A course of practical psychic instruction.

  • Psychic Research Co.
Date:
1901,
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Credit: A course of practical psychic instruction. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not detect in 'him any spasmodic jerking of the shoulders or muscles, as he breathes. Only as he holds your hand in his, can you feel by the slight vibration which is imparted something of the Force which is passing from him to you. He does not give his method of development to the public eye, but in the seclusion of his home he practices those breathing exercises and rules of life which have made him the power he is, and have filled his Mind and Body alike with the Divine Energy which he is capable of imparting to you. Breathing Exercises.—Here I give you the necessaiy breathing exercises to be practiced thrice a day for fifteen min- utes for the first week. Be careful not to exceed these direc- tions. There is a purpose in making them exact, and limiting you development according as you are able to bear it. First Week. Spend five minutes in the morning in preparing for the exer- cise which is to follow. Let your thoughts be centered upon this great work of Healing, and of the good which you may accomplish by its practice. Put yourself thus into harmony with the Divine Essence. The best time for following out these ex- ercises is immediately following or preceding each meal, Break- fast, Lunch and Supper. They should not be practiced last thing at night during the first month. They are stimulating in their immediate effect, and the student is not at once able to regulate this additional inflow of force. When you have given up five minutes to contemplation of the development of the Power, lie down upon a couch or bed and re- lax the muscles of the body so thai each limb is limp and as far as possible forgotten. You have no attention to spare for any of the body's members. When you are ready to begin, loosen your clothing so that you may. breathe with ease, and take one long, deep inspiration, beginning with expansion of the abdomen, and carrying the breath up by one continued inhalation to the ribs and chest. This breath should be indrawn for eight seconds; it should then be held for eight seconds, and then slowly exhaled during eight sec- onds Thus you fulfil with each breath the circle of twenty-four. Or, using another of the mystic figures of the East, you complete in one breath the equilateral triangle of Eight. You tvill not find this first step in development so easy as it reads on paper. You •mil be inclined to hurry; you may. feel that it is necessary that you
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