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you communicate the object of your DESIRE directly to your SUBCONSCIOUS
mind in a spirit of absolute FAITH.

Through repetition of this procedure, you voluntarily create thought habits which
are favorable to your efforts to transmute desire into its monetary equivalent.

Go back to these six steps described in chapter two, and read them again, very
carefully, before you proceed further. Then (when you come to it), read very care-
fully the four instructions for the organization of your "Master Mind" group, de-
scribed in the chapter on Organized Planning. By comparing these two sets of
instructions with that which has been stated on auto-suggestion, you, of course,
will see that the instructions involve the application of the principle of auto-sug-
gestion.

Remember, therefore, when reading aloud the statement of your desire (through
which you are endeavoring to develop a "money consciousness"), that the mere
reading of the words is of NO CONSEQUENCE-UNLESS you mix emotion, or
feeling with your words. If you repeat a million times the famous Emil Coue for-
mula, "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better," without mixing
emotion and FAITH with your words, you will experience no desirable results.
Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon ONLY thoughts which have
been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.

This is a fact of such importance as to warrant repetition in practically every chap-
ter, because the lack of understanding of this is the main reason the majority of
people who try to apply the principle of auto-suggestion get no desirable results.

Plain, unemotional words do not influence the subconscious mind. You will get
no appreciable results until you learn to reach your subconscious mind with
thoughts, or spoken words which have been well emotionalized with BELIEF.

Do not become discouraged, if you cannot control and direct your emotions the
first time you try to do so. Remember, there is no such possibility as SOMETHING
FOR NOTHING. Ability to reach, and influence your subconscious mind has its
price, and you MUST PAY THAT PRICE. You cannot cheat, even if you desire
to do so. The price of ability to influence your subconscious mind is everlasting
PERSISTENCE in applying the principles described here. You cannot develop the
desired ability for a lower price. You, and YOU ALONE, must decide whether or
not the reward for which you are striving (the "money consciousness"), is worth
the price you must pay for it in effort.

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Wisdom and "cleverness" alone, will not attract and retain money except in a