The Science of Intuition, Remote Healing & The Endocrine-Ego Centers | Laura Day

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I've known of Laura Day for years — she's one of those names that comes up in the rarefied world of people who know things before they happen, and whose clients include Demi Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow, and four multi-billion dollar companies she won't name. I'd seen her Instagram lives in pajamas, reading people's futures from her loft in TriBeCa, and thought I had a sense of what the conversation would be. I was wrong in the best way.

What Laura does is not what most people think of when they hear the word "psychic" — a word she has complicated feelings about, partly because it carries so much baggage, and partly because it makes the whole thing sound like a rare gift rather than a learnable skill. Her framing is mechanical. Intuition is a system. Your ego is a prism. The world is made of grids. You have a question, you find a data point, you intercede to change the result. She was trained in evidence-based research settings — you're either right or you're wrong, you document, you measure — and that rigor is visible in everything she says.

The Prism is her framework, built from the chakra system and the endocrine system: seven centers, each corresponding to a different life domain (wealth, worth, nourishment, value, connection, vision, transcendence) and a different physiological function. What's beautiful is the way she describes the interplay — she found out she had osteoporosis after 14 years of feeling emotionally ungrounded following her son leaving home, and she didn't experience that as ironic. She experienced it as confirmation. The body mirrors the world.

The story that stopped me most was the simple one. A best friend told her she was unfriendly at dinner parties — that she went straight to solving people's lives without saying hello first. She asked what friendly looked like. He told her: look around the room, notice people, make contact before going intrusive. She practiced it for one week. She booked four or five national shows. Not because her publicist got better. Because she changed one tiny thing, and the whole system reorganized.

She's also the sole survivor of a family where every other member suicided — her mother, her brother (Harvard, Stanford physics, UVA business), her sister. Her mother committed suicide two days after Laura's 14th birthday. She developed the Prism as the thing she wishes she'd had to give them. That's not a marketing line. That's a person who has been doing the hard work of living.

A few of my favorite things we cover in this episode: 

• Growing up the daughter of a manic depressive mother who had to be reminded to get dressed and an abusive narcissist father who was a Cornell physician — and not realizing other people couldn't have telepathic conversations until third grade
• Being passed around Stanford and other ESP research programs as a teenager — doing it under the condition of anonymity because she came from three generations of physicians and it was "too far"
• The distinction between "psychic" and "intuitive" — and why the word psychic is disempowering for people: "What's the purpose of seeing the future other than to scare yourself — unless you can use tools to change it?"
• Predicting the future for four multi-billion dollar companies as her day job — and why corporate work has more ethical safeguards than individual readings
• Intuition doesn't require stillness — it works in scattered, ADD states: "An ER nurse is intuitive. A Zen monk doesn't need it as much."
• The Prism: seven ego centers corresponding to the chakras and endocrine system — each one reflecting what's happening in both your body and your external world simultaneously
• The ego is formed by age seven and contextualized by everything after — but one tiny behavioral change, specifically the one you resist, shifts the entire system
• Pick the change that makes you say "yuck" — if it resonates with you, it resonates with the problem, not the solution
• The "pretend to be friendly" story: a best friend told her she was unfriendly at dinner parties. She practiced hello and eye contact for one week. She booked four or five national shows.
• The sole survivor of her family: her mother suicided two days after her 14th birthday, her brother (Harvard, Stanford, Virginia physics and business) suicided, her sister suicided — and how the Prism became the tool she wished she'd had to give them
• Her mother appearing in Italy to tell her to put on her seatbelt, minutes before a car crash that would have killed her
• How she found her husband: let two friends with long marriages choose men for her, followed their rules (three dates, one kiss), married a man who was "completely uninteresting" and had no trauma — and wakes up grateful for him every morning
• Marilyn Monroe was murdered — 100%

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