First card test

Using the Bruce's Play Your Cards Right giant cards I received for Christmas I administered a couple of tests on myself. This is easier to imagine than to do, primarily because there is an interruption of thought as one scores oneself. However I persevered with two tests, the first sat on the sofa in the lounge, where I scored 6 out of 9, during the test I was mainly choosing red or black at speed with no real regard for my thoughts or feelings.

The second test I took standing up in the kitchen, I did a preliminary test where I scored 2 out of 10, then I gathered my thoughts took a handful of cards and started guessing red or black, this time I touched the top card and mentally asked the question 'Is this card red or black?', then checked my feelings and listened for the answer. Sometimes I didn't seem to get an answer, but focusing on the words red and black as I asked the question, almost every time I repeated the question more than once whilst waiting for the answer, as I focused on the words one would feel stronger or more emphasised than the other, when I felt strongly about this the guess would be correct, sometimes the feeling was not that strong and I would get it wrong. At other times I would receive the word red or black. However during this test, I did not note what I had based my decision on, it would be easier to have a scoring system setup for tests like these.

As I was asking the question I tried to visualise the answer coming from my higher self by doing an exercise from a book I have started reading regarding connecting to your higher self. While doing this exercise it is difficult to tell where the answer is coming from, if indeed it is the 'answer' as sceptics would assert, as the concious mind has a habit of popping words into your head on a seemingly non-stop basis, I think that is one of the principle reasons for meditation exercises, to learn to recognise and filter out the 'noise' in the signal. Every time I was correct I mentally said 'Thank you' for the answer.

After a while I wasn't sure how many cards I had count tried so I counted all the cards, I had scored 8 out of 10 which is considered statistically significant when repeated a number of times. I only had five cards left so I thought I'd just finish these off, I rattled them off, not visualising as I had before and got three wrong and two right, statistically insignificant I think, but I felt I was guessing, so that brought the total score to 10 out of 15. So whilst I was thrilled with the 8 out of 10 I think that interrupted my frame of mind enough to knock my concentration a little. This connection does seem a little hit and miss, I am sure that will improve with effort and practise.