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Practical Intuition in Love: Let Your Intuition Guide You to the Love of Your Life

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I consider myself a very intuitive person and I thought I would find this book helpful. However I was unable to follow through. This is an example of one of the exercises: Write down a list of all the positive qualities you think you possess, do not be humble or modest. Send the list with a stamped, addressed envelope to 20 people and invite them to comment "true", "very true", "extremely true" - these are their only choices. Do this once a year. If you are the type of person that enjoys doing these kinds of exercises, then you might get something useful out of this book. I don't argue that the results of the exercise would be useful if only you could bring yourself, and others, to do it. If I could think of 20 people who would still be talking to me after I sent them such a list, I could only anticipate that most of them would add ridiculously funny comments. Mostly I think this list would make my friends squirm at the thought of my own narcissm. The book is centered around self-help exercises, many of which suggest using a friend to help. Some are useful, and some results were surprising, helpful to me. But I can't help thinking I have missed the "big aha" because I would simply not follow through on doing some of the exercises. It also gets rather tedious reading through hundreds of other people's results in doing the exercises. I would rather have something I could work through alone, in the privacy of my own home and my own emotional state of mind!

This book is much more intensive than Laura Day's initial Practical Inution was. The exercises are sometimes tedious, but very helpful. In fact, after doing only a few of them, I found such surprising results that I refused to believe that it was the exercises, but rather luck. Not so. If you are interested in changing the direction of your love life, and realtionships in your life, this book in invaluable.

When I first picked up this book I had the following flash: A man in an Italian neighborhood, the date July 17, and the image of two childhood loves down the street from one another who eventually separate because the girl's dreams were too big to stay. This was in 2001. In 2004 I reunited with an old neighbor of mine whom I loved as a teenager almost 13 years earlier. He was Italian. He now lived in an ethnic neighborhood. We got together. I landed a dream job in New York City that required me to eventually relocate to California. We separated. July 17 was his wedding date to his former spouse. Two years later, I was 3000 miles away and then was called back East for a few months on a contract. The contract was in the same building that he now worked for. Prediction after prediction came true. We kept meeting up over and over again. My right brain saw it from the get go with my first notes from this book.

I don't know if this was a sample of one potential who could have been the love of my life ... but it certainly was odd how much my subconcious was programmed towards these events. Practical Intuition in Love's excercises revealed some kind of data because the coincidences were startling. These impressions were gained when I was in an emotionally neutral state which is the best for accurate intuitive impressions. There was something to Day's excercises because time, space, distance, have never erased nor cooled my feelings for him. I still love this person nearly two years (at the time of this writing) after my career took me elsewhere. My advice at this time looking back ... get your ego out of the way... if you want true love to stay.

Another good book is: When God Winks on Love

Practical Intuition in Love: Start a Journey Through Pleasure to the Love of Your Life

This will be brief.
Although I like Laura Day's other works,
I found "Practical Intuition in Love" to be very vague, even though I have read it several times. Perhaps it just didn't communicate with me specifically.

A book I prefer, which is similar, is the out-of-print but WONDERFUL "Finding Each Other" by Mary Olsen-Kelly and Don Kelly. You can get it on the internet very inexpensively. Go look for it!

I love all of Laura Days books and I have read them all. I find them all to be helpful and I really enjoyed this book. I highly recommend it. Weather you are single and looking or in a relationship with someone even if you are happy in your relationship I would recommend this book. I found it really useful. The only thing is that in some exercises she tells you to take a few days to work on so if you are busy it might not be so great for you but otherwise I found it an easy read and I really enjoy the exercises in the book. Also even if you are a man I recommend this book it's for males and females so dont shy away from it and she gives so many examples in the book from both females and males. I've just started to read the one by kathy freston.

I liked her first book "practical intuition", but this one was a reach. I have had a hard time finishing it, not sure I will make it. Some of the exercises were vague so frustrating...

This book is very good in helping you understand yourself better. Great book if you are in a relationship or not...Enlightning..She has many exercises which will help you tremendously.

i heard that demi moore and courtney cox are both super lauraday fans so i figured, hey, why not read this book and find out why...well. to be honest, it's kinda schoolish. she gives you all these little exercises to do. it felt a bit homeworky. i was a rebel and sorta just flipped around the chapters to the parts that looked like the most fun- like the magazine-ish discovery quiz things- you know, "you're walking in the woods, you come to a house, there's a key..."

all in all, the exercises are mostly lots of fun and helpful... and isn't FUN helpful stuff the best type of helpful stuff? i would definitely encourage anyone to get the paperback version. it's great vacationy or just-before-bedtime reading.