The few minutes between the moment that one wakes and the time one gets out of bed can be most profitably employed in this way.
The same thing is true at night.
If the occupations of the day and of the evening leave us no time to devote to this exercise, we can always go through it in the moments between retiring to bed and falling asleep.
It will thus be seen that there is really no valid excuse for not undertaking this practise, whose effects will certainly be most beneficial.
SECOND SERIES--TRAINING OF THE EYE
But our physical efforts must not stop here.
It is more than necessary that we should make others feel the effects of the mastery that we are slowly acquiring over ourselves.
The eye is an invaluable assistant to the man who is studying to acquire poise.
It is not necessary here, in connection with the magnetic properties of the eye, to enter into a digression too extensive for the scope of this book, but we can not neglect this one more-than-important factor altogether.
We are speaking now not only of the power in the gaze of others but of that of our own eyes in relation to our associates.