10.2 Exercises in Sequence

Typesetter's note: set up the concentration mood before you begin.

Exercise 5. Look round a room, noticing the various objects in order. Close the eyes and review them mentally. Again, follow a procession of the letters, of the alphabet, and any different alphabets you may know, such as the Greek, Russian, Hebrew, or Devanagari.

Exercise 6. Take a mental walk along a familiar street, remembering whatever details you can. Return by the same route.

Exercise 7. Live over again, in imagination, a part, of a day's experience.

Exercise 8. Trace back a series of causes in connection with a familiar object. For example, the clock. You see the movement of the hands and hear its ticking, and ask what is the cause. You will see the clock on its way from where it was to where it is, back in the factory, the making of its parts, the production of its materials and so on. I introduced into the junior classes in some of the schools in my charge in India a lesson called ``The Story of the Shirt'' which sometimes went on for about twenty lesson periods, showing the youngsters how, merely putting on a shirt, they were linking up socially with thousands of people, some of whom were in distant parts of the world. It was intended to arouse socially reciprocal feelings, but was also a good training in consecutive thought.

In the above exercises, exact correctness is not essential. Concentration-on-the-move is the aim. You will remember, no doubt, to set up the concentration-mood before you begin.