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