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few very rare instances, where the law of averages favors the attraction of money
through these sources. The method of attracting money described here, does not
depend upon the law of averages. Moreover, the method plays no favorites. It will
work for one person as effectively as it will for another. Where failure is experi-
enced, it is the individual, not the method, which has failed. If you try and fail,
make another effort, and still another, until you succeed.

Your ability to use the principle of auto-suggestion will depend, very largely, upon
your capacity to CONCENTRATE upon a given DESIRE until that desire becomes
a BURNING OBSESSION.

When you begin to carry out the instructions in connection with the six steps
described in the second chapter, it will be necessary for you to make use of the
principle of CONCENTRATION.

Let us here offer suggestions for the effective use of concentration. When you
begin to carry out the first of the six steps, which instructs you to "fix in your
own mind the EXACT amount of money you desire," hold your thoughts on that
amount of money by CONCENTRATION, or fixation of attention, with your eyes
closed, until you can ACTUALLY SEE the physical appearance of the money. Do
this at least once each day. As you go through these exercises, follow the instruc-
tions given in the chapter on FAITH, and see yourself actually IN POSSESSION
OF THE MONEY!

Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in
a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often
have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are in-
terpreted by the subconscious mind. Following the preceding statement, consider
the possibility of playing a perfectly legitimate "trick" on your subconscious mind,
by making it believe, because you believe it, that you must have the amount of
money you are visualizing, that this money is already awaiting your claim, that
the subconscious mind MUST hand over to you practical plans for acquiring the
money which is yours.

Hand over the thought suggested in the preceding paragraph to your IMAGINA-
TION, and see what your imagination can, or will do, to create practical plans for
the accumulation of money through transmutation of your desire.

DO NOT WAIT for a definite plan, through which you intend to exchange services
or merchandise in return for the money you are visualizing, but begin at once to
see yourself in possession of the money, DEMANDING and EXPECTING mean-

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