Yogi Ramacharaka is the pen name of author William Walker Atkinson who was a prolific writer of many occult books. In A Series Of Lessons in Raja Yoga focuses on the self or the I within a person. In mastering the lessons you will realize that your soul are at the center and your body is the circumference surrounding your soul. Realizing your consciousness becomes the prevailing idea of the mind, around which a persons in which a person entire thoughts and actions occur.

This is an odd book. It is a marriage of the Ancient Occult Teachings to the latest and most advanced conceptions of Modern Science-an odd union, for the parties thereto are of entirely different temperaments. The marriage might be expected to result disastrously, were it not for the fact that a connecting link has been found that gives them a bond of common interest. No two people may truly love each other, unless they also love something in common-the more they love in common, the greater will be their love for each other. And, let us trust that this will prove true in this marriage of...

It needs very little argument to convince the average thinking person of the great importance of memory, although even then very few begin to realize just how important is the function of the mind that has to do with the retention of mental impressions. The first thought of the average person when he is asked to consider the importance of memory, is its use in the affairs of every-day life, along developed and cultivated lines, as contrasted with the lesser degrees of its development. In short, one generally thinks of memory in its phase of "a good memory" as contrasted with the opposite...

To breathe is to live, and without breath there is no life. Man in his normal state had no need of instruction in breathing. Like the child, he breathed naturally and properly, as nature intended him to do, but civilization has changed him in this and other respects. He has contracted improper methods and attitudes of walking, standing and sitting, which have robbed him of his birthright of natural and correct breathing. He has paid a high price for civilization In this book by William Walker Atkinson, learn how to breathe naturally for a longer, happier & healthier life.

It is so easy to fill pages of paper with good advice - it is so much easier to say things than to do them - so much easier to formulate a code of precepts than to get out into the field of active endeavor and put into practice the same percepts.
But there is besides the mere recital of a List of Good Qualities Leading to Success - a list with which every schoolboy and reader of the magazines is acquainted - a Something Else; and that Something Else, is a suggestion that the Seeker for Success has a Something Within himself which if expressed into activity and action will prove of great value...

Reasoning is defined as: "The act, process or art of exercising the faculty of reason; the act or faculty of employing reason in argument; argumentation, ratiocination; reasoning power; disputation, discussion, argumentation."
By the employment of the reasoning faculties of the mind we compare objects presented to the mind as percepts or concepts, taking up the "raw materials" of thought and weaving them into more complex and elaborate mental fabrics which we call abstract and general ideas of truth.
In this volume we hope to be able to point out the methods and principles of correctly using...

Thought Force in Business and Life will be helpful to the many who are endeavoring to overcome unfavorable environments pointing out the past to better things. It will do its share of the work of removing Fear thought from the minds of men, of replacing "I Cant" with "I Can and I WILL." It does these things, for it contains within it the germs of a mighty Truth.
In Thought Force in Business and Life Atkinson guides us through the use of mind from The Narure of the Force to Volic Force, from Character Building and Concentrating to Worldly Wisdom. By the end the reader will have a much greater...

The mere mention of the word "psychology" in connection with business was once greeted with a shrug of the shoulders, a raising of the eyebrows and a change of the subject. The average business man was apt to impatiently resent the introduction into business of topics or speculation regarding the soul, or of theories and tales regarding concepts of psychology.
Change has come to the man in business. He understands that psychology means "the science of the mind," psychology plays a most important part in business, and that it is quite worth his while to acquaint himself with its fundamental...

It is not enough merely to have a sound mind-one must also learn how to use it, if he would become mentally efficient.
The mechanism of mental states-the mental machinery by means of which we feel, think, and will-consists of the brain, nervous system, and the organs of sense. No matter what may be the real nature of mind,-no matter what may be the theory held regarding its activities,-it must be admitted that the mind is dependent upon this mechanism for the manifestation of what we know as mental states.
In Your Mind and How to Use It Atkinson shows us the Mechanics of mind, Mental States,...