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The PARR Zone: Level 2 Training
By Stephen Heller, Ph.D.
Copyright © 2006 by Jerry Patterson Enterprises, Inc., All Rights Reserved
Introduction by Jerry Patterson
With the development of the PARR
Zone, Dr. Heller (now deceased) left an incredible legacy to craps dice controllers.
This article is the second of a
series of three articles which will be incorporated, with acknowledgement, into the new book – Winning Dice Control Techniques: Shooting Craps from the Zone
by Jerry Patterson and Sharpshooter.
What Role does the Zone play in
Dice Control? The Zone’s role is just as important as the muscle memory skills of setting, gripping, picking up and throwing the dice with control. The objective of dice control is to
avoid the losing 7 in the point cycle.
With the Zone, you can maintain muscle memory consistency and keep on rolling the same way every time you pick up the dice. It’s this consistency that leads to the long hands with stacks of chips pushed your way on roll after roll.
Level Two – Power Conditioning:
Now that you understand Calm
Conditioning and the concept behind Power Visualization, it will be relatively easy for you to learn Power Conditioning (PC).
With PC, you will be calling upon past experiences of success, confidence or times of being deservedly pleased with your performance.
Begin by listing a few of your
achievements and successes. It doesn’t matter what these were. It’s the sense of personal power and confidence that you want to recreate. Often, your list will include
activities or tasks you have become so adept at, you have learned to take them for granted.
Use your imagination!
If you won a bowling or golf trophy, write it down. If you received a promotion or raise at work, put it on your list. Include getting acknowledged for some achievement, being mentioned in a company bulletin or any other activity that brought you recognition. You can include a solid win in a casino, provided it came about because of your skill and efforts.
We all have moments of which we
are proud. The problem is we are usually encouraged to look at what we do wrong instead of focusing on what we do well. Take your time and you will be able to create your own success
list.
Here are some personal examples
– in no particular order:
Getting my first book published; obtaining my Ph.D.; being named Speaker of the Year – twice; publishing my second book; receiving standing ovations at speaking engagements; building my practice from scratch; developing Clump Card Blackjack©; mentoring young therapists; helping Jerry’s people become successful at gaming; hundreds of successes with therapy; being the featured speaker at a $5,000 per person seminar; being written about in books, etc.
Once you have made your list,
select one or two experiences that fill you with the most pride and satisfaction. These will be your Power Images. You will use Power Visualization to Step Into Your Power Image.
Remember, when you put yourself
into the experience as differentiated from being a spectator, the same parts of your brain fire that would fire if you were actually doing the activity.
Your brain will think you are experiencing what you are imaging as if it were really happening – again.
It takes time and practice to
become proficient at Power Visualization.
It’s more than worth the effort. Professional athletes use PV to improve sports performance. I have helped athletes end slumps with PV. One group of law students had failed their bar examinations several times. After learning PV, they all passed. More important was that taking the Bar became easier for them all.
I have helped people from all walks of
life to reach peak performance by using Power Visualization.
Recently, in only four sessions, I helped a man who was terrified of flying to break free of this limitation. Since then, he has flown to Hawaii and Europe without any difficulties at all.
While I used other methods to
help him, Power Visualization was the primary tool.
He was so overwhelmed by the rapidity of his success, he wrote me a three-page testimonial letter. By his own estimate, he has referred more than twenty people to me because of his success with Power Visualization.
You owe it to yourself to learn Power Visualization.
Here’s the process.
After you have become adept at Calm Conditioning, you simply add your Power Image to the process. In plain words, as you circle your thumb and index finger and say your code word, you flash your Power Image right in front of you. Then,
Step Into Your Power
Image and experience the feelings of confidence. Create a code word for this experience. Your code word could be Confident or Pride or any other word that describes your desired state.
The trick is to flash your Power
Image while your eyes are open. By now, you should be able to do your Calm Conditioning with your eyes open, so this is just an extension of what you already know.
First, call up your Calm
Conditioning image while doing your four count breathing process. Then, as you circle your thumb and index finger while saying your code word, stare straight ahead, perhaps at a wall.
Now, flash your Power Image and repeat your Power Image code word. That’s it. Because you have created a calm state, you will find it easier and easier to access a state of quiet but strong confidence.
Recap – Power Conditioning
- List three or four experiences of being confident, proud or pleased with how well you performed some activity or
task.
- List how the experience made you feel and how you looked.
- I felt confident and strong and filled with energy. I was standing straight with my head up and I had a
smile on my face.
- Practice Calm Conditioning and then Add in your Power Image.
- Pick one experience from your Power Image List. (Pick your favorite to start with.)
- After achieving your calm state, Switch to your Power Image.
- Begin by putting your Power Image straight out in front of you – about five feet forward from your
nose.
- Mentally step into your image and recall the experience of being in the actual situation.
- Make it as real as possible – using the attributes from the experience itself; e.g., I feel myself standing
straight and I’m looking straight ahead. I’m confident and I know I look strong and confident.
- Give this experience a code name. Often the feeling works best, i.e. Confident or Winner, etc.
- Practice Calm Conditioning and Power Image as one exercise for three to seven days. (Some will pick this up
more quickly than others.)
- After getting comfortable with putting the two steps together, you are to make an important change in your practice
routine.
- First, practice Calm Conditioning.
- Then, open your eyes and look at a wall or blank surface of any kind, but at eye level.
- Project your Power Image onto the wall or blank surface.
- Step into the image – that is, imagine that you are in the situation.
Practice this each time you practice Calm Conditioning.
Next Month: Level 3 Training – The Power Zone
For more information, visit
Sharpshootercraps.com.
Introduction To The PARR Zone
By Stephen Heller, Ph.D.
Copyright © 2006 by Jerry Patterson Enterprises, Inc., All Rights Reserved
Foreword by Jerry Patterson
With the development of the PARR
Zone, Dr. Heller (now deceased) left an incredible legacy to craps dice controllers.
This article, an introduction, is
the first of many which will be incorporated, with acknowledgement, into the new book – Winning Dice Control Techniques: Shooting Craps from the Zone
by Jerry Patterson and Sharpshooter.
What Role does the Zone play in
Dice Control? The Zone’s role is just as important as the muscle memory skills of setting, gripping, picking up and throwing the dice with control. The objective of dice control is to
avoid the losing 7 in the point cycle.
With the Zone, you can maintain muscle memory consistency and keep on rolling the same way every time you pick up the dice. It’s this consistency that leads to the long hands with stacks of chips pushed your way on roll after roll.
Dr. Heller’s Background Statement on the Zone
When Jerry asked me to develop a
mental readiness support method for his PARR method, he said it should be about focus. I told him I wanted to make the program about what professional athletes called The Zone
. From my work with athletes spanning nearly thirty years, I have learned how powerful The Zone can be for those who desire to increase performance in any activity.
Top performers from all professions have discovered how to create
The Zone. I would bet that most people who read this manual have also found themselves in The Zone
during times of outstanding achievement. The challenge is to be able to create The Zone on demand and that is what this manual is all about.
Here is how The American Heritage® Dictionary defines Zone: An
area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic. To me, this means The Zone is a mental state that enables us to separate from distractions. We arrive at a state of mental being during which our skills and abilities come together in a powerful and synergistic combination. We feel like winners, we act like winners and we perform like winners!
The Zone
includes focus but focus doesn’t necessarily include The Zone. If you look up Focus in The American Heritage® Dictionary, you will read: A center of interest or
activity. Close or narrow attention and concentration. Focused – To direct toward a particular point of purpose.
I want you to think about The Zone
as your destination. Now, consider focus as the vehicle or mode of transportation that enables you to get there. The PARR Zone will show you how to create the kind of focus that leads you to
The Zone. When you have mastered The PARR Zone, you will have developed:
Muscle Memory, combined with a psychological state of confidence and a sense of calm purpose.
The purpose of this training manual is to teach you the exact steps that enable you to enter
The Zone on demand and with consistency. Specifically, you will learn how to enter The Zone
within seconds while putting Jerry Patterson’s PARR method into action at the craps tables.
You may even find yourself using The Zone
in many areas of your life. I have taught hundreds of individuals the secrets of being able to create The Zone on command. These people have used The Zone
to become more successful in their business and personal lives, too.
What this Manual Isn’t
This manual will not encourage nor
instruct you in how to make everything more complicated and confusing.
One sage said, “Everything should be kept as simple as possible. Just no simpler.” There is great wisdom in this statement. One sure way to ruin a winning method is to continue to add more improvement until the system is too complicated to work.
What this Manual Is
This manual is designed to make
learning The PARR Zone simple and fast. It will show you the exact steps you need to recreate The Zone
when you want it. You will also learn how to incorporate The PARR Zone as a seamless part of PARR itself. To enter The Zone
on demand will require you to practice what you learn in this manual.
Visualization Defined
This manual will expose you to cutting
edge motivational techniques. You will learn that there are two different ways to visualize. One way, called the spectator, makes it more difficult to obtain goals. Yet, this is
the way most people are taught to visualize. When you use the powerful form of visualization called Experiential Visualization, you dramatically improve your results – automatically!
With Spectator Visualization, you experience what you are visualizing as if you aren’t really part of the event. Instead, you are a
bystander. As such, your brain is lulled into believing that what you are visualizing just isn’t that important to you.
When you use Experiential Visualization, you step into the image and begin to feel the experience, as if it were really happening. One example can be found in dreams. Most of us have had falling dreams. In some of these dreams,
we are off to a side watching someone who looks like us as he or she falls. While this may cause a little anxiety, it’s more likely to be a non-event.
With the Experiential Dream, it feels as if we are falling.
This is the experience that wakes us up with rapid breathing and our hearts pounding. The dream fooled part of our brains into responding as if the experience was really happening. Experiential Visualization will help you trigger your brain into thinking you are calm, confident, with a sense of calm purpose, combined with muscle memory. That’s Muscle Memory!
The PARR Zone will be published in four parts:
Level 1 Learning Program: Power Visualization and Calm Conditioning
Level 2 Learning Program: Power Conditioning
Level 3 Learning Program: The Power Zone
Practicing the Zone
The PARR Zone is easier to learn by
breaking it into learning modules.
There are three modules in this manual. The first module is Level One Training. During Level One Training, you will acquire the specific experiences and skills needed to create The PARR Zone on demand. These skills include:
Calm Conditioning
Anchoring
Power Visualization
Power Conditioning
Locking and Loading
(Making the program automatic)
The second module of your PARR Zone® training is called
Level Two – Power Conditioning. Here, you add The PARR Zone method to your practice sessions. You will learn how to create close to Real World Conditions (RWC) for your home practice sessions. Also, you will learn how to enter The PARR Zone as you begin to set the dice. Within a few seconds, you will have created Integrated Focus. You will be in
The Zone and ready to perform a Controlled Throw of the dice with a greater probability of avoiding the losing 7.
Level Three is the Power Zone.
This module will help you put all the pieces together into one integrated whole. When you finish Level Three, you will be able to enter into The PARR Zone on demand as you begin to handle the dice. You will be pleasantly surprised with how calm and focused you will stay as you are shooting dice.
When Jerry announced his dice
breakthrough, PARR, I was pleased and not surprised.
I know how long he had been working on controlled rolls. When he approached me about creating a mental readiness program to support PARR, I was thrilled. This gives me the opportunity to contribute to the success of PARR. My background gives me a unique platform from which The PARR Zone was created.
Next: The Level 1 Learning Program
To be published on this website soon.
For more information, visit Sharpshootercraps.com
About Dr. Steven Heller
Dr. Steven Heller had a
professional psychology practice for nearly thirty years. He worked with major personalities along with what he referred to as Real People.
His specialties included hypnosis, motivational psychology and working in the area of relationships.
He developed an approach for
helping people called Unconscious Restructuring. Some of his techniques are widely used today and pre-date systems such as NLP. In an earlier career, he appeared on radio and
television where he introduced Unconscious Restructuring (UR) to the general public, and, at the same time, running training seminars throughout the United States introducing UR to the
helping professionals.
He authored two books, Monsters and
Magical Sticks (There’s No Such Thing as Hypnosis – New Falcon Press) and When Cupid’s Arrow is a Pain in the Ass (Freedom From Destructive Relationship Syndrome – H.I. Enterprises).
Dr. Heller worked with Jerry
Patterson for over 10 years focusing on the mental aspects of gambling.
He was a successful blackjack and craps player and published two manuals on Blackjack along with several short papers on craps.
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How to acquire The PARR Zone Course
Developed by Dr. Steven Heller, Ph.D. (deceased), The PARR Zone Course is housed in a 30-page Spiral Bound Notebook.
It comes with an audiocassette tape recorded by Dr. Heller describing the PARR Zone and how it works to elevate the dice controllers rolls in the point cycle.
We plan to incorporate Dr. Heller’s 30-page PARR Zone Manual into the new book:
Winning Dice Control Techniques: Shooting Craps from the Zone. It will be published on this website as a series of periodic articles.
The articles will be supplemented by other articles from Walt Diem, my Chief Instructor, containing practical tips for entry to and exit from the Zone.
New chapters and articles on the Zone
will be published periodically on this Website and you are encouraged to return here often to check them out.
The complete 30-page PARR Zone Manual
and audiotape is available for purchase right now for just $29.50 plus $7 for priority mail shipping and handling.
It comes with a supplemental audiocassette containing Dr. Heller’s comments and instructions for entering the PARR Zone.
For order instructions, go to
Sharpshootercraps.com and click on Shooting from the Zone and then click on Order PARR Zone. While there, take a look at the original Dice Control Course, Sharpshooter/PARR, with over 1,500 graduates and whose 10th anniversary is coming up 2007.
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