their keys as the tide of his will rose into them. So we gain control of ourselves first by resting all over; then by resting all parts except the ones absolutely necessary to making the particular movements intended. Thus we recuperate one part whilst we use another. We work with one tide whilst waiting for another to rise. This keeps us always in trim for some kind of activity, either mental, physical or spiritual.

Chapter 6 - Just How

Spiritual activity is what most people neglect, and they harp on the physical until their nerves are in tatters --- as mine were before I first "found peace." By spiritual activity I mean what Helen Wilmans calls "rising into the ideal brain." It is preceded by absolute relaxation of the body and brain itself. It is the getting away of attention from the manifest world that it may rest in potential things. It is rising from the "world I Do" into the "world I AM" --- from the limited into the realm of the unlimited, where imagination and reason may stretch their wings and soar, and bring back Ideas, and Power, and Joy, and Life. We are so occupied with the manifold tides of physical activity that we fail to work with the spiritual tides which can lift us above the physical, and flow through and rejuvenate the physical activities.

Now you will doubtless ask me "just how" I "rise into the ideal" and "soar," so I had better tell you