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God's work in and through me is always well done. 5. I am specialized spirit. I am always receiving rich, powerful inspiration from the great Universal Parent Spirit, Divine Intelligence Always thinking new, fresh, clear ideas through me, ideas far beyond any I have ever known before. My prayers are the offering of the great oversoul of the Universe. They go forth in his name, and always they accomplish that which I send them. God has glorified Himself in and through me. Now. Activity completed. Chapter 11 exercises for health 1 breathing, bathing and Short Essay Profitable Exercises for Health these exercises are given as a stimulant to your capacity both mental and physical. Mind and body are one. When both body and mind are strong, happiness and success usually follow, especially if one adds to them mental and bodily deficiency. Correct breathing is one of nature's most powerful methods of building a powerful body, a perfect body. Let us begin now to breathe correctly and profitably. If these exercises are taken as intended, there will not be any strain. The first exercise is upon arising in the morning, first drink two or three glasses of water. The effect will be better if you will take the water just as hot as you can bear, to drink it with the juice of 1/2 not in it. Then stand erectile flying the floor. Exhale completely. Whether standing or lying on floor, bend the knees slightly. As you exhale, contract both the chest and diaphragm, pushing the ladder up and down as far as possible without causing strain. Naturally this will extend the abdomen. Then without lifting your chest, pull the abdomen in as far as you can. Then without any attempt and correct brush breathing. Push abdomen out and in rapidly at least 12 times. After you've mastered the above exercise for the abdomen and diaphragm, take the next exercise for not more than two minutes each time. This exercise is stand erect or lie flat on the back. Exhale completely, contracting your chest, then slowly inhale through the nostrils. Try not to allow chest to move. Let the diaphragm push the abdomen down, then hold the breath for three or four seconds. Exhale slowly. Then forget all about the abdomen and diaphragm and inhale deeply, letting your breath lift the chest walls up and out to their fullest capacity. Hold breath a few seconds and exhale all the breath. If you will practice these two simple exercises each morning for 10 days, you will note a greater improvement in physical dish and vitality. The head and mind will be clear and you will have a real zest for work. No doubt you know that the right kind of bath is a splendid nerve tonic as well as the most important point in attaining physical and mental perfection. When bathing for cleanliness, the water should be of blood temperature, never hot or cold. After the cleansing bath, fill the wash basin with cold water. Scoop up two handfuls and apply to the forehead and rub up and down the face. Dip hands in cold water again and shake off all surplus water. Then rub off balance between the ears. Repeat process on back and neck. These things soothe and strengthen nerves. 2. A certain way of relief for constipation is this. First, meditate on the perfect and harmonious action of life in nature. One does not find ever inaction or overaction. Think over how the life in your body regulates the flow of blood, the action of the muscles, both voluntary and involuntary, and how all these things are done in perfect harmony for a regulatory exercise and relieving constipation. The following is splendid. First, as soon as you arise in the morning, drink two glasses of hot water, then stand or lie on the back and floor. Breathe deeply as you inhale. Extend the abdomen and contract it as you exhale. Contract it all you possibly can. Do this without letting chest rise at all. Do the exercise rapidly, vigorously, always inhaling through the nostril and exhaling through the mouth. Take about 8 seconds for each complete breath. Do this for a minute or two, then use another minute to recover normal breathing. A second exercise is recommended and it is better if taken in connection with the one just given. It is this. Again, stand erect or lie on the back, preferably the latter. Draw first the right knee and then the left up to the chest as snug as possible. Inhale deeply as you put foot down to the floor and exhale as you draw knee down to the chest. Do this exercise rapidly, vigorously for one minute. After the exercise, try to get into the feeling of gratuity and you are able to consciously tune in with the harmonious action of life. If you keep thinking deeply on the fact that all of the qualities of life must be present anywhere and everywhere that life is, the feeling of oneness will come and you will enjoy the thrill of it. Bark. The very best there is is yours now, and the perfect moment is manifesting now. 3. How to retain youth and to banish gray hairs and wrinkles if they offend you. Think, know, feel. Be thankful for the fact that life as life has no age and yet is ageless. Give this fact a little profound thought every day. Soon you will get the deep and abiding awareness of it in your mind's eye and in memory. Try to recall how you felt about certain things when you were 20. How you looked then and acted and bubbled over with energy. Ask yourself if your point of view about life in general has changed radically, or if you have simply forgotten how to live your life and love it as you did then. The emotions, the fine understanding, the zest for activity as you had then in youth, have not gilded off without leaving a trace in development of your advancing years. Try to give yourself a careful going over mentally each day, and live for a while each day the experiences of your youth, bringing them back into your feeling. Perhaps you say, oh, but youth is so foolish. That may be so, but remember always that it does things trying to weed out and destroy the doubts of your advancing years. Try to prune out yourself out of your thought and feeling. Your tendency towards being over conservative. Old age is an ossified idea, and being over conservative and opposed to progress and change are the things that make one old and usually impotent. Your youth was alright. Live it again, live it in feeling. And keep the feeling of boister temporarily by taking simple pictures of your happy cocktail self as you were at 20. See your face, figure and hair as they were then. And each day do the following exercise for the banishment of gray hair. Vigorously rub the whole scalp from the nape of the neck up over the crown to the hairline of the forehead using Glover's manicure. This liquid is not for dogs only, but is an excellent tonic and stimulant for human hair. Rub the liquid well into the scalp. The gray hair may fall off for a while after you've done this exercise faithfully for several days, but keep it up and new hair will come in with the natural color of the hair of your youth. Yes, mentally go back to 20 and balance its vitality with your present wisdom. Know with all of your heart and soul and all of your emotional self that life as life is manifesting in you in a particular way in order that it may find new avenues for expressing itself as the joy of living. Make an hourly effort to keep in your consciousness your joys only make them register deliberately. Be happy and your body will respond to it in every way. It will also help, particularly for the ladies, to sit in front of the vanity a half hour each day, seeing yourself not as you are now if aged, but as you were in youth. Do this with deep concentration, deepest feeling, affirming something like, I am life, I am youth, eternal youth. The important thing, however, is to see yourself as youth, to feel youth, to know that you are youth. Soon you will find a decided improvement. Setting in thought is always creative. Sooner you will look younger, soon you will feel younger. Soon you will be younger. Not in years, of course, but years do not make aging. Some are old at 25, others are young at 80. It is flexibility of mind, a keen enjoyment of living, that make for elasticity of muscle and for youth. 4. A method of attracting Money Meditate on the riches of life as they really are. All that we can see or think of nature shows us only abundance. Every growing thing is amply provided for. The grass and trees and other growing things do not know poverty. In the soil, in the air, in the sunshine, there is an abundance of nourishment for all. Think about this great fundamental truth because it applies to you also. Wherever you may be, whatever your station in life may be, the Creator of all life has just as amply provided for you as he has for the grass, the birds, all of nature. It is not his fault that all do not express or manifest this bounty. People are as poor or will soon be as rich as they accept for themselves in the consciousness. Everything that your individual nature may require has already been provided for you by the Creator. One has only to accept it first in consciousness, then in fact. Your steady recognition of this fact forms a veritable magnet in the mind which will attract every requirement to you, not as money that will drop into your lap without effort, but as ideas which, when acted upon, will yield an abundant harvest. Try this. Begin right now to take the time two or three times daily to focus your thought at the base of the brain. Spirit of God, Life, I am grateful to you for the abundance that is mine. Now. Any other good affirmation that may appeal to you, one that you compose for yourself perhaps will do, provided the use of it lifts your thoughts and feelings into certainty that abundance is yours now, the more completely you can flood your mind, your consciousness, with the recognition of life's abundance for you as well as for all. The more quickly your thought and feeling will manifest in form. Rich ideas will come to you intuitively or particularly if you impress the riches of yours now upon your mind just before going to sleep. Any good idea, if acted upon with wisdom and energy, will yield great abundance for anyone who apprehends it and works in faith towards its fulfillment. 5. The value of Sleep and a New Method of Inducing It Sleep is nature's restorative tired tissues, and often is found to be the only effective refresher of the body machine. The exact amount of sleep required varies with different individuals, much depending upon how fatigued a person is when retiring. If one feels A bit of relaxation and sleep and yet cannot easily go to sleep. Try the following method which you may have read in my book the Healing Power is Life. It is this. Sit nude on the edge of it. If you bathtub feet outside the tub, take a thumb syringe and fill it with water that is blood warm not hot. Place the end of the tube at the nape of the neck and let the warm water trickle down your spine until you begin to feel relaxed. Then go to bed quickly. Comfortable, warm and relaxed. 180 towards real relaxation and relaxation is complete. Be sure to induce sleep in a weary person is this. Lie in bed on the back. Deliberately set the message down to your toes. Firmly relax. Continue sending the message until the toes do spread and relax. Then relax the ankles in the same manner. Also the knees. Then the base of the spine and the spine itself will base the head. Also hand, hands and arms. As a rule, one will never get this far with relaxation exercise. Almost invariably one will slip off into a deep restful sleep before having consciously relaxed more than half the body upon awakening. If you feel recuperated, don't force yourself to remain in bed. Whatever the hour, get up and do something that you are interested in doing. Be sure to roam. Your sleep is always well done. Almost all people breathe more deeply when sleeping than when awake. Unless exercising, do not eat a big meal just before retiring. If you will give this method of inducing sleep a fair trial, you will find it very effective in inducing refreshing sleep that will have a real recuperative value. End of Chapter. Chapter 12 how to Live Life in Love Master, if you are anxious and uncertain about the future because of the fast moving and extremely chaotic changes now going on all about you, here is a lesson that will help you find your true self and to stay at peace. Once we really find the true self, we are in tune with life as it is, then we can live life in London. Life really is glorious once one knows how to live it. Try to imagine for a few minutes that you know a secret which opens all the closed doors of seeming limitations and that you can step into a new world in which all is life and liberty. In order to enter this fair paradise of freedom, the mind must be trained to choose carefully the emotional trend of thinking. Pupil, do you mean that only those who have developed their different mental faculties through study and practice of truth can enter this kingdom? Master, that is exactly what I mean. Since thoughts alone are creative, those who have learned the value of the trained will, imagination, intuition, and who live accordingly can really feel secure. The tendency of thought. The habits of thought determine with precision when outwards affairs. So as you start to travel this road which leads to absolute liberty in all things things, it is necessary to leave behind all excess baggage such as self pity, intolerance, criticism, fear, despondency, feeling of superiority and all other negative and destructive occupants of your mental house. Take all these and put them in a secure bag. Then tie a string of resolute determination tightly around them and dump them on a trash pile. Cover the worthless, banning and destructive evils with oil and set it on fire. Then are you really ready to start on your journey? It would seem that one is only able to go places on this road by developing self control. Is that so necessary, master? Yes, vitally necessary. However true and powerful a truth may be, there must be a method of application of the principle of the individual. The best ensures method of manifesting the truth that God and matter one and that God lives in and thinks through each of us is to deliberately cultivate self control. That's consequently serenity of mind. In your endeavor to use this great power for your individual purpose in the affairs of your holy life, you must be able to catch your thought the minute they begin to wander into doubts, condemnation, criticism and turn it in the direction you do wish to go. Not will you build certainty into your soul and body and the possession of certainty within means certainty in all things good in the affairs. Pupil, you may seem that my disposition and self control need much of my attention. I will admit that I am not patient and of course I am intolerant, but only with those who deserve it. Only with those who not seem to try to do their part do I lose my temper. Master, it is not my intention to be personal about your disposition. But I do say earnestly that every person who wishes to enjoy the blessings of true freedom must learn careful thought selection which means absolute thought control or self control. In this way you will very soon entertain only the thought guest you admire and enjoy. The uncouth, the grouchy is selfish, against the suspicious, the tramp thoughts, all of whom will try to make a convenience of your mental domain must be turned out of your mind. The best way to do this is to put your whole feeling full of information. Whatever one appeals to you at the moment, hold steadily to that thought and feeling until everything unlike it is out of your mind. Then lock your rental doors and use your will to keep all ties you've dispensed from your presence. Pupil. This making my mind do my new will is not going to be easy. I will practically have to make over completing my habitual mental processes, Master. No, it will not be easy. But the goal required, however much effort that may be. If you will mentally stick tight to your resolve to make your mind a conscious center operation even for one week, seeing yourself growing steadily into that which you wish to become, you will be amazed at your own growth and the genuine interest you have in everything around you. Also you will discover many, many wonderful things about yourself that you never knew before. Once you focus your attention and your intention on the intelligent life within and try to reproduce it in your own self, results that will seem almost phenomenal to you and quite quickly keep your consciousness focused on the fact that the spirit of life has no fears, no anxiety, and soon your feeling will correspond with it. Just try this, say for two weeks without sleeping. Then ask yourself if you would go back to your old estate if you could. Pupil is one apt to be hypnotized and thus hindered in progress by the thoughts of others of avoid Sometimes I seem to be making real progress when suddenly and for no apparent reason there is an almost uncontrollable impulse and feeling of oh, what's the use? I am like a ship without a rudder trying to plow through some invisible and invincible force and getting nowhere fast as the sand is. At best these experiences are long, long detours off the main road. What causes these episodes you gave its right away. In the beginning it is hypnotism, but as a rule it is self hypnotism, almost unconsciously done because of the old habits of thought. And it comes the result of your letting things other than your aim hold your attention. Your efforts to control your thoughts should be steady, continuous, of no unguarded moments. Mere spasmodic efforts help strongly indulge at the time of their occurrence to you will never take you very far on the road to the known goal you have set. Before you study any further these lessons. Yes, right now make up your mind positively that you are entering upon the study to win and that you will make an earnest, steady, continuous effort to do so. My own personal remedy for overcoming any tendency to slip back into the old rut of ron saying, thinking and I assure you that I've always found it the most potent and sure panacea is, believe it or not, that wonderful thing deliriously called old fashioned and out of date by some the Lord's Prayer. Go carefully over the Lord's Prayer every day. If you do not already know it thoroughly memorize it so that you can repeat it anywhere, anytime, silently if you like, use it, repeat it carefully, slowly, and with much depth of feeling as often as there is the least tendency to slip off your path. After you have finished with your reading or repetition of the prayer, then take up your mental picture again, mentally seeing, feeling, believing, knowing that you are already in possession of whatever it is that you want. This is what Jesus meant when he said for us to always ask, believing that ye already have and ye shall have. If you will do these things very soon, you will find that you are on the road to freedom and joy, and it will constantly grow easier for you to stay on the highway without so many detours. Just now I should like very much to have more money. In fact, I must have it. Do you mean that I can attract the money I need by living with the Lord's Prayer for, say, half an hour every morning and every night? Just precipitate that money right out of the very thin air? That seems incredible, Master. What you ask is incredible and you are not getting my real meaning. The finest statement of the law of life ever uttered is, in my opinion, that wonderful, wonderful statement of Jesus, namely, seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and then all things will be added unto you. But please note that first you must seek the kingdom, must make an honest effort to make your mind a sector of divine operation only and for its own sake, and not from any ulterior motive. Then will all things be added unto you. What happens to you through the steady, persistent use of the Lord's Prayer as we are discussing it is with the constant change in your mental attitude as you progress, you are developing more and more strength and spiritual power. This self mastery you are steadily developing is the growth of divine wisdom, power, and beauty within you. Naturally, then, your whole outside world will gradually change to correspond to your new inside world. Because your most habitual thought takes outward form, delightful changes will come into the circle of your individual world. Your thought and feeling will attract corresponding shapes, and you will feel much encouraged to go on and on and on into more and more joy and freedom. End of Chapter. Chapter 13 Imagination and intuition Today we shall discuss the great power we call imagination. Pupil, May I ask just what imagination is? I have heard you often speak of it as our spiritual airplane and say that it wings us. But just what is it, Master? No mortal can possibly answer that question. With all of our scientific research, no one has found any rational clue as to the source of this great power outside of God or spirit. Nor has anyone been able to determine how far the use of imagination is able to carry one. It is infinite. It is the mystery of this truth that it might be compared to electricity in this respect. Yet we know it does exist and that its own good is inconceivable if used constructively correctly. What we should do is to inquire into its usefulness to us. Every normal person is equivalent to some degree. And like the will, the imagination can be developed if when we understood and correctly used, they will perform seeming miracles. Pupil, Might you call imagination the spiritual airplane, master? Because imagination, correctly used, can and will lift one wings above and beyond all limitation, above one's low narrow views of life into a cloudless domain of true perspective. Imagination gives one clear vision of possibility in your life, which you've never been able to see before. Then will you realize that it takes determination and effort to achieve success. You also know that you can, with the imagination, tap the source of unlimited possibility and intelligent energy in a flash. That mysterious winged thing called imagination shows you where all the riches of life are to be found. Suppose one feels weak, obscure, poor, that you know your ideas are good, but that you lack the money or health to carry them into effect. What can imagination do about these things, master? Imagination will reveal and strengthen power and means are to be found within your divine self. And that a better and better acquaintance with and a more frequent use of the God powers within is certain to lead to success. How many times people can imagination live one to great spiritual heights? Or does it pertain more to material success? Master Jesus the Nazarene lifted himself to the exalted Christ through understanding and using his powers of imagination. Is that not reaching the height spiritually. Realms of wisdom? Many times he was not sure, but he imagined. And because he imagined, he discovered. And because he discovered, he wrought miraculous cures. To this day his wisdom prevents disease and death in countless millions. Truly, Pasquale was the same. The same is true of Pericles. People said he was lucky, envious and lazy. People always say this to many one that exceeds. But the cures of paraklesis were not locked. They were the result of his imagination and industry. Jesus intimately acquainted himself with God through use of moral imagination. And through use of the same mystic power he was able to enter into other lives. His success can be attributed to his ability to see God, which is perfection in every person he contacted, however tragic, lonely, hopeless or vicious that once seemed to. Through his recognition of God and all men, he helped men to see God in themselves. This was the source of his great power. Then imagination is a veritable dynamo and not Just a means of trivial, idle daydreaming. Master. Yes. Recognize your imagination as a dynamo of limitless power. Use all of it that you possess whenever you need it. Understanding of it and experiencing and using it will readily prove to be the most powerful force in your mental equipment. Used correctly, it will carry your light up among the brightest stars of highest heaven. It is not enough to dream an idling desire. Not any more than it is enough to start an airplane or just to watch propeller go round and round. You must fuel your imagination with knowledge and purpose. You must take your bearings and hold your course. Risks, hardships will be only still greater opportunities to use your imagination in your journey through the clouds. People. All of this sounds very interesting and inspiring. But when I look about me and see the people who are succeeding and who have so much more in life than I have, it is confusing. They do not seem to know or care a thing about God. How about that, Master? If I were you, I would try attending to my own name and start wants to develop my own power. Also. I can stop envying others their success. Pupil. Although I am not angry anybody anything. I simply do not understand. Lester. It would help if you would try to avoid a tail spit of self pity. As soon as you observe someone who is getting out better than you are. You must project yourself to this life critically. Try doing the same thing constructively. Explore his tactics, his tastes, his imagination and industry. And then ask yourself, as you wait on me a lot better and faster if you adopted some of the means he employs. How can I know how another does this work to succeed? And I did not realize that I had been feeling sorry for myself. How would it be to try to see myself as others see me lasted? It would help very much if you will turn your imagination on yourself without any excuses or alibis. Your imagination will show your true self if you have the courage to use it and trust it. And let your intuition help you also. Chapter 14 husbands, wives and Children. Children. How to bring them forth if you wish them whole. Husband's wives as you desire them. It seems to me that many of my married friends would be perfectly happy if only children would come to them. It seems strange they cannot have any, Master. No, it is not strange. It is all according to law. Principle is not governed by precedent. Children are the result of knowing, feeling, living the law. Consciously or unconsciously. They are the birth of new ideas, something different. Every baby is a new idea, a new form in which life lives. Get into the habit of developing new ideas and you will find these very Ideas taking the form of children. It does not matter what the new ideas are about, so long as you fully develop them. Then mentally picture as many children as you would like to have. What about to give birth to a new idea for a baby? I would suggest that they help really good mental science. With proper understanding. The birth of a child will be as natural as spiritual idea that proceed to form people. All of this sounds very wonderful and convincing. While I talk with you, at the risk of your thinking my mind is sick. May I ask you put all the three steps husband, home, children in a concise separate form? Master? Very well. The idea of consecration is not an easy one as you can have. You present him in the war you name. But first, what exactly does the word husband mean to you? What characteristics do you wish the husband to manifest? What should his disposition be in order to be in tune with yours? These are your very first steps along the way. To me, husband symbolizes certain characteristics. I would like to attract myself from the masculine side of life or quality life. A type of man I admire. His main quality should be understanding and love. With these two attributes well developed in both of us, I believe happiness will be certain to follow. The master. With love and understanding well developed into husband and wife, happiness is certain to follow. The one certain way to attract this type of husband is to develop love and understanding in yourself. It is a very great truth that like attracts like. So first think over carefully just the type of man you feel to be happy with him. Oh, I thought I was to think of the qualities my husband should have to make me happy. Master. That method would help to develop self centeredness, selfishness. But the other way is a reach out to give what you have as a very great power. When you have determined the type of man whom you feel will be happy with you, then take for yourself an early morning and through reading and meditation, think yourself into the quality of life you wish to attract and hold. Herein lies the real value of holding your thought and feeling into place. Just like plugging into the light cycle when you want. The secret is make your contact in thought and feeling and hold it with a happy expectant attitude. Of course, this ability to hold an idea is arrived at by developing a will. People, it seems to me that visualizing will not work unless the mental pictures made are held in place of mind. Is that right, master? That is exactly right. They must be held in place again, just like the electric contact for lights must be held in place if you are to benefit by the light that will then straight on your magnet of thought and feeling draws from out of the whole universe with such qualities. Sam. That's it. Go, go, Go. Down. It. Gotta get more weight.