chapter one
Five-Minute Exercise to Expand the Senses Psychic and intuitive faculties are muscles. They become stronger with exercise. Set the timer on your phone for five minutes. Begin with your sense of sight. Spend five minutes focusing on seeing. Look at what is before you. Observe the light, color, and texture. Once you’ve taken in what is before you, look through the wall, hill, or trees. What can you see in your mind’s eye that exists beyond? Do this for seven days. Move to your sense of sound. Spend five minutes a day listening to the sounds around you. Identify and pull apart every sound you hear, from wind-blown chimes to the tapping of rain at the window. Listen to the voices in your house. Can you hear the breathiness between words, the silence between the sounds of nature? Listen for sounds beyond your normal perception. Can you hear the murmur of your neighbors, the sounds inside the car driving by, the sound of the deep forest outside your window? How deeply can you listen? Do this for seven days. Move to your sense of smell. Spend five minutes focusing on your olfactory senses. Can you detect the scent of cleaning products in the living room, a hint of moisturizer on your skin? Do you sense the lingering whiffs of last night’s dinner or the dampness of morning grass? Move further. Can you smell the produce inside your refrigerator or the scent of the pond visible in the distance? Can you smell gas fumes on the road or your neighbor’s roasting chicken and cherry pie? Focus on your sense of smell. Do this for seven days.
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