r work for another week's experiment,
and this time returned with a smiling face, better color, and a new and
more quiet life in her eyes. She had made the "lazy way" work, and
found a better power of concentration at the same time. She knew that
it was only a beginning, but she felt secure now in the certain
knowledge that it was not her work that had been killing her, but the
way in which she had done it; and she felt confident of her power to do
it restfully and, at the same time, better than before. Moreover, in
addition to practising the new way of working, she planned to get
regular exercise in the open air, even if it had to come in the
evening, and to eat only nourishing food. She has been at work now for
several years, and, at last accounts, was still busy, with no
temptation to stop because of overfatigue.

If any reader is conscious of suffering now from the strain of his work
and would like to get relief, the first thing to do is to notice that
it is less the work that tires him than his way of doing it, and the
attitude of his mind toward it. Beginning with that conviction, there
comes at first an interest in the process of dropping strain and then a
new interest in the work itself, and a healthy concentration in doing
the merest drudgery as well as it can be done, makes the drudgery
attractive and relieves one from the oppressive fatigue of
uninteresting monotony.

If you have to move your whole body in your daily work, the first care
should be to move the feet and legs heavily. Feel as if each foot
weighed a ton, and each hand also; and while you work take long, quiet
breaths,--breaths such as you see a man taking when he is very quietly
and soundly sleeping.

If the work is sedentary, it is a help before starting in the morning
to drop your head forward very loosely, slowly and heavily, and raise
it very slowly, then take a long, quiet breath. Repeat this several
times until you begin to feel a sense of weight in your head. If there
is not time in the morning, do it at night and recall the feeling while
you are dressing or while you are going to work, and then, during your
work, stop occasionally just to feel your head heavy and then go on.
Very soon you become sensitive to the tension in the back of your neck
and drop it without stopping work at all.

Long, quiet breaths while you work are always helpful. If you are
working in bad air, and cannot change the air, it is better to try to
have the brea