This fascinating book reveals the secrets of the most powerful organ in the body—the mind. From deceiving a lie detector test, winning a challenging game of chess, mastering pain, walking on fire, and foretelling the future, Mind Games provides step-by-step instructions for performing 50 mental feats ranging from the merely impressive to the scarcely believable. Only you can judge what is truly possible as you harness your own enormous power and tap into your brain's full potential to perform tasks you never imagined you could. Mind Games is a complete practical guide to exploring and building your own mental powers.

Powell, Michael

Barnes & Noble, Incorporated

Union Square & Co.

Fall River Press

United States, United States of America

New York, New York State, 2004

La Vergne, 2011

S.l, 2011

Includes index.
Original concept and written by Michael Powell ; executive editor, James Tavendale ; edited by Katherine Robinson and Ewan Carpenter ; illustration by Allen Boe and AnnDrea Boe ; photography by AnnDrea Boe ; designed by Allen Boe.
Print version record.

Introduction
Your brain exploded
Feed your brain
Drinking water
How to beat a lie detector test
Do impossible sums in your head
Memorize a deck of cards
How to tell if someone is lying
How to bring on an out-of-the-body experience
Eye to eye
How to develop extrasensory perception
Think yourself healthy
Permission to succeed
How to win a game of chess in two moves
Read body language
Cognitive interviewing
How to develop mental toughness
Play the percentages
Ponzi schemes exposed
Anger management
How to get lucky
Optical illusions
The power of synchronicity
Speed reading
Resetting your body clock
The principles of fire walking
Plunging fingers in molten lead
Cutlery bending
How to negotiate
Think like a millionaire
How hypnosis works
Creative risk taking
Brain gym
Increase your sex appeal
How to read an aura
Balancing your chakras
Remembering names
Memorize the telephone directory
Mind control techniques
Listening skills
Think like a genius
The Mozart effect
How to win at Jeopardy
Brainstorming using random association
Super strength
How to be assertive
Study skills
How to have lucid dreams
Acupressure
Power browsing
Stress-reducing tips.

The human brain is an incredibly powerful organ. Its abilities are still only vaguely understood--and few people have come close to tapping even the tiniest fraction of its full potential. Yet with that fraction they have accomplished incredible deeds. This fascinating book reveals the secrets of those masters of the mind. With step-by-step instructions for performing 50 mental feats ranging from the merely impressive (deceive a lie detector, decipher body language, win a game of chess) to the stunning (master pain, think like a genius, hypnotize yourself and others), the miraculous (bend spoons, read minds, cure illness), and the scarcely believable (travel outside your body, foretell the future, walk on fire), Mind Games is a complete practical guide to exploring--and building--your own mental powers. Some of the activities in these pages have firm foundations in science; others, based on the accounts of those who claim to have accomplished them, require a certain leap of faith. Only you can judge what is truly possible as you exercise your brain, harness its enormous power, and train it to perform truly amazing acts of will!

Fifty ways to unlock the mysterious potential in your brain through tricks, applied science, and relearning the way you think.
This fascinating book reveals the secrets of the most powerful organ in the body—the mind. From deceiving a lie detector test, winning a challenging game of chess, mastering pain, walking on fire, and foretelling the future, Mind Games provides step-by-step instructions for performing fifty mental feats ranging from the merely impressive to the scarcely believable. Only you can judge what is truly possible as you harness your own enormous power and tap into your brain's full potential to perform tasks you never imagined you could. Mind Games is a complete practical guide to exploring and building your own mental powers.

2026-06-26