Sophia Bush attends Book Party of author Laura

I had a gut feeling that the book party for bestselling author Laura Day at ONE Sunset, an elegant new Hollywood hotspot on the Strip, would be a big deal, and I was right to follow my intuition; after, all Day’s books – the intuition-themed tomes The Circle and Welcome to Your Crisis – are all about following your own inner voice, right?

Sure enough, the soiree, thrown by super-agent Kevin Huvane and film producer Ryan Kavanagh, was star-studded indeed. The first famous face to arrive was no less than Jennifer Aniston, who’s been Friends with Laura for about 15 years and has embraced the wisdom of her own intuition.

“I think that the simplest thing is just to listen to yourself,” Jennifer said. “We always have an inner voice, whether it’s in a work situation or a family situation, or any kind of dilemma or whatever, and we don’t always listen to our instincts…It’s just a rule to try and live your life by. Laura’s just a nice woman and it’s good to have mentor’s in our lives that we can gain advice from.”

And Jennifer wasn’t the only A-lister who turned out for some mentoring over cocktails: Demi Moore whisked in with hubby Ashton Kutcher and daughter Rumer Willis at her side and mixed and mingled with a power crowd that included Heroes’ Milo Ventimiglia, actress Jordana Brewster, Bradley Cooper and screenwriter, novelist and uberwife Gigi Levangie Grazer (Stepmom, Starter Wife).

Author Day wasn’t surprised that her philosophies appealed to Hollywood’s top-shelf scene. “I think that all successful people are successful because they use their intuition,” she told me. “Successful people tend to really get what intuition is because they use it all the time. They make decisions that go against reason. However, they’re wildly successful. Time after time after time when you do that you know that that against reason, when it goes right, is your intuition.”

Sophia Bush was one of the Young Hollywood types who was looking to get more in touch with her inner counsel (while others like Ashton, who dutifully sat next to super-social Demi absently fiddling with his PDA, seemed to feel they might have followed their intuition to a more off-the-hook bash).

“I am one of those people who believes that your gut instinct comes from somewhere,” Sophia told me. “You get that feeling in the pit of your stomach it’s for a reason and we would probably all benefit if we trusted our guts a little more. I know that there are moments where I wish I had trusted my gut in the past where I didn’t, and there are moments where I’ve had a feeling about something and gone for it and it’s worked out wonderfully.”

Laura confirmed that Sophia’s instincts were, as you might expect, on the money. “The number one tip is listen to your voice,” she advised. “Write down the things that you think will happen. So get them out of the messy mind onto the piece of paper and then when they come true make a mark in the journal, because what you teach yourself is that you know.”

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