Page 50 - Your Leader Within Introduction

Force begets equal and opposite force, and will power over natural urges will win for only a brief period of time. Natural urges will always come back.
In this sense, the intuitive life is not easy. When you ask and get an answer, it would be easy to ignore it and do something else, but that is not the intuitive life. I find that when I follow the intended direction, it has served me well in nearly every aspect of my life.
I am writing this now when my ego actually wanted to stop writing and watch TV – escape. Orion suggested I not do that, at least for now.
As part of the research for this book, I studied the effects of sleep on intuition. I had a device that measured sleep during the night and provides a report each morning.
I found that REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is the most beneficial. It provides dream information in answer to the pressing question asked the night before.
In order to reach the level of REM sleep, I found I had to be more consistent about going to bed and reading rather than watching television just prior to falling asleep.
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