I don’t advise, however, that you use the declaration ‘I am’ in connection with the words in this list unless you are in a positive frame of mind at the time, unless you have full conviction of what you are repeating. “For example, if you declare ‘I am Power,’ you lay the Inner Mind open to attack from the Outer in the form of denial or doubt. But

He does not resist those distractions, but gives them their due attention and returns to the picture. Just so with me. When his picture is completed, he begins another. I do too. For I am never consciously, mentally inactive. Inactivity is retrogression. “Here’s a concrete example: If I desire the presence of my assistant at this moment, I see him

Once you have attained that valuable momentum, maintain it. Cling to it. And as the momentum increases, the steps in your progress become more rapid, until eventually it’s possible to reach an objective almost immediately.

It is so important, then, to learn to think things through rather than follow the timeworn method of attempting to force them through. One is mastery and the other slavery.

You plant the seed idea. You hold it there. You nourish it. You have done your part. Trust the Law to do its part.

At this point, I have to mention three minds — or, properly speaking, three phases of mind. “You are apparently made up of three minds. The one that controls the functioning of the body, for want of a better word, I will call the Deeper Mind. This mind we are not particularly concerned with and properly should not be. It knows its functions better

You have faith in my sincerity of purpose. Very well, put the same amount of faith in the power of this Law, and anything you undertake will be possible to accomplish.

“The set definite objective firmly imaged or pictured in mind immediately whips the Outer into line by giving it a fixed duty to perform. This, automatically, without any effort on your part, infuses it with the positive quality of the Inner Mind. And again, automatically, positive conditions and individuals are attracted to you as surely as steel

Practice this meditation every evening, as regularly as you can, and then forget about the exercise, until the next evening. The words will be doing their work below the surface unknown to you, and their effects will soon show forth in you and in your affairs.”