The Master Key: The Art of Mental DisciplineHaving financial difficulties? Afflicted with chronic stage fright? Suffering from a bad memory? Perhaps your difficulties are due to a lack of mental discipline. If so, this is the book you've been seeking. Filled with practical advice and exercises that will improve your mind control, L.W. de Laurence's The Master Key, first published in 1914, unlocks the door to the mysteries they tried to keep secret from you for centuries. Learn how concentrated thought will "unfold (your) individuality to the full."American writer and publisher LAURON WILLIAM DE LAURENCE (1868-1936) was a prolific author of works on spiritualism and the occult. His other works include The Great Book of Hindu Magic (1904), The Mystic Test Book of the Hindu Occult Chambers (1909) and Clairvoyance, Thought Transference, Auto Trance, and Spiritualism (1916). |
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... train the mind even Concentration to some extent is necessary , but it can only be practiced properly when we know something of the laws of thought and the possibilities of the soul , hence the failure of so many students to be able to ...
... train the mind even Concentration to some extent is necessary , but it can only be practiced properly when we know something of the laws of thought and the possibilities of the soul , hence the failure of so many students to be able to ...
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... trains of thought , or doing the same thing with the brain repeatedly , like a bookkeeper adding up columns of figures ... train of thought , which is broken the next minute , or often less than half a minute , by the intrusion of an ...
... trains of thought , or doing the same thing with the brain repeatedly , like a bookkeeper adding up columns of figures ... train of thought , which is broken the next minute , or often less than half a minute , by the intrusion of an ...
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... train the forces of their mind so that they will all work in one direction , and thus ensure harmony , a oneness of goal , thereby avoiding much needless friction and waste of brain energy , of which such a a large amount is generated ...
... train the forces of their mind so that they will all work in one direction , and thus ensure harmony , a oneness of goal , thereby avoiding much needless friction and waste of brain energy , of which such a a large amount is generated ...
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... trains of thought — and this is quite possible -- you come to regard unpleasant duties in a new light . We see them as opportunities , opportunities to show the mettle you are made of . You begin to learn that you are greater than you ...
... trains of thought — and this is quite possible -- you come to regard unpleasant duties in a new light . We see them as opportunities , opportunities to show the mettle you are made of . You begin to learn that you are greater than you ...
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Contents
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LESSON FIVE | 37 |
LESSON | 43 |
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT | 51 |
LESSON NINE | 60 |
LESSON | 68 |
LESSON SIXTEEN | 132 |
LESSON SEVENTEEN | 146 |
HABIT FIXED HABITS GOOD HABITS BAD HABITS | 176 |
LESSON TWENTYTWO | 192 |
LESSON TWENTYTHREE | 210 |
THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING | 251 |
LESSON TWENTYSEVEN | 264 |
LESSON TWENTYEIGHT | 273 |
xii | 74 |
SCIENTIFIC COncentration ATTENTION and Mental | 77 |
LESSON TWELVE | 90 |
CULTIVATION OF MEMORY | 96 |
SCIENTIFIC CONCENTRATION ATTENTION AND MENTAL | 101 |
DISCIPLINE | 111 |
PART THREE | 124 |
RATIONAL AND MORAL EDUCATION ETHICALLY | 306 |
INDIVIDUAL MENTAL EFFICIENCY | 326 |
LESSON THIRTYONE | 335 |
CONCENTRATION APPLIED TO FEAR AND DISEASE | 347 |
CONCENTRATION APPLIED DURING THE PERIOD | 353 |
CHAPTER XXXVII | 369 |
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