“I can make my mind travel into any fact or study.”
Place this before you on the table, and have nothing else on the table that will interfere. Set this paper on the edge, so that it is plainly visible when you sit in a chair about two feet away from the table.
Now, first of all, relax. Get your muscles eased. Sit back in the chair, breathe slowly, take a few long breaths, and close your eyes.
Sit in a comfortable position. Avoid all muscular strain.
Then open your eyes and look at that paper.
Look at it and ask yourself what it means. What is your mind supposed to do if it travels into any subject?
If you are going to run a race, you wear as little as possible. You must feel like racing. And so, your mind must not be weighed down with other thoughts.
Close your eyes and think about your mind’s ability to travel back into the past.
What did you do a year ago today? What did you do a year ago yesterday? What did you do five years ago?
Keep the idea before you of making your mind travel back into anything you wish to remember.