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How Psychics Tell You What You Want To Hear
by Ellette Sellenger
http://www.psychicx.com
In nearly every Sherlock Holmes movie ever made, there is a
scene where a slack-jawed consulter stares in dumbfounded
awe at the indubitable detective who has just reeled off a
litany of their activities for the last three days.
For starters, sharpen your observational skills. Become a
Sherlock Holmes. Notice things like posture, expression and
tone of voice and how to interpret them. There are some
obvious, universal 'tells' that give away everything from
doubt to fear to excitement. Most people have no idea how
clearly they telegraph their emotions with the tiniest
changes of facial expressions.
You're halfway right. Most 'psychics' who engage in fortune
telling for fun or profit do have a talent or ability, but
it's neither magic nor uncommon. What they have is a learned
ability to read the tiny nuances in people's facial
expressions, voices and body language, and to put that
information together with other verbal and non-verbal cues
that you give off while they are reading for you.
Let's fast forward to Mr. Holmes' explanation of how he knew
where the person before him had been.
"It's elementary, my dear Watson," he'd say. "The callous on
the inner aspect of the gentleman's second finger is
characteristic of a pen being in constant contact with the
skin there. That tells me that he is a clerk of some sort,
for that callous is seldom seen on others. Though he has
taken great pains with his appearance, the cuffs of his
shirt are slightly frayed, suggesting a rather recent
downturn in his fortunes. Though his shoes are new, they're
ill-fitting enough to have caused a blister which makes him
limp, which suggests that he borrowed them in order to
present the best appearance possible. Finally, his pallor
suggests a recent confinement away from the sun."
All so simple when it's explained, no? Even before you open
your mouth, your appearance is already telling an observant
'psychic' a great deal about you. A wedding band is an
obvious tell, but so is the mark left behind when you remove
it. It's even possible to tell how long it's been since you
wore it regularly by the difference in color and texture of
the skin where it was.
There are other obvious cues in your tone of voice, your
expression, your posture - nearly everything that you do or
say can help the 'psychic' make predictions and statements
based on things you tell him or her yourself - without even
realizing it.
Psychics also use words and ideas to help reshape your
perception of things around you. Your own new perception can
actually work to make the reader's words 'come true'. An
example is the best way to illustrate this 'trick'.
6. Give them all the rope they need to tell you what they
want to hear. Listen more than talk. Encourage confidences
with nonverbal cues like nods and attention, then repeat
what you were told in slightly different words. Most people
won't even realize how much they've told you.
That's really about all there is to most of the psychics
that you'll run into on the phone and internet pay-per-
minute services. A heightened sense of obersvation and
perception, a few little tricks to draw out information, and
the chutzpah to pass it off as some sort of arcane secret
technique.
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