used is all right, but beware of “black magic” or improper and unholy uses of it, as such attempts are like playing with a dynamo, and the person attempting such things will be surely punished by the result of the act itself.  However, no person of impure motives ever acquires a great degree of psychic power, and a pure heart and mind is an invulnerable shield against improper psychic power.  Keep yourself pure and nothing can hurt you.

(2) Forming an aura.

If you are ever in the company of persons of a low order of mind, and you feel the depressing influence of their thought, breathe rhythmically a few times, thus generating an additional supply of prana, and then by means of the mental image method surround yourself with an egg-shaped thought aura, which will protect you from the gross thought and disturbing influences of others.

(3) Recharging yourself.

If you feel that your vital energy is at a low ebb, and that you need to store up a new supply quickly, the best plan is to place the feet close together (side by side, of course) and to lock the fingers of both hands in any way that seems the most comfortable.  This closes the circuit, as it were, and prevents any escape of prana through the extremities.  Then breathe rhythmically a few times, and you will feel the effect of the recharging.

(4) Recharging others.

If some friend is deficient in vitality you may aid him by sitting in front of him, your toes touching his, and his hands in yours.  Then both breathe rhythmically, you forming the mental image of sending prana into his system, and he holding the mental image of receiving the prana.  Persons of weak vitality or passive will should be careful with whom they try this experiment, as the prana of a person of evil desires will be colored with the thoughts of that person, and may give him a temporary influence over the weaker person.  The latter, however, may easily remove such influence by closing the circuit (as before mentioned) and breathing a few rhythmic breaths, closing with the Cleansing Breath.

(5) Charging water.

Water may be charged with prana, by breathing rhythmically, and holding the glass of water by the bottom, in the left hand, and then gathering the fingers of the right hand together and shaking them gently over the water, as if you were shaking drops of water off of your finger tips into the glass.  The mental image of the prana being passed into the water must also be held.  Water thus charged is found stimulating to weak or sick persons, particularly if a healing thought accompanies the mental image of the transfer of the prana.  The caution given in the last exercise applies also to this one, although the danger exists only in a greatly lessened degree.

(6) Acquiring mental qualities.