OVERCOMING FAULTS
Question—Critical, intolerant, too impulsive and emotional, too severe and almost without love. I seldom line them up like this, as it is a formidable array which depresses me, and if that is self-pity, I am guilty of that, too. But how to overcome them?

ANSWER—Since you have climbed Life's Endless Stairway to the point of honest revelation and admission of your "faults," the next step is a decision to climb out of them, leave them, forget them. "Life is changeless in its endless change." There is nothing "set" in it. This is the point for you to work on. The hard shell which apparently encompasses you will break and fall away from you when you break through it. Persistent hammering on the same spot in any wall will break the wall. Every time the old intolerant attitude suggests itself to you, turn it squarely around and demand the right mental reaction toward the thing you would criticize. This practice, persisted in, will develop a "good- natured flexibility" in all your reactions which will prove to you that far from being "without love," Love is the very essence and core of you.

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VISUALIZATION IN TREATMENT EXPLAINED
Question—To what extent does visualization enter a metaphysical treatment?

ANSWER—When giving a treatment, use any method and every method which will convince the mind, because that is what mental treatment is. There are certain instances where visualization is a great aid to this. By visualization is meant mentally seeing the accomplished fact. This is a legitimate (page 70) part of a treatment, not a necessary one, but if it helps the mind to receive and to believe it is good.

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