The power of positive thought

[EvilPie]

What do people think about this?

Can you heal yourself with positive thought?

If it's physical then I strongly doubt it. If it's mental then definitely yes. However, as a lot of physical problems are manifested mentally you could cure a lot of those as well. By this I mean the idle layabouts who always have a bad back or some other ailment.

They're just lazy and don't want to be well.

I don't include people who have genuine physical ailments but want to get better. That's totally different. I'm talking about people who think the whole world is after them and nobody has it as bad as them.

Can you win a poker competition based on belief that you will win?

No. But it won't do any harm if your opponents see that you are positive thinking and therefore confident of your actions.

Can you affect your day by thinking positively?

Hell yes. If you want to be a miserable fucker all your life then you sure as hell will be. If you want to be positive about everything no matter what then your day has to be better.

[thetank]

1) Yes, there was a study done with a game called 'Remission'. It's a game where you fly around the human body blasting cancer cells. One group of children with cancer played this game and a control group played an Indiana Jones game. Recovery rates were significantly higher with the Remission game. Only a small sample have been tested so far...I'm eager to find out how well a bigger sample goes.

I like this, would like to read more about it if you have a linky?

I may have a problem with the scientific method.

Remisssion game is likely to have been developed for experiment, Indiana Jones game is likely to have been developed with a larger budget for the mass market.
Consequently, Indiana Jones game is probably of a much higher quality than Remission game, or of greater depth and with more detailed graphics etc etc.

You can see where I'm going with this.

Results might have nothing to do with positive thinking.
It could just mean that playing shit computer games is good for your health, and playing good computer games is bad for your health.

Possible reason for this, I dunno, maybe shit computer game invokes imagination more, stimulates brain in key areas which blabba blabba zomg no cancer.


They might have to do it all again with Remission vs. Horace Goes Skiing for me to be satisfied.

[AndrewT]

1) Yes, there was a study done with a game called 'Remission'. It's a game where you fly around the human body blasting cancer cells. One group of children with cancer played this game and a control group played an Indiana Jones game. Recovery rates were significantly higher with the Remission game. Only a small sample have been tested so far...I'm eager to find out how well a bigger sample goes.

I like this, would like to read more about it if you have a linky?

http://www.re-mission.net

[thetank]

That looks pretty funky actually.

Re-mission, you have my permission to continue.

[Lucky]

Not sure about positive or otherwise..... I am sure about happy. The two often go hand in hand but not always.
I am sure that it is what "I feel" that is the important thing. This was one of the many lessons learnt on the weight loss. People would come up and say "you have lost enough haven't you?" " you will put it all back on". Their opinions in this context are not valid and I now care even less about what other people thin. If positive thought works for you in these contexts then it works....

That's positive.  You're even thinking thin!

[matt674]

Can you win a poker competition based on belief that you will win?

What is the point of playing a poker tournament if you dont believe you can win?

[Jon MW]

Can you win a poker competition based on belief that you will win?

What is the point of playing a poker tournament if you dont believe you can win?

Very good point.

[MANTIS01]

i am just about to check my lottery ticket,I KNOW IT WILL WIN I JUST KNOW IT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

That is an example of wishful thinking not positive thinking. Believing that your life is fulfilling whether you win or not is an example of positive thought.

We know very little about the brain and so it reduces your potential greatly if you decide it has limited capabilities. I studied NLP when I was a kid training to be a golf pro and learnt that the ability to visualise a successful outcome was the foundation for any top level sport. Obviously positive thought only works when you are actively involved in the outcome or result, so hitting a golf shot and winning the lottery is markedly different because of the level of personal involvement you have.

Can you heal yourself? Absolutely. There are many documented cases. Can you improve your chances of winning a poker tournament? Undoubtedly. If your mindset is positive you will be more inclined to bet draws believing they will come or at least believing you will get your oppo to fold. And if your oppo is a negative thinker he will be more inclined to fold cos he thinks you must have the goods or he wont improve as usual. So positivity breeds aggression and negativity makes you passive, hence you will be better at poker if you are positive.

Training your brain to think positively is pretty tough though...it's like training at the gym to be physically strong. It requires a lot of effort. But people don't like investing their time & energy pursuing stuff that's hard to do when the results aren't instantly recognisable, so they excuse themselves from doing it. If you don't exercise you will be physically weak and if you don't think positively you will be mentally weak...or at least not as strong as you could be.

[Sack it off]

I swear to god my own mind makes sick beats happen to me.

If I am all in 99 vs 88, his only out is an 8 on the river, I just cant get that number 8 out my head, and it always lands. Its sick i do run horrific online.

However I solved this by playing 10 cascaded tables at once, so when i am all in i dont even see what I am against, as another table has already popped up to take my mind of it. And i swear down the hands hold up.

For live poker before I put my chips in now, I always think to myself "Am I going to win this hand" and I will make sure I believe my hand will hold or i will hit before I put my chips in, and its unbelievable how much this works, but some days I just cant get negative thoughts out of my head and those are the days I get horrific beats etc.

At first I though logically that I will only remember the times this happens and forget about the time it doesnt. Especially with the multi tabling thing because you don't see the beat happen its just a message to say the table is now closed.

But I am so sure it makes my hands win

[MANTIS01]

I swear to god my own mind makes sick beats happen to me.

If I am all in 99 vs 88, his only out is an 8 on the river, I just cant get that number 8 out my head, and it always lands. Its sick i do run horrific online.

However I solved this by playing 10 cascaded tables at once, so when i am all in i dont even see what I am against, as another table has already popped up to take my mind of it. And i swear down the hands hold up.

For live poker before I put my chips in now, I always think to myself "Am I going to win this hand" and I will make sure I believe my hand will hold or i will hit before I put my chips in, and its unbelievable how much this works, but some days I just cant get negative thoughts out of my head and those are the days I get horrific beats etc.

At first I though logically that I will only remember the times this happens and forget about the time it doesnt. Especially with the multi tabling thing because you don't see the beat happen its just a message to say the table is now closed.

But I am so sure it makes my hands win

Yeah love this. Prob total bollox, but love it anyway. Mike the Mouth said words to this effect recently after announcing he'd finally discovered the secret of winning poker. And Mike's not crazy.

[thetank]

The more I type 1time! the better I do.

[MANTIS01]

The more I type 1time! the better I do.

Hachem keeps screaming one time. Maybe there's something in that.

[cia260895]

Think positevly about this and it really does work

[kinboshi]

Can you win a poker competition based on belief that you will win?

What is the point of playing a poker tournament if you dont believe you can win?

Very good point.

So why do you play Jon?

[Sack it off]

I think the reason is, when something out of the ordinary happens your brain automatically looks for an explanation.

With most people it comes down to "ITS RIGGED ITS RIGGED!!"

I try not to believe in lucky people and unlucky, I try to think that its all just coincidence.

So for me my brain seems to wants to tell me that I made that card hit, Matilda style!!

Imagine if you could do that, make cards come with your head. CRAZY!!