Practice "Will Exercises"

Sage: The case you relate illustrates a weak will. You know that your thoughts should be kept on your business, but your will is too weak to do it. You should practice will exercises to strengthen your mental energies. These will help you to focus your attention on business or any desired activity.

Pupil: If one concentrated his entire attention on business during business hours, would he be able to relax it later and enjoy his home and play?

Sage: With a properly trained will, you can pick up a thought at choice, hold it until it has finished its work, let it gm again, and then pick up another thought, repeating the process again and again if you choose. In short, you can work when you work and play when you play.

Pupil: No doubt it cm be done, but it seems to me now that it would be a terrible strain.

Sage: On the contrary, the well-trained, developed will maintains any position you desire without any strain on the nervous system, and its use is never followed by a sense of fatigue.

Pupil: I have always found it a great strain to hold on to an thought which did not abide in consciousness naturally.

Sage: This is an indication of a weak will, which should be strengthened through exercise, the beginning of which should be "a calm, peaceful determination to retain a certain mental attitude in spite of all temptations to the contrary, knowing that by doing so, the desired result will surely appear."

Pupil: Is the will intelligent?