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Sometime when you’ve had enough sleep, but you don’t think you have the power to do what you want to do, put your hand in front of your face, palm inward, and begin slowly shaking it up and down between your chin and the top of your head. Now start shaking it faster. Faster. Faster! Faster, until it’s just a blur! Look at that blur! You see that? That’s power! You have only to direct it. That’s what this section is about.

Spanking discipline conduces to a very obedient way of being. What is produced when this way of discipline has become ingrained and habitual, is a vehicle -- a unique vehicle. For one thing, it can be entirely self-controlled, and can function on extremely low energy. I call it the supposedtomobile.

When energy gets low, we have enough to think or to do, but not both at once. So first we think, then we decide, then we issue an oarder, then we do. We obey the oarder.

Sometimes it's fun to assume a personality for the order-giver -- the sort of person that you enjoy obeying. You can even give it a name (the one I use is Corporal Startnow).

An oarder can be very complex, and consist of a number of things that you want done. After you have given the oarder, utter the phrase “start now”. This activates the backfield-in-motion rule. Then you shift to doing, and begin obediently performing the task(s) you have been given. Now here is the key rule: Once the phrase has been uttered, your backfield (buns) are in motion. And there shall be no instance of dawdling until the entire list of tasks has been completed, or it’s a 7.

But note that the tasks need not be done in order, because of the intervening task rule. Any intervening task may be performed at any time, as long as the backfield remains in motion until it’s all done. Often, when you begin doing stuff, you will think of some other things that you want to do. You may include them in the sequence anywhere you want. You can get a lot accomplished while your backfield is in motion, but remember that it must remain in motion until everything you have been told to do is completed. Otherwise, you get the punishment.

Decisions should be made promptly, and hesitating in indecision should be reduced to a minimum. When we are indecisive, the subconscious mind is pursuing several alternatives, exploring them and evaluating their consequences. This takes a lot of energy. But when a decision is made, this energy is called back in, empowering us. In Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says to Arjuna, “Many-branched and indeed endless are the buddhis of the irresolute.”

The supposedtomobile makes decisions by means a digital timer that you set for one minute, and then it rings. Whenever you have a decision to make, you set the timer for one minute, and order your mind thusly: “You make this decision before the bell rings, or you are getting a 7.” Personally, I have never failed to make the decision before the bell rang. If it’s close enough that it’s a difficult choice, it usually doesn’t matter much which alternative you select.

The milieu of the vehicle, paradoxically, is self-controlled freedom, although within that context you play the pleasant game of obedience with a loved one. Attacks upon it, in the form of implications of other-controlledness, are to be firmly defeated and turned back.

A good discipline for driving yourself is to set your alarm for a certain time, and require that certain things (prayers, ablutions, exercises physical or spiritual ) be accomplished by a set time, or you get a sound spanking with the paddle. If you wake up before the alarm rings, you’re allowed to start early, but you’re not allowed to set your alarm for an earlier time. The times should be adjusted until you reach the degree of self-drivedness that satisfies you.