and this is really the last of the bunch I had bought to read. Thankfully I left this until almost last, otherwise I may have been put off dipping my toes in this particular pool of thought and practice.
There's nothing especially dreadful about this book, and as other reviewers have said, I wanted to like this book, I really did. That established, it has to be said that this book is DULL, very, very dull. and for the most part not an engaging or enthralling type of read at all. I compare it Hicks', Losier, Klauser et al. and they are altogether much better reads. Much more engaging, much more meat on the bone and ultimately more satisfying and more rewarding.
The whole layout and feel of this book is not quite there, it's not quite professional and doesn't quite hit the mark. I found it cumbersome, and the exercises dull and lethargic. Whereas with other books in this genre I found I couldn't put the book down, here i found I couldn't pick the book up! And here I must confess that after about two years of owning it, I haven't finished it entirely and it's got put in a drawer to make room for newer stuff on my shelves. Surely any book worth its cover price would never be subjected to such indignant treatment, but alas here, it must succumb.
I know this may be irrelevant, but a couple of things I didn't like included the (copyrighted) foreword by Demi Moore (that alone speaks volumes) and also the grimacing photo of Day on the cover. She is actually a beautiful woman, so why on earth she chose the scowling middle-aged Manhattan frump-ike photo for the cover is beyond me! - I am missing something here? Anyway, with her grimacing at me ever time I laid the book on my desk, I felt loathed to pick it up!
The cynic amongst you might deride and say with an all-knowing tone in your voice, that I have missed the point, that it is I who have missed the opportunity presented here, in the words of Macaulay Culkin., "I don't think so!" All-in-all, if you are into this genre, I suggest you dig a little harder and check out some of the longer selling and altogether more enjoyable reads.
FANTASTIC! 
2008-10-12 - As a natural born Intuitive Psychic this book was recommended to me by one of my best friends. This book has helped me trememdously in my private practice as a Professional Intuitive Psychic Medium. Laura's exercises are so easy to follow along with and so enjoyable to do. Even if you are not aware of your abilities, this is a must have book to help you deal with everyday events.
Amazing, practical book
2008-09-29 - This book is useful, both in its outcomes and in the way it can be used.
I purchased this book after I read it at the library. I had completed all the exercises in the book and wanted to do it all over again with an entirely new set of questions!
Laura Day has a way of getting you out of your head, and into your gut, so that the information coming through can only be intuitive. Though some of my personal answers were a bit fuzzy, I can only imagine this is because I have not seen the answers come to fruition yet. Other answers were clear.
Her book is exactly what she says it is - no disappointments whatsoever!
Phenomenal results!
2008-09-09 - I read this book several yrs ago. I also purchased a small journal to write down notes after performing the exercises recommended. Although at the time I couldn't understand the meaning of the images and thoughts I "intuited" and wrote down, several years later I am amazed at the accuracy of my "predictions". I asked myself specific questions and then meditated following Laura's suggestions. As I got an impression,a thought, or an image, no matter how absurd and non-sensical it appeared, I wrote it down: dates, names, feelings, and events, even numbers. All of these came into the realm of existence in the future, without me being aware of it at the time they occured. Like a puzzle, all the pieces that made no sense by themselves, fit perfectly. I get chills just thinking I actually saw these events, people, situations, take place years ahead of time. Even the feelings I experienced I was able to predict in frightening detail. I wasn't aware of the parallel between these events and the predictions in my journal until recently, when I one day revisited my writings. Was it coincidence? Do we make our own destiny? Could it be that some of us really have special "gifts" that can be enhanced with the right training?
I love this book. It may not work for everyone. Not all of us were meant to be doctors or astronauts or athletes or accountants. Or psychics.
Not a How To 
2008-08-20 - This is not a how to book, for that I'd recommed other books such as How To Do Psychic Readings Through Touch, Psychic Protection: Beginnings (Beginnings (Jackson, Tenn.).), Psychic Power: Young Person's School of Magic and Mystery (Young Person's School of Magic and Mystery, Vol. 2) and others.
This book is more for the beginners beginner and just knowing/understanding what intuition is.
