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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Page xi
... WORRY . THE ACQUISITION OF SERENITY AND MIND POWER • 37 CHAPTER VII . LESSON SIX . SELF - Control and Self - RELIANCE . MOTIVE CREATES INTEREST CHAPTER VIII . LESSON SEVEN . THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT . 43 51 CHAPTER IX . LESSON EIGHT ...
... WORRY . THE ACQUISITION OF SERENITY AND MIND POWER • 37 CHAPTER VII . LESSON SIX . SELF - Control and Self - RELIANCE . MOTIVE CREATES INTEREST CHAPTER VIII . LESSON SEVEN . THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT . 43 51 CHAPTER IX . LESSON EIGHT ...
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... worry ; a cultivated power of inhi- bition , mental poise , decision of character , and a quiet sense of power . THE MASTER KEY gives you a complete Memory Training , and shows you how to cultivate to the full your powers of Attention ...
... worry ; a cultivated power of inhi- bition , mental poise , decision of character , and a quiet sense of power . THE MASTER KEY gives you a complete Memory Training , and shows you how to cultivate to the full your powers of Attention ...
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... worrying about things that may never happen , mentally turning over situations that can be neither changed nor altered . This mental habit is demoral- ising to both body and soul , for such indulgence begets irrita- bility and unrest ...
... worrying about things that may never happen , mentally turning over situations that can be neither changed nor altered . This mental habit is demoral- ising to both body and soul , for such indulgence begets irrita- bility and unrest ...
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... worry , which is almost as bad . Where Concentration is aimed at the mind should be like the surface of a lake , which permits reflection , but both worry and hurry ruffle its surface , so that it can no longer fulfil its proper ...
... worry , which is almost as bad . Where Concentration is aimed at the mind should be like the surface of a lake , which permits reflection , but both worry and hurry ruffle its surface , so that it can no longer fulfil its proper ...
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... worried by the feeling of distaste . The task will become less uncongenial ; if it is a piece of work requiring mechanical skill we will not paralyze our best energies by the idea that we are incompetent to do it . It may be that you ...
... worried by the feeling of distaste . The task will become less uncongenial ; if it is a piece of work requiring mechanical skill we will not paralyze our best energies by the idea that we are incompetent to do it . It may be that you ...
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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