In the use of the eyes for the purpose of conveying mentative currents, you should always remember that the feeling is the real power behind these currents of power, and that the brain is the dynamo from which the currents originate. The brain, you know, is the great transformer, or converter of the mentative energy, and acts just as does a dynamo in the direction of sending forth great waves of power. Consequently, if you wish to send out mentative currents for the purpose of inducing feeling in others, you must first have feeling generated in your mental dynamo.

It will be well for two people to practice the eye exercises together, but in the absence of a friend in whom you have confidence, you may obtain excellent results by practicing before your friendly mirror. In either case, you must first arouse in your mind the feeling that you wish to express in mentative currents. Put your feeling into your glance, and it will be felt.

Exercise I

Look into the eyes of your friend (or your own in the mirror) and then say mentally. "I am stronger than you." Throw into your glance as much of the feeling of strength as you can.

Exercise 2

Say mentally: "I am more Positive than you - I am ouigazing you," throwing as much positivity as possible into your gaze, the same being inspired, of course, by our feeling.

Exercise 3

Say and feel: "You are afraid of me - I am making you feel my strength," throwing the feeling into your gaze.

After you have acquired the faculty of making your strength felt by above exercises yon may use the same upon other people when the occasion renders it advisable. If you are addressed by some person whom you think is trying to master you men-tatively, or whose strong influence you wish to ward off, you may use the above method on him. As a rule the person who is doing the talking has a slight advantage over the listener, all else being equal. The speaker is the more positive because he is expressing more power. But you may counteract this, if you are the listener, by simply sending him a glance, accompanied by the feeling of "I scatter your force into bits - you cannot affect me!"

In resisting an attack of this sort, keep your mouth closed, with the jaws tight, for this "bite" denotes strength and firmness, and brings into play the parts of the brain manifesting these qualities, and thus charges your mentative currents with these feelings. At the same time gaze firmly and steadily into the eyes of the other, using the "Dynamic Gaze." I would bid you remember that the person standing has an advantage over the one sitting. Avoid the sitting position when the other person is standing - do not give him this advantage, but take it yourself if you can.

In speaking to persons and requesting them to do something, you should accompany the verbal request by a mental command. For instance, if you say " You will do this for me, won't you?"(this is the suggestive form of questioning, remember) you should accompany the question with the command (made mentally) with the proper glance, "You shall do this." If you are the person requested to do something that you do not wish to do, you should answer, "No, I do not care to do this," or "I do not see my way clear to do it," or "I am unable to oblige you," etc., etc., but at the same time you must send the mental answer, with its accompanying glance, "I will not do it, and you cannot make me."

A well-known teacher along these lines several years ago, taught his pupils to gaze into the eyes of persons whom they wished to affect, at the same time saying mentally: "I am looking at you. I am looking through your eyes into your brain. My will power is stronger titan yours. You are under my control. I will compel you to do what I wish. You must do what I say. You shall do this. Do it at once." It will readily be seen that this will generate a powerful mentative current, if there is a sufficiently strong feeling - will and desire - behind it. But right here I shall give you an antidote for this kind of influence. In all cases where you are attacked mentally in this way you may dissolve the Force by a positive denial.

The positive denial is the powerful force that scatters into tiny bits the force directed against one. It is a destructive agent, just as is the positive statement a constructive or creative one. One who understands the scientific use of this destructive force may undo the mentative work of others, to a surprising degree. By a strong, positive denial, you may scatter and disintegrate any mentative influence directed against you. This formula will give you a general idea of it. Suppose that you are repelling a statement such as given above. In that case you should say mentally, accompanying it with the proper glance, with feeling back of it: "I deny positively your power over me. I deny it out of existence. I will not do your bidding, and I deny your right and power to command me. I deny your power, and I affirm my own."

You may cultivate this power to use the positive denial by practicing on an imaginary person whom you may suppose is trying to influence you. Imagine the strong, positive person before you, trying to influence you and then start in to practice the positive denial on him, until you feel that you have beaten him off, and have sent him flying away in retreat. These imaginary mental battles will develop a great power of mentative resistance in you, and I advise you strenghten yourselves along these lines, if you feel that you are weak. You may improve on the above exercise, by imagining that after your enemy is m full retreat you follow him up and pour statement after statement into him, changing your position from a defender into an attacking force.

These imaginary rehearsals will do more for one than people think possible. They are like stage rehearsals that make perfect the actors. They are the fencing lessons from which the swordsman gains skill, and strength. Practice, practice, practice makes perfect in everything - in mentative work as well as physical. There are good psychological and occult reasons behind this method and practice, but I shall not enter upon that field at present - this book is intended to give you the "how" of the subject, rather than the "why."