Practical Exercise From Week Four
29. Last week I asked you to relax, to
let go physically. This week, I am going to ask you to let go mentally.
If you practiced the exercise given you last week fifteen or twenty
minutes a day in accordance with the instructions, you can no doubt
relax physically; and anyone who cannot consciously do this quickly and
completely is not a master of himself. He has not obtained freedom; he
is still a slave to conditions. But I shall assume that you have
mastered the exercise and are ready to take the next step, which is
mental freedom.
30. This week, after taking your usual
position, remove all tension by completely relaxing, then mentally let
go of all adverse conditions, such as hatred, anger, worry, jealousy,
envy, sorrow, trouble, or disappointment of any kind.
31. You may say that you cannot “let
go” of these things, but you can. You can do so by mentally determining
to do so by voluntary intention and persistence.
32. The reason that some cannot do this
is because they allow themselves to be controlled by the emotions
instead of by their intellect. But the will guided by the intellect will
gain the victory. You will not succeed the first time you try, but
practice makes perfect, in this as in everything else, and you must
succeed in dismissing, eliminating, and completely destroying these
negative and destructive thoughts because they are the seed which is
constantly germinating into discordant conditions of every conceivable
kind and description.
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