Good Housekeeping
August 2002

"5 ways to develop your sixth sense"
by Shira Boss

(excerpt)

Sleep on it. Your mind is always active, even when you're snoozing, points out Lynn Robinson, who runs Intuitive Consulting in Newton, Massachusetts. To harness your dreams for their possible insight into your life, she recommends this nighttime ritual: Ask yourself a yes-no question about a dilemma in your life right before you drift off. "The moment you wake up," Robinson says, "see if you've had a dream about it, or if you suddenly have a clear answer." ...

...Think in images. Robinson tells the story of a man she advised who was considering two job offers. "He realized that when he thought about one of the companies, he kept picturing an X through it, even though it seemed like the more logical option for him." He turned the job down—and several months later the company went bankrupt...

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