Intuitive Reading... Acting on my belief that the best answers come to me as I am ready for them

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Posted by Sam Forsberg on September 1, 2007 6:45 AM PDT
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Are you someone who only ever has 1 book on the go? Do you sometimes struggle with the choice of which book to start next, feeling that you are excluding other possibilities, & wanting to be able to absorb every book in your 'To Read' list at once?

What if you allowed yourself to pick 1 up & read a little.
What if you listened to your intuition, & put it down before you had read til the end?
What if you had a sense that another book was calling to you at that moment?

Try reading as little or as much of a book as you feel is right for that moment, & allowing yourself to experiment by picking up another in the meantime. Or maybe even 2!

I have always loved reading, devouring books (inhaling rather than savouring them; never starting another until I'd finished the previous; always racing to the end in excitement or escapism & anticipation of the next great read!

Yet this felt limiting, & I could almost have read another in the time it took me to choose my next read. So, I took a leap of faith. 1 book on the go became 2, 2 became 5; & I now currently have 10 books I'm progressing intuitively through.

It's so liberating! Not only do I find indescribable synergy in the extracts I am inspired to read, but each contributes to my enhanced understanding of the next (& where I am; each is a new step in the best direction.

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I love this idea -- thank you and thank you for validating what I thought was my own quirkiness in reading multiple books at a time. Like you, I love to pick up a book, have a bit of a read, put it down and then pick up another. It is not uncommon to find a few books by my bed and a few in my car (which I read while I am waiting for my son to get out of school). Most of the books that have on the go are connected in some way so I have found that I gain a well-roundedness of the topic at hand. Plus, I never get bored.

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Pam - that's great!
And I'm sitting here giggling from your comment about books by the bed, and in your car etc... I keep finding them on my desk, by my bed, on the lounge, and just about taking over the breakfast bar area of my kitchen! Each time I try to consolidate or bring them all together, it doesn't take long before another one finds that space again.

Sam Forsberg
Writer & Lifecoach
www.seraphima.com

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