We
play in the wrong way when we use ourselves up in the strain of
playing, in the anxiety lest we should not win in a game, or when we
play in bad air. When we play in the right way, there is no strain, no
anxiety, only good fun and refreshment and rest.

We might go through the narrative of an average life in showing briefly
the wonderful difference between doing right in the right way, and
doing right in the wrong way. It is not too much to say that the
difference in tendency is as great as that between life and death.

It is one thing to read about orderly living and to acknowledge that
the ways described are good and true, and quite another to have one's
eyes opened and to act from the new knowledge, day by day, until a
normal mode of life is firmly established. It requires quiet, steady
force of will to get one's self out of bad, and well established in
good habits. After the first interest and relief there often has to be
steady plodding before the new way becomes easy; but if we do not allow
ourselves to get discouraged, we are sure to gain our end, for we are
opening ourselves to the influence of the true laws within us, and in
finding and obeying these we are approaching the only possible Freedom
of Life.

II

_How to Sleep Restfully_

IT would seem that at least one might be perfectly free in sleep. But
the habits of cleaving to mistaken ways of living cannot be thrown off
at night and taken up again in the morning. They go to sleep with us
and they wake with us.

If, however, we learn better habits of sleeping, that helps us in our
life through the day. And learning better habits through the day helps
us to get more rest from our sleep. At the end of a good day we can
settle down more quickly to get ready for sleep, and, when we wake in
the morning, find ourselves more ready to begin the day to come.

There are three things that prevent sleep,--overfatigue, material
disturbances from the outside, and mental disturbances from, within.

It is not uncommon to hear people say, "I was too tired to sleep"--but
it is not generally known how great a help it is at such times not to
try to sleep, but to go to work deliberately to get I rested in
preparation for it. In nine cases out of ten it is the unwillingness to
lie awake that keeps us awake. We wonder why we do not sleep. We toss
and turn and wish we could sleep. We fret, and fume, and worry, because
we do not sleep. We think of all we have to