thoughts, put them into form. Invent and produce. Create ideas. Feel
complete in yourself. Do not stand in wonder at what others have done,
right at your feet lies a secret that will enrich the world and make
you famous. A thinker discovered a substitute for the artist camel's
hair brush by taking the hair from inside a cow's ear. If you work
in an office think up some out-door vocation. Grow something, raise
something, get interested in animals. Study the market near you,
create, produce, or raise something to sell. If not for money, for
the forces of life the work gives. It will keep you from habits,
from speculating, from gambling, from politics and other evils. Build
something, raise chickens, pets, sheep, cattle, or grow flowers,
fruits, berries. WORK WITH NATURE. This is the very harmony of
success. In it you will be in touch with Universal Intelligence, will
get the inflow of Infinite Life, and thru it will keep growing.
=YOUR LATENT POWERS=: Take account of your personal abilities.
Your gifts, talents, forces, equipment. What per cent are you using?
Most people are not using over 20 per cent of their capital of
personal power. The 80 per cent lies dormant. Why have only 20 per
cent of your share of Life, Success, Harmony and Happiness, when you
should have 100 per cent. There are big prizes awaiting your latent
powers. At every turn of the way, you can read the sign: "Wanted. Men
with Power." There is an unexplored continent in your Being. Go into
it, bring out its riches, for yourself and for the world.
=PERSISTENCE AND PLANNING=: A plan is a mighty source of power.
Do not work and live "hit-or-miss" in your activities day by day. Have
a plan. Sit in Silence a few moments each morning and create a plan.
You can double your efficiency. Think out a plan, open a way. Get an
effectual insight. Keep your plan under your cap, and work it out.
Persist in your plan. Stick to it. Never grow sour or negative in your
manner. Keep sweet. If your plan is blocked, dig in another direction.
Build a new foundation. Shake off doubts and start new. Unless your
success makes you happy it is not success. Deep at the heart of the
Universe lies happiness. Live closely to that heart, in persistent
power of service.
=IMPERSONATE YOUR DESIRES:= Impersonate greatness and you will
become great. Impersonate loveliness and you will become lovely. Why
do actors become matinee idols? They could readily marry a hundred
times a month. It is quite impossible for an actor to remain
unmarried. What is the secret? Can a person get it? Certainly; here
it is. Actors impersonate heroes, villains, model husbands, daring
lovers, in a real way. They think, plan, and train themselves to
impersonate the character, they make it so real that people think it
must be a part of their nature. You can do it, young man, bachelor,
widower. If you are only half a man, half a lover, impersonate a whole
one. If you are so bashful that it makes you blush to walk with your
best girl, in the garden where the flowers are in bed, impersonate a
dashing, dare-devil, scamp of fascination, and your sweetheart will
faint from adorable bliss and fall into your arms. If you are a coward
impersonate a hero, until you are one. Do not stand on one foot, or
bite your fingernails, or tear the rim off your hat, trying to tell a
beautiful, healthy twentieth century young woman you love her. You'll
be all to the mustard. Do something brave. Go hire a kid that is a
good swimmer, to fall into the lake as you and your sweetheart are
walking past, then throw back your shoulders and tear off your coat
and leap in, the kid will get you to shore, but you'll be a hero in
her eyes. Impersonate the hero, and you will win the heroine.
Young woman, if you would marry a hero, impersonate beauty. Maiden
lady of quite impossible age, if you would marry the best man in the
world, impersonate youth and beauty. Dear languishing widow, if you
would marry a real man, impersonate youth, beauty and wealth. You will
win. The odds are much against you here in the East, where in every
state there are thousands and thousands of more women than there are
men, but you will win. Men follow actresses around the world because
they impersonate love, passion, beauty, virtue and nobleness. The men
really think actresses must possess what they portray. You see, it is
all a matter of thinking. It does not matter how many times a man has
lost on the races, if he is a good sport he will bet on the next
horse that looks good to him. Women need to impersonate looking good,
better, best. Not on occasions only, but all the time. Men like women
who are good pals. So ladies impersonate sympathy, kindness, patience,
good fellowship, enthusiasm, in the things that interest men. If you
belong to the Citrus family, impersonate the Peach. If you belong to
the Nettle family, impersonate the Violet. You may be so homely that
your face pains you, but think of the impersonations of beauty you
can buy at the drug store. Impersonate silence. A young lady in
Philadelphia lost her voice and she had nineteen proposals that year.
Impersonate form. You may be as angular as the streets in Boston, yet
almost any department store will shape you up. You may be so fat that
you haven't seen your feet in years, still you can impersonate so much
good nature that men will be attracted to you as flowers to the sun.
* * * * *
Have confidence in everything you do, even when you eat sausages at a
quick lunch next door to the dog-catcher.
* * * * *
Hell is not paved with good intentions. Hell is paved with
sanctimonious pretensions.
* * * * *
When you get up, where does your lap go? When you love, where does
your hate go?
* * * * *
After you have walked the floor all night trying to get the baby to
sleep, you can at least be thankful that you do not live in Greenland
where the nights are six months long.
* * * * *
Avoid hot words in anger, you might tell the truth. A Chicago father
thrashed his son for being out late at night. Then added: "When I
was your age my father would not let me be out after dark." The boy
answered: "Then you must have had a devil of a father." The old man
came back hotly: "I had a damn sight better father than you have."
Fretting is like a rocking chair, you can do a great deal of agitating
in it without getting anywhere.
* * * * *
Do not kick at the squirrel that runs up to you in the park; it may be
only mistaken identity--he thought he saw a nut.
* * * * *
Children radiate truth, they intuitively feel and express it. Elsie
had been bad and her mother sent her upstairs to talk it over with
God. After an hour she came down stairs singing; her mother asked her
what God had said to her. "O," she replied, "God said, Great Scott,
Elsie, don't feel badly, there are a lot of worse people in this house
than you are."
* * * * *
=Lesson Fifth
SUPREME BODY BUILDING METHOD
HEALTH, HARMONY, POWER, SERVICE:= That is what a supreme body
gives. Do not always be taking care of your health, take care of your
body and you will generate health. Thought animates the body with
health. This is an age of electrification. We are fed, lighted,
heated, and transported by electricity. In the lightning pace we are
going, the body is neglected. Give three minutes morning and night
to the exercises below and you will straighten, develop, heal, and
energize your body. Enter upon these exercises as you would an arena
of conquest where you expected to win the great prize of life.
=THE BREATH IS LIFE:= Take a deep, full, abdominal breath with
each body building exercise, inhale through the nose and expel
forcefully through the mouth. NEVER HOLD YOUR BREATH.
=FIRST EXERCISE:= Stand erect, drop hands to the side, clinch
your fists tightly, then with muscular tension raise fists and arms
slowly high above the head, taking a deep, full, abdominal breath
as you raise them, relax and expel the breath forcefully through the
mouth. Repeat 5 times.
=SECOND EXERCISE:= Place the left hand flat in the right, clasp
them, resisting with the left, lift with the right, putting full
strength into the effort, until the hands are lifted above the head,
taking deep breath as in the first exercise. Relax, expel breath.
Then repeat with the right hand resisting the left. Repeat exercise 5
times.
=THIRD EXERCISE:= Grasp the hands firmly above the head, letting
them be at rest on top of the head. Then pull hard from right to left
slowly, taking the deep, full abdominal breath with each movement,
relaxing and expelling as above. This and the above exercise are
wonderful in their effect in developing the lungs and rounding out the
development of the shoulders and chest. Repeat 5 times.
=FOURTH EXERCISE:= Grasp hands in front, level with chest, pull
from right to left hard, taking deep, full abdominal breath with each
movement. Relax and expel breath same as above.
=FIFTH EXERCISE:= Grasp the hands behind the back, taking deep,
full abdominal breath, lift the hands as far up on the back as
possible. Relax, expel breath. Always draw in the breath as you
move through the exercise, having a full breath when the movement is
completed, then expel.
=SIXTH EXERCISE:= Place right hand over right hip, clench the
left fist, raise it slowly, drawing the deep breath, and bending the
body to the right as far as possible. Relax, expel breath. Now repeat
with the left hand placed over the left hip. Repeat 5 times.
=SEVENTH EXERCISE:= Grasp hands in front of breast, pulling hard,
swing the body as far right and left as possible without moving the
feet, take deep breath with each movement. Repeat 5 times.
=EIGHTH EXERCISE:= Raise hands above the head, take a deep breath
and bend the body, try to touch floor with finger, not bending the
knees. Repeat 5 times.
You can add other exercises to these, only be sure they have the deep
breathing. These will build a vigorous, developed, supple body. Will
ward off every form of asthma, catarrh, bronchial or lung trouble.
Stop indigestion, increase circulation, renew and make blood.
Do all exercises in well ventilated room, have clothing loose. The
best time is on rising and on retiring. If they make you ache at first
it is sure evidence of their doing you good. You will soon be too
strong to have aches and pains.
Do not exhaust yourself in the exercises, just take them till the body
glows and the muscles are well exercised.
Faithfully persist in these exercises and breathings.
* * * * *
Marrying a goose does not assure one of a bed of swans-down.
* * * * *
Never ask a man who gave him his black eye; nobody gave it to him, he
probably had to fight hard for it.
* * * * *
When discussing the modern dress, keep in mind that a bare statement
is not necessarily the naked truth.
* * * * *
There is a difference between notoriety and merit. A thousand dollars
worth of roses will barely fill a room with perfume, but with a
dollar's worth of fried onions you can scent up a whole town.
* * * * *
The American people lose three million years every twelve months by
being sick. The doctor's fees amount to a billion and two hundred and
twenty million. Wonder what the Master of Life meant when he said: "I
am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more
abundantly."
=Lesson Sixth
SUPREME INTERNAL VIBRATIONS
GOOD DIGESTION RULES THE WORLD=: Digestion is a matter of
vibration. Indigestion is on the increase because people are more and
more sedentary in their habits. Walking is life's finest exercise, but
people walk less now than ever. The human body's great vibrator is
the diaphragm. Arouse it and you will arouse action in your digestive
tract, your liver, and kidneys. Continue vibration from one minute to
as long as you please. If these vibrations are continued a few minutes
each day, no cancer or tumor would ever develop, and the thousand
different stomach ills would disappear. The DIAPHRAGM is a great
muscle area stretched out for the stomach, intestines and vital organs
to exercise on, and to give them freedom.
=VIBRATIONS FOR INTESTINES:= Begin slowly, take a deep breath,
then vibrate your abdomen in and out by using the inner muscles of
the diaphragm. Vibrate slowly then more rapidly. Force the vibrations
downward upon the intestines. You may feel a little pain at first,
which shows the weakness of the intestinal muscles, that passes away.
The DIAPHRAGM is the great digestive engine of the body, work it all
you can.
=VIBRATIONS FOR STOMACH and SOLAR PLEXUS:= Raise the vibrations
upward, just as before you forced them downward. Repeat the series
with full breath several times. Also give the vibrations with a
little twist of the body, so as to get the circular movement over the
stomach. VIBRATE THE SOLAR PLEXUS with short, sharp vibrations far up
into the chest, this will cover the muscles of the lungs and of the
heart. This is a very essential work as it gives new strength to those
muscles of the heart and lungs to ward off acute attacks of any kind.
=VIBRATION FOR TORPID LIVER:= Direct the vibrations to the right
side. Do them strongly so as to arouse the liver thoroughly. This is
a very important exercise as it bears directly on RHEUMATISM, it
releases the acids, starts secretions flowing. Rheumatism calls for
dry climates, non-acid diet. Avoid sweets and starch, take salt water
baths, drink lithia water. Walk all you can. Change your work. BE SURE
TO DRINK A CUP OF HOT WATER EACH MORNING on rising. Put a little salt
in to help cleanse the stomach of septic acids. Drink two cups, all
the better.
=CONSTIPATION:= The best vibration and advice is that above for
this trouble. Be regular about going to the toilet each morning. Eat
vegetable diet, rye bread, or graham. Eat little meat, chew your food
to a liquid mastication. Keep up the intestinal vibrations, in 20 days
your constipation will be a trouble of the past.
=HEADACHES AND BILIOUSNESS:= These are the results of
AUTO-INTOXICATION, the worry, hurry, eating fast, eating too much,
over exerting, anxiety, all of these poison the process of digestion
and assimilation. Take a dose of epsom salts, castor oil, or cascara
sagrada, then regulate your diet. REST IN BED FOR A DAY. This done at
once will save many a siege of sickness.
=OBESITY:= Keep up the internal vibrations all over the body.
Keep up the exercises of Lesson Seventh. REDUCING IS A MORAL RESOLVE
TO EAT LESS. If you are a coward you cannot reduce, if your appetite,
that is unreal, unnatural and dangerous, makes you its slave so that
you eat 5,000 units of food when 3,000 is a great sufficiency, then
you lack MORAL WILL FORCE TO REDUCE. Drink the hot water as above, or
put into it a little lemon juice. When you feel hunger come on drink
a cup of the lemon hot water, just a few drops of the lemon juice. Get
so you can go without your noon lunch except one-half slice of bread
and a cup of hot water one-quarter milk. KEEP UP WALKING. KEEP UP THE
BODY BUILDING EXERCISES. RUB AND MASSAGE THE FACE AND NECK. Do not
eat fat, pastry, confection, or starchy foods. Eat slowly, Fletcherize
each mouthful, it will reduce you, give you a new taste of flavors not
known to the glutton. Abhor being fat, unshapely, and be unhappy over
it, but never tell others how you feel. Keep your deficiencies to
yourself, master them, be free of them, then living will become a
joy, your body a daily delight, and you shall possess a Supreme
Personality.
=HAVE A NEW BODY:= There is no condition physical or mental that
cannot be changed, even deformities, and deficiencies can be improved.
SET YOUR MIND ON WHAT YOU WANT TO BE, THEN WORK FOR IT. Set a mark at
what you wish to weigh and then bravely, happily, with joyous courage
seek to attain it. YOU WILL. COMMAND YOUR BODY. KEEP MOVING TOWARD
YOUR IDEAL.
Health is a result of Harmony. By the force of the WILL acting in
obedience to the mind, is the body made perfect.
* * * * *
You are no fool if you know how to sin charmingly.
* * * * *
The most fertile source of family trouble on earth is an inheritance.
* * * * *
Do not spend your life leading asses to fountains of wisdom, for you
cannot make them think.
* * * * *
The life path of many people is like York Street in New Haven, it
begins with a hospital, is populated with doctors and ends at the
cemetery.
* * * * *
All Nature is Triune: Earth, Water, Atmosphere. Her agents are: Heat,
Light, Electricity; Ether, Magnetism, Aura. Her kingdoms are: Mineral,
Vegetable, Animal. Her animal life is: Aquatic, Terrestrial, Aerial.
Her formations are: Angular, Circular, Spiral. Man, her highest
creation is: Physical, Mental, Spiritual.
If you cannot realize your ideal, idealize your real.
* * * * *
Sleep is one of Nature's sanctuaries; an alarm-clock has no more right
to disturb it than a fog-horn has to blow off in a prayer-meeting.
* * * * *
Be glad when you meet "A Crank," he may give you a suggestion that
will make you "A Self-Starter."
* * * * *
Very few men are smart enough to fill five reels with genuine
dare-devil acts of villainy, and get away with it, by coming out an
angel at the end of the film.
* * * * *
Heart failure is largely acute indigestion from selfishness. Sunstroke
is quite likely brought on by anger and anxiety "het-up" by relatives.
Apoplexy is hate breaking up housekeeping. Paresis is free-love
embellished with champagne. Appendicitis is a six-cylinder appetite
hitched to a half horse power ambition. Nervous prostration is
a self-love "Movie" trying to cover the earth in a single-reel.
Pneumonia is vanity over-heated in seal skin.
* * * * *
=Lesson Seventh=
=SUPREME MENTAL HEALING=
=THE SUPREME MIND:= The previous lessons give you the key to
Supreme Mental Healing. Your mind is limitless. Begin where you may,
conditions do not count. No matter how weak, how isolated, how deep
in the mire of trouble, you can rise, you can be free, you can be
renewed. You may have a whole library of all sorts of books and
treatises on healing. You may have a library of biology and pathology,
but you can never read yourself well. What you need is what I have
sought to give you, POSITIVE WORKING PLANS. It takes some WORK to
build a hut, more to build a comfortable home, still more to build
a palace of luxury. How much MIND AND WILL WORK are you willing to
devote to build your body into a Temple of the living God?
=MENTAL CONFUSION:= Make an easy PLAN for each day. Relax your
mind tension, let down your body tension, eat less, drink water, walk
in the open air. Change your thought to new plans, new work. LET GO OF
THE PAST. Have nothing to do with the future. Sweep aside the odds and
ends that litter your mind. Let go by denying them any place in your
mind. TALK WITH STRONG PEOPLE. Leave weak, useless people alone. Take
a salt bath, by going into the ocean, or in your own tub, using a
full pint of common salt. Do not tell your troubles to another, HELP
another in trouble to get out, and you will get out yourself. MAKE NEW
PLANS.
=WORRY AND FEAR:= Ask yourself this question: "How many things I
have worried about and feared ever happened to me?" You will see how
few, and only those you attracted. Worry is lost energy. It is like
a rocking chair, keeps going but never gets anywhere. It is like a
mill-owner starting all the machinery of his mill, then going away,
leaving it running to injury and destruction. It is a miserable habit.
It makes you and others near you unhappy. It destroys your usefulness,
injures your health, kills joy. QUIT THE HABIT. How? By forming new
PLANS of thought, work, expression, activity, and living only one day
at a time. Stop resisting, struggling, let go of selfish purpose,
and start loving. Make a change. Start new. Grow something, make
something, laugh when you think you are going to cry.
=DEPRESSIVE MOODS:= Dress in light colors, Pink, Lavender, Green,
Red, get away from browns, blacks, and dead colors. Try blue if you
are nervous. Eat very lightly, walk till tired, take the salt water
bath, not hot but cool. Stop self-pity, change your surroundings, even
if all you can do is to turn your bed around. Seek new people. MAKE
NEW PLANS DAILY.
=NERVOUS TROUBLES:= Build your body with my Lesson Fifth. Take
plenty of nourishment, sleep in the middle of the day, simplify your
daily living, keep away from sick and unhappy people, stop talking
about your own trials. LET GO. Drop fretting over trifles, check
selfish desires, go afield with the sheep and cattle, do not let
your house-work make you a slave. PLAN some new outlet, do something
different. Banish anger, forget self, help some lame dog across the
street, borrow a poor child and go out to the zoo, lift up someone who
is down, do strong things, avoid excitement, keep out of the crowd,
check strife and antagonism, GET THE HAPPY HABIT. Think one thing at a
time, let that be a PLEASANT THING.
=INSOMNIA:= Retire loving the world, letting go of self. Drink a
cup of hot water, quarter milk, with a bit of salt. Relax mind and
body, say the word, SLEEP just with the rhythmic swing of a clock
pendulum slowly. YOU WILL SLEEP.
=BE RID OF HABITS:= Quit making excuses for the habit, stop lying
about its being hereditary. RESOLVE, AND YOU ARE FREE. Keep away from
the cause of your habit. Shame yourself when you commit it. Praise
yourself when you master it once. Destroy the desire of your habit, by
putting a good desire in its place. Stop buying tobacco, or drink, and
buy flowers, music, or a farm. ROUSE YOUR WILL. SEVERELY CALL YOURSELF
TO ACCOUNT WHEN YOU SLIP. Stop talking about how you suffer, or how
hard it is, talk about the victory. When you are tempted, SIT IN
SILENCE TEN MINUTES AND SAY, "I AM SUPREME." You will win over any
habit that you may have. Change your position. Change your work.
Change your associations. Drinking and smoking are the major habits
that enslave men. The moment you become disgusted with a habit it
loses power over you. When you get moral courage enough to hate it,
it will flee from you. You may conquer in five days, or it may be five
weeks. Just set aside a vacation of that time, and fight a battle
for Supreme manhood. Have confidence in yourself. Arouse your will to
splendid self-mastery. Have a motive for being rid of your habit. Have
enthusiasm. Be determined not to travel thru life loaded with a kit
of bad smelling smoking tools. Smoking does not stimulate, nor aid
digestion, it does not clear the brain, nor sooth the nerves. It is
quite the opposite. The same is true of the liquor habit. A habit is
a deficiency, it is a vicious enemy that mars and defeats Supreme
Personality.
* * * * *
We become like the things we think.
* * * * *
Retire from business every night, start in business anew every
morning.
* * * * *
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, it is the grain of
sand in your shoe.
* * * * *
All life is divine, limitless in sensation, supreme in expressions.
Get life, get well, get strong, get wisdom, get expression, get in
love. "And men seeing your good works will glorify your Father which
is in heaven."
* * * * *
=Lesson Eighth=
=SUPREME POWER OF MAGNETISM=
=OUR MAGNETIC MONOCHROME:= You can prepare your own Magnetic
Monochrome by careful study of the colors which most influence you.
These will vary with the physical temperament of different people. The
primary healing colors are: Crimson, Scarlet, Dark Blue, Dark Green,
Lively Yellow, Violet, and Purple. The primary inspirational colors
are: Light Blue, Pale Green, Rose, Pink, Lavender, Lively Red. From
these you can form your Monochrome of almost endless results. It is
wise and best to select and use just those colors which will give the
greatest intensity of vibration. Once you have found your responsive
and sympathetic colors, those grouped together form your Magnetic
Monochrome. Magnetism is the highest form of physicalized power in the
universe. It knows no resistance, it passes thru all substances and
pervades all space. It is the most vital power in the universe. Our
modern life presents a magnetic paradox, it affords the greatest
development of magnetism and is the greatest destroyer of it. It is
generated by the brain, flows to the right thru the body in form of a
figure 8. From the brain to the solar plexus, across to the left side,
then down to the procreative organs and thru to the right side, and
up to the solar plexus again and thru to the left side and up to the
brain. The solar plexus is the body's great life centre.