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THE POSITIVE AURA. Now that you have mastered the technique or mechanism of the ‘‘direct flash,’’ you are ready to proceed to the actual demonstra- tion or practice thereof in your everyday as- sociation and contact with the general public.

But, before taking up that phase of the sub- ject, I think it well to ask you to consider the matter of the creation and maintenance of the positive aura. I have purposely post- poned the consideration of this phase of the subject, until we reached this particular point in the instruction, because, in order to properly create and maintain the positive aura, it is necessary that one understands the mechanism and technique of the ‘‘direct flash,’’ for he will need to manifest the same power in the case of the positive aura.

But, now that you have mastered the technique or mechanism of the ‘‘direct flash,’’ you are ready to receive the instruction regarding 144 The Posittwe Aura 145 the positive aura, and we may as well proceed to consider it at this very point.

I have already given you instructions re- garding the cultivation of a desirable per- sonal atmosphere, or aura, and need not repeat here what I have already said elsewhere. But, a moment’s consideration will show you that there will arise certain conditions or occa- sions in which you will find it very desirable to be able to influence a number of persons en masse—the crowd as a whole—rather than to send the ‘‘direct flash’’ to each of the indi- viduals separately.

Of course, the crowd will be influenced by your general personal atmos- phere, but you now need something more pos- itive, and more to the point. And the ‘‘pos- itive aura’’ is what you must acquire to sat- ify this requirement. The positive aura is simply the general personal atmosphere, but directly and posi- tively charged by a concentrated effort of the will—the same effort, in fact, as that made in the case of the ‘‘direct flash.’’ Let me illustrate the ‘‘positive aura’’ by means of several stories from real life—the experiences of several students of mine.

These personal experiences will give you a 146 Personal Magnetism better idea of just what is needed than would pages of general instruction on the subject. The little stories are not fiction, remember, but are ‘‘taken from life,’’ and are bits of human documents from the lives of real peo- ple, all of which have come under my per- sonal observation and consideration.

Several years ago, in Paris, I had a stu- dent whose real strength of character was marred by her abnormal self-consciousness, shyness, timidity, and sensitiveness—in fact, in the word ‘‘sensitiveness’’ you have the keynote of this young woman’s personality.

She was a young artist of far more than the average talent, and her charm of manner rendered her company sought after by a large eirele of friends. This lady complained to me that she suf- fered from the actual rudeness, nay, almost positive brutality, of the crowds of persons thronging the busy streets of some of the principal thoroughfares of Paris.

She com- plained that she was jostled here and there, and pushed rudely aside by the passing throng. Moreover, she was treated rudely in the shops, the superficial veneer of polite- ness of the average Parisian shop-clerk The Positwe Aura 147 scarcely concealing the underlying contempt and veiled sneer of these ‘‘cheap”’ satellites of the ubiquitous shop-keepers of this charm- ing city.

My first thought was that the young woman had worked herself up into a state of imag- inary wrongs, the result of her highly sensi- tive organism and shrinking disposition—in short, I thought that she was suffering from a state of morbid self-consciousness, with its frequent accompaniment of imaginary perse- cution, etc.