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What Psychics and Sherlock Holmes Have In Common
by Makayla Bristow
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.
1. Start with a general, ambiguous statement that has a high
probability of being right. 'I sense that you're concerned
with something at work' is that sort of statement - a
statement that can be interpreted either positively or
negatively. Nearly everyone has 'concerns' about something
at work. Judge just how important those concerns are, and
whether they're good or bad by the reaction that you get to
your statement.
Sherlock Holmes often made statements that astounded his
listeners, but were simply the result of his coordinating
the physical cues that he observed about his subjects.
Material cues like wedding rings, engagement rings, or the
mark left behind by one can tell a psychic reader a lot
about you. Things like the way you dress or the makeup and
jewelry that you wear are also clues that form an overall
impression of you that the reader will feed back to you to
impress you with their 'magical' abilities and insight.
Your reactions to statements will also tell a reader how
close or far off they are from the facts. No matter how
careful you are to restrain your reactions, the smallest
nuances of expression can give you away. The barest raising
of your brow when a reader says something that hits close to
home is a cue to pursue that line and get gradually more
specific.
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.
5. Use your words to influence perceptions. Take the
statement 'Someone in your workplace is interested in you'.
Once you put that statement out there, the person you're
reading for will find it nearly impossible to keep from
wondering which person it might be. Viewed through the
perception that someone 'likes' them, chances are good that
they WILL come up with a possible 'secret admirer'.
Suppose I tell you, as a reader, that one of your coworkers
has a romantic interest in you, but may be hiding it. The
most natural reaction to that statement is for you to run
through your coworkers in your mind, re-evaluating their
behavior around and towards you in light of a possible
'romantic interest'. Do you often catch a particular
coworker staring at you? Does your boss' receptionist make a
point of bringing back a cup of coffee for you when she
makes a trip to the coffeemaker? Once you start looking for
possible 'signs' in the behavior of your coworkers, you're
almost certain to find someone that might be your secret
admirer.
Once you start seeing them that way, you're very likely to
change your own behavior toward that person. The end result
may very well be the romance that the 'psychic' predicted.
Did the reader really 'see' something? Probably not. The
'seeing' is all in your own mind and perceptions.
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