A curious paradox operates here, one that everyone familiar with the operation of psi [psychic ability] knows quite well: the mind state that is needed to heighten receptivity to psi is one of intention without striving. There is a conscious, deliberate setting of intent; the desired goal is declared, internally or aloud. But rather than accompanying this with the usual tension, effort, and proactive striving that most of us generate when we want to make something happen, one shifts instead into a state of relaxed, receptive waiting for the information to show up. Belief breeds simple, relaxed expectation.
— Belleruth Naparstek, Your Sixth Sense