n to
teach them the plain common sense needed to keep the mind healthy--to
teach them the uselessness of a mental resistance, and the
wholesomeness of a clean mind.

If a child worries about his lessons, he is resisting the possibility
of failing in his class; let him learn that the worry _interferes_ with
his getting his lesson. Teach him how to drop the worry, and he will
find not only that he gets the lesson in less time, but his mind is
clearer to remember it.

By following the same laws, children could be taught that a feeling of
rush and hurry only impedes their progress. The rushed feeling
sometimes comes from a nervous unquiet which is inherited, and should
be trained out of the child.

But alas! alas! how can a mother or a father train a child to live
common sensibly without useless resistance when neither the mother nor
the father can do that same themselves. It is not too late for any
mother or father to learn, and if each will have the humility to
confess to the child that they are learning and help the child to learn
with them, no child would or could take advantage of that and as the
children are trained rightly, what a start they can give their own
children when they grow up--and what a gain there might be from one
generation to another! Will it ever come? Surely we hope so.

CHAPTER XXX

_A Summing Up_

GIVE up resentment, give up unhealthy resistance.

If circumstances, or persons, arouse either resentment or resistance in
us, let us ignore the circumstances or persons until we have quieted
ourselves. Freedom does not come from merely yielding out of resentment
or unhealthy resistance, it comes also from the strong and steady focus
on such yielding. _Concentration and relaxation are just as necessary
one to another to give stability to the nerves of a man--as the
centrifugal and centripetal forces are necessary to give stability to
the Earth._

As the habit of healthy concentration and relaxation grows within us,
our perception clears so that we see what is right to do, and are given
the power to do it. As our freedom from bondage to our fellowmen
becomes established, our relation to our fellowmen grows happier, more
penetrating and more full of life, and later we come to understand that
at root it is ourselves--our own resentment and resistance--to which we
have been in bondage,--circumstances or other people have had _really_
nothing to do with it. When we have made that discovery,