situation I may create in imagination a picture of myself in precisely that situation, meeting the experience as I should like to meet it. The same method may be applied to character, to any phase of mental life which we wish to change in which there are conditions to be overcome which require time or a flank movement on our part. For the ideal picture will help us to act in the way proposed. The mental picture or thought while not the sole factor is an aid to the activity which we wish to regulate. It is not necessary to assume the existence of a hidden power which functions in a different manner in response to suggestion.

It is no doubt true that the mind possesses powers of assimilation and co-ordination, as well as of receptivity, of which we are not aware. Hence we may learn to observe periods of rest and change with excellent results, we may give freer play to spontaneity, awaiting occasions and natural fruitions. Thus our periods of upliftment may begin at less conscious moments when for various reasons our minds are more open. Such a period ensues, for example, during the drowsy moments before we sleep or very early in the morning when we are scarcely awake. In the still hours of the night, after the excitements of the day have passed, and the physical organism is less active, it is sometimes possible to become more profoundly reflective. The same is true in the early morning