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forces us to press onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain, critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away and we are fresher than before. We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue obstacle usually obeyed.

There may be layer after layer of this experience. A third or fourth wind may supervene. Mental activity shows this phenomenon as well as physical, and in exceptional cases we may find beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction, never pass those early critical points."

The fact is, we use up one layer of energy and think that is all we have at command. We believe ourselves exhausted because we do not know of the other layers to be tapped by us at will.

Whatever goal we have in view, whether it be health, or some other ultimate of human endeavor, we are too apt to let the fatigue obstacle "knock us out," though level upon level of higher energy be waiting to be tapped when we push MENTALLY beyond the fatigue point. Note that I say MENTALLY, not PHYSICALLY until you are prepared MENTALLY.

To be prepared mentally is to be absolutely sure of your one-ness with Universal Energy, or God Substance.

To be equally sure that you are flowing forth as a stream of life from that Substance