Intuition Tip #10
Your clarity of mind, attitude, motivation, and productivity will increase simply by learning to prefer and choose whole-body and whole-brain perception. "Being in your head" too much — specifically in your left brain — is exhausting and contributes to inhumane solutions, mediocrity, intolerance, negativity, frustration, and emotional acting out. Establish a habit of opening and expanding your awareness as often as possible.

5. When someone is talking to you.

EXERCISE
When someone is talking to you, center yourself and drop into your body in the here-and-now and experience deep silence within. Bring shiny energy into your eyes. Focus on the other person as a soul, not just a personality, and grant them wisdom and respect. Let their ideas register on you, sink in. Consider everything openly. Let your own responses arise gently, with some space around them, from your core.

Penney's Schedule
• Daytona Beach, FL: Dec 18-31

• Lima, Peru: early Feb 09, Private women's conference.

• My new book releases in February 2009, so expect an intensive promotonal tour after that.

• Sun Valley, ID: Wellness Festival, Memorial Day weekend, May 2009, at Sun Valley Resort.

Special Fall Offer on Intuitive Coaching
Ironically this is a time of tight finances AND a time when we most need some help keeping our attitudes and energy up, staying in touch with our rapidly evolving inner blueprint, and clarifying our new vision and plan for attaining it. So, from now through the end of 2008, I'm offering a discount on half-hour private intuitive coaching sessions byphone. Instead of $90, they will now be $60, with tape $65. I look forward to working with you on any issues that concern you. You can reach me at 415/898-8925 or by email at pennpeirce@aol.com. Please book appointments by phone.

Special Fall Offer on Writing & Editing
For a few months while I'm home I'm taking on some freelance copywriting, editing, proofing, and document formatting jobs. Do you want help writing your bio or resume? Some copy for your website? A manual? Or, do you just need some feedback on a business card, brochure, or website design? Clean up a powerpoint presentation? I enjoy this kind of work, am fast, and bring clarity. Let me know if I can assist you in something of this nature.

Penney's Dream Dictionary Is an Excellent Resource
DREAM DICTIONARY FOR DUMMIES
5x7 format • $12.99 • Now available in Dutch and Bulgarian!
This book is unique as dream dictionaries go: each definition is written so you can interpret the dream symbol at the physical, emotional, and mental-spiritual levels. Understanding each symbol becomes a wonderful intuitive process. The book also has chapters that give tips on dream interpretation, and it's is highly useful. Cute and handy; perfect for your bedside or to take along when you travel! Order now from amazon.com. Also available as an e-book from Wiley&Sons.

Quotes from John Denver
from Take Me Home, Denver's autobiography
What's painful about the present is that, in the process of integrating it, all that is settled seems to come undone again. . . .I would like to get to where I'm living a smaller, simpler life, be clear about what's going on around me, and know when it's my emotions dictating my feelings, and not the tumult of the outside world. The questions is where does "outside" begin?

Now as I get to know myself better, and find the courage to be who I am and not some other, I approach everything in my life differently. If you're afraid of who you are, you continually deny the expression of your experience.

Faith is a kind of knowing, it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I'm sure. There is a god, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion. Life didn't just happen. Relationships don't just happen. We're not an accident in the midst of a lifeless universe.

When the world of the Pacific Rim gets to redefine itself on the basis of commonalities and interdependencies, I'm going to be there with them, mixing my American virtues, such as they are, into the common pot, and redefining myself in turn.

I'm not home yet, but I'm getting there.
(last line of autobiography)

Penney's Latest Article
Read Penney's Article on 2012: Forgetting What We Know to Know Anew, in Your Spiritual Revolution eMag.

Recent Radio Interview with Penney
Being a Visionary and Leading Edges in the Evolution of Awareness Interview with Bryan Flournoy on Making-It-All-Click radio.

PENNEY PEIRCE is a gifted intuitive empath and rare mentor/teacher who speaks and writes with clarity, cross-cultural understanding, and deep insight. She has worked for years on her own spiritual growth and understands the many variations possible in the human spiritual path. Penney synthesizes great amounts of detail, and can explain complex metaphysical, philosophical material in a personal, down-to-earth way. She is experienced in business, writing, speaking, and design.

WHAT'S REAL UNDERNEATH?
During the OJ trial I remember being stunned when I realized that there were 2 concurrent, interpenetrating realities held by 2 groups of people—and that these 2 views were actually creating parallel worlds. In one reality, it was blatantly obvious that OJ had committed vengeful atrocities out of an arrogant desire to obliterate someone who had rejected, hurt, and embarrassed him. In the other reality, he was the unfortunate victim of racist bias, and the shallow, rhyming "If it does not fit, you must acquit" was enough to rally a whole population of people. I was in the first camp, and surprisingly, my conservative father was in the other. No amount of talking could convince either of us of the validity of the other's point of view.

I remember wondering, since what-goes-around-comes-around much faster than it used to, just how long it would be before OJ tripped himself up and got what was coming to him, and why it could even be possible for this bizarre "escape" to occur. It was as though universal law had been suspended temporarily and it seemed so curious to me. When I heard that OJ had been found guilty on recent robbery and kidnapping charges, which came relatively quietly in the shadow of the 2008 election hoopla featuring Sarah Palin's cartoonlike antics, I was stopped in my tracks.

It hasn't escaped me that the election this year has turned into a situation similar to the OJ trial, where perspectives are so highly polarized that no one can hear the other side's point of view. Sarah Palin is parallelling Johnnie Cochran's past performance, using emotion and a particularly noticeable language style to further polarize, incite, and distract everyone. I had the thought that OJ's new verdict, which completed the cycle of his lack of accountability, his relative invisibility, and his sense of having been able to fool everyone, was like a pin that popped a bubble—and that bubble might also pertain to the bubble of "spin" and hypnosis that the McCain-Palin campaign, and the Bush administration, have tried to envelope us all in.

MY sense is that OJ's bubble-popping conviction may have opened many of us to the perception of what's been going on under the surface in our current reality. Perhaps it has subliminally helped us light on the idea that we've been programmed to think a certain way, or to not question certain realities, or be too overwhelmed and distracted to penetrate below the dramatic surface chaos, by the repetitious mantras and soundbytes foisted upon us by our rightwing-owned media.
So, let's all ask ourselves: What's REALLY real? What's really valuable in our leaders? And what are the subterranean motives and the superficial manipulation techniques of those who communicate to the masses? This requires nothing short of focused intuitive ability.

COOL STUFF
Netflix Recommendation:
Cracker: An older BBC series with Robbie Coltrane as a deeply flawed criminal psychologist who profiles and questions suspects in police investigations.

Read Penney's Intuition Blog.

Find a Present Moment Practice for Today: Part of the Daily Oracle section on www.penneypeirce.com (you can click on the link endless times and get different quotes. . .)