suffering and insomnia.

But far beyond perseverance in labor, or the inducing a calmer and
habitually restful state of mind, was the Awakening of the Will, which
I found as interesting as any novel or drama, or series of active
adventures which I have ever read or experienced. I can remember when
most deeply engaged in it, re-reading DE QUINCEY'S "Confessions of an
Opium Eater." I took it by chance on my birthday, August 15, which was
also his, and as I read I longed from my very heart that he were
alive, that I might consult with him on the marvelous Fairyland which
it seemed to me had been discovered--and then I remembered how Dr.
TUCKEY, the leading English hypnotist, had once told me how easy it
was for his science to completely cure the mania for opium and other
vices.

And this is the discovery: Resolve before going to sleep that if there
be anything whatever for you to do which requires Will or Resolution,
be it to undertake repulsive or hard work or duty, to face a
disagreeable person, to fast, or make a speech, to say "No" to
anything; in short, to keep up to the mark or make any kind of effort
that _you_ WILL _do it_--as calmly and unthinkingly as may be. Do not
desire to do it sternly or forcibly, or in spite of obstacles--but
simply and coolly make up your mind to _do it_--and it will much more
likely be done. And it is absolutely true--_crede experto_--that if
persevered in, this willing yourself to will by easy impulse unto
impulse given, will lead to marvelous and most satisfactory results.

There is one thing of which the young or oversanguine or heedless
should be warned. Do not expect from self-suggestion, nor anything
else in this life, prompt perfection, or the _maximum_ of success. You