Concentration and confidence of success are the main essential conditions of magic work.

    I'm going to let you in on a little secret. The concentration and self-assertion are the main guarantees of success in magic work. Why so? The explanation is simple. The concentration leads to the immersion in a subject, action or oneself and to realization of the true essence of that. Besides, it is possible to hold control over the consciousness and therefore over energy through proper concentration. Just as a sportsman learns to be a perfect master of his body so a magician shall be able to drive his own attention too.

    Most people are unable to think of the same subject throughout even ten minutes. Even if you gaze persistently at some object, your thoughts will slip by in some time and turn to extraneous matters. A person connected with magic cannot allow himself such things. That is the main difficulty faced by a newbie magician - how to develop the attention concentrating.  You may start with several exercises.

                          There are a few pieces of advice:

•    If you perform some everyday action, divide it into minor cycles. For example, when doing the dishes take a spoon and think of the process itself, turn attention to your sensatons and your actions. At first plan everything in your head and then implement the same practically. Once you take an item in hands, say «start» to yourself mentally. And the minute you finish washing up that spoon and put it back, give «stop» order to yourself. And the same relates to every item.

•    Put any simple article in front of you – a ball, apple or pencil. Look at this article and think only of it. Examine every line, every overtone and minor feature. In case your thoughts slip away, bring your mind back to that article. Early in the game bend your mind to the said exercise for 3 to 5 minutes and after some time you may increase the time to 10 to 15 minutes.

•    When reading a book, furnish yourself with a pencil and put a mark in the margin every time you divert your thoughts away from the text. Start reading from the last place you remembered and read down to the page’s end. Retell the studied piece to yourself mentally. If the text retelling is not detailed enough or inexact, read this page once again. And don’t forget to prick down in the margin every time your thoughts slip away. In case you exercise in such a way regularly, when finishing the book you may notice that tick marks in the margin are getting fewer and fewer.

•    The next exercise is quite complicated. Put an item on the table before you. Inspect it by eye thoroughly. Then close your eyes and imagine it mentally in the smallest details. Having opened your eyes, compare the creation of your imagination with the real image. Try to remember every line and every minute piece of it. Having mastered this technique completely, proceed to the next stage. Close your eyes and imagine the item such as it is in reality. Then go round the table mentally and visualize the item’s other side. Yes, you are unable to describe its look exactly and fail to bear some details in mind for sure. Open your eyes. Check the exactness of your perception and concentration. If you practice this way long and regularly, you’ll be capable of making amazing progress. For example, looking at the back of a passer by you’ll be capable of outrunning him mentally and seeing his face. You may try and do that practically to prove your supposition.

    Once you master this last described attention concentrating exercise to perfection, you may feel with confidence that you have learned the basic tools of ClairVoyance!

    Series of such exercises may be expanded endlessly. For instance, try to get concentrated on your nose’s point. And you’ll be surprised to find that your sense of smell has become sharper. If you concentrate on your sensations when having food, you’ll learn that even the commonplace and habitual potato mash may be of fantastic taste unexperienced by you up to now.

    Concentrating exercises come down to the point that you perform only one action at a time. You shall remember that the human brain is used by 10 percents only. But it is possible to correct that. Attention concentrating exercises are only the tip of the iceberg.

    What is the keystone to success in any magic action? Is it an ability to get concentrated only? Certainly not! You shall be capable of putting your faith in success, your own resources and power as well as in the reality of something that is just on the point of happening. Magic rites and card reading are just methods practiced by skilled people. But their thoughts and actions are based on the clairvoyance, clairaudience and claircognizance. All that may be developed and mastered. The key point is to believe in success!