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was kept on scale and arpeggio, when I thought I could learn to execute them just as well by taking them as they occurred in a piece of music. My music master knew better, and he said, "You must make your technique a habit, so that you can execute runs, etc., unconsciously, for later you will have other things to consider and cannot give your thought at the same time to technique in detail." Some time afterward I saw this to be true, but could not understand it at the moment.

The same rule applies to the study of bettering our physical and mental states. We must hold certain thoughts in the Conscious Mind day after day, possibly month after month, and in some cases even year after year, until they become an essential part of us, until they fall into the Subconscious Mind and set up there an activity.

If you wish to be healthy and carry about with you the magnetic aura of sweetness, goodness and power in other words, if you wish to be a radiant success in life, shining with the joy of accomplishment — you must hold in mind the thoughts that make such attainment possible, and you must go on holding them until they bring results. A fleeting thought will have little or no effect in bringing you the ideal states that you are seeking, but a thought held day after day becomes a tremendous Force in your life. If the thought be true and noble the Subconscious Mind moves to the measure of truth and nobility. If the thought be crafty and mean, the Subconscious moves to that measure. As it moves it registers