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"What to Eat--Scientific Feeding" + + 6. "What Is God?"[1] + +These sell at 25c each--Four for one dollar. Order a set now and get as +premiums two Wall Motto Poems, artistically printed on beautiful +cardboard, for Home, Office or Business. Check your choice for two Wall +Motto Poems from the list below: + + Pep. + Old Glory. + Where is Success? + Misfits Can Win. + Pass It Along. + Lift Your Head. + Where God is Found. + The Boss is Watching You. + What is God? + Stick To It. + Charity. + Think Right. + Opportunity. + The Real Success. + The Bull Dog Grip. + It's Better to Smile. + Troubles That Never Came. + If You Would Be a Friend to Man. + + + + + +THE SILENCE: What It Is, How To Use It + + + +Approach to the Silence + + +Wrong thinking produces inharmony in our body, which in turn produces +sickness. Our bodies sometimes are instantly re-harmonized while in the +Silence. In the Silence our minds become passive, open, free and +loving, at which time the Infinite Master of harmony touches the mental +chords of our being and we are well. + +Just as the piano can be tuned, so can the mind. Man's body is made up +of twelve octaves the same as in music. All matter is music. All matter +is composed of twelve octaves. Wrong thinking brings inharmony in some +of the octaves of our body. Right thinking tunes these organs, puts +them back into their normal condition. + +Boys have their little steel magnets by which they pick up small pieces +of steel, pins and so forth. When overworked, these magnets no longer +attract. Then the boys take their magnets, have them rubbed against +strong magnets or remagnetized with an electric current and their power +is quickly restored--so with our bodies. Mind is the re-electrifier and +re-harmonizer of the octaves into all harmony. + +Right thinking, therefore, is the most important thing in life. As a +man thinketh in his heart so is he. Just as a tuning fork near a piano +will respond with a vibration when a key of the same pitch is struck on +the piano nearby, so likewise do the bodies of men respond to proper +stimulus and become in tune. By right thinking man can re-harmonize +himself, can achieve health, success and prosperity. + +To enter the Silence one must first establish perfect relaxation in +mind and body. Then as the consciousness is brought from one part of +the body to another the tuning takes place. + +If the leader in the Silence should be intoning, there will be many in +the audience who will feel tinkling sensations--vibrations--and often +are instantly healed. They have been instantly re-harmonized. Sometimes +it may take several intonings in the Silence for a complete healing. +Should you have a violent vibration, feel no fear, but thank God for +your healing because the more violent the vibration perhaps the worse +has been your condition and the more surely has the re-harmony begun. +Some people will feel this vibration for hours, even days, throughout +which there is always healing. + +Others may not feel the vibration at all, yet if there has been any +inharmony in the bodily organs, these organs are unconscious to the +conscious intoning re-harmonization. Many people who have been healed +of divers and many malignant diseases were at no time conscious of any +vibration. Never be discouraged if you feel no sensation. If you do +feel a vibration, know that you are susceptible and on the high road to +a healing demonstration. + +The one intoning may or may not be feeling vibrations. Religion is the +life of God in the soul of Man. The Silence is the medium by which the +life of God and the soul of man are brought into At-one-ment. + +The Silence is a medium by which man comes in a closer touch with the +Infinite; a medium by which man becomes conscious of his nearness to +the Infinite. The Silence is the meeting place where man's spirit links +with God's spirit; where spirit meets spirit and the marvel of His +grace never ceases. + +The Silence is another way of praying, which is another way of +concentration. It is another way of visualization. + +"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." In the Silence a man can by +his thoughts change his life, his conditions, his environment, his all. +By right thinking man becomes harmonious. A harmonious man--in tune +with the Infinite--is on the King's highway to health, success, +abundance, prosperity, happiness, love and peace. + +By means of wrong thinking our minds are put out of harmony with the +great Infinite spirit of God. "As a man thinketh in his heart so is +he." When wrong thinking becomes right thinking, then man's right +relationship to God is restored. He becomes an open channel for the +influx of the spirit so that whatever demonstration he may desire he +may have. + +In the Silence a man may change his thinking as in no other way, +therefore, may change his heart, change his whole being, change his +environment, change every condition to which he was subject. + +The human body may be likened to a harp. When man thinks rightly his +body is in tune; but wrong thinking creates inharmony in the body and +produces sickness. Wrong thinking produces inharmony in the mind, +which, of course, disconnects man from rightful association with the +Divine. A man must, therefore, think right. Yet, because of centuries +of erroneous conception of God and of the world, man has been a +negative instead of a positive being, and his unwisdom has reacted upon +the present generation. + +We are mental sending and receiving stations. What we receive depends +upon how we are thinking Now. For success, health and happiness we must +in the silent chambers of the soul change our thinking if we are +holding negative or inharmonious thoughts. In the Silence there is +presented to man his greatest opportunity to change his thinking. Wrong +thinking produces inharmony of the body which in turn produces +sickness. If we change to right thinking we have health, success and +happiness. Therefore the Silence when properly used re-harmonizes our +bodies and minds through the simple agency of right thinking. + +"There are steps of approach to the Silence. Stillness is one thing and +the Silence is another. One may quiet himself physically and not be +still, and he may be still without entering the Silence. When one +becomes physically and mentally at rest, he is apt to become receptive +to psychic influences; and when these are not desired it is advisable +to protect oneself while mentally negative. One may affirm his Oneness +with God, his being surrounded and protected by the divine Goodness, +and may symbolize this by enveloping himself in thought with the white +light of love or the mellowed tints of sunshine. + +"With the senses calmed and unresponsive to the slower vibrations, but +responsive to the quicker ones, a peace and calm pervade one's mind, +and it becomes consciously receptive to higher vibrations of vital +energy. Immune from the lesser harmonies, one opens himself to the +greater ones, which are always seeking avenues of expression. With the +greater influx of the One Life, a sense of power steals over one and he +becomes conscious of increased vigor and vitality. + +"In relinquishing specific thoughts, one opens inwardly rather than +outwardly, and becomes receptive to subconscious impressions that are +directed by his conscious affirmation of fundamental Truth. The +subconscious responds by returning to the conscious the logical +sequences of the Truths that have been consciously impressed upon it. +The subconscious follows the lead given to it by the conscious +affirmations of Truth, and it brings back the consciousness of those +Truths in their various ramifications." + + + + +Health Silence + +Select one or more of the affirmations or formulas below to hold in +thought while in the Silence. You may change or vary these as you +choose: + + Soul is health, spirit is health, God is health, I am + health. Since there is but one mind, there is but one + mentality. This mind and mentality is God; God is health. I + am health. + + "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious + and happy and what I am myself I desire for everyone else." + + "I am filled with the abundant, intelligent, ever-present life of + Spirit. It flows through me freely, cleansing, healing, purifying + and vitalizing every part. I am one with this life and in it I am + every whit whole." + + "The all-powerful Christ Mind in me dissolves and dissipates + every adverse thought. My body is the pure and Holy Temple of + the Living God, and every organ and every function is now + in Divine Order and Harmony." + + All the organs of my body are functioning normally and I am + well, whole and complete. + + All is mind, all is God, all is universal energy. I am part + of creative force and I am health, abundance, joy and peace. + + I am filled, I am thrilled with Life Eternal and I radiate + that life within to me and without to all. + + Every experience of my life has been for my good and I am + happy in living. + + God is Spirit. I (use your own name) am life. Life Spirit is + now flowing through me freely and I am well, whole and + complete. + + "Be still and know that I am God." + +USE THE FOLLOWING AS A BASIS FOR YOUR MEDITATION AS YOU DEMONSTRATE +HEALTH. OF COURSE, YOU MAY USE OTHER THOUGHTS PROVIDED THEY ARE +CONSTRUCTIVE HEALTH THOUGHTS. + +You may practice the Silence sitting, reclining, or in bed. + +There is no better way to learn how to relax than by going into the +Silence. Are you tense? Let go. Relax. + +Then direct the mind to go from one part of the body to another. Take a +deep breath between each change of your consciousness. Be sure to use +the diaphragmatic or abdominal breathing--breathing through the +nostrils, mouth closed until the muscles of the abdomen expand. + +The best time to hold the Silence is as you retire at night, and just +as you awaken in the morning.[2] But you should hold your thought at +least three times a day, without stress or strain, without doubt or +worry, passive in mind and body--perfectly relaxed. + +Hold the Silence or thought upon retiring at night, awakening in the +morning, and at noon day. Of course, you may take any other time that +is convenient. You may concentrate on the roadway, street car, home or +office, but it is well, if possible, to have one room for your Silence. +Most people in that way will build up stronger vibrations. At noon now +there are all over the world thousands of others holding Silence so +that there is a great combined mental force working together at one +time for success, health, prosperity and happiness, and we therefore +get the benefit of this great vibration. + +The more often you hold the Silence without stress or strain, as a +rule, the quicker may be the demonstration. + +The real part of me is Spirit, not matter. I believe that this body of +mine is a Tabernacle for the Spirit. The real "I am" within me is +therefore Spirit. The real "me" is Spirit. + +This Spirit is the God Spirit. This is what Jesus meant when in the +fourteenth chapter of John and again in the seventeenth chapter of the +same Gospel, speaking to His Disciples He referred to "I in you, you in +Me and We in God." + +My Spirit is a part of the God Spirit. God is health, God is +perfection, God is abundance, God is harmonious. Therefore, the real "I +am" is God; the real "I am" is health, perfection, abundance and +harmony. + +When I am sick I know that it is the material of me that is sick, not +the God Spirit; it is my _physical_ being which is out of harmony, it +is this Tabernacle of which Paul speaks, housing my spirit, which gives +me pain and suffering. The real "me" is not sick, it is _my body_. + +For centuries we have held to a wrong idea of life. We have thought +that life is material; but life is spiritual, it is the invisible +within me which is eternal, which is God. Many still believe that life +is material and matter, instead of mind and spirit. I no longer hold +that conception. I believe that all is mind and Spirit. + +Just here is where the healing methods of drugs and the scientist's +explanation of life is so limited. Not until we recognize that life is +really a thing of spirit--not matter but mind--not material but +spiritual--do we come into an understanding of Truth. + +Jesus said, "God is Spirit," and on different occasions told His +Disciples that this Spirit was within them as well as within Himself. +Therefore, this same Spirit is within me and this same Spirit is the +God Spirit of health, abundance, happiness, harmony and perfection. + +God is all health, all abundance, all harmony, peace and perfection. +Therefore the God Spirit within me is the same. I am sick in body; not +in mind, not in Spirit. + +Inasmuch as I cannot conceive of God being sick neither can I conceive +of my Spirit being sick. My spirit is health, perfection and harmony. +My body may not be well, but since mind is all, since this material is +subject to the spiritual, since matter is subject to mind, I believe +and affirm that my health does not depend upon matter but upon the God +Spirit within me. It depends not upon the material but the spiritual, +upon the God mind within. + +Just as wood when made into a violin and properly tuned, will give +forth harmony, so my body, though made in the material, when properly +tuned by mind will give forth harmonious living, perfect health. + +As the tree standing in the forest may be made into the violin music +box of harmony, so my body, the material in the forest of matter, may +be put in tune, become harmonious and be raised to perfection by the +Master Musician, God--His mind within me. + +God is all health. No one could conceive of God as being sick. I can +visualize only the eternal spirit of the Infinite Father. Perfection +existing in everything and I being a child in Spirit, am well, whole +and complete in Spirit. My real "I am" is well. + +Science now asserts that matter is composed of twelve octaves, just as +in music. My body is the composite of these twelve octaves. Science +also says that every cell atom, every electron in my body is +intelligent. + +This spirit of mine is housed in the Tabernacle of the body which is +composed of millions and millions of cells, all of which having +intelligence respond in my body according to the way I think. Every +word I entertain, every thought I hold, influences everyone of the +millions of cells making up this Tabernacle. + +My body is made whole and complete physically. That is, all the cells +of my body are made over new every eleven months. The body I have today +is not the body I had eleven months ago. I get a new body every eleven +months and my body is today what my thinking was yesterday, the day +before that and the months before that. My body in the future depends +upon my thinking in the future. I am what I think I am. + +When I affirm that I am well, whole and complete; that I am perfect, +harmonious and strong, I am suggesting to every atom in my body +perfection and every atom in turn begins to make my body over, new in +health and and in perfection. + +I may or I may not have to wait for the element of time to make over +every cell. That may be done spontaneously and instantly. There is no +limitation to the power of God so I shall not set a time limit for my +healing, knowing that all things are possible with the Father. I affirm +that now I have that which I desire. I know that now the Spirit of +divine health is surging through me, touching and reaching every atom +of my body and that now the God Spirit within me is perfect and that +Spirit makes my body perfect. + +"Man is a Spiritual Being. Man expresses himself mentally and manifests +himself physically. The One Life animates all that exists. Harmony of +existence depends upon the polarities of the three aspects of life. The +mind is at ease when open to the inflow of the Spirit. It is discordant +when it follows sensory impressions. The body is healthy when +responsive to the direction of the spiritualized mind. It becomes +diseased when it accepts the physical as its guide. One achieves mental +ease and physical health through his mental polarity. If open to the +physical and closed to the spiritual, discord will prevail. If open to +the spiritual and closed to the physical, he lives the One Life, in +mental ease and physical health. I open my mind to the inflow of the +Spirit. I place my body under the control of my spiritualized mind. I +feel the One Life animate my mind and my body. I AM a Spiritual Being. +I AM Perfect Health!" + + * * * * * + + + +Miscellaneous Silence[3] + +THOUGHT TO HOLD IN THE SILENCE FOR ABUNDANCE + +(See also Abundance, page 23) + +"The Universal Abundant Spirit Supplies All My Needs." + +There is no want or limitation in the law. If, perchance, there should +appear to be lack of, or need of, abundance in our lives, it is because +of wrong thinking--not because there is a lack of abundance. Therefore, +we should enter the Silence with the profound faith and conviction that +the world is filled with plenty, and that all our needs are most +bountifully supplied. + +The mind should be saturated with the conviction that all life is +filled with abundance--all space is overflowing with abundance--all +living comes from an abundant source of supply. + +In a Universe where this is true, there can be no want, no lack for you +or yours (for me or mine). + +As you take your exercises this month, take the affirmation above. As +you walk on the street to your office, or place of business, continue +this thought. As you go about your daily duties in the home or +workshop, let the mind be saturated with a spirit, a feeling and +thinking of abundance--"The opulence of the Universal Source of Supply +now meets all my needs," "The Abundant Life Giving Spirit of Prosperity +now leads and guides me into the paths of plenty, peace and power," "My +mind is filled with prosperous thoughts, my being is pulsating in +abundant rhythm, my soul is uplifted and sustained by a thousand +thoughts of ever-present abundance, prosperity and opulence." + +As these thoughts are maintained and repeated again and again, absorbed +and sunk deep into the subconscious mind, know that all of your needs +are this minute supplied. Know that you could not ask for anything from +the Universal Spirit--Father, God--without that Spirit being most +willing to supply, instantly, all your needs. The spirit and body are +well, but the flesh is weak. Allow your flesh to be stimulated, and +your body to respond by thoughts of abundance, prosperity and opulence. + +"I am now rich in thought, rich in body and rich in spirit. I am now +part of the abundant ever-present spirit of prosperity and opulence. +All that I need is now mine, mine, mine." + +The Universal Abundant Spirit supplies all my needs. + + * * * * * + + + +THOUGHT TO HOLD IN MEDITATION IN THE SILENCE + +FOR MISFORTUNES, GRIEF, MISTAKES, REVERSES, FAILURE, SORROW, LOSS AND +DISAPPOINTMENT + +"All is Good." + +We are entering upon a new consciousness for the human race, a higher +plane of mentality, and a greater development of the spiritual life. + +In spirit, of course, there is no wrong, no sorrow, no grief, no +misfortune, no losses, no reverses. In short all is perfection. + +The age in which we are living has not yet developed this spiritual +understanding. We are still of the earth--earthly--and we are still in +that consciousness where the physical is affected by seeming +misfortunes, reverses, sorrows, griefs, trouble, sickness, etc. We may +be wise in not expecting that suddenly this generation of man will +reach that spiritual plane where there will be no recognition of +anything except good. + +We are a part of the Infinite Spirit ourselves and, of course, in +spirit, we are perfection. But this physical body of ours manifests +imperfection from time to time, because of our past training and past +thinking, because of our own consciousness. In time there is no doubt +in my mind but that the spirit within will make a perfect body without. +This perfection will be recognized in health and in peace of mind. It +will be recognized so that there will be no such thing as misfortunes, +sorrows, reverses, failures, griefs, disappointments or losses being +able to affect our mentality or our body. In this state of +consciousness, as we are emerging from the chrysalis, material stage of +man into the greater life, into the deeper spiritual understanding, we +are subject to certain conditions not conducive to peace of mind +without an effort. In other words, we recognize, or feel the effects of +losses, misfortunes, disappointments, sorrows, griefs, etc. We +recognize now, that the time is coming when the spirit will be so +completely in control of matter in the body, that we will not recognize +any inharmony. To reach that Great Spirit is one of the big forward +steps in this generation. To reach that spiritual plane also means the +right kind of thinking now. We plan, today, for tomorrow. This is true +in every walk of life. + +We plan our home today--and build it tomorrow. We make our merchandise +today and market it tomorrow. We sow our seed today and we reap the +harvest tomorrow. We build our career today, little by little, and we +reach the outcome tomorrow. Therefore, our thinking today will change +our tomorrow. The thinking of this generation will change the condition +of tomorrow's generation. If tomorrow's generation is going to be free +from the recognition of sorrows, misfortunes, griefs, fears, pain, +losses, failures, reverses, inharmony, discord, etc., it depends upon +our seed sowing. + +Our seed sowing today should be "All is Good." All is Good in spirit. +You can say that and be honest with yourself. All is perfection in +spirit. All is good for us in spirit. All is good for our lives here. +Spirit transcends matter. When we recognize, affirm, and continue to +hold the constructive thought that All is Good in spirit, we are +changing our own mental attitude, our own bodies, all matter in +general--getting ready for the greater realization of the spiritual +manifestation in the next generation. + +Therefore, for your own good here today in success, prosperity and +happiness as well as in health, peace and harmony, begin to pronounce +over everything in life, _All is Good_. If you have any +misunderstandings, _All is Good_. If you have any losses, _All is +Good_, any reverses, _All is Good_, any sorrow, _All is Good_, any +inharmony, _All is Good_. In everything at all that is out of +perfection you must recognize only the good. ALL IS GOOD. + +Sending your thought energy by repeating _All is Good_, and thinking +_All is Good_, and living _All is Good_, you will actually, in this +day, overcome your difficulty, and turn all of your mistakes, blunders +and misfortunes into stepping stones for your own success, health and +happiness. + +I enter the Silence this month, this day, this hour and this minute. My +mind is obsessed and under control of the Divine Spirit, I recognize +here and now only good. I see in my fellowmen only perfection and good. +I see in nature all around me only perfection and good. I see in every +transaction of life only the perfect good. I see in every activity of +my experience, and in every form, color and thought, good. _All is +Good_ for me now, today and forever. + +God is spirit; spirit is love; love is perfection; God's spirit is +harmonious, I am perfect, I am love, perfection and harmonious. + +ALL IS GOOD. + + * * * * * + + + +FOR HARMONY, PEACE, COMFORT + + +Base your thought for this Silence upon the following. You may add any +constructive thought you choose. + +"My Subconscious Mind, I Desire and Command You to Have Peace, Harmony +and Justice Reign in the Hearts of Men Everywhere." + +I realize that there can be no negative thinking for my destruction, +downfall or harm sent out by anyone else that can reach my +consciousness, or do me ill, unless I am afraid that such negative +thinking will produce the evil effects others are planning. + +I know that Thought is Energy. This is scientifically demonstrated, and +I realize that a constructive thought has much more energy than a +destructive thought. I know, because it has been conclusively proven, +that constructive thinking will blast away every negative +thought-current sent out by one person, or by a thousand. + +Therefore, if there should be any inharmonious thoughts anywhere in the +world--any discordant thought-current by those who seek my downfall, or +block my progress, or by those who would endeavor to hurt my +reputation--I know that by holding a harmonious attitude of peace, +love, joy and success for everyone, including those who would do me +wrong that such constructive thought-currents will blast away all of +the discordant and inharmonious mental currents of evil so that they +will not even reach my conscious mind. + +I also realize, when I hold my silent thought, "_my subconscious mind I +desire and command you to have peace and harmony and justice reign_," +that I am sending out the energy of construction which is bound to turn +all of the efforts for my embarrassment and destruction into a higher +current for my greater achievement. + +Therefore, I send out blessings and thanksgiving to the very ones who +would work my downfall. I charge my subconscious mind to let peace, +harmony and justice reign so that all things will work together for the +good for me and for those who are thinking evil. + +If I should think it hard to send out blessings to my enemies, I +remember the affirmation of the Greatest Teacher of all ages Who said, +"Forgive until seventy times seven." I remember that when He, Himself, +was reviled, reviled not in turn. I remember that when His merciless +enemies had nailed Him to the cross, had apparently crushed His fondest +ambition, had scorned and reviled the Kingdom of which He had spoken, +and had tortured Him as He hung on the cross, He uttered the immortal, +lovable, constructive words which have rung throughout the centuries, +and will continue to bless all mankind throughout eternity: "Father, +forgive them, for they know not what they do." + +So those who would try to block my way, curb my progress or put thorns +in my crown are doing so "not knowing what they are doing." "Whatsoever +a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Instead of hurting me, they are +sowing weed seeds, which shall bring forth a harvest of weeds and tares +in their own lives, and not in mine. + +I, therefore, do not wish them harm, nor think that they should feel +the reaction. I do not have to concern myself about the negative people +in the world--for the law takes care of them. + +I shall always think constructive thoughts, harmonious thoughts and +loving thoughts. "My Subconscious Mind, I desire and command you to +have peace, harmony and justice reign, and know that all things are now +working together for the good of my would-be enemies and for myself." + +I relax (here pause and wait), take time for meditation (here pause and +rest relaxed) and I become happy in the silence--holding my thought of +peace, harmony and justice reigning in the hearts of men +everywhere--and, as I relax and wait, I feel my vibrations rise. I am +resting at ease, in faith. (Pause.) I am perfectly calm and contented. +(Pause.) I am sending out love, peace and harmonious thoughts, and, as +they go, love, peace and harmony will come to me. These are now +returning. They enter my being and uplift my soul. + +I am, therefore, sending out a strong current of spiritual blessings, +with such a spirit of helpfulness, that I am getting back the same +which I send out. My harvest shall be peace, love, joy, harmony, +justice and contentment, because I am _sowing_ the seed of love, peace, +harmony, joy, contentment and justice into the great subconscious soil +of the universe. + +"My Subconscious Mind, I desire and command you to have peace, harmony +and justice reign everywhere throughout the world." + +I wait--I rest--I am relaxed--I am at ease and filled with the spirit +of harmony. I wait. I listen for the spirit within. I feel and hear the +voice of infinite love sending back into my consciousness these +thoughts which I send out. + +I know that my every constructive thought blasts away a thousand +destructive ones. Therefore, I think peace, joy, love, harmony and +justice, and, as I utter these words slowly and prayerfully, I feel my +vibration rising--I experience ease of mind and peace of soul. Harmony +is now within and without. + +I realize that I cannot send out my affirmation of peace, love, joy and +harmony without peace, love, joy and harmony coming back to me. I, +therefore, send out my affirmation: "My Subconscious Mind, I desire and +command you to have peace, harmony and justice reign-in the hearts of +men wherever they may be." I wait and listen--perfectly relaxed and at +ease--and I feel the vibrations which I sent out coming back to me. + +I, therefore, know that no harm can befall my dwelling place. I know +that whatever evil thoughts have been sent out for my destruction have +been counter-blasted, and that now everything is working for my good. + +As I recognize, and realize, that all things work together for my good, +I am sending out love-thoughts that all things are working together for +the good of those who would do me wrong. "They know not what they do." +They alone will have to reap the harvest of the weeds they are sowing. +My wish for them is that they may learn their lesson easily and early. +My blessings I send out to them. + +Again I wait. Again I listen. Again I am at ease, happy, and at rest. +Love and blessings, peace and harmony, I send out--love and blessings, +peace and harmony, come back. "My Subconscious Mind, I desire and +command you to have peace, harmony and justice reign. My blessings upon +all mankind--my love to everyone!" + + * * * * * + + + +THOUGHT TO HOLD AS A BASIS FOR THIS SILENCE + +FOR SUCCESS + +"I Have Faith and Conviction in My Ultimate Success." + +I believe the Scripture: "My ways are not your ways, saith the Lord; +neither are my thoughts your thoughts, for as the heavens are higher +than the earth, so are my thoughts higher than your thoughts." + +I understand by this Scripture that the thoughts of the Infinite God +are far above the understanding of finite me; that God's ways are +higher than my ways. "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to +perform." + +I also have faith and conviction in my ultimate success because I am a +part of the Infinite Spirit, and in the Infinite Spirit, there can be +no failure. I am harmonious, complete and successful in Spirit--in God. + +I may not see my success today, or I may feel as though I have +accomplished little, but I know that all my efforts and energies, in +the past, present and future, are working together for my good. + +Therefore, I shall hold the thought that my success has already been +achieved. I am Success, I have success now and forever! Therefore, I +think only success; I talk only success; I believe only in success; I +am demonstrating success, and I know that success is mine. + +The needed lessons I am having now, have had in the past, and may +require in the future, are but necessary stepping stones to my greater +success. The apparent delay of my greater success means that I am now +demonstrating more success than I could otherwise have. Dreams that I +have dreamed, visions that I have visualized, and the goal that I have +mapped out, are all a part of my ultimate greater success. I have that +now! I am successful now! + +As Moses went into the land of Midian, and spent forty years of his +life as a shepherd in the wilderness--(apparently with no future before +him--which, however, was the great schooling necessary for his greater +triumphant success in the future)--so I may be, in _my_ land of Midian, +apparently, only a sheep herder, but in reality getting the necessary +training for my greater and ultimate success. + +Therefore, I now rejoice in every experience I have--giving thanks for +every apparent set back, and for every "seeming" blocking of my +purposes and aspirations. + +I believe that my past experiences, as well as present happenings, are +for my benefit, and that I could not have been the great success I am, +and shall be, had not the discouragements of yesterday, the +perplexities of today and the drawbacks of tomorrow come into my life. +I realize that I need to go into the land of Midian; that it is as +necessary for me, as it was for Moses, to spend a few years in the +wilderness of Life's experience. I am happy to know that I am in such +company as that of the Great Leader of his people, and rejoice in the +thought that the Lord has called me to spend my time in the land of +Midian, getting the necessary training for the greater things the Lord +has in store for me. + +There is no place in the world where clouds do not gather, and storms +do not rage; but when the storms abate, and the skies clear, then do we +appreciate more fully the glories and beauties of God, the Universe and +its natural laws, and Infinite Love. + +However, I know by experience in the land of Midian, where clouds hover +low, and where storms try the soul and body, that the dawn of a new day +shall make life all the sweeter for me and mine. + +Moses could not have enjoyed leading his people into the promised land, +had he not been in the land of Midian. If he had stayed forever in the +Court of Pharaoh, with its attendant luxuries, life would have taken on +a dull, monotonous hue, and his experience would have seemed drab, +wearisome and pale. + +I am glad for the privilege accorded me to be in the land of Midian for +a short time! I know that, as did Moses, I shall enjoy my promised land +all the more when my greater success shall have been well worked out by +the hand of Divinity. + +Faith and conviction in my ultimate greater success is stronger today +than ever! I hold such a strong thought, and such a deep and courageous +faith in the workings of God's plan, that I know I now have that which +has been intended for me, and nothing can take from me that which the +Lord hath prepared for my success, health and happiness. I know, too, +that I shall learn daily to enjoy, appreciate, and make better use of +the success I now possess; that I shall unfold day by day into greater +opportunities for more influence, power, friendship, charity, love, +comradeship and service. I know that my present success is but a part +of the greater success which the Lord has waiting for me--"just around +the corner". + +Therefore, I shall offer up prayers of thanksgiving and gratitude; I +shall work harder, being more particular in the preparation for my +greater work, than I have been in the past--never doubting but that +every moment spent in this greater preparation will bring added +interests, and a greater success in the future. + +Even as Moses did not doubt the wisdom of the Lord for a greater future +(when in the land of Midian for forty years), so shall I not doubt His +ways today. + +I claim, with a joyful heart and an attitude of thanksgiving, that my +life could not have been as great in the future had I been denied my +present experience. I know that greater things are in store for me, +because God's thoughts are greater than my thoughts; because He is +giving me that training now, in my land of Midian, which I most need. I +trust the guiding Spirit of Infinite Love to lead me, at the right +time, into my life's Promised Land. + +The success today, in my land of Midian, is attracting unto me the +greater influence and power in my Court of Pharaoh, and in my +leadership, as I lead others into that promised land which the Lord has +prepared for me and mine. + +I smile--I sing--I rejoice, and offer thanksgiving and gratitude for my +success now and forever. Surely I believe more and more: "My thoughts +are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways, saith the Lord," +and all things are now working together for my good. + +Therefore, I have faith and conviction in my ultimate success--in my +greater success--in my greatest success! + + * * * * * + + + +ABUNDANCE + +(See also Abundance, page 11) + +"There is abundance in the world for me given by the bountiful hand of +Omnipotence. I gratefully claim and accept all the supply for my +needs." + +The old idea of orthodox prayer was that of supplication and begging. I +have spent a whole night at a time begging for a few pennies and +supplicating for the salvation of others. What waste of energy. Each +time that we send up such a weak supplication as the attitude of a +beggar, with the timid, frightful thoughts that only a beggar's mind +can have--this condition of mind, cross circuits the power to bring +into our lives the very things we most desire. + +When the beggar extends his hand for a copper, he knows that not +everyone who passes is going to give him a coin. He, therefore, +solicits more or less mechanically, with a mind not positive or sure. +His hand is extended in timidity and weakness. Now and then he gets a +coin from a sympathetic passer-by. The same principle holds true for +the man who prays in the old orthodox fashion. He utters his petitions +with doubts and misgivings, with timidity and wonderings. Some of his +prayers are answered--just as the occasional coin is cast to the +beggar. But most of the orthodox prayers sent up in the fashion of +begging and supplicating are never answered. Of necessity, they cannot +be, because the concentration is filled with fear and trembling. + +Only by positive and courageous thinking do we attract to ourselves the +answers to our prayers. When we are permeated with the spirit of doubt, +our petitions are cross-circuited. + +Therefore, in making your affirmation this time, rest assured that the +abundant spirit of the Universal Supply has everything you need, and +has it now. You have only to put your mind in a condition to receive. + +You do not have to beg the sun for its rays, nor God for His love. It +is there for the taking. Many of us keep the sunshine of abundance out +of our lives by pulling down the curtain of doubt--just as we may go +into a room, pull down a shade and keep out the sun. James Russell +Lowell, seventy-five years ago, told us the same story in "The Vision +of Sir Launfal," when he said that "Heaven is given away and God may be +had for the asking". + +By gratefully accepting all of the supply for your needs, you are +running up the shade of positive faith and letting the sunlight of +abundance in. + +Send out the desire for your supply to the Universal Mind and then +rest--feeling that it has been acquired. Of course, the stronger you +concentrate, without stress and strain (as outlined in "Practical +Psychology and Sex Life," by the author, under the chapter "How to get +what you want," and chapters on "Concentration"), and the more positive +and courageous your concentration, the stronger will be your mental +thought currents and consequently the quicker your demonstration. + +_Omnipotence has provided for me and mine_, I raise the shade of my +faith and let in the Sunlight of Abundance. I know I do not have to beg +for this, for it is mine now. When first I saw the light of day, the +bountiful spirit of the Father made all preparations for my life's +necessities and pleasures. They have been in the world since I was +born. I now claim and accept my supply. + +From now on the spirit goes before me--making easy and prosperous all +my ways--and I have abundance for every need. From the bountiful hand +of Omnipotence I have abundant health--I have abundant love--I have +abundant prosperity--I have abundant peace. My Father careth for the +grass of the field and the birds of the air--and He careth for me. I +realize it. + +Think it and live it now. + +Abundance for all my needs is mine, now and forever. + + * * * * * + + + +HEALTH, SUCCESS, PROSPERITY, UNIVERSAL PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD + +"God Made From One Blood All the Nations of the World." + +As I enter the Silence this time, expecting to get health, success, +prosperity and happiness, I am going to have my mind filled with the +Spirit of Divine Unity. Unity among the nations of the world, unity in +abundance, unity in love, unity in prosperity, unity in health and +unity in spirit. + +There can be no separation in Spirit. All is Mind, all is God, all is +Universal Energy. I am part of the creative force. I am a part and +parcel of the Unity of Love, Nature and God. Therefore, where God is, I +recognize a completeness. And I, being a part of God, a part of this +spirit, a part of the power with Him, am, therefore, at one with God +and all thought. + +I am therefore at one with God and all spirit. Nothing can separate me +from the love of God, but my own mental attitude. Nothing can separate +me from abundance, happiness, success, prosperity and love, but my own +wrong thinking. Love is dealt in the world in the spirit of God and, +therefore, recognizing this unity of love, I am a part of it and have +perfect love, success, prosperity, abundance and health. + +The ocean is composed of water. If I take a bucket of water from the +ocean, it still is the water of the ocean. I may take this water to an +island in the sea. Though I have separated this water from the main +body of the ocean, it still is the water from the sea. But, as the +water is separated from the main body of the ocean, it loses its power, +its strength and many of its cardinal properties. I am the same as the +sea water when I, by wrong thinking:--whether it be jealousy, envy, +hatred, misunderstanding, worry or fear--separate myself from the +spirit of God. I am as one going upon an island of humanity. I am still +of that same spirit; but it has been separated, so that within me, it +has lost many of its cardinal virtues. These virtues are there, but I +do not recognize them. Separation has lessened my strength, my +vitality, my power, my health, my happiness, my prosperity and my joy. + +Just as it is necessary for the bucket of water to remain in the ocean +in order to contain all of its original power and to retain all of its +original strength, to be intact, so is it necessary for man to keep in +the spirit of at-one-ment with the Father, that we may manifest daily +God's principle of Unity with God, man and nature. + +When we have maintained that attitude of one-ness with the Father in +all respects, we are then recognizing and expecting, in this act, the +fullness of our spirit. This fullness of our spirit will, therefore, +give us health, prosperity and happiness. + +When I have a mind that is filled with negative, discordant or +inharmonious thoughts, I am separating myself from the full expression +of the Divine within me. I am the bucket of water going stale on a +human island; but, when I make my spirit at one with the Father by +harmonious thinking, by love, kindness, good will, fellowship and +co-operation, I am not only maintaining all of my original properties, +but I am in correspondence with the Infinite Spirit so that I can +manifest and express His original spirit in every particular. + +Where there is a unity of spirit, there is unity of all the good things +of life. Perhaps I am not drawing from the bank of life's experience +everything that I ought to have--because I have separated myself from +the spiritual board of directors in this bank of life, and am not +getting my dividends on time. My mental attitude is the cause; +therefore, as I enter the Silence this time, I am going to maintain the +faith and the love-spirit of my unity with all things. I maintain, +therefore, my at-one-ment with God, with man and nature. I maintain +that all of the original strength of spirit is mine. I hold that the +manifestations of this original spirit will produce everything in my +life for my ultimate good, because I am at one with the Father. All +things are mine. + +The Silence, this day, finds me at one with all. The Silence, this day, +finds me at peace with God, Man and Nature. The Silence, this day, +finds me in at-one-ment with God and all, in unity with every +conceivable thing in the universe. Therefore, my unity, my at-one-ment +with the Father, my wholeness of spirit with God brings into my life +everything for my good. + +All things work together for my good in my at-one-ment with Man, God +and Nature--in my unity with all. + + * * * * * + + + +HOW TO HAVE MORE + +"I Am Unselfish in Action, Being and Motive." + +The science of psychology as applied to everyday life is, strictly +speaking, a new science. It is a matter of thousands of people in the +world all of a sudden coming in contact with certain laws, which make +them successful, healthy and prosperous. + +It is quite natural, because man is interested more in himself than in +any one else, that, when he finds these laws may be applied to give him +more abundance, the tendency may be to use these laws for selfish +purposes. + +Nothing could be more unpsychological. The laws should be used for the +individual, but should not stop there. Each individual who is profiting +by the operation of the laws, or understanding of psychology, ought not +only to get everything himself that psychology can give him, but he +should pass these on to others; he should tell others about it; he +should cry it from the housetops and megaphone it from the street +corners. He should not want to get everything himself, but wish the +same that he has to everyone else. By doing this, the law will rebound, +and, instead of having less, he will have still more than he would have +were he thinking about the laws for himself alone. + +The human race is made up of a whole lot of selfishness, and the man, +or the woman, who hopes to get the most out of life and out of +psychology, must learn at the very beginning of his or her +understanding of the laws. Then, only, will the best come to those who +are absolutely unselfish. + +If there is any selfish motive or selfish desire in your heart, you may +operate the law and get a certain amount of benefit, nay, you may even +become rich by it and have great power, but it should not end there. +Your riches are for the use of others, as well as for yourselves, and +the real psychologist, in getting his riches, will pass on to others +that which he has. The real psychologist, in getting more power, will +share it with others and will use it for the good of others, as well as +for his own personal aggrandizement. + +Therefore hold the thought: "I am unselfish in action, being and +motive." + +Many a person never will get the demonstrations he wants, because the +channel of abundance and prosperity, happiness and joy, is clogged up +with his own selfish attitude. The selfish person who does operate the +laws, does so by overbalancing his selfishness with some other great +virtue. But when he is extremely selfish, he may never have +demonstrations as he wants; he may not have enough other virtues to +outweigh his selfishness. He may live for years, and know what the laws +are, and yet lack this one little thing, _unselfishness_, in operating +the laws for his own abundance, prosperity or happiness. + +If you are not having the demonstrations you want, it is because there +is a kink in the mind somewhere. The kink may be selfishness, or it may +be pride, haughtiness, duplicity, dishonesty, hatred, envy or jealousy. + +This time we are going to hold the thought: "I am unselfish in action, +being and motive," and each time we go into the Silence, this unselfish +spirit shall be the guiding-star of our thoughts. It will be the +personal touch with the Infinite Spirit itself. + +The beginning of life's happiness, as well as the end thereof, is the +spirit of unselfishness. + +"I am unselfish in action, being and motive." + + * * * * * + + + +ALL THINGS ARE IN DIVINE ORDER + +"Divine Harmony and Peace Actuate Every Thought and Action of My +Being." + +I realize that all things are in Divine order for me and mine. There +can be no disturbance in the world without or the world within my being +but that is in perfect harmony with the Infinite. + +The circumstances outside of my life are all for my good. My +environment where I am now and the conditions in which I am living, I +make harmonize for me by my attitude of mind. I think only peace, I +breathe only love, I speak only harmony. My conditions and my +environment, although outwardly inharmonious to my likes and +tendencies, are changed by the alchemy of my thinking into a perfect +symphony of happiness for me now. + +"Divine Harmony and Peace actuate every thought and action of my +being." This thought is energy, this thought is life, this thought is +power. The energy, life and power of this thought weaves all of my +diversified Life's experiences into a Divine pattern of perfection for +me. There can be no trouble, disappointments, sorrow, reverses, loss or +discord but that shall be changed for my good when I think Spirit and +live the affirmation of today, namely, "Divine Harmony and Peace +actuate every thought and action of my being." All things are in Divine +order. + +The Spirit of Divinity prompts my thinking. The Divine within me +actuates my actions. The God Powers within, this minute are working all +things together for my good. There can be no danger come nigh my +dwelling for my body is the temple of the living God. Therefore, the +God Spirit within me protects me from all harm, inspires me to high +ideals, lifts me to heights of righteousness and fills my soul with +love. Love for my circumstances, love for my present conditions, love +for my environment, love for every one in the world, love for all of +the creation of God. + +Therefore I have no enemies, for I love all. I recognize no +misfortunes, for the love energy within turns all misfortunes and +sorrows into stepping stones for my greater advancement and +achievement. The God energy within transforms all inharmonious +conditions without into a perfect harmony within. The Kingdom of God +now reigns within me and I am at ease, at peace and at-one-ment with +all nature and God. The harmony therefore within me in nature and in +God gives me perfect peace within and perfect peace without. Divine +thought and energy, love and blessing actuate every action of my being. + +Where Divine Love reigns there can be no trouble, no discord, no +inharmony, no lack, no limitation, no sorrow, no grief, no sickness, no +failure. The energy of Divine Love transforms all things into my Good. +The Love and Peace of the Father abideth within me and is manifested +without so that my life is one harmonious whole touching the lives of +all others who come in contact with me so that they, too, feel my +vibrations of at-one-ment with the Father and they in turn become +harmonious and complete in Spirit with man and God. + +Divine Harmony and Peace actuate every thought and action of my being. +All things are in Divine order. + + * * * * * + + + +THOUGHT TO HOLD IN SILENCE AND TO MEDITATE UPON DURING THE DAY + +FOR JUSTICE + +"There's a Spirit of Justice that Secures me in Which is My Own." + +If we reach a consciousness of justice, we need have no doubts as to +our care in every particular while journeying between the two peaks of +eternity--from birth to the Great Divide. + +There is nothing that can defeat justice; and the person who has a +consciousness of justice will attract to himself every conceivable +thing needed for this life, because it will be the logical objective of +justice to supply to each individual that justice for which he thinks. + +That is the reason why this affirmation is so complete in itself; +namely, "There is a spirit of JUSTICE that secures me in which is my +own, and this security is provided already for us by the Spirit of +Justice." + +It would be a psychological paradox to think that Justice could be +defeated. That could not be. Perhaps it appears to you that your own +has not yet been secured to you, but, remember that life is +fleeting--that a year is as a tale that is told--and that a decade is +but as "Ships that pass in the night"--when the years have vanished in +the distance. + +If you have lived a life of justice, and it appears now that your own +is not coming to you, that someone else is having more of the good +things of life than you, and that someone seems to have used the art of +the man of injustice, be not deceived, God is not mocked, for +"whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." If you have sowed +equity and justice in the days that are gone, be sure that the same +equity and justice will be secured to you. + +The Scriptures tell us not to think too much of the man who is +nourishing like a green bay tree, for his efforts are soon cut off and +he vanisheth away. + +One who is astride the scales of justice, and who thinks that he can +hold the balance, is gravely mistaken. He may have occupied his present +position for many years, first putting his weight on one side and then +on the other in an effort to keep his equilibrium. Perhaps today it +appears that the scales of justice are being well manipulated by his +insincerity, duplicity or trickery--but it is like the green bay tree. +It will soon pass away. + +Justice is as eternal as God Himself, and there is no more possibility +of defeating it in the individual's life, in your own life, in the life +of a nation or in the history of mankind, than there is likelihood that +the sun can get away from its own rays. The justice of God is eternal, +or, in other words, God always is Justice, personified. Where God +rules, and where His laws and mandates have been given by His own fiat, +"man, neither flesh nor the devil" can defeat the ultimate outcome of +justice. Your own is secured to you. + +Man himself is fashioned by the finger of Divinity. The crown of +justice is placed upon his brow and no ruthless hand of greed, +duplicity or evil dexterity can ever tear it away. It is there to stay, +and the man who has been thus crowned because he has lived in this +consciousness of justice--in the consciousness of God Himself--is bound +to have come back to him that which he has thought, that which he has +sowed--Justice. You are secured by this spirit of justice. + +Perhaps already your life has had the law of compensation bring to you +more than to others of whom you may think, and who, because of their +bank account, get more out of life than you. A man may have a million +dollars, and yet not be as happy as the laborer living in a thatched +cottage. _Perhaps Justice has tipped the scales in your favor +already--and you have failed to recognize it. Perhaps you have +children, loved ones, family and fireside which bring more comfort to +you than the land owner gets who lives in his palace on the hill_. + +Half of Life, or the joys of Life, depend upon our ability to recognize +and appreciate the blessings we already have. Therefore, in counting +your blessings, or discounting your blessings, be sure that you use a +moral standard, instead of a material standard, in gauging whether +justice has been meted out to you or not. + +The Justice of the Eternal secures me, the Spirit of Justice secures me +in which is mine own. Believe it, think it, live it, claim it and +Justice shall be yours. + + * * * * * + + + +Question--In practicing the Silence, the mind seems to flutter all +about and there is great nervous tension. What is wrong? + +Answer--Lack of concentration. This person ought to follow some +simple exercise of concentration, such as given below, until the mind +has control over the body. By practicing a few of the simple exercises +given below, fifteen minutes a day, and then taking the Silence a few +hours after these exercises have been practiced, the mind will begin to +be under control. + +The nervous tension is caused because of this lack of control, and in +the effort to bring the scattering mind into one focus the reaction +comes upon the nervous system which, in turn, reacts upon the body. + +Practice and exercises for lack of concentration follow. + + + + +EXERCISES + +By Thos. Parker Boyd + + + (1) Select some part of the body, a foot or hand, with the + idea of HEAT. While holding the mind in this attitude, + breathe deeply and steadily, and, in from one to four + minutes, you will feel the warm glow coming to the foot. In + this way, you can soon master the entire body. Begin with the + sense of feeling. If there is an itching of the body, make it + stop by the force of your will. In from three days to three + weeks, you can stop the itching sensation at will. Then try + the habit of sneezing; stubbornly resist the inclination to + sneeze, and you will soon have the mastery. Now try your will + on coughing. When the tickling sensation comes, stop it by + the exercise of your will. You can soon master it. Next try + it on pain. When you feel a pain in the body, instead of + rubbing on liniment, rub in a little will power; soon it will + ease your pain as if by magic. With the fingers of one hand + rub the skin on the back of the other hand, stroking toward + the elbow, and will that all feeling shall disappear. In from + one to three minutes, take a needle, and you can stick it + through the skin on the back of the hand without pain. You + may have to try it a dozen times, but persistence will bring + success. Having mastered the sense of feeling, take up that + of hearing. + + (2) It may seem impossible at first thought, but you have + seen people so absorbed in what they were reading or thinking + that they heard nothing, although you addressed them + directly. They are simply abstracted from all else, and are + thinking of one thing--to the exclusion of everything else. + They entered this state of abstractedness unconsciously. To + do so intentionally, you go by the law of indirectness. For + instance, take sight; concentrate your vision and your whole + attention upon some object, real or imaginary, until soon the + sense of HEARING becomes dormant. A little practice will + enable you to study, think or sleep, regardless of noise. + + (3) Having mastered hearing, begin on SIGHT. You have known + people who walked on the street, looked at you and passed by + without recognition, although they knew you well. A person + deeply thinking on some subject, neither sees nor hears, but + uses the mental sense entirely. The method is to let the eyes + be open, but concentrate the thoughts on hearing or feeling. + + (4) After getting control of your sight, take up the TASTE. + Take some tasteless thing on the tongue, abstract the mind to + something else until the taste becomes dormant. Then take + something with more taste to it, abstracting the taste, until + by this gradual process you can make the sourest pickle + sweet. + + (5) Finally take some light odor, and hold it before the + nostrils, abstracting the attention from the sense of smell, + by hearing or seeing, etc., until by practice you can pass + through the foulest odor without inconvenience or notice. + +Sit or stand absolutely motionless, except your breathing, for one to +five minutes at a time. Do this often. + +Practice closing each finger in rotation; then, when all are closed, +open one at a time very slowly, keeping the attention fixed on what you +are doing. Keep all the other fingers still, save the one you are +exercising with. + +Inhale gradually for ten seconds, then exhale in the same way and time. + +Look steadily at some point or object for a minute without winking the +eye, keeping your attention fixed on the object. + +Look at a picture critically, then close your eyes and mentally +reconstruct it. + +Close your eyes and construct the face of a friend, feature by feature. + +Fix your attention on a hand or foot, hold on it the idea of heat and +continue until the hand or foot feels warm. Then try cold; then try +pain. + +Will that the person in front of you shall turn around or put his hand +on his head or neck. + +Hold your hand on some one in pain and say, "I will the pain to +depart." Repeat till the pain goes. + + * * * * * + + + + +Note.--For a scientific understanding of positive and negative +concentration, see "Practical Psychology and Sex Life," by the author. + + + + +SILENT TREATMENT + +Those at a distance or those who cannot attend my classes may have +silent treatments--distance is no barrier--race or creed no bar to +those who earnestly want to benefit from the Silent Treatment. + +Many marvelous cures have been reported through Silent Treatment. +Business has been increased, positions secured, bad habits broken, +prosperity demonstrated, peace and harmony restored in home and +business. + +This is one of the strongest of Dr. Bush's study features. Use blank on +opposite page for yourself, your friends or those whom you desire to +help. 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My experience in thousands of cases shows that +failure is often due to the wrong application of these laws--to a +misunderstanding of the mental processes necessary to properly focus +the thought waves upon some definite desire and the urge of the +conscious mind for too hasty action. + +The laws of visualization and concentration are well defined and when +properly exercised are without limitation as to success, but to +accomplish results one must understand and use these laws properly. + +You will more readily grasp the principle that governs the laws of +visualization and concentration after reading this little booklet. + +In it Dr. David Bush has gone right down to bed rock--he thoroughly +explains these necessary laws--he puts you right and shows you your +mistakes--he starts you off on the right foot so that you may apply +these laws for your benefit and profit. + +Dr. Bush believes, from his own vast experience, that more people fail +on concentration and visualization than on any other operation of the +laws of mind now being studied or applied, because they only partly +understand these laws. In this pamphlet he shows _why_ the vast +majority of people fail in visualizing. There are natural laws which +are very often cross-circuited by well intentioned people trying to +operate them for their good, all because they fail to understand the +right way. You will understand visualization after you read "Why Some +People Fail in Visualization." + +Send for this book today--you will understand this subject after +reading it--you need it now---send 25c in stamps or coin. + + + + +THE INFLUENCE OF SUGGESTION AND AUTO-SUGGESTION + +In this little booklet Dr. David V. Bush discusses Suggestion and +Auto-Suggestion from a different angle than that in "Practical +Psychology and Sex Life" and "Applied Psychology and Scientific +Living." He takes the practical side of Suggestion and points out its +value and usefulness. He explains the limitations of Suggestion and +deals in a different way with the mental laws that control this +powerful factor for your success. No matter what thought you have given +to this interesting subject--no matter how much you studied Suggestion, +you will be surprised and delighted with the plain everyday way in +which Dr. Bush explains this mental phenomena. + +This is a different angle of Suggestion than in either "Applied +Psychology and Scientific Living" or "Practical Psychology and Sex +Life." Also a different angle than has been printed in the fifty-cent +series by the same author under "The Subconscious Mind." This pamphlet +not only deals differently with the law of Suggestion as mentioned +above, but it is most entertaining, readable and likeable from the +practical side of suggestion. 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"What Is God?"[1] + +These sell at 25c each--Four for one dollar. Order a set now and get as +premiums two Wall Motto Poems, artistically printed on beautiful +cardboard, for Home, Office or Business. Check your choice for two Wall +Motto Poems from the list below: + + Pep. + Old Glory. + Where is Success? + Misfits Can Win. + Pass It Along. + Lift Your Head. + Where God is Found. + The Boss is Watching You. + What is God? + Stick To It. + Charity. + Think Right. + Opportunity. + The Real Success. + The Bull Dog Grip. + It's Better to Smile. + Troubles That Never Came. + If You Would Be a Friend to Man. + + + + + +THE SILENCE: What It Is, How To Use It + + + +Approach to the Silence + + +Wrong thinking produces inharmony in our body, which in turn produces +sickness. Our bodies sometimes are instantly re-harmonized while in the +Silence. In the Silence our minds become passive, open, free and +loving, at which time the Infinite Master of harmony touches the mental +chords of our being and we are well. + +Just as the piano can be tuned, so can the mind. Man's body is made up +of twelve octaves the same as in music. All matter is music. All matter +is composed of twelve octaves. Wrong thinking brings inharmony in some +of the octaves of our body. Right thinking tunes these organs, puts +them back into their normal condition. + +Boys have their little steel magnets by which they pick up small pieces +of steel, pins and so forth. When overworked, these magnets no longer +attract. Then the boys take their magnets, have them rubbed against +strong magnets or remagnetized with an electric current and their power +is quickly restored--so with our bodies. Mind is the re-electrifier and +re-harmonizer of the octaves into all harmony. + +Right thinking, therefore, is the most important thing in life. As a +man thinketh in his heart so is he. Just as a tuning fork near a piano +will respond with a vibration when a key of the same pitch is struck on +the piano nearby, so likewise do the bodies of men respond to proper +stimulus and become in tune. By right thinking man can re-harmonize +himself, can achieve health, success and prosperity. + +To enter the Silence one must first establish perfect relaxation in +mind and body. Then as the consciousness is brought from one part of +the body to another the tuning takes place. + +If the leader in the Silence should be intoning, there will be many in +the audience who will feel tinkling sensations--vibrations--and often +are instantly healed. They have been instantly re-harmonized. Sometimes +it may take several intonings in the Silence for a complete healing. +Should you have a violent vibration, feel no fear, but thank God for +your healing because the more violent the vibration perhaps the worse +has been your condition and the more surely has the re-harmony begun. +Some people will feel this vibration for hours, even days, throughout +which there is always healing. + +Others may not feel the vibration at all, yet if there has been any +inharmony in the bodily organs, these organs are unconscious to the +conscious intoning re-harmonization. Many people who have been healed +of divers and many malignant diseases were at no time conscious of any +vibration. Never be discouraged if you feel no sensation. If you do +feel a vibration, know that you are susceptible and on the high road to +a healing demonstration. + +The one intoning may or may not be feeling vibrations. Religion is the +life of God in the soul of Man. The Silence is the medium by which the +life of God and the soul of man are brought into At-one-ment. + +The Silence is a medium by which man comes in a closer touch with the +Infinite; a medium by which man becomes conscious of his nearness to +the Infinite. The Silence is the meeting place where man's spirit links +with God's spirit; where spirit meets spirit and the marvel of His +grace never ceases. + +The Silence is another way of praying, which is another way of +concentration. It is another way of visualization. + +"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." In the Silence a man can by +his thoughts change his life, his conditions, his environment, his all. +By right thinking man becomes harmonious. A harmonious man--in tune +with the Infinite--is on the King's highway to health, success, +abundance, prosperity, happiness, love and peace. + +By means of wrong thinking our minds are put out of harmony with the +great Infinite spirit of God. "As a man thinketh in his heart so is +he." When wrong thinking becomes right thinking, then man's right +relationship to God is restored. He becomes an open channel for the +influx of the spirit so that whatever demonstration he may desire he +may have. + +In the Silence a man may change his thinking as in no other way, +therefore, may change his heart, change his whole being, change his +environment, change every condition to which he was subject. + +The human body may be likened to a harp. When man thinks rightly his +body is in tune; but wrong thinking creates inharmony in the body and +produces sickness. Wrong thinking produces inharmony in the mind, +which, of course, disconnects man from rightful association with the +Divine. A man must, therefore, think right. Yet, because of centuries +of erroneous conception of God and of the world, man has been a +negative instead of a positive being, and his unwisdom has reacted upon +the present generation. + +We are mental sending and receiving stations. What we receive depends +upon how we are thinking Now. For success, health and happiness we must +in the silent chambers of the soul change our thinking if we are +holding negative or inharmonious thoughts. In the Silence there is +presented to man his greatest opportunity to change his thinking. Wrong +thinking produces inharmony of the body which in turn produces +sickness. If we change to right thinking we have health, success and +happiness. Therefore the Silence when properly used re-harmonizes our +bodies and minds through the simple agency of right thinking. + +"There are steps of approach to the Silence. Stillness is one thing and +the Silence is another. One may quiet himself physically and not be +still, and he may be still without entering the Silence. When one +becomes physically and mentally at rest, he is apt to become receptive +to psychic influences; and when these are not desired it is advisable +to protect oneself while mentally negative. One may affirm his Oneness +with God, his being surrounded and protected by the divine Goodness, +and may symbolize this by enveloping himself in thought with the white +light of love or the mellowed tints of sunshine. + +"With the senses calmed and unresponsive to the slower vibrations, but +responsive to the quicker ones, a peace and calm pervade one's mind, +and it becomes consciously receptive to higher vibrations of vital +energy. Immune from the lesser harmonies, one opens himself to the +greater ones, which are always seeking avenues of expression. With the +greater influx of the One Life, a sense of power steals over one and he +becomes conscious of increased vigor and vitality. + +"In relinquishing specific thoughts, one opens inwardly rather than +outwardly, and becomes receptive to subconscious impressions that are +directed by his conscious affirmation of fundamental Truth. The +subconscious responds by returning to the conscious the logical +sequences of the Truths that have been consciously impressed upon it. +The subconscious follows the lead given to it by the conscious +affirmations of Truth, and it brings back the consciousness of those +Truths in their various ramifications." + + + + +Health Silence + +Select one or more of the affirmations or formulas below to hold in +thought while in the Silence. You may change or vary these as you +choose: + + Soul is health, spirit is health, God is health, I am + health. Since there is but one mind, there is but one + mentality. This mind and mentality is God; God is health. I + am health. + + "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious + and happy and what I am myself I desire for everyone else." + + "I am filled with the abundant, intelligent, ever-present life of + Spirit. It flows through me freely, cleansing, healing, purifying + and vitalizing every part. I am one with this life and in it I am + every whit whole." + + "The all-powerful Christ Mind in me dissolves and dissipates + every adverse thought. My body is the pure and Holy Temple of + the Living God, and every organ and every function is now + in Divine Order and Harmony." + + All the organs of my body are functioning normally and I am + well, whole and complete. + + All is mind, all is God, all is universal energy. I am part + of creative force and I am health, abundance, joy and peace. + + I am filled, I am thrilled with Life Eternal and I radiate + that life within to me and without to all. + + Every experience of my life has been for my good and I am + happy in living. + + God is Spirit. I (use your own name) am life. Life Spirit is + now flowing through me freely and I am well, whole and + complete. + + "Be still and know that I am God." + +USE THE FOLLOWING AS A BASIS FOR YOUR MEDITATION AS YOU DEMONSTRATE +HEALTH. OF COURSE, YOU MAY USE OTHER THOUGHTS PROVIDED THEY ARE +CONSTRUCTIVE HEALTH THOUGHTS. + +You may practice the Silence sitting, reclining, or in bed. + +There is no better way to learn how to relax than by going into the +Silence. Are you tense? Let go. Relax. + +Then direct the mind to go from one part of the body to another. Take a +deep breath between each change of your consciousness. Be sure to use +the diaphragmatic or abdominal breathing--breathing through the +nostrils, mouth closed until the muscles of the abdomen expand. + +The best time to hold the Silence is as you retire at night, and just +as you awaken in the morning.[2] But you should hold your thought at +least three times a day, without stress or strain, without doubt or +worry, passive in mind and body--perfectly relaxed. + +Hold the Silence or thought upon retiring at night, awakening in the +morning, and at noon day. Of course, you may take any other time that +is convenient. You may concentrate on the roadway, street car, home or +office, but it is well, if possible, to have one room for your Silence. +Most people in that way will build up stronger vibrations. At noon now +there are all over the world thousands of others holding Silence so +that there is a great combined mental force working together at one +time for success, health, prosperity and happiness, and we therefore +get the benefit of this great vibration. + +The more often you hold the Silence without stress or strain, as a +rule, the quicker may be the demonstration. + +The real part of me is Spirit, not matter. I believe that this body of +mine is a Tabernacle for the Spirit. The real "I am" within me is +therefore Spirit. The real "me" is Spirit. + +This Spirit is the God Spirit. This is what Jesus meant when in the +fourteenth chapter of John and again in the seventeenth chapter of the +same Gospel, speaking to His Disciples He referred to "I in you, you in +Me and We in God." + +My Spirit is a part of the God Spirit. God is health, God is +perfection, God is abundance, God is harmonious. Therefore, the real "I +am" is God; the real "I am" is health, perfection, abundance and +harmony. + +When I am sick I know that it is the material of me that is sick, not +the God Spirit; it is my _physical_ being which is out of harmony, it +is this Tabernacle of which Paul speaks, housing my spirit, which gives +me pain and suffering. The real "me" is not sick, it is _my body_. + +For centuries we have held to a wrong idea of life. We have thought +that life is material; but life is spiritual, it is the invisible +within me which is eternal, which is God. Many still believe that life +is material and matter, instead of mind and spirit. I no longer hold +that conception. I believe that all is mind and Spirit. + +Just here is where the healing methods of drugs and the scientist's +explanation of life is so limited. Not until we recognize that life is +really a thing of spirit--not matter but mind--not material but +spiritual--do we come into an understanding of Truth. + +Jesus said, "God is Spirit," and on different occasions told His +Disciples that this Spirit was within them as well as within Himself. +Therefore, this same Spirit is within me and this same Spirit is the +God Spirit of health, abundance, happiness, harmony and perfection. + +God is all health, all abundance, all harmony, peace and perfection. +Therefore the God Spirit within me is the same. I am sick in body; not +in mind, not in Spirit. + +Inasmuch as I cannot conceive of God being sick neither can I conceive +of my Spirit being sick. My spirit is health, perfection and harmony. +My body may not be well, but since mind is all, since this material is +subject to the spiritual, since matter is subject to mind, I believe +and affirm that my health does not depend upon matter but upon the God +Spirit within me. It depends not upon the material but the spiritual, +upon the God mind within. + +Just as wood when made into a violin and properly tuned, will give +forth harmony, so my body, though made in the material, when properly +tuned by mind will give forth harmonious living, perfect health. + +As the tree standing in the forest may be made into the violin music +box of harmony, so my body, the material in the forest of matter, may +be put in tune, become harmonious and be raised to perfection by the +Master Musician, God--His mind within me. + +God is all health. No one could conceive of God as being sick. I can +visualize only the eternal spirit of the Infinite Father. Perfection +existing in everything and I being a child in Spirit, am well, whole +and complete in Spirit. My real "I am" is well. + +Science now asserts that matter is composed of twelve octaves, just as +in music. My body is the composite of these twelve octaves. Science +also says that every cell atom, every electron in my body is +intelligent. + +This spirit of mine is housed in the Tabernacle of the body which is +composed of millions and millions of cells, all of which having +intelligence respond in my body according to the way I think. Every +word I entertain, every thought I hold, influences everyone of the +millions of cells making up this Tabernacle. + +My body is made whole and complete physically. That is, all the cells +of my body are made over new every eleven months. The body I have today +is not the body I had eleven months ago. I get a new body every eleven +months and my body is today what my thinking was yesterday, the day +before that and the months before that. My body in the future depends +upon my thinking in the future. I am what I think I am. + +When I affirm that I am well, whole and complete; that I am perfect, +harmonious and strong, I am suggesting to every atom in my body +perfection and every atom in turn begins to make my body over, new in +health and and in perfection. + +I may or I may not have to wait for the element of time to make over +every cell. That may be done spontaneously and instantly. There is no +limitation to the power of God so I shall not set a time limit for my +healing, knowing that all things are possible with the Father. I affirm +that now I have that which I desire. I know that now the Spirit of +divine health is surging through me, touching and reaching every atom +of my body and that now the God Spirit within me is perfect and that +Spirit makes my body perfect. + +"Man is a Spiritual Being. Man expresses himself mentally and manifests +himself physically. The One Life animates all that exists. Harmony of +existence depends upon the polarities of the three aspects of life. The +mind is at ease when open to the inflow of the Spirit. It is discordant +when it follows sensory impressions. The body is healthy when +responsive to the direction of the spiritualized mind. It becomes +diseased when it accepts the physical as its guide. One achieves mental +ease and physical health through his mental polarity. If open to the +physical and closed to the spiritual, discord will prevail. If open to +the spiritual and closed to the physical, he lives the One Life, in +mental ease and physical health. I open my mind to the inflow of the +Spirit. I place my body under the control of my spiritualized mind. I +feel the One Life animate my mind and my body. I AM a Spiritual Being. +I AM Perfect Health!" + + * * * * * + + + +Miscellaneous Silence[3] + +THOUGHT TO HOLD IN THE SILENCE FOR ABUNDANCE + +(See also Abundance, page 23) + +"The Universal Abundant Spirit Supplies All My Needs." + +There is no want or limitation in the law. If, perchance, there should +appear to be lack of, or need of, abundance in our lives, it is because +of wrong thinking--not because there is a lack of abundance. Therefore, +we should enter the Silence with the profound faith and conviction that +the world is filled with plenty, and that all our needs are most +bountifully supplied. + +The mind should be saturated with the conviction that all life is +filled with abundance--all space is overflowing with abundance--all +living comes from an abundant source of supply. + +In a Universe where this is true, there can be no want, no lack for you +or yours (for me or mine). + +As you take your exercises this month, take the affirmation above. As +you walk on the street to your office, or place of business, continue +this thought. As you go about your daily duties in the home or +workshop, let the mind be saturated with a spirit, a feeling and +thinking of abundance--"The opulence of the Universal Source of Supply +now meets all my needs," "The Abundant Life Giving Spirit of Prosperity +now leads and guides me into the paths of plenty, peace and power," "My +mind is filled with prosperous thoughts, my being is pulsating in +abundant rhythm, my soul is uplifted and sustained by a thousand +thoughts of ever-present abundance, prosperity and opulence." + +As these thoughts are maintained and repeated again and again, absorbed +and sunk deep into the subconscious mind, know that all of your needs +are this minute supplied. Know that you could not ask for anything from +the Universal Spirit--Father, God--without that Spirit being most +willing to supply, instantly, all your needs. The spirit and body are +well, but the flesh is weak. Allow your flesh to be stimulated, and +your body to respond by thoughts of abundance, prosperity and opulence. + +"I am now rich in thought, rich in body and rich in spirit. I am now +part of the abundant ever-present spirit of prosperity and opulence. +All that I need is now mine, mine, mine." + +The Universal Abundant Spirit supplies all my needs. + + * * * * * + + + +THOUGHT TO HOLD IN MEDITATION IN THE SILENCE + +FOR MISFORTUNES, GRIEF, MISTAKES, REVERSES, FAILURE, SORROW, LOSS AND +DISAPPOINTMENT + +"All is Good." + +We are entering upon a new consciousness for the human race, a higher +plane of mentality, and a greater development of the spiritual life. + +In spirit, of course, there is no wrong, no sorrow, no grief, no +misfortune, no losses, no reverses. In short all is perfection. + +The age in which we are living has not yet developed this spiritual +understanding. We are still of the earth--earthly--and we are still in +that consciousness where the physical is affected by seeming +misfortunes, reverses, sorrows, griefs, trouble, sickness, etc. We may +be wise in not expecting that suddenly this generation of man will +reach that spiritual plane where there will be no recognition of +anything except good. + +We are a part of the Infinite Spirit ourselves and, of course, in +spirit, we are perfection. But this physical body of ours manifests +imperfection from time to time, because of our past training and past +thinking, because of our own consciousness. In time there is no doubt +in my mind but that the spirit within will make a perfect body without. +This perfection will be recognized in health and in peace of mind. It +will be recognized so that there will be no such thing as misfortunes, +sorrows, reverses, failures, griefs, disappointments or losses being +able to affect our mentality or our body. In this state of +consciousness, as we are emerging from the chrysalis, material stage of +man into the greater life, into the deeper spiritual understanding, we +are subject to certain conditions not conducive to peace of mind +without an effort. In other words, we recognize, or feel the effects of +losses, misfortunes, disappointments, sorrows, griefs, etc. We +recognize now, that the time is coming when the spirit will be so +completely in control of matter in the body, that we will not recognize +any inharmony. To reach that Great Spirit is one of the big forward +steps in this generation. To reach that spiritual plane also means the +right kind of thinking now. We plan, today, for tomorrow. This is true +in every walk of life. + +We plan our home today--and build it tomorrow. We make our merchandise +today and market it tomorrow. We sow our seed today and we reap the +harvest tomorrow. We build our career today, little by little, and we +reach the outcome tomorrow. Therefore, our thinking today will change +our tomorrow. The thinking of this generation will change the condition +of tomorrow's generation. If tomorrow's generation is going to be free +from the recognition of sorrows, misfortunes, griefs, fears, pain, +losses, failures, reverses, inharmony, discord, etc., it depends upon +our seed sowing. + +Our seed sowing today should be "All is Good." All is Good in spirit. +You can say that and be honest with yourself. All is perfection in +spirit. All is good for us in spirit. All is good for our lives here. +Spirit transcends matter. When we recognize, affirm, and continue to +hold the constructive thought that All is Good in spirit, we are +changing our own mental attitude, our own bodies, all matter in +general--getting ready for the greater realization of the spiritual +manifestation in the next generation. + +Therefore, for your own good here today in success, prosperity and +happiness as well as in health, peace and harmony, begin to pronounce +over everything in life, _All is Good_. If you have any +misunderstandings, _All is Good_. If you have any losses, _All is +Good_, any reverses, _All is Good_, any sorrow, _All is Good_, any +inharmony, _All is Good_. In everything at all that is out of +perfection you must recognize only the good. ALL IS GOOD. + +Sending your thought energy by repeating _All is Good_, and thinking +_All is Good_, and living _All is Good_, you will actually, in this +day, overcome your difficulty, and turn all of your mistakes, blunders +and misfortunes into stepping stones for your own success, health and +happiness. + +I enter the Silence this month, this day, this hour and this minute. My +mind is obsessed and under control of the Divine Spirit, I recognize +here and now only good. I see in my fellowmen only perfection and good. +I see in nature all around me only perfection and good. I see in every +transaction of life only the perfect good. I see in every activity of +my experience, and in every form, color and thought, good. _All is +Good_ for me now, today and forever. + +God is spirit; spirit is love; love is perfection; God's spirit is +harmonious, I am perfect, I am love, perfection and harmonious. + +ALL IS GOOD. + + * * * * * + + + +FOR HARMONY, PEACE, COMFORT + + +Base your thought for this Silence upon the following. You may add any +constructive thought you choose. + +"My Subconscious Mind, I Desire and Command You to Have Peace, Harmony +and Justice Reign in the Hearts of Men Everywhere." + +I realize that there can be no negative thinking for my destruction, +downfall or harm sent out by anyone else that can reach my +consciousness, or do me ill, unless I am afraid that such negative +thinking will produce the evil effects others are planning. + +I know that Thought is Energy. This is scientifically demonstrated, and +I realize that a constructive thought has much more energy than a +destructive thought. I know, because it has been conclusively proven, +that constructive thinking will blast away every negative +thought-current sent out by one person, or by a thousand. + +Therefore, if there should be any inharmonious thoughts anywhere in the +world--any discordant thought-current by those who seek my downfall, or +block my progress, or by those who would endeavor to hurt my +reputation--I know that by holding a harmonious attitude of peace, +love, joy and success for everyone, including those who would do me +wrong that such constructive thought-currents will blast away all of +the discordant and inharmonious mental currents of evil so that they +will not even reach my conscious mind. + +I also realize, when I hold my silent thought, "_my subconscious mind I +desire and command you to have peace and harmony and justice reign_," +that I am sending out the energy of construction which is bound to turn +all of the efforts for my embarrassment and destruction into a higher +current for my greater achievement. + +Therefore, I send out blessings and thanksgiving to the very ones who +would work my downfall. I charge my subconscious mind to let peace, +harmony and justice reign so that all things will work together for the +good for me and for those who are thinking evil. + +If I should think it hard to send out blessings to my enemies, I +remember the affirmation of the Greatest Teacher of all ages Who said, +"Forgive until seventy times seven." I remember that when He, Himself, +was reviled, reviled not in turn. I remember that when His merciless +enemies had nailed Him to the cross, had apparently crushed His fondest +ambition, had scorned and reviled the Kingdom of which He had spoken, +and had tortured Him as He hung on the cross, He uttered the immortal, +lovable, constructive words which have rung throughout the centuries, +and will continue to bless all mankind throughout eternity: "Father, +forgive them, for they know not what they do." + +So those who would try to block my way, curb my progress or put thorns +in my crown are doing so "not knowing what they are doing." "Whatsoever +a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Instead of hurting me, they are +sowing weed seeds, which shall bring forth a harvest of weeds and tares +in their own lives, and not in mine. + +I, therefore, do not wish them harm, nor think that they should feel +the reaction. I do not have to concern myself about the negative people +in the world--for the law takes care of them. + +I shall always think constructive thoughts, harmonious thoughts and +loving thoughts. "My Subconscious Mind, I desire and command you to +have peace, harmony and justice reign, and know that all things are now +working together for the good of my would-be enemies and for myself." + +I relax (here pause and wait), take time for meditation (here pause and +rest relaxed) and I become happy in the silence--holding my thought of +peace, harmony and justice reigning in the hearts of men +everywhere--and, as I relax and wait, I feel my vibrations rise. I am +resting at ease, in faith. (Pause.) I am perfectly calm and contented. +(Pause.) I am sending out love, peace and harmonious thoughts, and, as +they go, love, peace and harmony will come to me. These are now +returning. They enter my being and uplift my soul. + +I am, therefore, sending out a strong current of spiritual blessings, +with such a spirit of helpfulness, that I am getting back the same +which I send out. My harvest shall be peace, love, joy, harmony, +justice and contentment, because I am _sowing_ the seed of love, peace, +harmony, joy, contentment and justice into the great subconscious soil +of the universe. + +"My Subconscious Mind, I desire and command you to have peace, harmony +and justice reign everywhere throughout the world." + +I wait--I rest--I am relaxed--I am at ease and filled with the spirit +of harmony. I wait. I listen for the spirit within. I feel and hear the +voice of infinite love sending back into my consciousness these +thoughts which I send out. + +I know that my every constructive thought blasts away a thousand +destructive ones. Therefore, I think peace, joy, love, harmony and +justice, and, as I utter these words slowly and prayerfully, I feel my +vibration rising--I experience ease of mind and peace of soul. Harmony +is now within and without. + +I realize that I cannot send out my affirmation of peace, love, joy and +harmony without peace, love, joy and harmony coming back to me. I, +therefore, send out my affirmation: "My Subconscious Mind, I desire and +command you to have peace, harmony and justice reign-in the hearts of +men wherever they may be." I wait and listen--perfectly relaxed and at +ease--and I feel the vibrations which I sent out coming back to me. + +I, therefore, know that no harm can befall my dwelling place. I know +that whatever evil thoughts have been sent out for my destruction have +been counter-blasted, and that now everything is working for my good. + +As I recognize, and realize, that all things work together for my good, +I am sending out love-thoughts that all things are working together for +the good of those who would do me wrong. "They know not what they do." +They alone will have to reap the harvest of the weeds they are sowing. +My wish for them is that they may learn their lesson easily and early. +My blessings I send out to them. + +Again I wait. Again I listen. Again I am at ease, happy, and at rest. +Love and blessings, peace and harmony, I send out--love and blessings, +peace and harmony, come back. "My Subconscious Mind, I desire and +command you to have peace, harmony and justice reign. My blessings upon +all mankind--my love to everyone!" + + * * * * * + + + +THOUGHT TO HOLD AS A BASIS FOR THIS SILENCE + +FOR SUCCESS + +"I Have Faith and Conviction in My Ultimate Success." + +I believe the Scripture: "My ways are not your ways, saith the Lord; +neither are my thoughts your thoughts, for as the heavens are higher +than the earth, so are my thoughts higher than your thoughts." + +I understand by this Scripture that the thoughts of the Infinite God +are far above the understanding of finite me; that God's ways are +higher than my ways. "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to +perform." + +I also have faith and conviction in my ultimate success because I am a +part of the Infinite Spirit, and in the Infinite Spirit, there can be +no failure. I am harmonious, complete and successful in Spirit--in God. + +I may not see my success today, or I may feel as though I have +accomplished little, but I know that all my efforts and energies, in +the past, present and future, are working together for my good. + +Therefore, I shall hold the thought that my success has already been +achieved. I am Success, I have success now and forever! Therefore, I +think only success; I talk only success; I believe only in success; I +am demonstrating success, and I know that success is mine. + +The needed lessons I am having now, have had in the past, and may +require in the future, are but necessary stepping stones to my greater +success. The apparent delay of my greater success means that I am now +demonstrating more success than I could otherwise have. Dreams that I +have dreamed, visions that I have visualized, and the goal that I have +mapped out, are all a part of my ultimate greater success. I have that +now! I am successful now! + +As Moses went into the land of Midian, and spent forty years of his +life as a shepherd in the wilderness--(apparently with no future before +him--which, however, was the great schooling necessary for his greater +triumphant success in the future)--so I may be, in _my_ land of Midian, +apparently, only a sheep herder, but in reality getting the necessary +training for my greater and ultimate success. + +Therefore, I now rejoice in every experience I have--giving thanks for +every apparent set back, and for every "seeming" blocking of my +purposes and aspirations. + +I believe that my past experiences, as well as present happenings, are +for my benefit, and that I could not have been the great success I am, +and shall be, had not the discouragements of yesterday, the +perplexities of today and the drawbacks of tomorrow come into my life. +I realize that I need to go into the land of Midian; that it is as +necessary for me, as it was for Moses, to spend a few years in the +wilderness of Life's experience. I am happy to know that I am in such +company as that of the Great Leader of his people, and rejoice in the +thought that the Lord has called me to spend my time in the land of +Midian, getting the necessary training for the greater things the Lord +has in store for me. + +There is no place in the world where clouds do not gather, and storms +do not rage; but when the storms abate, and the skies clear, then do we +appreciate more fully the glories and beauties of God, the Universe and +its natural laws, and Infinite Love. + +However, I know by experience in the land of Midian, where clouds hover +low, and where storms try the soul and body, that the dawn of a new day +shall make life all the sweeter for me and mine. + +Moses could not have enjoyed leading his people into the promised land, +had he not been in the land of Midian. If he had stayed forever in the +Court of Pharaoh, with its attendant luxuries, life would have taken on +a dull, monotonous hue, and his experience would have seemed drab, +wearisome and pale. + +I am glad for the privilege accorded me to be in the land of Midian for +a short time! I know that, as did Moses, I shall enjoy my promised land +all the more when my greater success shall have been well worked out by +the hand of Divinity. + +Faith and conviction in my ultimate greater success is stronger today +than ever! I hold such a strong thought, and such a deep and courageous +faith in the workings of God's plan, that I know I now have that which +has been intended for me, and nothing can take from me that which the +Lord hath prepared for my success, health and happiness. I know, too, +that I shall learn daily to enjoy, appreciate, and make better use of +the success I now possess; that I shall unfold day by day into greater +opportunities for more influence, power, friendship, charity, love, +comradeship and service. I know that my present success is but a part +of the greater success which the Lord has waiting for me--"just around +the corner". + +Therefore, I shall offer up prayers of thanksgiving and gratitude; I +shall work harder, being more particular in the preparation for my +greater work, than I have been in the past--never doubting but that +every moment spent in this greater preparation will bring added +interests, and a greater success in the future. + +Even as Moses did not doubt the wisdom of the Lord for a greater future +(when in the land of Midian for forty years), so shall I not doubt His +ways today. + +I claim, with a joyful heart and an attitude of thanksgiving, that my +life could not have been as great in the future had I been denied my +present experience. I know that greater things are in store for me, +because God's thoughts are greater than my thoughts; because He is +giving me that training now, in my land of Midian, which I most need. I +trust the guiding Spirit of Infinite Love to lead me, at the right +time, into my life's Promised Land. + +The success today, in my land of Midian, is attracting unto me the +greater influence and power in my Court of Pharaoh, and in my +leadership, as I lead others into that promised land which the Lord has +prepared for me and mine. + +I smile--I sing--I rejoice, and offer thanksgiving and gratitude for my +success now and forever. Surely I believe more and more: "My thoughts +are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways, saith the Lord," +and all things are now working together for my good. + +Therefore, I have faith and conviction in my ultimate success--in my +greater success--in my greatest success! + + * * * * * + + + +ABUNDANCE + +(See also Abundance, page 11) + +"There is abundance in the world for me given by the bountiful hand of +Omnipotence. I gratefully claim and accept all the supply for my +needs." + +The old idea of orthodox prayer was that of supplication and begging. I +have spent a whole night at a time begging for a few pennies and +supplicating for the salvation of others. What waste of energy. Each +time that we send up such a weak supplication as the attitude of a +beggar, with the timid, frightful thoughts that only a beggar's mind +can have--this condition of mind, cross circuits the power to bring +into our lives the very things we most desire. + +When the beggar extends his hand for a copper, he knows that not +everyone who passes is going to give him a coin. He, therefore, +solicits more or less mechanically, with a mind not positive or sure. +His hand is extended in timidity and weakness. Now and then he gets a +coin from a sympathetic passer-by. The same principle holds true for +the man who prays in the old orthodox fashion. He utters his petitions +with doubts and misgivings, with timidity and wonderings. Some of his +prayers are answered--just as the occasional coin is cast to the +beggar. But most of the orthodox prayers sent up in the fashion of +begging and supplicating are never answered. Of necessity, they cannot +be, because the concentration is filled with fear and trembling. + +Only by positive and courageous thinking do we attract to ourselves the +answers to our prayers. When we are permeated with the spirit of doubt, +our petitions are cross-circuited. + +Therefore, in making your affirmation this time, rest assured that the +abundant spirit of the Universal Supply has everything you need, and +has it now. You have only to put your mind in a condition to receive. + +You do not have to beg the sun for its rays, nor God for His love. It +is there for the taking. Many of us keep the sunshine of abundance out +of our lives by pulling down the curtain of doubt--just as we may go +into a room, pull down a shade and keep out the sun. James Russell +Lowell, seventy-five years ago, told us the same story in "The Vision +of Sir Launfal," when he said that "Heaven is given away and God may be +had for the asking". + +By gratefully accepting all of the supply for your needs, you are +running up the shade of positive faith and letting the sunlight of +abundance in. + +Send out the desire for your supply to the Universal Mind and then +rest--feeling that it has been acquired. Of course, the stronger you +concentrate, without stress and strain (as outlined in "Practical +Psychology and Sex Life," by the author, under the chapter "How to get +what you want," and chapters on "Concentration"), and the more positive +and courageous your concentration, the stronger will be your mental +thought currents and consequently the quicker your demonstration. + +_Omnipotence has provided for me and mine_, I raise the shade of my +faith and let in the Sunlight of Abundance. I know I do not have to beg +for this, for it is mine now. When first I saw the light of day, the +bountiful spirit of the Father made all preparations for my life's +necessities and pleasures. They have been in the world since I was +born. I now claim and accept my supply. + +From now on the spirit goes before me--making easy and prosperous all +my ways--and I have abundance for every need. From the bountiful hand +of Omnipotence I have abundant health--I have abundant love--I have +abundant prosperity--I have abundant peace. My Father careth for the +grass of the field and the birds of the air--and He careth for me. I +realize it. + +Think it and live it now. + +Abundance for all my needs is mine, now and forever. + + * * * * * + + + +HEALTH, SUCCESS, PROSPERITY, UNIVERSAL PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD + +"God Made From One Blood All the Nations of the World." + +As I enter the Silence this time, expecting to get health, success, +prosperity and happiness, I am going to have my mind filled with the +Spirit of Divine Unity. Unity among the nations of the world, unity in +abundance, unity in love, unity in prosperity, unity in health and +unity in spirit. + +There can be no separation in Spirit. All is Mind, all is God, all is +Universal Energy. I am part of the creative force. I am a part and +parcel of the Unity of Love, Nature and God. Therefore, where God is, I +recognize a completeness. And I, being a part of God, a part of this +spirit, a part of the power with Him, am, therefore, at one with God +and all thought. + +I am therefore at one with God and all spirit. Nothing can separate me +from the love of God, but my own mental attitude. Nothing can separate +me from abundance, happiness, success, prosperity and love, but my own +wrong thinking. Love is dealt in the world in the spirit of God and, +therefore, recognizing this unity of love, I am a part of it and have +perfect love, success, prosperity, abundance and health. + +The ocean is composed of water. If I take a bucket of water from the +ocean, it still is the water of the ocean. I may take this water to an +island in the sea. Though I have separated this water from the main +body of the ocean, it still is the water from the sea. But, as the +water is separated from the main body of the ocean, it loses its power, +its strength and many of its cardinal properties. I am the same as the +sea water when I, by wrong thinking:--whether it be jealousy, envy, +hatred, misunderstanding, worry or fear--separate myself from the +spirit of God. I am as one going upon an island of humanity. I am still +of that same spirit; but it has been separated, so that within me, it +has lost many of its cardinal virtues. These virtues are there, but I +do not recognize them. Separation has lessened my strength, my +vitality, my power, my health, my happiness, my prosperity and my joy. + +Just as it is necessary for the bucket of water to remain in the ocean +in order to contain all of its original power and to retain all of its +original strength, to be intact, so is it necessary for man to keep in +the spirit of at-one-ment with the Father, that we may manifest daily +God's principle of Unity with God, man and nature. + +When we have maintained that attitude of one-ness with the Father in +all respects, we are then recognizing and expecting, in this act, the +fullness of our spirit. This fullness of our spirit will, therefore, +give us health, prosperity and happiness. + +When I have a mind that is filled with negative, discordant or +inharmonious thoughts, I am separating myself from the full expression +of the Divine within me. I am the bucket of water going stale on a +human island; but, when I make my spirit at one with the Father by +harmonious thinking, by love, kindness, good will, fellowship and +co-operation, I am not only maintaining all of my original properties, +but I am in correspondence with the Infinite Spirit so that I can +manifest and express His original spirit in every particular. + +Where there is a unity of spirit, there is unity of all the good things +of life. Perhaps I am not drawing from the bank of life's experience +everything that I ought to have--because I have separated myself from +the spiritual board of directors in this bank of life, and am not +getting my dividends on time. My mental attitude is the cause; +therefore, as I enter the Silence this time, I am going to maintain the +faith and the love-spirit of my unity with all things. I maintain, +therefore, my at-one-ment with God, with man and nature. I maintain +that all of the original strength of spirit is mine. I hold that the +manifestations of this original spirit will produce everything in my +life for my ultimate good, because I am at one with the Father. All +things are mine. + +The Silence, this day, finds me at one with all. The Silence, this day, +finds me at peace with God, Man and Nature. The Silence, this day, +finds me in at-one-ment with God and all, in unity with every +conceivable thing in the universe. Therefore, my unity, my at-one-ment +with the Father, my wholeness of spirit with God brings into my life +everything for my good. + +All things work together for my good in my at-one-ment with Man, God +and Nature--in my unity with all. + + * * * * * + + + +HOW TO HAVE MORE + +"I Am Unselfish in Action, Being and Motive." + +The science of psychology as applied to everyday life is, strictly +speaking, a new science. It is a matter of thousands of people in the +world all of a sudden coming in contact with certain laws, which make +them successful, healthy and prosperous. + +It is quite natural, because man is interested more in himself than in +any one else, that, when he finds these laws may be applied to give him +more abundance, the tendency may be to use these laws for selfish +purposes. + +Nothing could be more unpsychological. The laws should be used for the +individual, but should not stop there. Each individual who is profiting +by the operation of the laws, or understanding of psychology, ought not +only to get everything himself that psychology can give him, but he +should pass these on to others; he should tell others about it; he +should cry it from the housetops and megaphone it from the street +corners. He should not want to get everything himself, but wish the +same that he has to everyone else. By doing this, the law will rebound, +and, instead of having less, he will have still more than he would have +were he thinking about the laws for himself alone. + +The human race is made up of a whole lot of selfishness, and the man, +or the woman, who hopes to get the most out of life and out of +psychology, must learn at the very beginning of his or her +understanding of the laws. Then, only, will the best come to those who +are absolutely unselfish. + +If there is any selfish motive or selfish desire in your heart, you may +operate the law and get a certain amount of benefit, nay, you may even +become rich by it and have great power, but it should not end there. +Your riches are for the use of others, as well as for yourselves, and +the real psychologist, in getting his riches, will pass on to others +that which he has. The real psychologist, in getting more power, will +share it with others and will use it for the good of others, as well as +for his own personal aggrandizement. + +Therefore hold the thought: "I am unselfish in action, being and +motive." + +Many a person never will get the demonstrations he wants, because the +channel of abundance and prosperity, happiness and joy, is clogged up +with his own selfish attitude. The selfish person who does operate the +laws, does so by overbalancing his selfishness with some other great +virtue. But when he is extremely selfish, he may never have +demonstrations as he wants; he may not have enough other virtues to +outweigh his selfishness. He may live for years, and know what the laws +are, and yet lack this one little thing, _unselfishness_, in operating +the laws for his own abundance, prosperity or happiness. + +If you are not having the demonstrations you want, it is because there +is a kink in the mind somewhere. The kink may be selfishness, or it may +be pride, haughtiness, duplicity, dishonesty, hatred, envy or jealousy. + +This time we are going to hold the thought: "I am unselfish in action, +being and motive," and each time we go into the Silence, this unselfish +spirit shall be the guiding-star of our thoughts. It will be the +personal touch with the Infinite Spirit itself. + +The beginning of life's happiness, as well as the end thereof, is the +spirit of unselfishness. + +"I am unselfish in action, being and motive." + + * * * * * + + + +ALL THINGS ARE IN DIVINE ORDER + +"Divine Harmony and Peace Actuate Every Thought and Action of My +Being." + +I realize that all things are in Divine order for me and mine. There +can be no disturbance in the world without or the world within my being +but that is in perfect harmony with the Infinite. + +The circumstances outside of my life are all for my good. My +environment where I am now and the conditions in which I am living, I +make harmonize for me by my attitude of mind. I think only peace, I +breathe only love, I speak only harmony. My conditions and my +environment, although outwardly inharmonious to my likes and +tendencies, are changed by the alchemy of my thinking into a perfect +symphony of happiness for me now. + +"Divine Harmony and Peace actuate every thought and action of my +being." This thought is energy, this thought is life, this thought is +power. The energy, life and power of this thought weaves all of my +diversified Life's experiences into a Divine pattern of perfection for +me. There can be no trouble, disappointments, sorrow, reverses, loss or +discord but that shall be changed for my good when I think Spirit and +live the affirmation of today, namely, "Divine Harmony and Peace +actuate every thought and action of my being." All things are in Divine +order. + +The Spirit of Divinity prompts my thinking. The Divine within me +actuates my actions. The God Powers within, this minute are working all +things together for my good. There can be no danger come nigh my +dwelling for my body is the temple of the living God. Therefore, the +God Spirit within me protects me from all harm, inspires me to high +ideals, lifts me to heights of righteousness and fills my soul with +love. Love for my circumstances, love for my present conditions, love +for my environment, love for every one in the world, love for all of +the creation of God. + +Therefore I have no enemies, for I love all. I recognize no +misfortunes, for the love energy within turns all misfortunes and +sorrows into stepping stones for my greater advancement and +achievement. The God energy within transforms all inharmonious +conditions without into a perfect harmony within. The Kingdom of God +now reigns within me and I am at ease, at peace and at-one-ment with +all nature and God. The harmony therefore within me in nature and in +God gives me perfect peace within and perfect peace without. Divine +thought and energy, love and blessing actuate every action of my being. + +Where Divine Love reigns there can be no trouble, no discord, no +inharmony, no lack, no limitation, no sorrow, no grief, no sickness, no +failure. The energy of Divine Love transforms all things into my Good. +The Love and Peace of the Father abideth within me and is manifested +without so that my life is one harmonious whole touching the lives of +all others who come in contact with me so that they, too, feel my +vibrations of at-one-ment with the Father and they in turn become +harmonious and complete in Spirit with man and God. + +Divine Harmony and Peace actuate every thought and action of my being. +All things are in Divine order. + + * * * * * + + + +THOUGHT TO HOLD IN SILENCE AND TO MEDITATE UPON DURING THE DAY + +FOR JUSTICE + +"There's a Spirit of Justice that Secures me in Which is My Own." + +If we reach a consciousness of justice, we need have no doubts as to +our care in every particular while journeying between the two peaks of +eternity--from birth to the Great Divide. + +There is nothing that can defeat justice; and the person who has a +consciousness of justice will attract to himself every conceivable +thing needed for this life, because it will be the logical objective of +justice to supply to each individual that justice for which he thinks. + +That is the reason why this affirmation is so complete in itself; +namely, "There is a spirit of JUSTICE that secures me in which is my +own, and this security is provided already for us by the Spirit of +Justice." + +It would be a psychological paradox to think that Justice could be +defeated. That could not be. Perhaps it appears to you that your own +has not yet been secured to you, but, remember that life is +fleeting--that a year is as a tale that is told--and that a decade is +but as "Ships that pass in the night"--when the years have vanished in +the distance. + +If you have lived a life of justice, and it appears now that your own +is not coming to you, that someone else is having more of the good +things of life than you, and that someone seems to have used the art of +the man of injustice, be not deceived, God is not mocked, for +"whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." If you have sowed +equity and justice in the days that are gone, be sure that the same +equity and justice will be secured to you. + +The Scriptures tell us not to think too much of the man who is +nourishing like a green bay tree, for his efforts are soon cut off and +he vanisheth away. + +One who is astride the scales of justice, and who thinks that he can +hold the balance, is gravely mistaken. He may have occupied his present +position for many years, first putting his weight on one side and then +on the other in an effort to keep his equilibrium. Perhaps today it +appears that the scales of justice are being well manipulated by his +insincerity, duplicity or trickery--but it is like the green bay tree. +It will soon pass away. + +Justice is as eternal as God Himself, and there is no more possibility +of defeating it in the individual's life, in your own life, in the life +of a nation or in the history of mankind, than there is likelihood that +the sun can get away from its own rays. The justice of God is eternal, +or, in other words, God always is Justice, personified. Where God +rules, and where His laws and mandates have been given by His own fiat, +"man, neither flesh nor the devil" can defeat the ultimate outcome of +justice. Your own is secured to you. + +Man himself is fashioned by the finger of Divinity. The crown of +justice is placed upon his brow and no ruthless hand of greed, +duplicity or evil dexterity can ever tear it away. It is there to stay, +and the man who has been thus crowned because he has lived in this +consciousness of justice--in the consciousness of God Himself--is bound +to have come back to him that which he has thought, that which he has +sowed--Justice. You are secured by this spirit of justice. + +Perhaps already your life has had the law of compensation bring to you +more than to others of whom you may think, and who, because of their +bank account, get more out of life than you. A man may have a million +dollars, and yet not be as happy as the laborer living in a thatched +cottage. _Perhaps Justice has tipped the scales in your favor +already--and you have failed to recognize it. Perhaps you have +children, loved ones, family and fireside which bring more comfort to +you than the land owner gets who lives in his palace on the hill_. + +Half of Life, or the joys of Life, depend upon our ability to recognize +and appreciate the blessings we already have. Therefore, in counting +your blessings, or discounting your blessings, be sure that you use a +moral standard, instead of a material standard, in gauging whether +justice has been meted out to you or not. + +The Justice of the Eternal secures me, the Spirit of Justice secures me +in which is mine own. Believe it, think it, live it, claim it and +Justice shall be yours. + + * * * * * + + + +Question--In practicing the Silence, the mind seems to flutter all +about and there is great nervous tension. What is wrong? + +Answer--Lack of concentration. This person ought to follow some +simple exercise of concentration, such as given below, until the mind +has control over the body. By practicing a few of the simple exercises +given below, fifteen minutes a day, and then taking the Silence a few +hours after these exercises have been practiced, the mind will begin to +be under control. + +The nervous tension is caused because of this lack of control, and in +the effort to bring the scattering mind into one focus the reaction +comes upon the nervous system which, in turn, reacts upon the body. + +Practice and exercises for lack of concentration follow. + + + + +EXERCISES + +By Thos. Parker Boyd + + + (1) Select some part of the body, a foot or hand, with the + idea of HEAT. While holding the mind in this attitude, + breathe deeply and steadily, and, in from one to four + minutes, you will feel the warm glow coming to the foot. In + this way, you can soon master the entire body. Begin with the + sense of feeling. If there is an itching of the body, make it + stop by the force of your will. In from three days to three + weeks, you can stop the itching sensation at will. Then try + the habit of sneezing; stubbornly resist the inclination to + sneeze, and you will soon have the mastery. Now try your will + on coughing. When the tickling sensation comes, stop it by + the exercise of your will. You can soon master it. Next try + it on pain. When you feel a pain in the body, instead of + rubbing on liniment, rub in a little will power; soon it will + ease your pain as if by magic. With the fingers of one hand + rub the skin on the back of the other hand, stroking toward + the elbow, and will that all feeling shall disappear. In from + one to three minutes, take a needle, and you can stick it + through the skin on the back of the hand without pain. You + may have to try it a dozen times, but persistence will bring + success. Having mastered the sense of feeling, take up that + of hearing. + + (2) It may seem impossible at first thought, but you have + seen people so absorbed in what they were reading or thinking + that they heard nothing, although you addressed them + directly. They are simply abstracted from all else, and are + thinking of one thing--to the exclusion of everything else. + They entered this state of abstractedness unconsciously. To + do so intentionally, you go by the law of indirectness. For + instance, take sight; concentrate your vision and your whole + attention upon some object, real or imaginary, until soon the + sense of HEARING becomes dormant. A little practice will + enable you to study, think or sleep, regardless of noise. + + (3) Having mastered hearing, begin on SIGHT. You have known + people who walked on the street, looked at you and passed by + without recognition, although they knew you well. A person + deeply thinking on some subject, neither sees nor hears, but + uses the mental sense entirely. The method is to let the eyes + be open, but concentrate the thoughts on hearing or feeling. + + (4) After getting control of your sight, take up the TASTE. + Take some tasteless thing on the tongue, abstract the mind to + something else until the taste becomes dormant. Then take + something with more taste to it, abstracting the taste, until + by this gradual process you can make the sourest pickle + sweet. + + (5) Finally take some light odor, and hold it before the + nostrils, abstracting the attention from the sense of smell, + by hearing or seeing, etc., until by practice you can pass + through the foulest odor without inconvenience or notice. + +Sit or stand absolutely motionless, except your breathing, for one to +five minutes at a time. Do this often. + +Practice closing each finger in rotation; then, when all are closed, +open one at a time very slowly, keeping the attention fixed on what you +are doing. Keep all the other fingers still, save the one you are +exercising with. + +Inhale gradually for ten seconds, then exhale in the same way and time. + +Look steadily at some point or object for a minute without winking the +eye, keeping your attention fixed on the object. + +Look at a picture critically, then close your eyes and mentally +reconstruct it. + +Close your eyes and construct the face of a friend, feature by feature. + +Fix your attention on a hand or foot, hold on it the idea of heat and +continue until the hand or foot feels warm. Then try cold; then try +pain. + +Will that the person in front of you shall turn around or put his hand +on his head or neck. + +Hold your hand on some one in pain and say, "I will the pain to +depart." 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