The result of the last Psychic Challenge:
Last week I was focusing on the arrow pointing right (42 per cent chose correctly)
Winner: Paul Feeham, Bristol

David Blaine’s performance is called Above The Below, but which am I focusing on right now - Above or Below? Look at the two arrows: which one attracts your attention more, the upwards Above or the downwards Below?
When you feel you know, click here to email your choice and we will announce the answer next week.

Two visitors were bickering under David Blaine’s box beside the Thames last weekend, and I bit my tongue until I couldn’t stand it any longer. “It’s a disgrace,” one woman kept saying. “What sort of example is he setting to people with anorexia and bulimia? Young girls will take one look at him and say, ‘If he can stop eating so can I’. He’s just encouraging teenagers to starve themselves to death.” That twisted viewpoint is so far removed from the message David is trying to convey, that I simply cannot understand how anyone could get it so badly wrong. And it baffles me that people will take the trouble to journey to Tower Bridge, push through the crowds, and then stand there complaining! And then it occured to me that I had the perfect argument to silence the whingers. “Excuse me,” I said, “but I have suffered from a very serious eating disorder myself. I had bulimia, so badly that I could barely stand unaided at one stage. You don’t need to teach me anything about starving the body, because I know how hard it is to eat when every nerve and every muscle is fighting to reject food.” The visitors looked disbelieving. You’ve never had bulimia, they said. But I was fired up now, and I told them the whole story - how I would rush to the bathroom after every course, gorging myself on platefuls of rich, creamy food and then voiding my stomach. The act of sheer willpower, I told them, was to force myself to keep food down - to overcome the compulsion to vomit, to accept that I was far too thin to be healthy. And that’s the core of the message that David is transmitting from his lonely box above the river: we are all in control. We dictate what our bodies need and do. We can master any compulsion, any craving. Every eating disorder can be beaten by the mind. When we wield the full force of our human willpower, nothing can stand in our way. Click here for more information on David's endurance test.

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