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