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Now, getting out of bed, practise skin drill, not in the elaborate way suggested by a Danish athletic instructor, but, if you like, with some underclothing on. Rub your skin all over with the palms of your hands, or, if you prefer, with a loofah, or a skin-brush, or skin-glove, or perhaps sometimes in one way, sometimes in another.

This will improve your circulation, and of course will clean your skin of its dead particles, and will be good exercise in itself.

You could go through the skin drill either before you have a bath, or afterwards, or, to some extent, during the bath.

Having gone through the skin drill, close your eyes for a moment, and, keeping your hands and arms still, try to recall the movements and sensations of the skin drill—that is to say, go through the skin drill, not in reality, but in imagination. Be sure to do this immediately after the skin drill.

It is generally agreed that the most effective way of remembering many kinds of things is to recall them directly afterwards, before they have faded from the mind.

On the first day, do not give up too much time and energy to this skin drill. A minute may be quite enough. You could, if you like, keep on some of your clothing while you are massaging some parts of your body. Then cover these whilst you are massaging the other parts.

It need not always be the mere rubbing of the skin; it could sometimes be slapping and pinching, etc.

In the Second Lesson there will be some leg and arm stretching, a second Breathing exercise, and some gentle hopping anc skipping without a rope.

PELMAN LESSON II.

Success in any kind of enterprise—commercial literary, scholastic, social or political—require: Energy. This subject is dealt with in Lesson II where we show how well-directed Energy develops mental ability and formulates character

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