3. How to Retain Youth and to Banish Gray Hairs and Wrinkles if They Offend You:

Think, know, feel, be thankful for the fact that Life as Life has NO age and yet is ageless.

Give this fact a little profound thought every day. Soon you will get the deep and abiding awareness of it. In your mind's eye, and in memory, try to recall how you felt about certain things when you were twenty, how you looked then, and acted, and bubbled over with energy. Ask yourself if your point of view about Life in general has changed radically, or if you have simply forgotten how to Live Life and Love it, as you did then.

The emotions, the fine understanding, the zest for activity, as you had them in youth have not glided off without leaving a trace in the development of your advancing years. Try to give yourself a careful going over mentally each day, and live for a while each day the experiences of your youth, bringing them back into your feeling. Perhaps you say: "Oh, but youth is so foolish!" That may be so; but remember always that it does things!

Try to weed out and destroy the doubts of your advancing years; try to prune out of yourself, out of your thought and feeling, your tendency towards being overconservative. Old age is only an ossified idea! Being over-conservative and opposed to progress and change are the things that make one old, and usually impotent. Your youth was all right; Live it again! Live it in Feeling and keep the feeling bolstered temporarily by making mental pictures of your happy, cocksure self as you were at twenty. See your face, figure and hair as they were then. And each day do the following exercise for the banishment of gray hair.

Vigorously RUB the whole scalp, from the nape of the neck up over the crown to the hair-line on the forehead, using Glover's Mange Cure. This liquid is not for dogs only, but is also an excellent tonic and stimulant for human hair. Rub the liquid well into the scalp. The gray hair may fall out for a while after you have done this exercise faithfully for several days but keep it up and new hair will come in with the natural color of the hair of your youth.

Yes, mentally go back to twenty and balance its vitality with your present wisdom!

KNOW with all of your heart and soul, and all of your emotional self, that Life as Life IS manifesting in you in a particular way in order that it may find new avenues for expressing itself as the JOY of living.

Make an hourly effort to keep in your consciousness your joys only. Make them register! Deliberately be happy and your body will respond to it in every way. It will also help, particularly for the ladies, to sit in front of the vanity a half-hour each day, seeing yourself not as you are now (if aged) but as you were in youth.

Do this with deep concentration, deepest feeling, affirming something like this:

"I AM Life. I AM youth, eternal youth!"

The important thing, however, is to see yourself as youth, to feel youth, to know that you are youth. Soon you will find a decided improvement setting in. Thought IS always creative! Soon you will look younger; soon you will feel younger; soon you will be younger, not in years of course but years do not make aging. Some are old at twenty-five; others are young at eighty.

It is flexibility of mind, a keen enjoyment of living, that make for elasticity of muscle and for youth.