al forces show little response.

If anyone will examine himself in a state of anger he will feel that it
is the lower part of his nature that is dominating him. He can realize
that his muscles and vital organs are constricted and cramped. Who has
not felt a deep feeling of bitterness, almost of poison, after a fit of
anger? Who has not felt a certain depression, at times even of sickness,
after antagonism or giving up to despondency?

There is also a feeling above negative emotions of certain dormant
possibilities, certain affections and a better nature in the background.
In all true exercises this sub-conscious, better self should be the very
centre of the endeavor.

So universally is true training and even the nature of an exercise
misunderstood that it may be well to summarize a few points to secure
intelligent practice.

1. Practice with your whole nature.

Do not regard the performance of movements as a mere matter of will.
Expression requires a unity of the whole life of our being.

Regard an exercise as a means of bringing all your powers into life and
unity. Let practice be a means of demonstrating your own abilities,
spontaneous and deliberative activities to yourself.

2. Practice with an ideal in mind.

The accomplishment of an endeavor implies the reaching or attainment of
an ideal. Practicing with no end in view accomplishes nothing. The goal
must be an ideal.

There is a universal intuition in an ideal man. There is an intuition
deep in ourselves of our higher possibilities. The feeling that better
things are possible inspires all human endeavor. Movement merely for the
sake of movement, mere haphazard practice, without an ideal,
accomplishes but little. We want not only an instinctive ideal but we
want one which is the result of thought and study.

3. Practice hopefully and joyfully.

That is to say, there should not only be thought and imagination in
practice, there should be feeling,--a normal and ideal emotion. The
realization of the possibility of attaining an ideal brings joy, hope,
courage and confidence.

4. In every exercise feel a sympathetic expansion of the torso.

It is not only necessary to feel joy, we must express it, and the
primary expression of joy is expansion.

Expansion is needed not only as one of the exercises; it is more than
this. It is a conditional element of all exercise. From first to last,
in every movement, feel also a certain expansion of the chest.

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