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daughter there in imagination and made passes with my hands from head to foot, just as if she was there in body. Then I said: "Go to sleep and sleep till 3 pm., when you will awaken with all these conditions passed entirely away." She did so awaken.
Suppose it is a case of business dealing with a man. Place him in like position. Talk to him as if he were really there. You will grow to think it without talking. This is concentration. It need not take you an instant to concentrate to give the thought power over yourself or to send it telepathically to others.
Absent-mindedness is involuntary concentration. Cultivate that condition so that you can enter it at will. Let it be voluntary concentration. Choose some theme and speak upon it when alone. Grow into the habit of losing yourself in thought and recalling yourself at will.
When you wish to know anything, tell yourself that you know and let it come to you as you let go of the conscious thought. An illustration:-I had an article to write to-day. Before I was fairly awake, it thought itself through my mind. After I dressed, I tried to recall it. The title included three subjects. I could not recall the last. The more I tried, the more it eluded me. At last, I gave up and said: "Well, if it is necessary, it will come." Later in the day, while I was dictating a letter, my thought ran in the same channel and took up the theme I had forgotten and followed it to the end. I let it run, itself. This is concentration. Suppose you have a patient and you are puzzled as to what to do. You have studied the case and are undecided. By this study, you have given yourself an auto-suggestion born of desire. Now say,"Well, when the right time comes, I shall know," and forget all about it. It will suddenly dawn upon you from the sub-conscious. This suggestion and this forgetfulness is concentration
