to indicate sympathetic feelings.

 Lowered head could mean that the person is hiding

something. This might also be a sign of respect in some cultures.
3.   Arms position
Crossed arms usually indicate defensiveness and could be a sign that the person is not
receptive to your suggestions.
4.   Eye movement
One of the hardest to control and thus the most sure-fire way to sneak into the person’s
thoughts. Spotting a lie isn’t an easy task, but eyes turning upwards left indicate composing
an idea out of nothing. Trying to recall something familiar would take the eyes upwards and
right. Constantly moving eyes from side to side could indicate nervousness.
5.   Pupil size
Virtually impossible to control, pupil size is connected to autonomic nervous system and
therefore a good indicator of a person’s interest level. Expanded pupils signal interest, love or
fear whereas retracted pupils reveal indifference. When tracking your companion’s eyes,
remember that specific medication or drugs might induce dilated pupils.
6.   Mirroring
If your companion is mimicking your gestures, it might be a sign of deeper interest and
fondness.  Test it out by changing your position and see if they change theirs too.
7.   Look out for fidgeting
Feelings of guilt and nervousness might be revealed by excessive movement, playing with
hair or watch, biting nails etc.
8.   Listen carefully
The human voice has many qualities. Watch out for the tone and notice the differences on
how things are being said.

Select the right subject.

You can't just grab any old victim for a good mind sucking off the street. Rather,
you should select your prey delicately. McCambridge elaborates:

"Some people want to be the center of attention. So, if I'm asking for people to
come up on stage a lot of times it's those type of people. And they tend not to be
the best assistants because they want to have their 15 minutes of fame at my
expense. So I'm looking for people who may not come up on stage at the drop of
a hat, but aren't [so] overly shy that they're going to stay in the audience. The
first thing I'm looking for is somebody who is smiling and laughing at the jokes
that I'm putting out there. There you have someone who wants to interact. Then
you have the over-responders and that's someone I don't want necessarily right
away. That's what you look for first, the type person."

Mirror the subject (make them comfortable).

Once you've snared your subject, woo them into a sense of security, by mimicking
their ways.

"Make sure you try something that they are comfortable with. Do you have any
artistic abilities? Then you can do something where you using drawing. You feel
them out based on what you're going to ask them to do. Then you use an NLP
(Neuro Linguistic Programming) technique called mirroring. Where you get
them comfortable with you by mirroring the way that they're responding to
you. People can pick up on that and they feel more relaxed around someone they
feel is close to them. If they're a shy person and you're loud and obnoxious,
they're not going to feel comfortable standing next to you. If they are a little shy
and you back off and act a little timid yourself, introduce yourself nicely, it puts
everybody at ease."

Know the statistics.

Know your stuff. In order to become and excellent Mind Reader, you need to up
on the latest trends and tendencies of the mind. McCambridge has spent years
documenting his shows, taking notes of the different ages of people in the
audience, the cars parked in the parking lots, what kind of event it was. And he
makes good use of all this statistical data.

"I know statistically how people are going to respond to certain situations.
When I offer you a choice of 4 different objects I know 92% of the time you're
going to choose the third one on your own. When you tell someone to think of a
number between 1 and 10, statisically they are going to gravitate towards 7. If
you ask someone to respond to a question very quickly, that changes the
response. If I asked you to think of a color very quickly 1, 2, 3 — red is the
statistical first choice. Blue is the second choice. If you ask for a color quickly,
people go for red. If you ask for a color and you give someone a three or four
second space, they will go for blue, because they will change their mind thinking
red is the obvious choice."

Look for signs.

But you've got to be aware of basic responses!

"Look for reactions. For example [something I might try] is instruct the person
to respond to what I say with the word no. No matter what I say, you respond
with no. Then I'll say think of a number between 1 to 10, and I ask is it the
number 1? No. The number 2? No. We go through the entire thing with No and I
tell them that it's the number 6 because of the fact that they looked at me
different when they were actually lying to me. They couldn't make eye contact
[or something similar to that]."

Utilize the body.

Learn the art of muscle reading.

"Without the people realizing it, I'm touching them in a very relaxed way that
they don't realize what I'm doing. Based on the questions that I'm asking them, I
can tell what the answers are by feeling the difference in their muscles. You
 body echoes what your brain thinks. And I've learned how to pick up on the
echoes. An example is I tell the person to think of a letter in the alphabet, and
then the audience sing the Alphabet Song. By the time their finished I can tell
what letter they have because the second the audience said their letter, their
brain thinks to itself "that's it!" That changes the physiological response in your
body and I can pick that up, it's different than the other 25 letters."

Don't be afraid to admit failure.

If you fall flat on your face, pick up and try again. The audience will love you even
more for it.

"[If the trick doesn't work] I usually try it a second time. If it's an important
part of the show I may send the person back to their seat and say, 'OK let's try
something else.' There is no sure-fire way, things go wrong, it actually adds
more credibility to the show when the audience sees that sometimes it fails.
What a mentalist does, it doesn't always work, and that's OK. "

The easiest trick in the book.

We'll tell you the name of the trick after you do it, because it spoils the reveal!

 Pick a number between 1 and 10.

 Multiply it by 9.

 If it's a 2 digit number, add them together.

 Now subtract 5.

 Map the result to a letter of the alphabet, where A=1, B=2 and so on.

 Think of a country which begins with that letter.

 Take the second letter of the country and think of an animal which begins
with that letter.

 Think of the color of that animal.


Are you thinking of a grey elephant from Denmark?