 Quit looking at things and being afraid. Look to your ideals and desires, and remember your source and infinite supply. Keep dwelling mentally on your infinite supply; keep using that supply according to your ideals. Fears will drop away from you and power and wisdom, Love, God, will flow into you and through you. Never admit a fear. Bid it get behind you. Never admit a “can’t.’ Pull yourself together and declare “I can—I WILL.” Fear makes you feel paralyzed. Ignore it. Rise up and ACT, and you will see how little power the fear really had. Fear is but a paltry stage-trick hypnotist. You cannot be hypnotized if you refuse to look at fear. ACT and fear flees into the bottomless pit whence it came—into nothingness. Keep on acting as if you felt no fear. In due time the feeling of fear, the hypnotized sense, will disappear for good. You will smile, and your solar center will expand and let in more God-feeling, more power and wisdom, than you have ever had before. Sometimes you may be too badly paralyzed to act as if you had no fear. Well, then, just breathe. You are never too paralyzed to go outdoors, or to an open window, and breathe. Right breathing will dissipate fear. By using the chest and abdominal muscles properly you can shake the kinks out of that paralyzed solar plexus and let in power. An influx of power from the Infinite will enable you to turn your back on fear and act as you desire to act. When you are anxious and afraid your breath comes in short, shallow gasps and you can literally feel fear clutching your— “heart,” you call it. You feel fear clutch your solar plexus. Now, take a slow, full breath, clear down to the bottom of your lungs, and clear out as far as the walls of your chest 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 rhythmically 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—I DO—I’m HAPPY, I tell you—I AM!" And I’d stamp it down hard. And this little exercise never failed to help me to relieve me from that horrible burden at my “heart”—at the solar plexus. I have “concentrated” and “affirmed” by the hour, all to no effect apparently; but five minutes of this sort of shaking up always freed me, and I went about my work feeling as if I had thrown off a nightmare and found the sunshine. Try it. Then, there is another way, suggested to me by Dr. Paul Edwards. He said whenever he is in need of refreshing, as after a long day’s work, he goes away and shakes himself up for ten minutes or so. He stands up and gets as loose and limp as possible, all over; and then shakes himself just as a big dog does when it comes out of the water. He calls it taking physical exercise with relaxed muscles. Prolonged effort reduces the power faster than it can, under ordinary conditions, flow through the solar plexus. All the nerves get into a partly collapsed condition, as if the energy had been sucked out of them, leaving them dry and flabby. All the little muscles which encase the nerves are contracted. This keeps the Infinite from flowing in again. So Dr. Edwards’ idea is scientific. He relaxes from head to foot and literally shakes the kinks out; and immediately he is filled again with power from the Infinite reservoir. All sorts of depressed feelings come from this depleted condition of nerves; and anything which will loosen up the muscular contraction will remedy the condition. Sometimes a single thought will be dynamic enough to do it. Sometimes a single hour or so of right thinking will do it. If one can be perfectly still, body and mind, for even five minutes, the desired end will be accomplished. But it takes an adept, made adept by years of practice, to attain quickly the state of mental and physical stillness necessary to quick recuperation from states of depression. It takes a real master to speak peace to himself in such a way that he is quickly obeyed. And the master attains mastery by a long series of just such lttle exercises as those I have just given you. All these little “physical” drills get your body into the habit of minding your mental commands. After you have used them long enough your body will obey the mental commands alone. “I can” and “I will” are words of power. Say them softly to yourself—say “I will” and note the freedom with which the sound leaves your lips and throat, which are never closed on the word. The sound pours freely forth to vibrate the ethers. Now say “can’t” and note the effect; the t sound can only be made by inhibiting the vowel sound—by cutting off the flow of sound. The use of these words has the same effect on the solar plexus— the will-words allow a free flow of soul-power; whilst the can’t words shut off your soul-power. Will-words open the solar plexus to radiate power to all your being; whilst can’t-words check the flow of power—just as your tongue checks the a-sound with the tight t. Say “will” with a will, and you can actually feel power radiate through your entire body; that is, if you say it freely; but if you say it behind gritted teeth it has nearly the same effect as the t-sound. The clenched teeth mean a clenched solar plexus, and an inhibition of soul-power. Muscular tension of any sort inhibits for the time being the free flow of soul-power; whether the tension come from clenched teeth or from a tongue clenched in the t-sound. Speak to yourself the words which open up your soul-flow; the can and will and love and joy words. Use these words with all sorts of bodily exercises for shaking out the muscular kinks. These are the words and exercises which make for life, health, happiness and success. All desirable things are the result of letting out the soulpower which eternally presses for expression through you. |
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