and fearless: that is one thing-you REGARD yourself as in such
conditions.  And you may claim yourself NOW to be well and
courageous: that is another thing--you TREAT yourself for health
and fearlessness.  When you think of your arm as moving, it does
not necessarily move; you have merely entertained the idea.  When
you will your arm to move, you have claimed your power to move it
and have realized the power--realized in actual thought that
power.  The difference would obtain if your arm were bound: you
could still realize in thought the sense of movement.  Realization
of the Eternal Thoughts is a conscious claim in spirit and
appropriation in spirit of the Thoughts as actual within yourself.
Realization of benefits for health is a conscious holding of them
in mind as present in you.  One may in time acquire the fixed mood
of realization, but it will assist you to bring about that mood if
you will occasionally, say once a day, shut out all disturbances
and alien thoughts and feelings, and try to come into communion
with the White Life--go into the silence and, by quiet
affirmation and sincere, trustful realization, claim the Universal
Forces as your helpers in building up your physical tone and the
spirit of courage.  A sentence like the following may be used: