I picked a friend up from the airport several months ago. She’d recently seen author Laura Day interviewed on a morning show. She couldn’t remember the name of her book exactly, but she kept looking in the airport bookstores and was disappointed she couldn’t find it. This intrigued me enough to later track down the book at the library. I actually had to be put on a waiting list for this one. I suspect it’s the type of book with a title that really makes you want to believe, yet maybe not believe enough to want to part with $24. Anyhow, I did get it and read it. The whole premise is that any one of us can master our intuitive and psychic powers enough to get exactly what we want. Day has been around a while touting similar ideas. In fact, her Practical Intuition was a NYT best seller. (An aside: She has a lot of celeb friends, too. Cover endorsements from Demi Moore and Brad Pitt kind of made sense but I was a little surprised –and further intrigued — that Chris Rock also blurbed her book.)

Many of you may think all of this stuff is a bunch of nonsense. I don’t. As a health writer (a big part of what I do when not posting here), I put a lot of stock in researchers and JAMA studies and such. However, I also leave room for that which we can’t quantify,  can’t necessarily prove with with double-blind studies. There’s something to the whole idea that we know — or can know– more than we think we know. However intriguing I found Day’s ideas, however, I found the exercises she provided for readers a bit vague and hard to follow. Or, rather, hard to get results. Then again, as Day notes in the book it takes time to cultivate these skills. Perhaps I just need to practice my psychic abilities a lot more. When my husband found me reading this on, yes, our couch, he teased me a bit. I could tell he was interested, though. Guess what he got for Valentine’s Day? I’ll let you know if either of us begin ruling the world anytime soon.