will go; hold the breath as long as you can without straining; and
then see how very slowly you can exhale. Keep your lips
firmly closed all the time, but do not press the teeth together; and see you stand straight, chest out, hips back, head up, with crown high and chin in.
Ah, now—after even one such breath you feel decidedly less paralyzed. Your solar plexus is not in quite so hard a knot, and there is a brighter look in your face. A good beginning. Now take another such breath, and yet another. Take a dozen of them. Now, you will find yourself decidedly less paralyzed. You can go out and ACT now, as if you never had a fear. Of course, your teeth may chatter a bit, and you may feel a trifle weak in the knees, but the hypnotic spell is broken, power is pouring into you from the Infinite, and you can ACT. Go right along and do it. Keep on breathing deeply and telling yourself that you can and you WILL.
And you will succeed. And next time it will be much easier to do.
After practice enough it will grow so easy that you will forget you ever had that paralyzed, hypnotized feeling, of being afraid to do what you desire to do. You will have taught your solar plexus to stay open and let in power, instead of collapsing just at the critical moment when you needed extra power.
Then there are other ways of taking the kinks out of your solar plexus and letting in the power. Any sort of physical shaking accompanied by “I can and I WILL” statements will help; especially if the shakings are repeated rhythmetically a few times.
Take a good, full breath and stamp your foot and say “I can.” Then take another full breath, stamp your foot again and say “I WILL.” Repeat several times.
Many a time I have freed the kinks this way after everything else seemed not to avail. When I used to suffer horribly from blues and discouragement I used to go away up in the big garret, where none could hear me, and rage up and down its length a time or two, and stamp my foot sharply and declare aloud to myself, “I’m not blue—I’m NOT—I am HAPPY; I AM happy—I AM; everything is just as it ought to be, and I LIKE it so—I do
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