e?"

If you really want to do it and would feel interested to make
persistent effort I can give you the recipe and I can promise any woman
that if she perseveres until she has found the way she will never cease
to be grateful.

If you start with the intention of taking the five minutes' search for
quiet every day, do not let your intention be weakened or yourself
discouraged if for some days you see no result at all.

At first it may be that whatever quiet you find will seem so strange
that it will annoy you or make you very nervous, but if you persist and
work right through, the reward will be worth the pains many times over.

Sometimes quieting our minds helps us to quiet our bodies; sometimes we
must quiet our bodies first before we can find the way to a really
quiet mind. The attention of the mind to quiet the body, of course,
reacts back on to the mind, and from there we can pass on to thinking
quietly. Each individual must judge for herself as to the best way of
reaching the quiet. I will give several recipes and you can take your
choice.

First, to quiet the body:--

1. Lie still and see how quietly you can breathe.

2. Sit still and let your head droop very slowly forward until finally
it hangs down with its whole weight. Then lift it up very, very slowly
and feel as if you pushed it all the way up from the lower part of your
spine, or, better still, as if it grew up, so that you feel the slow,
creeping, soothing motion all the way up your spine while your head is
coming up, and do not let your head come to an entirely erect position
until your chest is as high as you can hold it comfortably. When your
head is erect take a long, quiet breath and drop it again. You can
probably drop it and raise it twice in the five minutes. Later on it
should take the whole five minutes to drop it and raise it once and an
extra two minutes for the long breath.

When you have dropped your head as far as you can, pause for a full
minute without moving at all and feel heavy; then begin at the lower
part of your spine and very slowly start to raise it. Be careful not to
hold your breath, and watch to breathe as easily and quietly as you can
while your head is moving.

If this exercise hurts the back of your neck or any part of your spine,
don't be troubled by it, but go right ahead and you will soon come to
where it not only does not hurt, but is very restful.

When you have reached an erect position again stay there qui