We now give you an exercise, which if you follow in all candour will tremendously store in you magnetism or nerve force. This will stand you in good need, as at every treatment you are apt to be drained and weakened by a flow of the fluid from you to the patient. You can actually feel this new force tingling in your veins even after the short practice of a week.

EXERCISE.

Stand erect with your hands hanging loosely at your sides. Close your eyes. Relax all muscles of your body. Fill your lungs fully with fresh air by inhaling through the nostrils. Keep adding still more fresh air by mouth, until you can fill your lungs as fully as possible.

Remain thus for 3 or 4 seconds. Then exhale through the mouth all the air particles in the lungs very slowly; and remain still without exhaling or inhaling for 10 seconds. Repeat process and continue for 15 minutes. During the whole process of inhaling and exhaling, repeat mentally with all positiveness, "I draw a good deal of magnetism from Nature; I consciously absorb this force and it is under my possession and control."

This exercise should be practised in the open air every morning and evening.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE WILL.

We live in deeds, not years: in thoughts, not breaths;

In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives

Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Bailey: "Human Life."

Human life beset with many obstacles and vicissitudes is like a ship which is about to quit the safe and quiet harbour in which it was safe, to launch on the dark and unknown ocean, where so many a gallant vessel has gone down before. Young men, like young Commander of the ships, have to steer their course through this vast ocean. How much would the disquietude be increased when the Commander has thrown away the very chart and compass by which he was prepared to guide the ship through the doubtful perils of the voyages! So is the case with now-a-days young men, who do not care to cultivate their mental powers and guard against the overwhelming dangers of the world.

Dear Reader! for the cultivation of that, which leads to that desired termination—the safe and successful career—of our life work, we hereunder give you the charts. It is only when you master them, you will be able to master thyself.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND.

"Mind is the master-power that moulds and makes, And man is mind, and ever more he takes And tool of thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:— He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking glass."

James Allen.

Man advances from the lower to the higher; from the bottom to the top of the head, from the lower to the higher strata of the brain, and from the soul to the spirit, and from this mundane world to the heaven above. The higher part in nature is most important and impenetrable to the lay mind.

Man commences life in the mineral world of existence and advances till the very presence of the Almighty Lord is reached. And this rising depends on his thoughts and actions. Prom birth until death the body is maturing the Soul and that is becoming and eternalising the spirit. The time, ways and methods for such an attainment and evolution is while you are in this physical body. Take heed ere it be too late.

All thought is concentrated in the Corpus Callosum, which is the point to which all the exterior brain fibres converge and bring the brain and its product-mind, into one great centre. All concentrated thought continually vibrates and forms into stronger mind elements by developing the nervous matter it uses and all such development arises by constant exercise. The mind can be cultivated by exercise which will in turn develop the brain.

Hence you build your own destiny—eternal—by pursuing a particular line of thought, as is wisely said, "All that we wish may be obtained by knowing how to think."

The All Wise Creator has not given this extraordinary ability to a selected few. This is only a cultivation of the power which is latent in one and all. The simple culture of that will put you in position "how to think." By so thinking you can exchange your surroundings and bring to you whatever your heart desires. You can alleviate your sufferings, depressions and pains. What we now teach you here, is, simply the way of thinking.

THE WILL AND ITS POWER.

Will is the grand culmination of the complex mental faculties of man. The act of willing expresses a fixed determination of the mind. It is an important feature in the development of Personal Magnetism. It is the power that sets the forces of mind to work and it is this that directs them along a definite line. The will is said to be of two kinds, the strong and the weak. A strong will is a mental force, ever on the alert and ever active. It is with this, people are controlled and nations are ruled.

A strong-willed man is he by whose mere presence people are awed and stricken terror in their minds. He need not speak or need utter a sound even. There is something in him which goes to make people revere him. He keeps his mind always tense and his will is more and more strengthened. He knows no failure. He cannot fail for he creates resources then and there and ever forges ahead toward his goal. All desires that lie within range of human possibilities can be accomplished by him only if he wills in that direction. The singleness and straightforwardness of his thought and confidence in his ability are the keys with which he unlocks the doors of success. He does not turn his attention to every new thing that occurs; but he pursues a definite course and thus prevents his energies from flowing in many directions and being wasted. He makes use of everything that comes in his way. He does not neglect even trifles and never engages in anything that does not pertain to his goal. There is no trial which is too great for him. No task too severe. An indomitable will carries him ever onward and onward. He delights in difficulties because they afford him an opportunity to test his ability, if at all he encounters any at times, they spur him on and on to greater efforts. His heart and soul are in the work he undertakes, and what would seem a burden to others becomes a pleasure to him. His sole aim is improvement. He seeks opportunities, and employs every moment and finds happiness in contemplating over them.

If you desire to be such a man, it is within your grasp. Exercise your mind in order to develop your will, as the will can be developed and strengthened just as any other member or part of the body. Constant use strengthens and increases the will power. Now use on the other hand emaciates and weakens it. It is worth more to you than anything else. It gives you power over people, it gives you influence, it brings you happiness and it creates in you health and wealth.

You know these things just as we know. You can positively develop your will. Be magnetic and you can have a wonderful force of character. No matter how deficient you may be, if you but follow implicitly our instructions, do just as we tell you and continue to work at it daily with unflinching perseverance, you will eventually attain success little short of miracles.

In developing your will, you will have to use a combined process of auto-suggestions and auto-hypnosis. You know already what amount of good you have derived from your instructions. You can develop greater courage, stronger will power, energy, persistency, concentration, self-confidence, self-control, strong memory, etc. Not only these, bad habits, nervous fears, acute worry, anger, grief, hate, stage fright, etc., can be eliminated and set aside at will. All these things mean success and more than success; they mean happiness.

LESSON I.

We now give you some psycho-physical exercises which if you follow in all candour, we are sure they will develop your will power to a marvelous extent. The exercises will seem to you to be innocent in themselves; but if you practice them properly the results that accrue will be beneficial from the very start. To use them intelligently means success to you, because they develop new characteristics which go to make up a success of you. You will notice their effect upon yourself, at the first opportunity you use them. For instance, if you take up the first exercise for developing stronger will power, the chances are, that even after the first experiment you will feel more energetic, more determined and more enthusiastic. By this we do not say, that it is possible to develop your will all in a minute. But continued practice of these exercises twice or thrice a day for 30 minutes or more, in the privacy of your room, makes the change for good in you stronger and more lasting every day. It is a great mistake often committed by some of our students that as soon as they feel a change in themselves on the first day, they are so very delighted and enthusiastic over their first results that they try to do too much, that is, they seek to acquire several new characteristics all at once in a day. It is a mistake of course for it scatters their mental forces in different channels simultaneously and the consequence is they are not a bit perfectly developed in any. If you wish to attain perfection what you will have to do is to take up the first exercise and stick to it and continue the same for a long time even though you feel to have attained a strong and powerful will power. What we ask you to do is to get a strong hold of it so that it may be a deep rooted one in you. Then take the others in turn, one by one and not in close succession; but separately at leisure, as you know that "too many cooks spoil the broth." When you have cultivated all these you will feel proud of yourself and of the wonders you can do.

Before undertaking to do anything we shall teach you the means of hypnotising yourself.

AUTO-HYPNOSIS.

Retire into a quiet room; lie or sit in a convenient position. Relax all your muscles perfectly. Look intently at the root of your nose. In a short time you will fall into deep hypnosis.

EXERCISE I.

Retire into a quiet room. Write the 3 suggestions given below in a bold hand on 3 separate sheets of white paper. Take the paper with first suggestion and place it before you on a table. Seat yourself, relaxing your muscles, on an easy chair and gaze at the tip of nose so that your eyes may be 3 feet from the paper without any winking whatever, repeating the suggestion in the paper over and over mentally, with all the energy, the fire and determination of your whole nature. Commence to breathe in through your nostrils as much pure air as possible, slowly, while you gaze at tip of nose. Allow the inhaled air to remain in the lungs as long as you can. Then exhale through your mouth in a slow rhythmic way all the air you inhaled. Stop a few seconds and then repeat process of inhaling and exhaling, gazing at tip of nose, repeating over and over the suggestion mentally with all positiveness. You may within a short time, feel drowsy, and your eyes may begin to droop, but keep repeating the suggestion mentally as long as you are awake. This exercise should be continued for a period of 30 minutes or more if necessary and it will be better if you practice this just at the early morning, mid-day, evening and just when you go to bed at night. Similarly take the 2nd suggestion on the 2nd day and the other on the 3rd. When you have finished the 3 suggestions, take the 3 together and repeat them as in the aforesaid process for 12 more days.

SUGGESTIONS FOR DEVELOPING WILL POWER.

I. My will is strong; nobody can resist a strong will; I have a strong will.

II. I am a power; I admit no limitations; things must go as I will.

III. I claim all from infinite substance; I demand and all things come to me at my will, for I have an indomitable will.

LESSON II.

We now give you some auto-suggestions to develop to a great extent your Personal Magnetism and several others for your self culture. No doubt you have already developed to some extent this mysterious power, but to create in you a stronger personality the following lessons are given here. Practice these exercises as thoroughly as possible and they will surely develop in you a very strong personality.

PERSONAL MAGNETISM.

To have a good strong and magnetic personality, your first step should be to care for your health. For, a healthy physique is requisite for attaining success in any undertaking. The amount of work you can do mainly depends upon the health and vigour of your nerves and brains. So a thorough nourishment of them is very desirable.

A regular early morning cold water bath, accompanied by the practice of these exercises, will positively develop a health aura in you. Always be temperate in everything and avoid all excesses. Always endeavour to strike at the root of disease by providing clean, wholesome and beautiful surroundings. Select always the most simple, yet refined and nourishing vegetable foods available. Have some recreation; for it is absolutely necessary for your bodily as well as your mental vigour. Have sufficient sleep at night to give rest both to your body as well as to your mind. Go through the deep breathing exercises daily, every morning, mid-day, evening and even at night when you retire to bed. In short, the rules of diet, the habit of deep breathing, the wearing of proper clothing that does not in any way impede the free passage of pure air over the body, the habit of bathing in cold water in the early morning, free use of water, regular rest, proper amount of recreation together with a sufficient amount of muscular exercise—are essential for the up keep of your health.

SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE HEALTH.

I. "I keep a sound health; I am healthy."

II. "I have a great store of vitality and nerve force." "I am perfectfully healthy."

III. "No sickness with me; I am in sound health." Practice these suggestions as in Exercise I and you will develop your health aura.

To be successful in all your undertakings you should have unbounded confidence in yourself. This does not mean egotism but absolute self control. You should always be modest, calm, cool and self possessed. Whenever any danger is at hand, if somebody about you is frightened, if failure is your lot, or if a person seeks a quarrel with you, in all these cases, you should never get excited. Do not worry concerning your future. You should bear in mind that worry is full of life destroying influence. All mental scientists are of opinion that there is nothing that destroys the brain cells so rapidly as worry. Worry is said to kill life, heart and magnetism.

LESSON III.

We are now going to tell you something about self culture. In self culture character comes foremost. Character is the true distinction between man and beast. It brings real happiness, esteem, peace of mind and inner satisfaction. All leaders and great successful men owed their success to some points of moral excellence in their character. A man of some force of character has self-esteem, self-knowledge and self-control, and all these are the 3 essentials which go to make one's life a sovereign power. Upon this understanding, in the formation of character you should assign the foremost place to the development of will and the control of your thoughts and desires. "Guard thy thoughts well for thoughts are heard in Heaven," is a golden maxim. The right control of thoughts and desires promotes your present as well as your future life. Therefore educate your mind and will thoroughly and follow the dictates of your conscience—the ruler of heart. Strengthen your moral fibre, by the practice of truthfulness, kindness, firmness, fearlessness, independence and countenance.

Practice these virtues in your daily life and make these part and parcel of yourself. To be still more plain, be a bold adherent of truth and thus establish a reputation for being truthful, enabling others to rely on your words with perfect surety. Be kind and compassionate and forgiving. It has been the conduct of the great heroic souls to shed tears of pity at the sad plight of others, and if sufficiently strong to exert themselves to the utmost to work out their deliverance; to take pride in doing acts of mercy and in assisting frail humanity out of misery and trouble brought on by its own weakness and recklessness. Such awe inspiring precepts of high mindedness and generosity shalt thou follow in thy life. Be open and pure hearted. Conquer vice. Resoluteness and independence should be the predominant features of every action of yours. Lastly but not leastly, be a friend and lover of all; try to purge out vices from others and lead them into the noble path of virtue and inculcate in them a knowledge of virtues and their foundation, virtues regarding oneself, virtues and vices in relation to superior, equal and inferiors and their reaction upon each other.

LESSON IV.

EXERCISE II.

We give you several sets of suggestions, to be practiced as in Exercise I to develop your character, self-control, success and happiness thoughts, etc.

SUGGESTIONS TO WARD OFF ANGER.

I. "I am determined not to get angry with any."

II. "I shall control my temper at all times."

III. "I have complete control over my anger."

LESSON V.

EXERCISE III. SUGGESTIONS FOR FEARLESSNESS.

I. "I am fearless; I will not fear at any time."

II. "I am a part of the Divine Self; Nobody shall hurt me; therefore there is no fear from any."

III. "I shall not fear; I am completely at home always."

LESSON VI.

EXERCISE IV.

SUGGESTIONS FOR SUCCESS.

I. "I am made of success; I am made for success; my goal is success."

II. "All success. There is no failure with me."

III. "I will have perfect success in all my undertakings; I know no failure; I cannot fail; I shall succeed; I will succeed."

LESSON VII. EXERCISE V.

SUGGESTIONS FOR HAPPINESS.

I. "I am all joy; no anxiety can touch me and I have no worry."

II. "All is harmony; intense harmony."

III. "I am radiating happiness; I am content; all is mine; I am happiness itself."

LESSON VIII.

EXERCISE VI.

SUGGESTIONS FOR AVOIDING WORRY OF MIND.

I. "Nothing shall worry me."

II. "I will not allow myself to worry over anything."

III. "I am determined not to worry; there is no worry with me; I am all right."

LESSON IX.

EXERCISE VII.

SUGGESTIONS FOR DEVELOPING PERSONAL INFLUENCE.

I. "I am' a magnet; none can withstand my attraction."

II. "No one can repel my influence; I will sway over all."

III. "My will is law."