In all application of magnetism to persons, you are urged to remember that your very first objective, always and preeminently, is an agreeable feeling inside their minds. You should never try to induce a person to behave your way until you have thoroughly established in him a good feeling toward yourself. That is the prime initial step. When such a situation has been secured, you are then ready for the magnetic assault and then only.
If you end up dealing with other people, you should summon the general magnetic feeling inside yourself, and at the same time consider them as already consenting and acting. Your inner condition should be perfectly calm, buoyant, hopeful, whatever the external means employed, your mind should be concentrated upon the thing desired, and its accomplishment should be thought of as now secured.
The response of the person may be delayed, but this should not discourage you, for some minds don’t take suggestions (those of your unspoken will are referred to) quickly, and they don’t act instantly upon their own thought. It’s invariably best to induce people to believe that they are acting on their personal impulse or judgment; they should be made to feel perfectly free, not at all coerced, and that they are doing their own will rather than yours simply they wish so to do.
We may summarize all these ideas in the words of a distinguished scientific writer :
“Life is not a bully who swaggers out into the open universe, upsetting the legal guide of power in all instructions, however rather a consummate strategist, who, sitting in his secret chamber over his wires, directs the movements of a great army.” This is a good description of magnetism.
The success-magnetism assumption:
We are now ready for the great assumption-precept of magnetism in utilized life. Think of every goal as already reached, of each undertaking as already achieved.
