| New Method. You will find in this chapter a most | | | | Determination |
| effective and | | | | imparts compelling force to the will. It exerts itself |
| most practical method of developing the will. You | | | | more. The |
| can develop a | | | | will and the end act and react on each other.7th |
| strong one if you want to. You can make your Will | | | | Day.Notes. Now try to do everything you do today |
| a dynamo to | | | | faster. Don't hurry |
| draw to you untold power. Exercises are given | | | | or become nervous. Just try to do everything |
| which will, if | | | | faster, but in a |
| practiced, strengthen your will, just as you would | | | | steady manner.You will find that the exercises you |
| strengthen | | | | have practiced in |
| your muscles by athletic exercises.In starting to do | | | | retardation have steadied your nerves, and thereby |
| anything, we must first commence with | | | | made it |
| elementary principles. Simple exercises will be given. | | | | possible to increase your speed. The will is under |
| It is | | | | your command. |
| impossible to estimate the ultimate good to be | | | | Make it carry out resolutions rapidly. This is how you |
| derived from the | | | | build up |
| mental cultivation that comes through these | | | | your self-control and your self-command. It is then |
| attempts at | | | | that the |
| Psychic - Concentration. Even the simple exercises | | | | human machine acts as its author dictates.You |
| are not to be thought | | | | certainly should now be able to judge of the great |
| useless. "In no respect," writes Doctor Oppenheim, | | | | benefit |
| "can a man | | | | that comes from writing out your introspections |
| show a finer quality of will-power than in his own | | | | each day. Of |
| private, | | | | course you will not have the exact experiences |
| intimate life." We are all subjected to certain | | | | given in these |
| temptations. The | | | | examples, but some of these will fit your case. Be |
| Will decides whether we will be just, or unjust; pure | | | | careful to |
| of thought; | | | | study your experiences carefully and make as true a |
| charitable in opinion; forbearing in overlooking other's | | | | report as you |
| shortcomings; whether we live up to our highest | | | | can. Describe your feelings just as they seem to |
| standard. Since | | | | you. Allow your |
| these are all controlled by the Will, we should find | | | | fancies to color your report and it will be worthless. |
| time for | | | | You have |
| plenty of exercises for training of the will in our daily | | | | pictured conditions as you see them. In a few |
| life.You, of course, realize that your will should be | | | | months, if you |
| trained. You | | | | again try the same exercises, you will find your |
| must also realize that to do this requires effort that | | | | report very much |
| you alone | | | | better. By these introspections, we learn to know |
| can command. No one can call it forth for you.To be | | | | ourselves |
| successful in these exercises you must practice them | | | | better and with this knowledge can wonderfully |
| in a | | | | increase our |
| spirit of seriousness and earnestness. I can show | | | | efficiency. As you become used to writing out your |
| you how to | | | | report, it |
| train your will, but your success depends upon your | | | | will be more accurate. You thus learn how to govern |
| mastery and | | | | your |
| application of these methods.New Methods of | | | | impulses, activities and weaknesses.Each person |
| Will-Training. Select a quiet room where you will | | | | should try to plan exercises that will best fit his |
| not be interrupted; have a watch to determine the | | | | needs. If not convenient for you to practice |
| time, and a | | | | exercises every day, |
| note-book in which to enter observations. Start each | | | | take them twice or three times a week. But carry |
| exercise | | | | out any plan you |
| with date and time of day.Exercise 1Time decided | | | | decide to try. If you cannot devote ten minutes a |
| on. Select some time of the day when most | | | | day to the |
| convenient. Sit in a chair and look at the door-knob | | | | experiments start with five minutes and gradually |
| for ten | | | | increase the |
| minutes. Then write down what you experienced. At | | | | time. The exercises given are only intended for |
| first it will | | | | examples.Will Training Without Exercise. There are |
| seem strange and unnatural. You will find it hard to | | | | many people that do not |
| hold one | | | | want to take the time to practice exercises, so the |
| position for ten minutes. But keep as still as you can. | | | | following |
| The time | | | | instructions for training the will are given to them.By |
| will seem long for it will probably be the first time | | | | willing and realizing, the will grows. Therefore the |
| you ever | | | | more you |
| sat and did nothing for ten minutes. You will find | | | | will, the more it grows, and builds up power. No |
| your thoughts | | | | matter whether |
| wandering from the door-knob, and you will wonder | | | | your task is big or small, make it a rule to accomplish |
| what there can | | | | it in |
| be in this exercise. Repeat this exercise for six | | | | order to fortify your will. Form the habit of focusing |
| days.10 P. M. 2nd Day.Notes. You should be able to sit | | | | your will |
| quieter, and the time should | | | | in all its strength upon the subject to be achieved. |
| pass more quickly. You will probably feel a little | | | | You form in |
| stronger | | | | this way the habit of getting a thing done, of |
| because of gaining a better control of your will. It will | | | | carrying out some |
| brace | | | | plan. You acquire the feeling of being able to |
| you up, as you have kept your resolution. 10 P. M. | | | | accomplish that |
| 3rd Day.Notes. It may be a little harder for you to | | | | which lies before you, no matter what it is. This |
| concentrate on the | | | | gives you |
| door-knob as perhaps you had a very busy day and | | | | confidence and a sense of power that you get in no |
| your mind kept | | | | other way. You |
| trying to revert to what you had been doing during | | | | know when you make a resolution that you will |
| the day. Keep | | | | keep it. You do not |
| on trying and you will finally succeed in banishing all | | | | tackle new tasks in a half-hearted way, but with a |
| foreign | | | | bold, brave |
| thoughts. Then you should feel a desire to gain still | | | | spirit. We know that the will is able to carry us over |
| more | | | | big |
| control. There is a feeling of power that comes over | | | | obstacles. Knowing this despair never claims us for a |
| you when you | | | | victim. We |
| are able to carry out your will. This exercise will | | | | have wills and are going to use them with more and |
| make you feel | | | | more |
| bigger and it awakens a sense of nobility and | | | | intensity, thus giving us the power to make our |
| manliness. You will | | | | resolutions |
| say, "I find that I can actually do what I want to | | | | stronger, our actions freer and our lives finer and |
| and can drive | | | | better.The education of the will should not be left to |
| foreign thoughts out. The exercise, I can now see, | | | | chance. It is |
| is valuable."10 P. M. 4th Day.Notes. "I found that I | | | | only definite tasks that will render it energetic, |
| could look at the door-knob and | | | | ready, |
| concentrate my attention on it at once. Have | | | | persevering and consistent. The only way it can be |
| overcome the | | | | done is by |
| tendency to move my legs. No other thoughts try | | | | self-study and self-discipline. The cost is effort, time |
| to enter as I | | | | and |
| have established the fact that I can do what I want | | | | patience, but the returns are valuable. There are no |
| to do and do | | | | magical |
| not have to be directed. I feel that I am gaining in | | | | processes leading to will development, but the |
| mental | | | | development of |
| strength, I can now see the wonderful value of | | | | your will works wonders for you because it gives |
| being the master | | | | you |
| of my own will-force. I know now if I make a | | | | self-mastery, personal power and energy of |
| resolution I will | | | | character.Psychic - Concentration of the Will to Win. |
| keep it. I have more self-confidence and can feel | | | | The adaptability of persons to |
| my self-control | | | | their business environment is more a matter of |
| increasing.10 P. M. 5th Day.Notes. "Each day I seem | | | | determination than |
| to increase the intensity of my | | | | anything else. In this age we hear a good deal of |
| Psychic - Concentration. I feel that I can center my | | | | talk about a |
| attention on anything | | | | man's aptitudes. Some of his aptitudes, some of his |
| I wish.10 P. M. 6th Day.Notes. "I can instantly center | | | | powers, may |
| my whole attention on the | | | | be developed to a wonderful extent, but he is really |
| door-knob. Feel that I have thoroughly mastered this | | | | an unknown |
| exercise and | | | | quality until all his latent powers are developed to |
| that I am ready for another."You have practiced this | | | | their |
| exercise enough, but before you start | | | | highest possible extent. He may be a failure in one |
| another I want you to write a summary of just | | | | line and a |
| how successful you | | | | big success in another. There are many successful |
| were in controlling the flitting impulses of the mind | | | | men, that did |
| and will. | | | | not succeed well at what they first undertook, but |
| You will find this an excellent practice. There is | | | | they profited |
| nothing more | | | | by their efforts in different directions, and this fitted |
| beneficial to the mind than to pay close attention to | | | | them |
| its own | | | | for higher things, whereas had they refused to |
| wonderful, subtle activities.Exercise 2Secure a | | | | adjust themselves |
| package of playing cards. Select some time to do the | | | | to their environment, the tide of progress would |
| exercise. Each day at the appointed time, take the | | | | have swept them |
| pack in one | | | | into oblivion.My one aim in all my works is to try and |
| hand and then start laying them down on top of | | | | arouse in the individual |
| each other just as | | | | the effort and determination to develop his full |
| slowly as you can, with an even motion. Try to get | | | | capacities, his |
| them as even | | | | highest possibilities. One thing I want you to realize |
| as possible. Each card laid down should completely | | | | at the |
| cover the | | | | start, that it is not so much ability, as it is the will to |
| under one. Do this exercise for six days.1st | | | | do |
| Day.Notes. Task will seem tedious and tiresome. | | | | that counts. Ability is very plentiful, but organizing |
| Requires the closest | | | | initiative |
| Psychic - Concentration to make each card | | | | and creative power are not plentiful. It is easy to |
| completely cover the preceding | | | | get employes, |
| one. You will probably want to lay them down | | | | but to get someone to train them is harder. Their |
| faster. It requires | | | | abilities must |
| patience to lay them down so slowly, but benefit is | | | | be directed to the work they can do. They must be |
| lost if not | | | | shown how, |
| so placed. You will find that at first your motions will | | | | while at this work, to conserve their energy and |
| be jerky | | | | they must be |
| and impetuous. It will require a little practice before | | | | taught to work in harmony with others, for most |
| you gain | | | | business concerns |
| an easy control over your hands and arms. You | | | | are dominated by a single personality.Concentrating |
| probably have never | | | | on Driving Force Within. We are all conscious, at |
| tried to do anything in such a calm way. It will | | | | times, that we have somewhere within us an active |
| require the | | | | driving force |
| closest attention of your will. But you will find that | | | | that is ever trying to push us onward to better |
| you are | | | | deeds. It is that |
| acquiring a calmness you never had before. You are | | | | "force" that makes us feel determined at times to |
| gradually | | | | do something |
| acquiring new powers. You recognize how impulsive | | | | worth while. It is not thought, emotion or feeling. |
| and impetuous | | | | This driving |
| you have been, and how, by using your will, you can | | | | force is something distinct from thought or emotion. |
| control your | | | | It is a |
| temperament.2nd Day.Notes. You start laying the | | | | quality of the soul and therefore it has a |
| cards down slowly. You will find that | | | | consciousness all its |
| by practice you can lay them down much faster. But | | | | own. It is the "I will do" of the will. It is the force |
| you want to | | | | that |
| lay them down slowly and therefore you have to | | | | makes the will concentrate. Many have felt this |
| watch yourself. | | | | force working |
| The slow, steady movement is wearisome. You | | | | within them, driving them on to accomplish their |
| have to conquer the | | | | tasks. All great |
| desire of wanting to hurry up. Soon you will find that | | | | men and women become conscious that this |
| you can go | | | | supreme and powerful |
| slowly or fast at will.3rd Day.Notes. You still find it | | | | force is their ally in carrying out great resolutions.This |
| hard to go slowly. Your will urges you | | | | driving force is within all, but until you reach a certain |
| to go faster. This is especially true if you are | | | | stage you do not become aware of it. It is most |
| impulsive, as | | | | useful to the |
| the impulsive character finds it very difficult to do | | | | worthy. It springs up naturally without any thought |
| anything | | | | of training. |
| slowly and deliberately. It goes against the "grain." | | | | It comes unprovoked and leaves unnoticed. Just |
| This | | | | what this force is |
| exercise still is tiresome. But when you do it, it | | | | we do not know, but we do know that it is what |
| braces you up | | | | intensifies the |
| mentally. You are accomplishing something you do | | | | will in demanding just and harmonious action.The |
| not like to do. | | | | ordinary human being, merely as merchandise, if he |
| It teaches you how to concentrate on disagreeable | | | | could be |
| tasks. Writing | | | | sold as a slave, would be worth ten thousand dollars. |
| these notes down you will find very helpful.4th | | | | If somebody |
| Day.Notes. I find that I am beginning to place the | | | | gave you a five thousand dollar automobile you |
| cards in a | | | | would take very |
| mathematical way. I find one card is not completely | | | | good care of it. You wouldn't put sand in the |
| covering | | | | carburetor, or mix |
| another. I am getting a little careless and must be | | | | water with the gasoline, or drive it furiously over |
| more careful. | | | | rough roads, |
| I command my will to concentrate more. It does not | | | | or leave it out to freeze at night.Are you quite sure |
| seem so hard | | | | that you take care of your own body, your own |
| to bring it under control.5th Day.Notes. I find that I | | | | health, your only real property, as well as you would |
| am overcoming my jerky movements, that I can | | | | take care |
| lay the cards down slowly and steadily. I feel that I | | | | of a five thousand dollar automobile if it were given |
| am rapidly | | | | to you?The man who mixes whiskey with his blood is |
| gaining more poise. I am getting better control over | | | | more foolish than a |
| my will each | | | | man would be if he mixed water with gasoline in his |
| day, and my will completely controls my movements. | | | | car.You can get another car; you cannot get another |
| I begin to | | | | body.The man who misses sleep lives irregularly--bolts |
| look on my will as a great governing power. I would | | | | his food so |
| not think of | | | | that his blood supply is imperfect. That is a foolish |
| parting with the knowledge of will I have gained. I | | | | man |
| find it is a | | | | treating himself as he would not treat any other |
| good exercise and know it will help me to accomplish | | | | valuable piece |
| my tasks.6th Day.Notes. I begin to feel the wonderful | | | | of property.Do you try to talk with men and |
| possibilities of the will. | | | | women who know more than you do, |
| It gives me strength to think of the power of will. I | | | | and do you LISTEN rather than try to tell them |
| am able to | | | | what you know?There are a hundred thousand men |
| do so much more and better work now, that I | | | | of fifty, and men of sixty, |
| realize that I can | | | | running along in the old rut, any one of whom could |
| control my will action. Whatever my task, my will is | | | | get out of it |
| concentrated | | | | and be counted among the successful men if only |
| on it. I am to keep my will centered there until the | | | | the spark could |
| task is | | | | be found to explode the energy within them now |
| finished. The more closely and definitely I determine | | | | going to waste.Each man must study and solve his |
| what I | | | | own Brings You Psychic Training for Real People. |
| shall do, the more easily the will carries it out. | | | | Embrace Your Psychic Side - Today! |