| Imagine, as a professional poker player, | | | | Let's first look at where our emotions come |
| developing the ability to receive strong and | | | | from. Emotions are the results or |
| accurate impressions of the cards about to be | | | | aftereffects of our conclusions. Fear, for |
| dealt or those in another player's hand. | | | | example, is often expressed as the result of |
| Would they consider you lucky? Absolutely! | | | | a subconscious conclusion about our ability |
| | | | to perform. It manifests as a shudder of |
| But in truth, you would be using the awesome | | | | doubt that causes you to hesitate and |
| science behind what others call luck. Back in | | | | question your actions. Let's say you're |
| 1981, the 97th U.S. Congress made a | | | | having a series of bad hands. You might |
| commitment to research these abilities that | | | | conclude this isn't your night. Actually, |
| are generally attacked by quack busters. The | | | | you'll be correct, since that conclusion will |
| government began a multi-million-dollar | | | | filter down deep into your subconscious. |
| program at Stanford Research Institute (now | | | | Next, your subconscious mind will cause these |
| SRI International) in Menlo Park, CA. They | | | | ripples of doubt to influence your nervous |
| began to study the human perceptual ability | | | | system, which will be expressed in the |
| known as remote viewing. | | | | detectable nuances of your body language. |
| | | | Your opponent, seeing that, bluffs and you |
| What's really exciting is that people who | | | | fold. Seeing his cards, you just scratch your |
| play poker already have the untapped | | | | head, wondering why you did such a stupid |
| potential to easily heighten their perceptual | | | | thing. |
| abilities not only that, but, I believe, | | | | |
| influence the way the cards fall. Now, before | | | | Once you have a relaxed sense of confidence, |
| you discount me as a crackpot, consider this | | | | your intentions can take center stage. This |
| scientific study by Princeton University. It | | | | is the art of winning. How confident would |
| was called the PEAR project at Princeton | | | | you be at the card table knowing that you're |
| Engineering Anomalies Research. They | | | | aware of the cards that have already been |
| developed a random events generator that | | | | played? The way you do this is to become so |
| measured very-low-frequency energies | | | | intimate with a deck of cards that not only |
| transmitted by human intention. The unit had | | | | do you remember how they fall, but you sense |
| 9000 small balls that cascaded over 330 pegs | | | | what card it is before it's shown face up. |
| into 19 collection bins. You would naturally | | | | Let them be so intimate that they simply |
| conclude that all the balls would always fall | | | | become extensions of your fingers. |
| the same way over the same pegs into the same | | | | |
| collection bins. Not so! The study confirmed | | | | Briefly, science has discovered a magnetic |
| that subjects could influence the direction | | | | compound in the pineal glands of humans and |
| the balls fell by their focused intention. | | | | animals. It is this magnetite, a magnetic |
| Which do you think might be more difficult: | | | | chemical, that allows migratory animals, |
| to influence the fall of 9000 balls or the | | | | birds, and fish to find their way to |
| fall of a few cards? | | | | locations that appear next to impossible to |
| | | | locate without a map or radar of some kind. |
| If this sounds too far out, ask yourself why | | | | How do they do that so unerringly? It's the |
| Boeing would have a distinguished physicist, | | | | natural functioning of the magnetic quality |
| Helmut Schmidt, create a digital random | | | | of that gland. |
| number generator to study how the human mind | | | | |
| is able to influence what we call chance or | | | | This is why I began experimenting with |
| luck in such a way that the outcome matches | | | | wearing a very strong rare earth magnetic |
| our intention. If your intention is to win | | | | headband. If you want to magnetize a nail, |
| big at the World Series of Poker, when do you | | | | all you have to do is stick it on a strong |
| think the best time to begin training would | | | | magnet: after a time, the nail also becomes |
| be? | | | | magnetic. So I concluded that it must work |
| | | | the same way with my pineal gland. I have |
| Ah, here's where not only the test of | | | | found that it greatly increases my |
| perception, but the battle of intention | | | | perceptions and luck. |
| begins. There is a saying, "The drive is in | | | | |
| the talent!" So at the poker table, just like | | | | Our ability to see didn't go away; our mind |
| in the ring, the one with the most heart, or | | | | simply blocked what it considered irrelevant |
| intensive drive, who remains focused is the | | | | to the moment. However, by using soft focus |
| one who usually wins. Talent is important, | | | | and letting our thought chemicals settle, we |
| but without the magic of a laser-like | | | | not only sense but see in our mind's eye |
| intention, it remains weak. If it's | | | | unusual and seemingly unrelated clues. The |
| scientifically proven that the fall of 9000 | | | | clues can cause strong urgings to play our |
| balls can be influenced by mental intention, | | | | hand a certain way. The more relaxed we |
| then winning at poker is governed by how | | | | become, the more clues we receive and the |
| focused and conscious you can remain. If you | | | | more we win, not only at the table, but in |
| do that, the cards you want will come to you. | | | | life. |
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