(a).  By insisting upon a larger freedom, not in the way of demanding one thing or another, but in the way of realizing in your deeper self the idea of power therefor;

(b).  By endeavoring constantly to bring your thought-life more and more into harmony with the white life in nature;

(c).  By affirming that the food and drink of which you partake will surely make for health and buoyancy of the body; not merely stating the proposition, but, while so partaking, believing the truth and assuming it to be true—­actual for you;

(d).  By manifesting at all times the mood of blended courage, hope, confidence, happiness;

4.  The value of work and play is the outcome of balancing reactions or restorations among our personal activities.  If we conceive of any individual as a “field” of vibrations in matter and the ether, induced by muscular and nervous action and by feeling and thought, we see at once that there ought to be an ideal “field” in which all such vibrations are in a state of harmony.  The state indicated would be a condition of balance.  When activities in one direction are over intense and unduly prolonged, all vibrations tend to a strain in that direction.  Such strain—­ all in one direction—­is not normal, because it signifies disturbance of balance.  If harmony in the “field” is to be restored, the one direction-strain must be released so that all right activities may recur and all vibrations proper to the “field” may again take place.  Always the ideal is general harmony throughout the personal field.  Now, some of the activities of our life are normally those of work, inducing corresponding vibrations in the individual “field,” and some of them are normally those of recreation, which is a true word because it means recreation, that is, action or rest inducing corresponding vibration differing from those of work, running, so to speak, in different directions, and so restoring harmony.  Work and recreation are, therefore, equally essential to the normal life.  We have, however, built up wrong ideas of each of these important functions, so that most of us distinguish work as essentially different in its basic nature from recreation, and more or less an evil, and distinguish recreation as altogether and in itself a good.  Both ideas are surely erroneous.  I know that too much work, and work under certain conditions, cannot be regarded as a good in itself.  Precisely the same is true of recreation.  Neither, then, is to be valued or condemned because of the kind of activities involved or vibrations induced, but always and solely with reference to the state of balance or harmony represented in the field of the personal self.  The limit of permitted work should be determined by that question alone; work should always be offset, so to speak, by recreation.  The limit of recreation permitted should be determined by the same question.  It should always be offset by work.  In other words, the value of either work or play consists in change of activities restoring balance in the personal field.