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EXERCISES IN THE ‘‘ DIRECT FLASH.”’ And, now, having mastered the preliminary mirror-exercises, you are ready to begin your experiments on real persons. But, here, too, you must crawl before you can walk and run. You must begin with the simpler forms of magnetic influence, before you can accomplish the more complicated or diffeult tasks.

But, you have now emerged from the kindergarten stage, and are ready to practice in earnest. If you have faithfully followed the instruc- tions in the mirror-practice, you have mas- tered the mechanism of magnetic influence, and. are ready to ‘‘run the machine’’ in pub- lic view.

But do not for a moment lose what you have gained in the mirror-exercise. Hold tight and fast to the ‘‘technique’’ you have acquired, and do not for a moment fall into the error that you must now begin all over again. The thing for you to remember, always, is that you are really but carrying the mirror-exercises forward on a higher 134 Exercises in the ‘‘ Direct Flash’’ 185 seale, in a broader field.

And you will find some interesting work ahead of you, take my word for it. First Exercise. I shall now give you an exercise that is almost always given to begin- ners, by the best teachers of magnetism. It consists of the process of causing a person ahead of you, on the street, to turn around as if he had heard some one call out to him by name.

The process is very simple. You have but to walk some little distance behind the other person, on the street, park or other public place. Concentrate your fixed atten- tion on the person, gazing at the lower back strong flash of magnetic force, this being fol- lowed by the ‘‘direct flash’? command: ‘‘ Here you!

Turn around!’’ just as if you were actu- ally calling out aloud to him. You may even whisper the words so softly that no one else can hear them—this may help you to put force into the command, at first, but you will soon outgrow the need of the same.

At the time you send the flash command you must actu- ally WILL that the person will turn around in your direction. Put all the magnetic force within you, in this effort. 136 Personal Magnetism You will find that in some cases the other person will turn his head almost at once, and look inquiringly behind him in your direction.

In the majority of cases, however, he will take a longer time about it. He will be apt to first grow uneasy and restless, and begin by glancing from side to side, as if looking for some one; then he will almost (but not quite) turn his head around; then, finally he will glance backward somewhat furtively and sus- piciously.

No two persons act precisely alike in this respect; and, then, again, the same person will act differently under different conditions. There are certain times at which the conditions seem to be more favorable than at others, for various reasons, as you will discover for yourself.

You will find, in this as well as the follow- ing other exercises, that the best results will be obtained while the other person is pro- ceeding idly along, without his attention being directed particularly in any direction. When the attention is free, the mind is more open to outside influences.