How to Rule the World from Your Couch

You need to imagine that you are not connected to the person in any way. Consider him a stranger, someone new to discover. Before we move to the next step, you need to reassure yourself of your ability to create change in the relationship. Some of what you intuitively pick up (in fact, probably most of it) will stir a reaction in you. You want to s

Now you’re on your own. Practice mediumship in a more alert state. Remember to document all of the information you receive. Pick something or someone that you really want to know about so that you engage your inner motivator, curiosity. You know the drill: • Pick your target. • Assume that you are your target. • Nothing in your experience is about

The next time someone tells you a story about a place they have visited, notice the pictures, sounds, and other sense impressions you get of the place as they tell you the story. Be aware of your changing body sensations—changes in temperature, scent, sound, feeling, and even what you taste in your mouth. If you carry a little notepad like I do, yo

5. Take a breath and expand that center outward, beyond your skin, outward to all that you can perceive around you. What do your senses notice? What do you perceive, know, see, feel, hear, remember, taste, and smell? Where does your attention focus? 6. Take a breath and expand that center outward as far as it wishes to go. What do your senses notice?

Intuition begins with a question. An intuitive reading is about asking yourself very specific questions. This is essentially the starting point—and precisely what I meant earlier regarding our ability to direct our energy and attention.

The intricacies of the ritual are not important. Its meaning to you holds its real power.

The more you can narrow each effort down to one goal at a time, the less confusion and scattering of purpose you will have.

One of the ways to protect yourself from the unreliability of precognition is to try to lead a life where precognition is a daily practice and try, with as much discipline as possible, to write your future down. In doing so, you will have data available when the events you predict do or do not occur, to indicate to yourself that you are on track or

intuition works on your past to create a happier, better-functioning present, poising you for a more peaceful future—all of your separate parts working together to the benefit of the whole. What exactly is this “whole”? The whole is comprised of your inner life and abilities; your outer life and achievements; your interpersonal life, past, present,