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 self of thinking about the things for which we are fasting; we refuse to think of anything else. We train ourself into fixed thinking and induce the state of mind in which we want to fast. We know that when thinking has passed into a fixed form we are able to stamp the atomic mind of the intelligence of our body and environment. So we clean up our mind; unload our mental rubbish, just as we are unloading our physical. There are very few thoughts worth thinking; we seek them out and resolutely refrain from thinking any thought that is below a true standard of selection.

We lift ourself away from our old miasma-laden thought swamp onto the hill tops of inspired thinking, and here we persistently dwell. What is it that we want more than we want to eat? We take this desire or desires firmly into our mind and when our flesh tempts us, or the old call of the mind would drag us back to memory, we go again in thought to the new, the whole, the true. We may want to eat, the hunger of our body may overpower us, or the old habit of memory creep upon us, but we are alive with a new awareness. And while we do want to eat,–think the old destructive thoughts, we want a thousands times more than all else, the new freedom of the body, mind and spirit, and the possession of the dear desires of our soul. So we turn away and walk on, pledged over and over to the higher law of conquest in all and through all.

After a while a new thought form body is