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room. The best position for receptive silence is to lie flat on the back without a pillow. Now breathe slowly and deeply through nostrils, filling the lungs comfortably full, beginning at the bottom; hold the breath as long as you can comfortably; then take pains to exhale very slowly and evenly. Breathe thus for six or eight minutes or more, while the Divine Breath flows through you, cleansing and rejuvenating every cell of brain and body. Then begin to picture yourself as developing on this desired special line. Think of all life as a school in which you are getting ready for your career. Think of everything that comes to you as a special lesson which is to be cheerfully learned in order to help in your development. Imagine yourself as making rapid progress. Dwell upon the idea that you are full of quiet, steady enthusiasm, growing enthusiasm, for your work on this line. Never mind how enthusiastic you may feel about it; just keep on imagining and affirming the growing enthusiasm and wisdom and power you wish to feel. Then relax and let the spirit work in and through you for the accomplishment 'of your special desire.

Allow no mental arguments against your desires. Dismiss adverse suggestions and give yourself up to the idea that all you desire is manifesting. Take it all for granted. Get into the silence of it as if it were a game you are playing Silence reason and PLAY."Play pretend," just as you did when a child. Laugh at your fears and play with a will.

Keep this up daily, allowing nothing to interfere. It is of the utmost importance if you really mean to develop on that special line. Time will prove the value of this practice; you will find yourself growing in that deep, quiet enthusiasm which really accomplishes things.

A THOUGHT FROM TENNYSON.

Poets write in the condition of perfect concentration and fortunately Tennyson, in a letter, tells us how he induces it:

"A kind of waking trance," he says,"I have frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I have been all alone. This has generally come upon me through repeating my own name two or three times to myself silently, till all at once as it were, out of the intensity of consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless Being, and this not a confused state, but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, the wisest of the wisest, utterly beyond words,