ing their disagreeable experiences and thinking about all
their troubles and trials in the night.

Make it a rule to put the mind into harmony and a good-will attitude
when retiring, and you will be surprised to see how much fresher,
younger, stronger and more normal you will become.

I know people whose lives have been completely revolutionized by this
experiment of putting themselves in tune before going to sleep.
Formerly they were in the habit of retiring in a bad mood; tired,
discouraged over anticipated evils and all sorts of worries and
anxieties. They would worry over the bad things in their business, the
unfortunate conditions in their affairs, and their mistakes, and would
discuss their misfortunes at night with their wives. The result was
that their minds were in an upset condition when they fell asleep, and
these melancholy, black, ugly pictures, so exaggerated in awful
vividness in the stillness, became etched deeper and deeper into their
minds, and they awoke in the morning weary and exhausted, instead of
feeling, as every one should, like a newly-made creature with fresh
ambition and invigorated determination.

Form the habit of making a call upon the Great Within of you before
retiring. Leave the message of up-lift, of self-betterment,
self-enlargement, which you yearn for and long to realize but do not
know how to bring about. Registering this call, this demand for
something higher and nobler, in your subconsciousness, _putting it
right up to yourself_, will work like a leaven during the night; and
after a while all the building forces within you will help to unite in
furthering your aim; in helping you to realize your vision.

There are marvelous possibilities for health building, success
building, happiness building, in the preparation of the mind before
going to sleep by impressing, declaring, picturing as vividly as
possible our ideals of ourselves, what we would like to become and what
we long to accomplish. You will be surprised to see how quickly that
wonderful force in your subjective self will begin to shape the
pattern, to copy the model which you thus give it. In these great
interior creative, restorative forces lies the great secret of life.
Blessed is he who findeth it.

CHAPTER LVI

THE CONQUEST OF POVERTY

No one can become prosperous while he really expects or half expects to
remain poor. We tend to get what we expect, and to expect nothing is
to get nothing.

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