built and we have created the habit of right breathing, speaking and thinking; our mind is as clear as a crystal, and our blood current runs bounding through our veins, fresh, pure, carrying to every tissue in our body, the right amount of vital blood. Our flesh is renewed through the renewing of our mind; we find that the things we sought are seeking us and that, through fasting, we have made ourself a higher magnet to attract to us from out the universal the things we so desired. We have “tuned up the fine, strong instruments of our being to chord with our dear hope” and suddenly, without strain or effort, we are face to face with our own.
Then, standing with this freedom as a spiritual springboard, we leap again into conscious mastery over a still finer law of being, and we begin the dominion of our emotional self. Subjecting feeling into a finer force, we mingle it with the stream of higher thought force and pour a new inspiration into life.
Mental Technique
The instructions for mental fasting are all summed up in a few words, “Change your mind.” Mental ruts make physical ones and these ruts run more deeply than the flesh–even they pass out into the environment. The flesh is the first form, the environment the second, and the mental picture is the molding of both.
“There is nothing in all the world but thinking makes it so”, hence all one needs to do is to set a watch on his thought world and clean up
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