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Before you get up, and while you still lie in bed, stretch out your right hand and arm up in front of you. Then, if there is room, send it to your side so that it is in a straight line with your shoulders. Have the fingers well apart, as if you were striking an octave, and have them bent well back, the exact opposite of the grasping habit. Have the arm quite stiff and the elbow back, and the shoulder well back. Now hold this position for a moment. Then, keeping the arm quite stiff, and the fingers stretched back, rotate the right hand round as far as it will go—first in one direction, then pause; then in the other direction, then pause. Repeat this three times.

During this movement, be sure to keep the left hand as relaxed and limp as possible. Do not let that twitch and “sympathise” with the work of the right hand. Economise energy in this way.

Now reverse the sides. Go through the exercise with the left hand and arm, instead of the right, and this time keep the right hand and arm relaxed and limp. Do this exercise three times with the left hand and arm.

Then do it three times with the two hands and arms together.

After this, shake out your hands freely, as if you were shaking the stiffness out of them.

Then keep quite still, with your arms by your sides, and recall the exercises in imagination. Recall the movements and sensations. If you have done the exercises properly, you ought to be able to do this quite easily, as you will still have the muscular sensation in your mind.