*** Sidebar Release breath whenever you feel need, then take another deep breath and hold it while we work some more. Do this throughout. *** End of sidebar

Step nine: Now, as you take control of your heartbeat, moving it at will, pick place you want to be your power place. Let's say it's your right thumb. That golden glow of light on your head is continuous and is flowing down, down through your arm into that thumb. Feel power!

*** Sidebar Now, if you are at age where you tend to feel arthritis in a joint, this may feel like that. If you don't want to encourage that, pick a different place. Or, hey, maybe you want energy to settle in where arthritis is and have it scatter arthritis. What a concept! *** End of sidebar

Do this daily. Do it often during first few days until you feel your power just by thinking of your power place. While your mind is concentrating on your power place, it isn't concentrating on anything else, and that's one of purposes of this exercise. To calm your mind.

Now, you have just learned how to center yourself. After using this technique for several days (usually 21) it will become a habit. Toward last few days you will feel a shift in your thinking, and you will be able to feel confidence that this invokes in your mind. Answers will come to you *out of blue.*

Just think, no one else knows how to do this.

*Hm. Well, no one you know, evidently?*

You can startle your friends with your knowledge, you can impress your spouse, and best of all *you can teach your kids!* And, of course, anyone else if they're really, really nice to you.

If you find yourself getting nervous or forgetting things in future, check it out. Were you centered? No? Why not?

Thanks for reading. Jan

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