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of an electric battery, a shock is received; by thinking a handkerchief is perfumed, an odor is perceived, and by thinking a bread-pill is medicine, one is cured. From these facts you can draw only one conclusion: --- All have like effect upon the body and environment. To hold a candle before a mirror is to cause a reflection in the mirror; in like manner to hold a mental picture is to cause its reflection in the body. To change that picture every moment is to cause a change in the bodily reflection. To hold a picture continually in the mind is to keep its reflection constantly in the body. This Concentration does: it holds the candle of desire before the mirror of flesh until the flesh reflects permanently that picture. Concentration carves in the marble of the material, the model held by Imagination, the creator, who builds through thought. From this fact is reached the conclusion which I state in these Affirmations --- I am blind and deaf to all that is unpleasant, ill, painful, weak, or that carries failure. I recognize only that which I wish to recognize. I pay attention only to chosen ideas. I see only that which I wish to see. I hear only that which I wish to hear.

You can gain this power by deciding and training yourself as Will by practice. Practice lies in the use of Affirmation. Concentration is the incubating process which brings the seed thoughts into physical expression. See that you place in the incubator only those thoughts which you wish to run about in the garden of your life. "None so blind as those who will not to see." Be thus blind through will and you will open your eyes to see only the Good, the Beautiful and the True.