One who teaches his body to keep coolly, sweetly, harmoniously at work no matter what turns up, will cease to gasp and gurgle, faint and collapse at the very times he most needs power.

When you are “tired” or “discouraged” your body is starved by short, irregular breath supply.

Lie down flat, with arms out from the body and eyes closed. Inhale slowly, but not too slowly; just easily; as you inhale, say mentally, with eyes raised under your closed lids, “I AM “—say it slowly and distinctly, and try quietly to realize that the Infinite is really you—” I and the Father are One.” Keep the chest walls expanded for a moment and the throat open. Then slowly and very smoothly exhale the breath, lowering your eyes as you do so, under closed lids always, saying softly, lingeringly, mentally, with downward inflection,
“Love.” “I—AM - --Love.”

Breathe rhythmically and as slowly as you can easily breathe, and fully always. Keep this up until your mind is quiet and you have forgotten all about being “discouraged” or “blue.” Keep it up, dearie, until time I AM consciousness has gone with the breath into the lungs, and so into the blood, and with it into all the body.

It takes about two minutes for the blood to make the circuit of the body. But in order to change your “feelings” it must make the Circuit several times, setting up a new rhythmic vibration of
I--AM--LOVE—--consciousness. Your whole being must “catch” the vibrations of that grand, peaceful, power-full I AM consciousness. Lungs, heart, solar center and brain must pulse together with the Infinite.

This is the best “concentration “exercise I know of— the only sure means I know of for becoming conscious of the power flowing outward from the “world I AM into the “world I do.” It is the only INFALLIBLE remedy I know for discouragement, unrest, lack of interest, impatience,

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