If you feel sudden impulses to act in some way which you have not thought of doing, or toward which you have had an aversion, pause a moment and say, mentally, “If this is an outside influence, I deny its power over me; I deny it, and send it back to its sender, to his defeat and confusion.”  You will then experience a feeling of relief and freedom.  In such cases you may frequently be approached later on by the person who would have been most benefitted by your action; he will appear surprised when you “turn him down,” and will act in a confused way.  He may not have consciously tried to influence you, but may have merely been wishing strongly that you would do as he desired.

It should encourage you to know that it requires much less force to repel and neutralize psychic influence of this kind, than is required to send forth the power; an ounce of denial and protection overcomes a pound of psychic attacking power.  Nature gives you the means of protection, and gives you “the best end of the stick,” and it is your own fault if you do not effectively use it.  A word to the wise is sufficient.

LESSON XIX.

LAWS OF PSYCHIC ATTRACTION

The third phase of Psychic Influence is that which may be called Indirect Psychic Influence, in which psychic induction is manifested in the minds of other persons coming in contact with the thought vibrations of the person manifesting them, although no deliberate attempt is made to influence the mind of any particular person or persons.  Closely connected with and involved in this phase of psychic influence, is that which is called the Psychic Law of Attraction.  So closely are these two connected that I shall consider them together in this lesson.

The fundamental principle of this phase of psychic influence is the well-known psychic fact that mental and emotional states not only induce similar vibrations in those who are similar attuned on the psychic vibratory scale, but also tend to attract and draw to the person other persons who are vibrating along similar lines, and also tend to repel those who are vibrating in an opposing note or scale of psychic vibration.

In the preceding lessons I have shown you how by induction we tend to arouse in others mental and emotional states similar to our own.  But there is a law in effect here, which must be noted if you wish to thoroughly understand this phase of psychic influences.  Omitting all technical explanations, and getting right down to the heart of the phenomenon, I would say that the general principle is this:  Psychic induction is difficult in proportion to the opposing quality of the characteristic mental and emotional states of the person affected; and easy in proportion to the harmonious quality thereof.  That is to say, in plain words, that if a person’s habitual thought and emotions are along the same lines that you are trying to induce in him, you will find it easy to induce the same in him; if, on the contrary, they are of an opposing nature, then you will find it difficult to so influence him.  The many degrees of agreement and difference in the psychic vibrations of persons constitute a scale of comparative response to any particular form of mental or emotional vibrations.