| It is hard to believe that there could be | | | | picture then, and the more you dwell upon it, |
| just one simple secret to being healthy. And | | | | bringing out all its delightful details, the |
| yet, in The Science of Being Well Home Study | | | | stronger your desire will be; and the |
| Course, Wallace Wattles reveals just one of | | | | stronger your desire, the easier it will be |
| those secrets. You see, I have been | | | | to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of |
| researching the secrets of long health and I | | | | what you want. |
| have found that Mr Wattles' material is clear | | | | |
| and simple. | | | | Something more is necessary, however, than |
| | | | merely to seethe picture clearly. If that is |
| Mr Wattles offers that you must form a clear | | | | all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will |
| and definite mental picture of what you want; | | | | have little or no power for accomplishment. |
| you cannot transmit an idea unless you have | | | | Behind your clear vision must be the purpose |
| it yourself. You must have it before you can | | | | to realize it; to bring it out in tangible |
| give it; and many people fail to impress | | | | expression. |
| Thinking Substance because they have | | | | |
| themselves only a vague and misty concept of | | | | And behind this purpose must be an invincible |
| the things they want to do, to have, or to | | | | and unwavering FAITH that the thing is |
| become. | | | | already yours; that it is "at hand" and you |
| | | | have only to take possession of it. |
| It is not enough that you should have a | | | | |
| general desire for health to have a good | | | | Live in the new body, mentally, until it |
| life; everybody has that desire. | | | | takes form around you physically. In the |
| | | | mental realm, enter at once into full |
| Everybody has those desires also. If you were | | | | enjoyment of the things you want. Do the |
| going to send a message to a friend, you | | | | things in your mind that you will be able to |
| would not send the letters of the alphabet in | | | | do when you are completely healthy. |
| their order, and let him construct the | | | | |
| message for himself; nor would you take words | | | | See the things you want as if they were |
| at random from the dictionary. You would send | | | | actually around you all the time; see |
| a coherent sentence; one which meant | | | | yourself as owning and using them. Make use |
| something. When you try to impress your | | | | of them in imagination just as you will use |
| wants, remember that it must be done by a | | | | them when they are your tangible possessions. |
| coherent statement; you must know what you | | | | Dwell upon your mental picture until it is |
| want, and be definite. | | | | clear and distinct, and then take the Mental |
| | | | Attitude of Ownership toward everything in |
| Go over your desires; see just what you want | | | | that picture. Take possession of it, in mind, |
| in your mind's eye, and get a clear mental | | | | in the full faith that it is actually yours. |
| picture of it as you wish it to look when you | | | | Hold to this mental ownership; do not waiver |
| get it. How will your body feel when you are | | | | for an instant in the faith that it is real. |
| lighter, when you don't suffer from allergies | | | | |
| anymore and all your aches and pains are | | | | Be as thankful for it all the time as you |
| gone? | | | | expect to be when it has taken form. The man |
| | | | who can sincerely thank God for the things |
| That clear mental picture you must have | | | | which as yet he possesses only in |
| continually in mind, as the sailor has in | | | | imagination, has real faith. He will get |
| mind the port toward which he is sailing the | | | | well; he will cause the creation of |
| ship; you must keep your face toward it all | | | | whatsoever he wants. |
| the time. You must no more lose sight of it | | | | |
| than the steersman loses sight of the | | | | You do not need to pray repeatedly for things |
| compass. | | | | you want; it is not necessary to tell God |
| | | | about it every day. |
| Spend as much of your leisure time as you can | | | | |
| in contemplating your mental picture, and | | | | The whole matter turns on receiving, once you |
| feeling in your body how you will feel when | | | | have clearly formed your vision. Think and |
| you have obtained what you desire. No one | | | | speak of all the things you have asked for in |
| needs to take exercises to concentrate his | | | | terms of actual present ownership. Imagine an |
| mind on a thing which he really wants; it is | | | | environment, and a health condition exactly |
| the things you do not really care about which | | | | as you want them, and live all the time in |
| require effort to fix your attention upon | | | | that imaginary environment and health |
| them. | | | | condition. Mind, however, that you do not do |
| | | | this as a mere dreamer and castle builder; |
| And unless you really want to get helathy, so | | | | hold to the FAITH that the imaginary is being |
| that the desire is strong enough to hold your | | | | realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it. |
| thoughts directed to the purpose as the | | | | Remember that it is faith and purpose in the |
| magnetic pole holds the needle of the | | | | use of the imagination which make the |
| compass, it will hardly be worth while for | | | | difference between the scientist and the |
| you to try to carry out the instructions | | | | dreamer. And having learned this fact, it is |
| given here. | | | | here that you must learn the proper use of |
| | | | the Will. |
| The more clear and definite you make your | | | | |