You Already Know What to Do: 10 Invitations to the Intuitive Life [Hardcover]

Sharon Franquemont (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 3, 1999

We experience intuition as an instinctive action, a flash of inspiration, a moment when we feel one with the world. Intuition tells us what to do: how to make that difficult decision or achieve a creative breakthrough-and one has been teaching or writing about the subject longer than Sharon Franquemont.

Drawing upon twenty-eight years' experience teaching intuition in college courses, seminars, and private training, through challenging exercises and illuminating narrative, Franquemont explores this great natural resource on a life-changing level. Her perspective is unique. Intuition not a quick-fix tool to reach superficial goals, she believes, but rather a way of being: a means by which to harvest a more passionate and powerful existence. In addition to the traditional topics of creativity, decision making, and problem solving, You Already Know What To Do includes information on (1) the role of intuition in discovering purpose, (2) intuition and the Soul Mate process, (3) collaborative intuition in work teams and families, (4) mastery of intuitive time and space, and (5) how to tap your passion, power, and purpose on Earth. To date no one but Franquemont shows how intuition can improve collaboration in business and group settings, or teaches couples how to use intuition to deepen relationships.

Best selling books like Laura Day's Practical Intuition have barely begun to tap the power of intuition. You Aleady Knows What To Do reminds each of us that we are born with InQ, intuitive intelligence, as well as IQ and that we have only to tap into our innate InQ abilities to reap the rewards of a more connected and effortless life.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Sharon Franquemont-a former professor at John F. Kennedy University and an intuition coach and consultant in the fields of business, education, and psychotherapy-has been teaching people how to access their spontaneous inner wisdom for nearly 30 years. She is one of the intuition movement's pioneers and elders, and her book rings with the depth and resonance that only long and intensive experience with the subject can provide.

"Twenty-eight years of working with intuition have taught me that intuition thrives best as a way of life rather than just a tool one picks up and puts down," writes Franquemont. "Intuition's value extends far beyond simple problem-solving or decision-making, or creative breakthroughs. Intuition serves our deepest purpose and places us in harmony with what the universe and our soul intend."

Neophytes could hardly hope to find a more knowledgeable and articulate guide to intuition than Franquemont. And readers already steeped in the literature will find a banquet of new insights and techniques in this truly inviting book. -- Intuition Magazine, April 1999

From the Author

You Already Know What To Do is designed to help you enhance your InQ-your intuitive intelligence. It is a full-spectrum book on intuition covering everything from personal development, e.g. the acquisition of inner silence, development of more joy, and the creation of intuitive time-space mastery, to deeper topics such as the purpose of your life, the soul mate process, collaborative intuition in groups, and your capacity to tap into a Big Picture view of your life. In addition, it has explanatory graphics and pictures, the text is filled with entertaining and informative stories, and every chapter contains challenging exercises which guide your step-by-step acquisition of a more intuitive life. I am very pleased that my copy editor, Tim Meyer, paid close attention to the placement of inspirational quotes which augment or underscore the topic on almost every page. I have so much confidence in my book that I know some chapters all by themselves are worth the $24.95 for a lifetime, hard cover book to serve your personal evolution and enjoyment. For example, I believe the chapters, "Set Time Free" and "Shift Space", make a significant contribution to conversations about and preparations for precognitions, out-of-body experiences, mystical Oneness, and other non-liner, non-local experiences of time-space. The accompanying exercises also challenge you to live in the world differently making it possible to slow time down, co-create with your future, and be more alive in the present. I am also pleased with the Soul Mate Promise which appears in the Chapter entitled, "Mate with Soul." The exercises in this chapter offer all of us pathways for deeper intimacy as we create soul-to-soul connections in a variety of settings. The chapters on business and life on Earth also contain insights about intuition that you will not find any where else in the literature.

I am dedicated to my field, have been helping adults access their intuition for almost 30 years, and can modestly state that my book is unique; one which you will never regret buying. Put simply it offers the best of what I have learned about the development of inner wisdom during my long career with the subject.

It is fitting that the book itself is beautiful because You Already Know What To Do touches the beauty and power of your inner being. Working together these two illuminate yourself, your life, and others as you claim your natural inheritance-your intuitive soul.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Hardcover: 355 pages
• Publisher: Tarcher; REPRINT Edition edition (May 3, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874779464
• ISBN-13: 978-0874779462
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #358,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A truly useful and engaging SELF help book!, July 4, 1999

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This review is from: You Already Know What to Do: 10 Invitations to the Intuitive Life (Hardcover)

This book is much more than a series of eloquently phrased anecdotes or philosophies. It goes beyond other books in that it provides specific exercises (or invitations) that help the reader recognize and connect with the intuition they already possess. I have been working with it for several weeks now, and I smile (and sometimes cry) at the surprising, almost poetic results. The "Image Vocabulary" that Ms. Franquemont has you build for yourself may seem like sport at first, but you'll be startled by the almost magical messages your intuition can bring you with these images. I'm a very pragmatic, logical person who approached this book with a sincere desire to know and a fear of being conned: Yet, I've learned and experienced so much from within myself as a result, that I'm happy to give "You Already Know What To Do" a big thumbs up! My thanks to all who made this book possible.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good content but poorly edited and hard on the eyes., September 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: You Already Know What to Do: 10 Invitations to the Intuitive Life (Hardcover)

This is a thoughtful book with lots of useful information on intuition. The problem is that the print is so tiny, and I, being over 50 y.o., get eye strain trying to read it without a magnifying lens. There are also many typos, misspellings, misplaced commas, incomplete sentences, wrong grammar, etc., that it reads more like an unedited first draft than a finished product. The material is worthwhile but I wish it could be presented in a less physically painful format. Clearly, the publisher did not "already know what to do" with this text. If it were more readable, I would have given it 4 or 5 stars.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gave me the confidence to hone and follow my instincts., September 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: You Already Know What to Do: 10 Invitations to the Intuitive Life (Hardcover)

A textbook of techniques to follow for those who recognize their own intuitive qualities and wish to heighten them or for those who question the existence of intuition in others and themselves. Examples abound of those who have followed the directions of their souls after having become accomplished following Ms. Franquemonts course. One recognizes why we respond in different ways to the world around us and the centers within ourselves, how our brain dominance impacts on our choices and decisionmaking and problem solving. Intuition is described as a tool which we have failed to utilize. Having acquired the skills to do so we can redirect our lives towards their real and genuine purpose with the resulting joy we deserve.