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as strong and decided an initiative as possible."  We thus arouse vigorous activity in the newly chosen direction.

Note then that to transfer your attention to another set of associations, another group of mental pictures or way of thinking, is to establish a new centre of equilibrium. This means that down  through your mental life, including the subconscious, there is a response, a new motion which  tends to become a habit. A change of creed or philosophy, a change of heart and of associates, a  love affair and a disappointment, are illustrations of marked alterations of equilibrium. But these marked changes are typical of results that are constantly occurring in a small way, whenever we become absorbed in ideas. The same principle which makes us victims of our moods thus becomes our servant when we understand this law of mental equilibrium and the art of attention which is the clue to it. We have greater power over our motor ideas than we have suspected. The difficulty has been that we did not set about character building in the right way. Generally speaking,  we find what we look for. Our lives are shaped by what we desire and will to desire. If we would control the after result, we must then start at the  centre--by wiser choice between alternatives, keener discrimination, more thoughtfulness, more