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ParT VI 131 ing mechanically instead of acting consciously and responsibly. Instead of being blindly shoved forward by those impulses, one must become self-aware and willfully focused on the task at hand. The hardest challenge will be staying in touch with your intuition and reasoning when a calamitous situation attempts to sweep you away. We face little tests like these periodically, and they make good practice for seeing how calm you can stay under pressure. The more you maintain your composure during these situations, the better prepared you will be in the times ahead. Use intent to shape probability where necessary: Thoughts, emotions, and intent shape the probability of your experiences. This can be proven through personal experimentation. You can boost the probability of success, assistance, and protection by earnestly praying or intending for these, and likewise you can re- duce the probability of failure, attack, or misfortune by being calmly aware of their possibility and preparing to handle them should they arise. Mastering this conscious influence over your personal subsection of reality helps level the playing field by ex- tending your abilities beyond mere physical causality. Stay in synchronistic flow: Life moves with a certain flow that points in the direction of optimal probable futures. When you are in synchronization with this flow, everything falls into place, works out smoothly, and you feel energized and enthusiastic. The results of staying in the flow are progress, success, balance, and growth in awareness. When out of the flow, things fall apart, meet failure, suffer unnecessary setbacks, and you feel a sense of emp- tiness or wrongness about the path. Staying in the flow involves a combination of right attitude, right choices, and right actions. Through observation one can determine the inner and outer conditions necessary to stay in the flow. Develop psychic abilities: If developed safely and used wisely, psychic abilities like precognition, auric vision, etheric energy manipulation for healing purposes further even the odds. The most basic psychic skill that anyone can develop is intuition. In- tuition can be developed by noticing which inner impressions