Emile Coue - Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion

"Our
actions spring not from our

WiU, but from our Imagination."
SELF
MASTERY
THROUGH
CONSCIOUS
AUTOSUGGESTION
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Self
Mastery
Through
by
and
Thoughts
Emile
Emile
by
As
Education
by
What
on
gestion,
Autosug-
Coue
Precepts,
Observations
Do,
Conscious
Emile
Coue
36
Autosuggestion
Can
Coue
43
Ought
It
To
Be,
by
Emile
Coue
50
of
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the
"Seances"
M.
at
Emile
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from
Letters
Treated
by
the
Method
The
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Within,
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72,
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Notes
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Mme.
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EMILE
The
Master
Mind
COUE
of
Autosuggestion
SELF
MASTERY
THROUGH
CONSCIOUS
AUTOSUGGESTION
Suggestion, or
subject, and yet
It is
new
rather
the
at
in the
in
studied
and
because
it dates
time
same
that
sense
consequence
the
from
until
marvelous
circumstances
or
of
rather
best
as
been
man
that
in
world.
old
it is
the
earth.
at
possess
this force, resides
which
or
on
new
wrongly-
understood;
power,
the
produces
now
it has
instrument
incalculable
and
the
as
appearance
fact
quite
old
it is
wrongly
autosuggestion is an
birth, and in this instrument,
In
is
Autosuggestion,
the
we
according
to
results.
worst
of this force is useful

of us, but it
to each one
Knowledge
is peculiarly indispensable to doctors, magistrates, lawyers,
and to those engaged in the work
of education.
to
By knowing how
practise it consciously it is possible
in the
first place to avoid
suggestions
provoking in others bad autowhich
secondly, consciously
bringing physical
anterior
to
health
provoke
to
the
instead, thus
good ones
health
to
sick, and moral
the
and
those
who
THE
CONSCIOUS
SELF
AND
and
consequences,
erring, the unconscious

autosuggestions, and to guide into the
had
one.
a
tendency to take the wrong
neurotic
the
disastrous
have
may
THE
victims
of
right path
UNCONSCIOUS
SELF
In
is
order
to
or
to
necessary
exist
of sugproperly the phenomena

gestion,
of
more
correctly
autosuggestion, it
speak
know
that two
absolutely distinct selves
but while one
is conBoth
scious
intelligent,
are
understand
to
within
us.
the
other
is
unconscious.
For
this
reason
the
ex-
Self Mastery
of
istence
the
to
easy
trouble
certain
upon
examples :
Every one has
heard
take
us
takes
merely
one
the
reflect a few
ing
instance the follow-
and
phenomena
Let
them.
if
ever
It is how-
notice.
generally'escapes
its existence
prove
examine
to
moments
latter
Autosuggestion
Conscious
Through
for
to
of .somnambulism;
knows
one
every
night without
waking,
after either dressing himself
leaves his room
or
not, goes
and
after
walks
ecuted
having exdownstairs,
along corridors,
certain
certain acts
returns
or
work,
accomplished
bed
and
shows
to
next
to his room,
again,
day the
goes
finished
he
which
at
finding work
greatest astonishment
had left unfinished the day before.
It is however
he himself
has done it without
who
being
of it. What
force has his body obeyed if it is not
aware
that
somnambulist
unconscious
an
Let
us
now
drunkard
with
the
he
who
are
the
is over, he
horror the scene
that he
the
not
to
man
If
himself
unconscious
act
case
in this
As
tremens.
nearest
be,
may
unlucky enough
attack
with
we
by delirium
picks up the
hatchet, as
or
those
self ?
force,in fact his unconscious
examine
the alas, too
frequent case
attacked
madness
at
gets up
mer,
knife, hamweapon,
and
strikes furiously
vicinity. Once
and
contemplates
senses
of
around
carnage
is the author of it.
self
which
though
be in his
to
his
recovers
has
him, without
Here
again
caused
the
see
unreliable
is
memory
provided
alizing
re-
is it
unhappy
way?*
the conscious
with the unconscious
compare
that the conscious
self is often possessed of
we
of a
seized
while
with
the
unconscious
marvelous
and
self
self
a
the
on
very
trary
con-
impeccable memory
which
without
registers
our
knowledge the smallest
the
least
of
events,
important acts
existence.
our
Further,
it is credulous
and
with
accepts
unreasoning docilitywhat
"And
what
of
and
us
aversions, what
ills
we
in every
domain
by not
conscious
autosuggestions"
play "good
autosuggestions," thus
suffering.
create
for
ourselves,
one
every-
"immediately" bringing into

against
our
"bad
unconscious
bringing about the disappearance of
all uniust
J
Self Mastery
it is told.
for the
Thus,
brain, a
paradoxical to
functions
well
only
of
act
that
or
and
even,
above
certain organ
pression,
and
such an ima
preside over
all
over
well
function
indeed
self
rather
seem
our
tions
func-
the
actions
or
ever
what-
imagination,and it is
accepted opinion, always makes
there is
all, against our will when
that
these two
we
call
forces.
IMAGINATION
AND
WILL
may
that
feel such
we
organism, but also
our
responsible
by the intermediary of
organs
the unconscious
does
antagonism between
"will",
dictionary and look up the word
find this definition: "The
faculty of freelydetermining
If
we
our
that is
produced which
that is,if it believes
ill
or
Autosuggestion
is
It is this
they are.
which, contrary to
this
us
all
in question does
the organ
do feel that impression.
we
Not
result
you
Conscious
it is the unconscious
as
functioningof
the
ill,or
Through
open
we
acts".
certain
We
this
accept
definition
as
true
and
un-
false.
This
fattackable, although nothing could be more
claim so proudly, always yields to the imagwill that we
ination.
rule that admits of no
absolute
It is an
exception.
"Not
at all !
!" you will exclaim.
"Blasphemy ! Paradox
On the contrary, it is the purest truth," I shall reply.
In order
to convince
yourself of it,open your eyes, look
round
then
you
come
and
to
try
to
understand
the conclusion
what
that what
see.
you
I tell you
sick brain
but
the
You
is not
will
an
simple exprestheory,offspringof a
sion
of a fact.
place on the ground a plank 30 feet
Suppose that we
It is evident that everybody will be
long by 1 foot wide.
capable of going from one end to the other of this plank
the edge. But now
ditions
without
change the constepping over
this
and
of the experiment,
imagine
plank placed
cathedral.
then will
of
Who
a
at the height of the towers
few feet along this narrow
a
be capable of advancing even
Before
path? Could you hear me speak? Probably not.
begin to tremble, and
had taken two
steps you would
you
idle
Self Mastery
in
spiteof
to
fall to
effort of your
every
the ground.
the
ground,
height above
wili
be
would
you
certain'
would
that you
fall if the plank is
not
and
why should you fall if it is raised to a
the
ground?
it is easy
that
imagine
you
Autosuggestion
is it then
Why
on
Through Conscious
while in the second

Notice
in the
Simply because
to
go
to
the
end
of
you imagine that you

will is powerless to make
it is
this
you
case
plank,
do
cannot
case
that your
if you
hnagine that you ccmnot,
for you
If tilers and
to do so.
this feat, it is because
first
so.
advance;
absolutelyimpossible
carpenters
able
are
to
complish
ac-
they think they can do it.

Vertigo is entirelycaused by the picture we make in our
that we
minds
are
going to fall. This picture transforms
itself immediately into fact in spite of all the effortsof our
violent these efforts are, the quicker is
will, and the more
the oppositeto the desired result brought about.
Let us now
consider the case
of a person
sufferingfrom
If he does not make
insomnia.
effort to sleep,he will
any
lie quietlyin bed.
If on
the contrary he tries to force himself
to sleep by his will, the more
efforts he makes, the
restless he
more
Have
the
not
you
of
becomes.
noticed
that the
which
more
you
try
to
remember
have forgotten,the more

i
mind
the idea "I
you, until,substitutingn your
shall remember
in a minute"
to the idea "I have
ten",
forgotthe name
back to you of its own
comes
accord
out
withthe least effort?
Let those of you
who
are
the
cyclistsremember
name
person
you
it eludes
when
you
the
were
handle
days
learningto ride. You went
ing
along clutchbars and
of
frightened
falling. Suddenly
catchingsight of the smallest obstacle in the
road
tried
you
efforts you
made
to do
so, the
more
surelyyou rushed upon it.
Who
has not suffered from
attack of uncontrollable
an
which
bursts out
laughter,
more
the more
violently
one
tries to control it?
What
the state of mind
was
of each person
in these different
circumstances?
"I do not want
to fall but I cannot
to
avoid
it,and
the
more
Self Mastery Through

help doing so";
the
remember
to
"1 want
in
see,
you
who
the
each
forward
them
along
for himself!"
this?
of
gains
order
same
rushes
carries
Mrs.
and
So
these
cannot"; "I want

So, but I cannot";
the
with
belongs the
the head
bought
of the leader
case
his troops and always

while the cry "Each
man
him,
in the second
fly for
of
Why is
men
imagine that
they imagine that
defeat.
their lives.
the
contagion of example,
the action of the imagination,when, to avenge
say
that the entire flock would
beforehand
the
always
will, without
board
the
merchant
same
a
on
upon
his biggest sheep and
threw
it into the
himself
stop
to
of
certain to cause
in the first case
the
they must
go forward, and
they are conquered and must
quite aware
Panurge was
the
victory over
of ideas
at
; "I want
conflicts it is
is almost
It is because
that is to
the obstacle,but I cannot"

I cannot."
imagination which
any exception.
To
of
name
sleep but
to
want
Autosuggestion
avoid
to
laughing,but
As
"I
Conscious
boat, he
sea,
certain
follow, which
indeed
happened.
to sheep,
beings have a certain resemblance
and
are
irresistibly
impelled to follow
involuntarily,we
do
cannot
other
people's examples, imagining that we
human
We
otherwise.
could
quote
by
pass
of
power
other
imagination,or in
its struggleagainstthe
the
in
There
thousand
are
certain
other
should
I cannot
ever
how-
the
words
enormous
of
the
conscious
un-
will.
who
drunkards
but
examples
by such an enumeration.
you
shows
in silence this fact which
bore
fear to
wish
to
them, and
gusts
in all sinceritythat they desire to be sober, that drink disimpelled to drink
them, but that they are irresistibly
it will
against their will, in spite of the harm they know
but
do
who
cannot
do
so.
Ask
ing,
give up drinkthey will reply
them.
In
the
same
of themselves,
way
and
certain criminals
when
they
are
commit
asked
crimes
why they
in
spite
acted
so,
Conscious
they
it
"I
answer
could
stronger than
was
Autosuggestion
help it, something impelledme,
not
I."
speak the truth;

they are forced to do what they do, for the simple reason
they imagine they cannot prevent themselves from doing so.
who
Thus
so
are
we
proud of our will,who believe that
free to act as we
are
like,are in realitynothing but
we
wretched
our
imagination holds all the
puppets of which
be
when
have
to
we
only cease
strings. We
puppets
learned to guide our
imagination.
the
And
drunkard
and
wretch
poor
to
gain
the
a
who
the bank.
know
you
how,
it to
the
criminal
AUTOSUGGESTION
AND
SUGGESTION
According to
imagination to
the
the
we
can
preceding remarks
compare
which
torrent
the
fatallysweeps
away
has fallen into it,,
in spiteof his efforts
This torrent
seems
indomitable;but if
you
turn
can
factory,and
it from
its course
and
there you
transform
can
duct
con-
its
force
into movement,
heat, and electricity.
If this simile is not enough, we
the imagination
may
compare
"the madman
at home"
it has been
called
as
unbroken
to an
horse which
has neither bridle nor
reins.
What
the
rider
do except let himself go wherever
can
the
horse wishes to take him?
And
often if the latter runs
his
mad
career
to end in the ditch.
only comes
If
away,
however
the rider succeeds in puttinga bridle on the
"
"
horse,
the parts are reversed.

It is no longer the horse who
goes
where he likes,it is the rider who
obligesthe horse to take
him
wherever
he wishes to go.
Now
that we have learned to realize the
enormous
power
of the unconscious
or
imaginative being, I am
show
as
But
how
this self,hitherto considered
easilycontrolled
before going any
two
words
understood.
as
torrent
or
going
indomitable,
can
an
unbroken
to
be
horse.
further
that are
These are
it is necessary to define carefully

often used without being
properly
the words
and
suggestion
gestion.
autosug-
10

What
then
is
imposing an idea
action really exist?
indeed
not
Autosuggestion
It may
be denned
the brain of another".
suggestion?
of
does
Conscious
on
Properly speaking, no.

by itself. It does not
exist
as
"the act
Does
this
Suggestion
and
cannot
exist except on the sine qua non

condition of transforming
itself ito autosuggestionin the subject. This latter word
be denned
"the implantingof an idea in oneself by
as
may
oneself."
You
not,
make
if the uncona
scious
suggestionto someone;
may
of the latter does not accept the suggestion,
if it has
it were,
as
digestedit,in
autosuggestion,it produces
made
is that
reason
the
did not
accept it and
THE
Let
us
and
control
return
lead
no
unconscious
of
transform
it into
USE
now
result.
it into
I have
casionally
myself ocor
commonplace suggestionto
subjectsquiteunsuccessfully.The
obedient
ordinarilyvery
transform
to
less
more
order
OF
the
subject
our
to
autosuggestion.
AUTOSUGGESTION
the
point where I
imagination,just as
to
refused
said that
a
torrent
we
can
or
an
be controlled.
To do so, it is enough
that this is possible(of which
in the first place to know
is ignorant) and secondly,to know
fact almost everyone
by
horse
unbroken
what
came
it
means
simple; it
can
is that
into the
can
be
which
world,
we
is
used
have
without
absolutelyunconsciously,but
often use
we
wrongly and to
means
Well, the
done.
means
is very
since we
day
wishing or knowing it
which
unfortunatelyfor
our
own
every
detriment.
and
us,
This
autosuggestion.
suggestions,
constantlygive ourselves unconscious autohave to do is to give ourselves conscious
all we
consists in this: first,
to weigh carefully
ones, and the process
which
mind
the
to
be
the
in one's
are
things
object
and
of the autosuggestion,
according as they require the
"yes" or "no", to repeat several times without
answer
thing is coming", or
thinking of anything else: "This
"this thing is going away"; "this thing will,or will not
Whereas
we
11
Conscious
Autosuggestion
'.'"'.*If the unconscious

happen, etc., etc.
accepts this
the
it into an
suggestion and transforms
autosuggestion,
thing or things are realized in every particular.
\\
Thus
understood, autosuggestionis nothing but hypnotism
in
I
and
I
would
define
it
these
as
see
it,
simple
words : The influence of the imagination upon
the moral
(
\and
Now
this influence is
physical being of mankind.
undeniable, and without returning to previous examples,
.
I will quote
few
others.
If you
persuade yourselfthat you

provided this thing be possible,
you
can
do
will do
certain
it however
thing,
ficult
dif-
If on
it may
be.
the contrary you imagine that you
do the simplestthing in the world, it is impossible
cannot
for you to do it,and molehills become
for you unscalable
mountains.
Such
is the case
of neurasthenics,
selves
who, believingthem-
incapableof
the least effort,often find it impossible

few steps without
to walk
even
And
a
being exhausted.
these same
neurasthenics
sink more
pression
deeply into their dethe
the
poor
deeper the
In
efforts
more
wretch
the
in
the
he tries
more
they make to
quicksands who
to struggleout.
throw
it off, like
sinks in all the
it is sufficient to think a pain is going,

to feel it indeed
and
disappear little by little,
it
inversely,
is enough to think that one
suffers in order to feel the pain
begin to
I know
same
come
way
immediately.
certain
people who
predictin advance that they

will have a sick headache
certain day, in certain ciron
a
cumstanc
and on
that day, in the given circumstances,
sure
enough, they feel it. They brought their illness on
themselves, just as others cure
theirs by conscious
suggestion.
autoI know
that
generallypasses
for mad
in the eyes of
dares to put forward
one
ideas which it is not
accustomed
to hear.
Well, at the risk of being thought so,
I say that if certain people are
ill mentally and
the world
one
if
physically,
Of
course,
the thing
must
be in
12
our
power.
Self Mastery
it is that they
Conscious
Through
themselves
imagine
Autosuggestion
be
ill
mentally or
physically.If certain others are paralyticwithout having
for it,it is that they imagine themselves
any lesion to account
be
to
such persons
that
paralyzed,and it is among
the most
are
extraordinary cures
produced. If others
selves
again are happy or unhappy, it is that they imagine thembe
it
is
to
possiblefor two people in exactly
so, for
the same
circumstances
to be, the one
perfectlyhappy, the
other absolutelywretched.
Neurasthenia, stammering, aversions, kleptomania, certain
but
the
of
result
of
cases
are
conscious
unparalysis,
nothing
the
that
is
result
of
the
to
autosuggestion,
say
moral
action of the unconscious
the physical and
upon
being.
But if
ills,it can
mental
but
unconscious
our
also
bring
It
ailments.
real
cure
"Such
say,
have
you
the
alone
of
source
of
cure
our
avoid
to
eyes
for a
seat
room,
few
any
moments
our
physicaland
strong is its action

in
of
many
ill it has
only repairthe
not
can
mind
your
done,
our
upon
yourself in an j
distraction,and
on
thinking:
"Such
or
thing is going to disappear",
a
thing is coming to pass."
the autosuggestion,that is to
have
reallymade
and
and such
If you
about
illnesses,so
organism.
Shut yourself up
armchair, close your
concentrate
is the
to
if your
such
unconscious
presented
to
it,you
assimilated
has
are
astonished
to pass.
have thought come
of ideas autosuggestedto
and
we
can
only
know
the
to
idea that
see
the
you
thing
(Note
exist
of
that it is the property

within us
nized,
unrecog-
their
existence
by
the
they produce.) But above all,and this is an essential

be brought
into play in pracnot
point,the will must
tising autosuggestion; for, if it is not in agreement with j
thinks: "I will make
such and such
the imagination,if one
the
"You
will-t
are
imaginationsays:
a
thing happen", and
does
not
one
ing it, but it is not going to be", not only
but
the
is
even
reverse
obtain what
exactly
one
wants,
feroughtabout.
effect
13
results
unsatisfactorywhen,
so
are
ments,
treatingmoral ailIt is the training
will.
in
the
strives to re-educate
of the imagination which is necessary, and
method
of difference that my
this shade
one
others
where
have
failed.
made
daily
for
conclusions
1.
it is
always
exception.
2.
In
numerous
been
I have
summed
will and
the
ceeded
suc"
which
I have
the
able to deduct
up
as
laws
imagination are
wins,
imagination which
the
often
has
to
examined
following
antagonistic,
without
any
the will and the imagination,

of the imaginationis in direct ratio to the square
the
the force
of
those
I have
which
the
and
it is thanks
the least considered

not
experiments that I have
twenty years, and
care,
When
"
the
From
minute
with
explainswhy
is of capital importance, and
remark
This
Autosuggestion
Conscious
conflict between
the will.
3.
When
does
one
not
the will and

add
to
the
imaginationare in agreement,
the other, but one
is multipliedby the
other.
4.
The
imaginationcan be directed.
(The expressions"In direct ratio to the square of the
will"
and
"Is multipliedby" are
not
rigorously exact.
They are simply illustrations destined to make my meaning
clearer.)
After what has just been said it would
that nobody
seem
ever
ought to be ill. That is quitetrue.
Every illness,whatit may
be, can
yield to autosuggestion, daring and
I do not say does alunlikelyas my statement
ways
may
seem;
yield,but can yield,which is a different thing.
But in order to lead people to practiseconscious
suggestion
autobe taught how, just as
they must
they are
taught to read or write or play the piano.
Autosuggestion is, as I said above, an instrument that
we
we
possess at birth,and with which
play unconsciously
all our
life,as a baby plays with its rattle. It is however
a
dangerous instrument; it can wound
kill you if
or
even
handle it imprudently and
you
unconsciously.It can
on
the contrary save
know
how
to
your life when
you
employ
14
Autosuggestion
Conscious
upright,with the body as stiff as an iron bar, the

feet close together from
toe
to
heel, while keeping the
ankles flexible as if they were
hinges. Tell him to make
is balanced
himself like a plank with hinges at its base, which
if
him notice that
the ground. Make
one
on
pushes
the plank slightly
without any
either way
it falls as a mass
i
n
resistance, the direction in which it is pushed. Tell him
that you are going to pull him
back by the shoulders
and
stand
that
he
let himself
fall in your
arms
slightestresistance,turning on his ankles
that is to say keeping the feet fixed to the
must
without
as
on
the
hinges,
ground. Then
by the shoulders and if the experiment does
not
succeed, repeat it until it does, or nearlyso.
Second
experiment. Begin by explainingto the subject
that in order to demonstrate
the action of the imagination
are
to think:
going to ask him in a moment
us, you
upon
"I am
I
..."
am
fallingbackwards,
fallingbackwards
Tell him
that he must
have
no
thought but this in his
that
he
must
reflect or wonder
not
mind,
if he is going to
fall or not, or think that if he falls he may
hurt himself,
fall
back
etc., or
purposely to please you, but that if he
feels
really
something impellinghim to fall backwards,
he must
resist but obey the impulse.
not
Then
ask your subjectto raise the head high and to shut
his eyes, and place your
right fist on the back of his neck,
and your left hand on his forehead,and
say to him : "Now
think: I am
I
fallingbackwards,
am
fallingbackwards,
etc.
etc.,
and, indeed, "You
are
fallingbackwards,
You
fall
back
are
ing
wards, etc." At the
time slide the left hand lightlybackwards
same
to the left
temple, above the ear, and remove
very slowly but with a
continuous movement
the rightfist.
The
subject is immediatelyfelt to make a slightmovement
backwards, and either to stop himself from fallingor
else to fall completely. In the first
that he
case, tell him
has resisted,
and
that he did not think just that he
was
but that he might hurt himself if he did fall.
falling,
That
is true, for if he had not thought the
he would
latter,
have
pull him
back
"
"
...
...
...
..
16
Self Mastery Through Conscious

fallen like
block.
Repeat the experiment using a tone of

if you would
force the subject to obey you.
as
with it until it is completely successful or
very
command
Go
Autosuggestion
on
The
nearly so.
operator should stand a little behind the
subject,the left leg forward and the rightleg well behind
him, so as not to be knocked over
by the subjectwhen he
falls. Neglect of this precautionmight result in a double
fall if the person is heavy.
Third
experiment. Place the subject facing you, the
the ankles flexible,
and the feet joined and
body still stiff,
parallel.Put your two hands on his temples without any
look fixedly,without moving the eyelids,at the
pressure,
tell him to think: "I am
root of his nose, and
ward,
fallingforI am
and
..."
fallingforward
repeat to him,
"You
fall
are
stressingthe syllables,
ward,
ing for
You are fall
for
." without ceasing
ward
ing
to look fixedlyat him.
Fourth
experiment. Ask the subjectto clasp his hands
that is to say, until the fingerstremble
as
tightas possible,
in the preceding
look at him in the same
as
slightly,
way
his as
experiment and keep your hands on
though to
them togetherstillmore
tightly.Tell him to think
squeeze
that he cannot
unclasp his fingers,that you are going to
count
three, and that when
you
say "three" he is to try
while thinking all the time: "I canto separate his hands
not
do it
and he will find it imposdo it,I cannot
sible.
Then
count
very slowly,"one, two, three", and add
can
immediately,detaching the syllables:"You
"
"
"
not
do it
.
You
can
not
do
"
it
.
If the
do it",not only is
subjectis thinkingproperly,"I cannot
but the latter clasp themhe unable to separate his fingers,
selves
all the more
efforts he
tightlytogether the more
He
obtains in fact exactly the
makes
to separate them.
contrary
Now
to
what
think:
"I
he
In
wants.
can
few
do
it," and
to
keep
and
do
his
moments
say to him
fingerswill separate
themselves.
careful
always
of the subject's
nose,
Be
eyes fixed on
allow him to turn
your
not
17
the
root
his eyes

from
away
for
yours
Autosuggestion
Conscious
If
singlemoment.
he
is able
to
fault, it is
unclasp his hands, do not think it is your own
the subject's,
he has
not
properly thought: "I cannot".
Assure him firmlyof this,and begin the experiment again.
Always
use
do
not
which
that
mean
suffers
it is necessary
obedienc
dis-
no
raise
to
contrary it is preferableto employ the
the
voice; on
your
command
of
tone
ordinary pitch,but
stress
every
word
in
and
dry
perative
im-
tone.
these
When
others
succeed
carrying out
Some
and
experiments have
equallywell and
to
the
letter
been
successful, all the
be
easilyobtained
the instructions given above.
can
subjectsare
them
by
limbs
is
and it is easy to recogvery sensitive,

nize
fact that the contraction of their fingers
the
easilyproduced. After two

experiments,it is no longer necessary
"Think
or
to
three
"think that" ; You

need only, for
simply but in the imperative tone
them
say
by
all
cannot
"
good suggestionists"Close
"
them".
open
and
them,"
the
to
open
Tell him
in
the
hands
a
"Shut
few
or
your
ful
success-
example,
employed
hands;
your
eyes;
now
them:
to
say
this",or
to
open
by
you
now
you
cannot
subject finds it absolutelyimpossible

the eyes in spite of all his efforts.
moments
"You
can
do it now,"
and
the
de-contraction takes place instantaneously.

These
a
few
that
experiments
more
they
:
are
Make
welded
can
be
varied
to
infinity.Here
are
the
subjectjoin his hands, and suggest

together;make him put his hand on
the table,and suggest that it is stuck to it; tell him

that
he is fixed to his chair and cannot
rise ; make
him rise,and
tell him he cannot
walk; put a penholder on the table and
tell him
that it
weighs
hundredweight,and
that he
not
can-
lift it,etc., etc.

In
all these
experiments,I cannot
repeat too often, it is
not
suggestion properly so-called which produces the phenomena,
but the autosuggestionwhich is consecutive to the
suggestionof the operator.
18
Autosuggestion

METHOD
IN
PROCEDURE
OF
CURATIVE
SUGGESTION
When
periments
subjecthas passed through the preceding exand has understood
them, he is ripe for curativesuggestion. He is like a cultivated field in which the seed
but
before
it was
can
germinate and develop, whereas
rough earth in which it would have perished.
it
Whatever
ailment the subject suffers from, whether
is physicalor mental, it is important to proceed always in
the
the
same
way,
and
to
use
the
same
words
with
few
ations
vari-
the
am
case.
according to
the
down
"Sit
Say to
subject:
not going to try and put you
and
close your
to sleepas it is
eyes.
necessary.
quiteun-
to close your
you
eyes simply in order
that your
attention
be distracted by the objects
not
may
around
tell yourselfthat every
I say is
Now
word
you.
going to fix itself in your mind, and be printed,engraved,
I ask
and
encrusted
in
imprinted, and
knowledge,
in
it,that, there, it is going
encrusted, and
that
to
without
stay fixed,
your
fact
will
or
perfectlyunconsciously
part,
your
whole
to
are
organism
going
obey.
you
your
In the first place I say that every day, three times a day,
in the morning, at midday, and in the evening,
at the usual
meal times, you will feel hungry, that is to say, you will
experience the agreeablesensation which makes you think
nice it will be to have something to
how
and say: "Oh!
You
will then eat and enjoy your food, without of
eat!"
course
overeating. You will also be careful to masticate
on
yourselfand
it
properlyso
as
to
transform
it into
of soft paste
will digest
you
sort
swallowing it. In these conditions

feel no
it properly,and
discomfort, inconvenience,or
so
intestines. You
or
pain of any kind either in the stomach
will assimilate what you eat and your organism will make
of it to make
blood, muscle, strengthand energy, in a
use
before
word:
Life.
Since
function
will have
digested your food properly, the
you
excretion
will
be normal, and every morning,
of
19
Autosuggestion

will feel the need
rising,you
on
and
without
evacuating the bowels,
of
being obligedto take medicine
ever
will
you
any artifice,
result.
obtain
the
night from
Further, every
time
you
to
use
satisfactory
and
normal
or
wish
to
go
to
steep till the time you wish to wake next morning, you
without
nightmares,
will sleep deeply,calmly, and quietly,
and
cheerful,
and on
waking you will feel perfectlywell,
active.
Likewise, if you
from
suffer
occasionally
if
depression,
gloomy and prone to worry and look on the dark

you are
to do so,
onwards
side of things,from now
you will cease
and, instead of worrying and being depressedand looking
going to feel perfectly
the dark side of things,you are
on
for it, just
cheerful,possiblywithout any specialreason
you
as
used
further
worried and
say
If you
are
to
feel depressed for
that
still,
even
depressedyou
also
if you
are
not
no
reason.
particular
real
have
going to be
reason
to
be
so.
subjectto occasional fits of impatience
them:
the contrary
to have
on
ill-temper
you will cease
of yourself,
and the
you will be always patientand master
forth
thingswhich worried, annoyed, or irritated you, will henceleave you absolutelyindifferent and perfectlycalm.
If you are sometimes attacked,pursued, haunted, by bad
and unwholesome
ideas,by apprehensions,fears,aversions,
temptations,or grudges against other people,all that will
and
will
be graduallylost sight of by your
imagination,
lose itself as
and
melt away
though in a distant cloud
it will finally
where
disappear completely. As a dream
vanishes
when
appear.
wake, so will all these vain images diswe
or
To
this I add
functions
that all your organs

are
properly. The heart beats in
performing their
normal
and
way
place as it should; the
a
the circulation of the blood takes

lungs are carryingout their functions,as also the stomach,
the intestines,the liver,the biliary
duct, the kidneys and
If at the present moment
the bladder.
any of them is act20
Conscious
Autosuggestion
ing abnormally,that abnormalityis becoming less every day,

that quite soon
it will have vanished
so
completely,and
the
will have
if there should
organ
recovered
its normal
lesions in any
function.
ther,
Fur-
be any
of these organs,
be entirely
they will get better from day to day and will soon
I
healed.
it
is
that
(With regard to this, may say
which organ
not
is affected for it to be
to know
necessary
cured.
the influence of the autosuggestion"Every
Under
day, in every respect, I am gettingbetter and better",the
unconscious
acts
the
upon
organ
which
it
pick
can
out
itself.)
I must
also add
"
and
it is
extremely important
"
that
if
have lacked confidence in yourself,

up to the present you
I tell you that this self-distrust will disappearlittleby little
and
based
give place to self-confidence,
of this force of incalculable power
It is
us.
have
which
for every
Without
it one
absolutelynecessary
this
confidence.
nothing, with
it
the knowledge
is in each one
of
on
human
can
being to
accomplish
whatever
one
likes,
accomplish
You
of
then
have
to
are
(within reason,
going
course).
the
confidence
in yourself,
and this confidence gives you
that you
assurance
are
capable of accomplishingperfectly
well whatever
wish
that it is
to
do, on condition
you
reasonable, and whatever it is your duty to do.
one
can
"
"
something reasonable,or when

have a duty to perform, always think that it is easy,
you
and make
the words
difficult,
impossible,I cannot, it is
disappear
prevent myself from....,
stronger than I, I cannot
from
not
is
are
vocabulary; they
English. What
your
By consideringthe
English is: "It is easy and I can".
for you, although it might seem
so
thing easy it becomes
You
will do it quickly and well, and
difficult to others.
without
fatigue,because you do it without effort,whereas
if you had considered it as difficult or impossibleit would
for you, simply because
would
have
have become
so
you
So
when
thought it
To
you
wish
to
do
so.
these
general suggestionswhich
21
will
perhaps
seem
Autosuggestion

long and
childish
even
must
necessary,
to
added
be
of
some
which
those
apply
dealingwith.
of the
which
but
you,
the
to
are
ticular
par-
patientyou are
All these suggestionsmust
in a monotonous
be made
and
soothing voice
(always emphasizing the essential
ject
words), which althoughit does not actuallysend the suband
least
makes
him
feel
to sleep,at
think of
drowsy,
in
nothing particular.
case
When
have
you
address
the
to
come
end
of
the
series of
gestions
sug-
"In short,
subjectin these terms:
you
I mean
that from
point of view, physical as well
every
as
mental, you are going to enjoy excellent health, better
health than that you
have been able to enjoy up to the
I am
present. Now
going to count three, and when I say
"Three",
the
will open
your
in which you are
you
passivestate
it quite naturally,
without
eyes
fit in every
word
"three"
smile
and
"ONE"
way.
out
come
You
of
the
will
out of
come
in
the
least
feeling
drowsy or
will feel strong, vigorous,alert,
now.
tired,on the contrary, you

active,full of life;further still,
you
and
and
TWO"
will feel very cheerful

"
THREE"
At the
the
subjectopens his eyes, always with

expression of well-beingand contentment
an
a
on
his face.
Sometimes,
"
though rarely, the patient is

"
other
times, and this is more

he finds himself relieved,his pain or
spot;
at
cured
partiallyor totally
disappeared,
though only for
of
time.
lapse
In
more
every
or
careful
no
case
it is necessary
the
renew
the
certain
suggestions
less
frequentlyaccordingto your subject,being

always to space them out at longer and longer intervals,
according to the progress obtained until they are

that is to say when
longer necessary,
the cure
is complete.
"
Before
sending away
that he carries within
can
to
on
generallythe case,
his depression has
cure
himself, and
your
him
patient,you
must
tell him
which
he
the instrument
by
that you are. as it were,
only
22
pro-
Conscious
Autosuggestion
Formerly, imagining that suggestionscould only be given
during sleep,I always tried'to put my patientto sleep;

I left off
not
indispensable,
on
discoveringthat it was
it in order
to
him
spare
ing
do-
he
dread and uneasiness
he is told that he is going
him
often makes
offer,in
the
always experienceswhen
almost
but
sleep,and which
trary,
spiteof himself,an involuntaryresistance. If, on the connot
tell him
that you are
going to put him to
you
sleepas there is no need to do so, you gain his confidence.
ulterior thought,
fear or
without
He
listens to you
any
and it often happens if not the first time, anyhow very
of your
sound
soon
that, soothed by the monotonous
which
he awakes
voice, he falls into a deep sleep from
astonished at having sleptat all.
be
to
sent
to
"
"
If
there
and
there
are
"
see
scepticsamong
are
you
all I have to say to them

is being done, and
what
"
as
is : "Come
you
quite sure
am
to
will be
my
house
convinced
fact."
by
You
must
however
not
run
away
with
the idea that suggestion

autoin the way
I have
only be brought about

It is possibleto make
described.
suggestionsto people
without
their knowledge and
without
preparation.
any
For
instance,if a doctor who
by his title alone has a
suggestiveinfluence on his patient,tells him that he can
do nothing for him, and that his illness is incurable,he
provokes in the mind of the latter an autosuggestionwhich
can
have
may
the
he tells him
that
with
sometimes
disastrous
most
that his illness is
time, and
care,
and
often
even
consequences;
if however
it is true, but
serious one,
be
patience,he can
obtains results which
a
cured, he
will
prise
sur-
him.
Here
his
is another
writes
patient,
comment,
any
chance
of
much
to
taken
his
in such
example: if a doctor after examining

and gives it to him without
prescription
the
remedies
prescribed will not have

succeeding;if, on the other hand, he explains
patientthat
and
such
such
and
conditions
24
such
and
medicines
be
must
that they will pro-

duce
certain
to be
results,those
brought about.
results
Autosuggestion
practicallycertain
are
If in this hall there are medical men

brother chemists,
or
I hope they will not think me
I am
their enemy.
the
on
hand I should like
contrary their best friend. On the one
to
the theoretical and
see
the
syllabusof
practicalstudy of suggestionon
for the great benefit of

of the doctors themselves; and on
the other
opinion,every time that a patientgoes to see
the sick and
hand, in my
the medical
schools
his doctor, the latter should order him one

several
even
or
if they are
As a matter
of
not
medicines, even
necessary.
fact,when a patientvisits his doctor, it is in order to be
medicine
told
what
that
it is the
him.
cure
He
hygiene and regimen which

little importance to them.
It is
attaches
he
will
does
do
a
not
realize
this,and
medicine
he
that
wants.
without
opinion,if the doctor only prescribesa regimen

he
medicine, his patientwill be dissatisfied;
any
will say
that
In
my
and
his
often
that
then
goes
doctor
the
patient,and,
himself
by
took
he
rather
trouble
another
to
should
much
than
as
to
consult
doctor.
It
him
seems
ing,
for nothto
always prescribemedicines
possible,medicines made
the standard
remedies
which
owe
doctor's
HOW
their
me
to
up
much
vertised
adment.
the advertiseso
only value to
The
finitel
own
prescriptionswill inspire inconfidence than So and So's pillswhich anymore
one
the
nearest
without
at
store
drug
can
easily
procure
need of a prescription.
and
any
as
the
SUGGESTION
WORKS
properly the part played by suggestion

rather by autosuggestion,
it is enough to know
or
that the unconscious
self is the grand director of all our
this believed,as I said above, that a certain
functions. Make
does not function well must
which
perform its
organ
function, and instantlythe order is transmitted. The orIn
order
to
understand
25
Autosuggestion
Conscious
Through
Self Mastery
little by little
and either at once
or
obeys with docility,
This explains
performs its functions in a normal manner.
of suggestionone
can
by means
simply and clearlyhow
fibrous tumours
cause
constipation,
stop haemorrhages, cure
to
paralysis,tubercular lesions, varicose,
disappear, cure
gan
ulcers, etc.
of dental haemorrhage
example, a case
I had the opportunity of observing in the consulting
which
of M.
Gauthe, a dentist at Troyes. A young
room
lady
from
herself
of
whom
I had
asthma
which
helped to cure
she had suffered
for eight years, told me
one
day that she
Let
wanted
for
take
us
have
to
sensitive,I offered
tooth
As
out.
dentist.
In
instant
an
her
her
to
be
very
nothing of the operation.

She naturallyaccepted with pleasure and we
made
an
appointment with the dentist. On the day we had arranged
ing
we
presented ourselves at the dentist's and, standopposite my patient,I looked fixedlyat her, saying:
"You
feel nothing, you
feel nothing, etc., etc." and then
while still continuing the suggestion I made
a
sign to the
to
make
I knew
the
feel
tooth
out
was
without
Mile.
turning a hair. As fairlyoften happens, a

haemorrhage followed, but I told the dentist that I would
his using a
try suggestion without
haemostatic, without
what
would
knowing beforehand
happen. I then asked
Mile. D. to look at me
and I suggested to her that
fixedly,
in two
minutes
the haemorrhage would
of its own
cease
waited.
The
accord, and we
patientspat blood again once
I told her to
or
twice, and then ceased.
her mouth,
open
and
both
we
formed
looked
and
found
that
clot of
blood
had
in the dental
How
is this
cavity.
phenomenon to be explained? In the simplest
Under
the
influence
of
the
idea:
"The
rhage
haemoris to stop",the unconscious
had sent to the small arteries
and veins the order to
the
flow
of blood, and,
stop
obediently,they contracted naturally,as they would
have
done
at
the
contact
of
artificially
haemostatic
like adrea
nalin,
way.
for
The
same
example.
reasoning explains how
fibrous tumour
can
Autosuggestion
having accepted
disappear. The unconscious
the idea "It is to go" the brain orders the arteries which
nourish it, to contract.
ices,
They do so, refusing their servand ceasing to nourish the tumour
which, deprived of
nourishment, dies,dries up, is reabsorbed and disappears.
be
made
THE
to
OF
USE
MORAL
SUGGESTION
AILMENTS
FOR
AND
CONGENITAL
OR
OF
CURE
THE
EITHER
TAINTS
ACQUIRED
Neurasthenia, so common
nowadays, generallyyieldsto
suggestionconstantlypractisedin the way I have indicated.
of a
I have
had the happiness of contributingto the cure
other
whom
with
of neurasthenics
large number
every
failed.
had
treatment
month
in
One
of
specialestablishment
obtaining any
improvement.
In
had
them
six weeks
he
Neither
is he
and
does
how
pletely
com-
was
would
one
able.
miser-
most
likelyto fall ill again in
the
of conscious
make
use
well.
it marvelously
him
for I showed
way,
ever
to
without
Luxemburg
at
the happiest man

cured, and he is now
the
to find, after having thought himself
wish
spent
even
same
suggestion
auto-
suggestionis useful in treatingmoral complaints

it not render
still greater servand physicalailments, may
ices
to
society,in turning into honest folks the wretched
children who
people our reformatories and who only leave
if
But
the army
of crime.
impossible. The remedy exists and
them
I
to
will
enter
quote
the
two
Let
I
can
following cases
no
one
prove
tell
me
it is
it.
which
are
very
in
remarks
but here I must

insert a few
characteristic,
in which
understand
the way
parenthesis. To make
you
of moral taints I will use
suggestionacts in the treatment
brain is a plank
the following comparison. Suppose our
driven nails which represent the ideas,habits,
in which are
find that
actions. If we
which determine our
and instincts,
stinct,
there exists in a subjecta bad idea, a bad habit,a bad inis
bad nail,we
take another which
it were,
a
as
"
27
Autosuggestion
Conscious
good idea, habit,or instinct,place it on top of the bad

in other words
and
we
one
give a tap with a hammer
in
will
be
driven
The
nail
make
a
new
suggestion.
haps
perthe
"
out
to
the
that
the
blows,
in
same
the
and
with
come
the hammer,
one
will
the other will be driven

a
certain
number
of
placed
completely and be rethis substitution has been
When
one.
will
one
suggestion,the
until, after
amount,
old nail will come
out
new
old
fresh blow
fresh
each
fraction further
the
by
each
At
at
say
the
inch, while
an
extent.
same
is to
be driven
out
of
fraction
the individual
made,
obeys it.
Let us return
to our
examples. Little M
a
child of eleven livingat Troyes, was
and
subjectnight
day
to certain accidents inherent to early infancy. He
also
was
a
gain.
kleptomaniac,and, of course, untruthful into the barAt his mother's request I treated him by suggestion.
After the first visit the accidents ceased by day, but continued
at night. Little by littlethey became
less frequent,
and finally,
few
months
the
a
child was
afterwards,
pletely
comIn the same
cured.
his
period
thieving propensities
had
lessened,and in six months
ceased.
they
entirely
This
child's brother, aged eighteen, had
conceived
a
violent hatred againstanother
of his brothers. Every time
that he had taken a littletoo much
wine, he felt impelled
,
to
draw
day
or
knife and
other he would
a
time
same
I treated
stab his brother.

end
by doing so,
He
and
that
him
felt that
one
he knew at the
be inconsolable.
having done so he would

also by suggestion,and the result
was
velous.
mar-
After
the
first treatment
he was
His
cured.
hatred
for his brother
had
and
disappeared,
they have
since become
good friends and got on capitally
together.
I followed up the case
for a long time, and the
cure
permanent.
Since such
would
"to
it not
take
J atones?
results are
be beneficial
to
be
obtained
might
by
was
suggestion,
indispensable
even
say
and introduce it into our
up this method
reformI am
convinced
that if suggestionwere
absolutely
"
[daily applied to vicious children, more

28
than
SO
per
cent
Troyes, paralyzed for
Autosuggestion
Conscious

two
years as
spinalcolumn
the
result of
injuries
and
the pelvis. The
junctionof the
paralysisis only in the lower limbs, in which the circulation
swollen,
ceased, making them
of the blood has practically
including
Several treatments,
congested, and discolored.
inary
Prelimhave been tried without success.
the antisyphilitic,
experiments successful; suggestionapplied by me,
and autosuggestionby the patientfor eight days. At the
the
at
end
of this time
there
is
almost
an
but
imperceptible
still
leg. Renewed
tion.
suggesIn eightdays the improvement is noticeable.
Every
week
or
fortnightthere is an increased improvement with
Eleven
progressivelesseningof the swelling,and so on.
of
appreciablemovement
afterwards,
months
the
first of
the
on
left
November,
1906, the
and walks 800 yards, and in

of July, 1907, goes back to the factory where
the month
since that time, with no
he has continued to work
of
trace
patientgoes
downstairs
alone
paralysis.
M.
G
,
from
enteritis,for
tried in vain.
He
Troyes, has
livingat
which
different
is also in
long suffered
have
treatments
bad
been
mentally,
obsessed
being depressed, gloomy,
by
of
suicide.
lowed
thoughts
Preliminary experiments easy, folby suggestionwhich produces an appreciableresult
from the very day. For three months, dailysuggestionsto
begin with, then at increasinglylonger intervals. At the
end of this time, the cure
is complete,the enteritis has disappeared
a
very
state
unsociable, and
and
his morals
have
become
excellent.
As the
dates back twelve years without
the shadow
cure
of a relapse,
it may
be considered as permanent.
M. G
is a
be produced by
strikingexample of the effects that can
suggestion,or rather by autosuggestion. At the same
time as I made
suggestionsto him from the physicalpoint
,
of view, I also did so from

the mental, and
he accepted
both suggestions equallywell. Every day his confidence in
himself
excellent workman, in
increased,and as he was
an
order
to earn
he looked out for a machine
more,
which
would
enable him to work
at home
for his employer. A
30

littlelater
what
turn
factory owner
good
workman
he
desired.
machine
out
Conscious
much
having
he
more
was,
Autosuggestion
seen
with
his
him
with
entrusted
Thanks
to
than
ordinary workman,
an
his skill he
employer, delightedwith the result,gave

machine, until M.
yet another
would
have
remained
him
own
eyes
the very
able to
and his
was
another
who, but for

ordinary workman,
suggestion,
is now
an
and
some
charge of six machines which bring him a very handprofit.
D
30 years of age.
Mme.
at Troyes, about
She is
thinner
in the last stages of consumption, and grows
daily
She suffers from
in spiteof specialnourishment.
ing
coughin breathing;in fact,
and has difficulty
and spitting,
she has only a few months
from
all appearances
to live.
and sugPreliminaryexperiments show great sensitiveness,
gestion
the
is followed by immediate
improvement. From
next
day the morbid
symptoms begin to lessen. Every day
in
the
more
marked, the patient rapimprovement becomes
idly
takes
flesh, although she no
longer
special
puts on
In
nourishment.
complete. This
1911,
Troyes,
she
I
was
have
to
person
that is to
thank
me
months
few
and
wrote
say
to
to
the
me
on
eight months
tell
me
is
cure
the
apparently
uary,
Jan-
1st of
after
had
left
that, although pregnant,
perfectlywell.
purposely
chosen
these
cases
dating
some
time
show that the cures

are
permanent, but I
recent
ones.
should like to add a few more
Luneville.
Office
clerk
Post
at
X
M.
Having lost
of his children in January, 1910, the trouble produces
one
itself by
which
manifests
cerebral disturbance
in him
a
back, in order
to
trembling. His uncle brings him

lowed
of June. Preliminaryexperiments folin the month
to me
the patient
by suggestion. Four days afterwards
that the trembling has disappeared. I
returns
to tell me
in eightdays.
the suggestionand tell him to return
renew
then three weeks, then a month,
A week, then a fortnight,
of him.
Shortly
hearing any more
my
pass by without
has
that
he
and
tells
me
just
his uncle comes
afterwards
uncontrollable
nervous
31

had
his
letter from
Autosuggestion
Conscious
nephew,
who
is
well.
perfectly
He
which he had
again his work as telegraphist
been
obliged to give up, and the day before, he had sent
the least difficulty.
without
off a telegram of 170 words
off an
sent
in his letter,have
could easily,he added
He
Since then he has had no relapse.
longer one.
even
for
of Nancy, has suffered from neurasthenia
M. Y
orders
fears, and dishas aversions,nervous
He
several years.
sleepsbadly, is
of the stomach and intestines. He
gloomy and is haunted by ideas of suicide; he staggers
taken
has
on
think of
and
can
like a drunken
walks
man,
failed and
have
nothing but his trouble. All treatments
nursing home
and worse
he gets worse
; a stay in a special
M. Y
effect whatever.
comes
has no
for such cases
he
when
beginning of October, 1910. Preliminary

I explain to the patient
experiments comparativelyeasy.
and the existence within
of autosuggestion,
the principles
and
the unconscious
self, and then
of the conscious
us
three days
two
or
the required suggestion. For
make
I have
with the explanations
has a littledifficulty
M. Y
given him. In a short time lightbreaks in upon his mind,
the suggestion,
the whole
and he grasps
thing. I renew
it himself too every day. The improvement,
and he- makes
to
see
which
in
who
men,
M.
ankle
me
the
at
and more
is at first slow, becomes
more
rapid,and
is complete. The ex-invalid
and a half the cure
month
of
himself the most
wretched
had latelyconsidered
now
thinks himself
of
the
Troyes.
and
is inflamed
happiest.
An
attack
painful,and
of
he
gout;
the
is unable
to
right
walk.
sitive
preliminaryexperiments show him to be a very senhe is able to regain,
subject. After the first treatment
without
the help of his stick, the carriage which
brought him, and the pain has ceased. The next day he
The
does
not
wife
comes
had
return
as
alone
I had
and
told him
tells me
to
do.
that that
Afterwards
his
band
morning her hus-
his shoes, and gone

off on
his
bicycleto visit his yards (he is a painter). It is needless
I was
to tell you my
utter astonishment.
not able to follow
got up,
put
on
32

this case, as
again, but
up
me
had
no
Mme.
the
Conscious
patientnever
time
some
Autosuggestion
deigned to
afterward
come
heard
that
and
see
he
had
relapse.
T
of
Nancy. Neurasthenia, dyspepsia,gasand pains in different parts of the body.

tralgia,enteritis,
She has treated herself for several years with a negative
I treat
her by suggestion,and
result.
she makes
suggestions
autofor herself every
the first day
day. From
there is a noticeable improvement which
continues without
has long
this person
interruption.At the present moment
been cured mentallyand physically,
and follows no regimen.
She thinks that she still has perhaps
a
teritis,
slighttouch of en,
but
Mme.
she
is not sure.
sister of
a
Mme.
stays in bed
she
Acute
fortnightevery
month,
thenia;
neurasas
it is
or
work; she suffers
totallyimpossible for her to move
from
lack of appetite,
depression,and digestivedisorders.
She
is cured
she has
as
Mme.
by
one
had
at
visit,and
no
the
cure
seems
to
be
manent
per-
relapse.
Maxeville.
the left
on
General
eczema,
which
is
leg. Both legs are inflamed,

all at the ankles; walking is difficult and
above
painful.
H
I treat her by suggestion. That
same
evening Mme.
several hundred
is able to walk
yards without fatigue.
The
day after the feet and ankles are no longer swollen
swollen again since. The
appears
disbeen
and
have
eczema
not
rapidly.
Pains in the kidneys and
P
Mme.
at Laneuveville.
severe
particularly
the
knees.
illness dates
The
from
is
years back and
and
Suggestion from
me,
ten
day.
becoming worse
every
mediate
The
herself.
from
improvement is imautosuggestion
is obtained
and increases progressively.The
cure
rapidly,and is a permanent one.
of Nancy, felt ill in January, 1910, with
Z
Mme.
congestionof the hangs, from which she had not recovered
later. She suffers from generalweakness, loss
months
two
and difficult bowel
bad digestivetrouble, rare
of appetite,
action,insomnia, copious night-sweats.After the first sug,
S3
gestion,the patientfeels
and
she returns
tells
much
days later
quite well. Every
better, and
that she
me
Autosuggestion
Conscious
feels
two
disappeared,and all the organs

four times
she had
or
functioning normally. Three
the point of sweating, but each time prevented
on
of
conscious
this
the use
autosuggestion. From
Z
has enjoyed perfectlygood health.
Mme.
illness has
of
trace
M.
Belfort,
at
,
minutes
or
quarter of
vocal
confirms
him
without
doctors
but
for
of
more
by
time
than
becoming
consulted
it
ten
pletely
com-
find
no
them
one
says that M.
o
f
the
and
this consenility
larynx,
clusion
in the belief that he is incurable. He
organs,
suffers from
hour
an
Different
aphonous.
lesion in the
talk
cannot
are
been
spend his holidaysat Nancy, and a lady of my

and see me.
He
refuses
acquaintanceadvises him to come
in spite of his absolute
at
first,but eventuallyconsents
disbelief in the effects of suggestion. I treat him
in this
nevertheless, and ask him to return
wards.
two
way
days afterHe comes
back on the appointed day, and tells me
that the day before
he was
able to converse
the whole
afternoon
without
becoming aphonous. Two
days later
he returns
to
that
his
trouble
had not reappeared,
again
say
although he had not only conversed a great deal but even
The cure
stillholds good and I am
sung the day before.
convinced
that it will always do so.
Before closing,
I should like to
the
on
say a few words
of my method
to the training
application
and correction of
.ehildren by their parents.
J The latter should wait until the child is
asleep,and then
to
comes
of
them
from
should
his room
enter
with precaution, stop
his
and
yard
bed,
repeat 15 or 20 times in a murmur
all the thingsthey wish to obtain from the
child,from
the point of view of health, work,
sleep,application,
conduct,
He should then retire as he
etc.
/ one
a
taking great
extremely simple process
came,
care
not
gives
awake
the best
to
why.
conscious
self
When
are
the child.
This
possibleresults,and it is easy to understand

the child is asleep his body and
his
at rest
and, as it were,
34
annihilated ; his
un-

conscious
speaks,and
that
one
one
says
child
him
self however
it without
to
arrives at
; it is then to the latter alone
is awake
it is very
as
credulous
it
accepts what
the
that, little by little,
dispute,so
making
Autosuggestion
of himself
his parents desire
what
be.
to
CONCLUSION
What
conclusion
The
a
few
conclusion
words:
prejudicialto
conscious
and
and
escape,
relative
may
wise
handle
we
If
us.
allows
from
within
possess
which, when
power,
to
We
is to be drawn
from all this?
be expressed in
is very simple and can
the
on
us
not
force of incalculable
unconsciously is
gives us
we
direct
the mastery
often
it in
of
selves
our-
and to aid others

escape
mental
ills,but also to live in
only
physicaland
it
contrary
it
manner,
us
whatever
happiness,
to
the
conditions
in
which
we
find ourselves.
Lastly,and above all,it should be applied to the moral

from
the right
regenerationof those who have wandered
path.
EMILE
3S
COUE.
COUE
EMILE
taken
Do
down
have, for if you
time
your
have
in
real
no
LEON,
Emile
Mme.
literallyby
spend
not
OF
PRECEPTS
AND
THOUGHTS
thinking
ones
you
his
disciple.
illness you might

will create
artificial
of
ones.
rally,
autosuggestions,do it natuall without
simply, with conviction, and above
any
If
and
bad
unconscious
so
autosuggestions are
effort.
made
without
effort.
it
is
because
often realized,
they are
When
you
make
conscious
Be
that
sure
will obtain
you
it,so
will
long
what
obtain
it is within
as
and
want,
you
you
reason.
*
*
To
become
of
master
oneself
it is
is
Your
hands
becoming so...
tell yourself that all that is
by little it will disappear. It is not
that you must
have
confidence, for
one
that dwells
consists in
the
force
which
teaching you
to
can
cure
make
think
enough to
tremble, your
going to cease,
use
in
me
it is
but
that
ter,
steps faland
little
in
yourself
in yourself alone
My part simply
you.
of that force.
Never
will
discuss
only
Things
natural
make
which
cause;
things you know

yourself ridiculous.
seem
if
they
miraculous
nothing about,
to
you
have
extraordinary
seem
36
it is
or
you
perfectly
only be-
Thoughts
We
what
are
make
and
make
we
ourselves
and
not
what
stances
circum-
us.
Whoever
Coue
Emile
M.
Precepts of
starts
off in
life with
the
idea:
"I
shall
ceed",
suc-
sary
always does succeed because he does what is necesthis result. If only one
to bring about
opportunity
if
itself
and
this
to
him,
opportunityhas, as it
presents
only one hair on its head, he seizes it by that one
were,
hair. Further, he often brings about unconsciously
or
not,
circumstances.
propitious
He
who
the contrary always doubts
on
himself, never
succeeds
in doing anything. He
find
himself in the
might
midst
of an
of opportunities
with heads of hair like
army
them
could not
Absalom, and yet he would
and
not
see
seize a singleone, even
if he had only to stretch out his
hand
in order to do so.
And
if he brings about circumstances,
unfavorable
are
Do not then
they
generally
ones.
blame fate,you have only yourself to blame.
People
always preaching the doctrine of effort,but

this idea must
be repudiated. Effort means
will,and will
the possible entrance
of the imagination in opposimeans
tion,
and the bringing about of the exactly
contrary result
to
are
the desired
one.
*
Always think that what

In
this state
strengththan
your
it difficult,
you
than
you
need
will
of
have
you
mind
you
to
do
will not
is easy, if possible.
spend
just what is necessary; if you

spend ten, twenty times more
; in other
words
you
Autosuggestionis
an
will waste
more
of
consider
strength
it.
instrument
38
which
you
have
to
Thoughts
learn
how
to
An
and
just as
use
excellent
results,but
wretched
the
faith,
with
within
reason.
gun
the
Emile
Cove
for any other instrument.

you would
in inexperiencedhands only gives
skilled the
more
easilythey place the
more
Conscious
Precepts of M.
autosuggestion,made
bullets
come,
be-
hands
in the
target.
confidence, with
with
realizes
perseverance,
same
itself
mathematically,
results
people do not obtain satisfactory
dence,
with
autosuggestion,it is either because they lack confibecause
is the
efforts, which
or
they make
To make
lutely
more
good suggestions it is absofrequent case.
it zaithout effort. The
latter implies
to do
necessary
be entirelyput aside. One
the use
of the will,which
must
have recourse
must
exclusivelyto the imagination.
certain
When
Many
people who
have
taken
care
of
their health
all
be immediately
they can
cured
by autosuggestion. It is a mistake, for it is not
It is no
reasonable to think so.
use
expecting from suggestion
that
is
than it can
to
more
normally produce,
say, a
little by little transforms
progressive improvement which
that is possible.
itself into a complete cure, when
life in
their
vain, imagine that
*
*
The
means
healers all go back to

that these methods, whatever
employed by
that is
to
say
the
incantations,gestures, staging,all
the patientthe autosuggestionof recovery.
are,
words,
39
suggestion,
auto-
they
produce in
Thoughts
and
Every illness has

mental
one
and
comes
illness the
on
attaches
M.
Emile
aspects unless
two
Indeed,
one.
Precepts of
Coue
it is
a
exclusively
physical illness a mental

itself. If we
give to the physical
every
coefficient 1, the
mental
illness may
have
the
In many
coefficient 1, 2, 10, 20, 50, 100, and more.
cases
if its coefficient is
this can
and
disappearinstantaneously,
for
a
instance,while that of the physical
very high one, 100
is
ailment
1, only this latter is left,a 101st of the total
illness;such
thing is called
nothing miraculous
about
miracle, and
is
yet there
it.
*
Contrary to
far
Buffon
opinion,physicaldiseases
common
easilycured
more
used
than mental
are
ones.
man."
We
"Style
say:
in
that
"Man
is
what
:
he
thinks".
put
The fear of
is almost certain to cause
in the same
failure,
way
idea of success
and
enables one
brings success,
is the
to
erally
gen-
would
failure
as
the
always
surmount
the obstacles that may
Conviction
is
be met
to
with,
ject.
necessary to the suggester as to his subIt is this conviction,this faith,which
enables him to
obtain results where all other means
have failed.
as
It is not
the person
who
acts, it is the method.

*
*
Contrary to general opinion, suggestion, or autosuggestion

can
bring about the cure of organic lesions.
believed that hypnotism could"
Formerly it was
only be
applied to the tretament
of nervous
its domain
illnesses;
...
40
Latest PortraitStudy of Emile Coue
Thoughts
is far
and
greater than
Precepts of
M.
Coue
Emile
nervous
It is true that hypnotism acts

the intermediaryof the nervous
system; but the
dominates
the
whole
organism. The
system
muscles
are
through
set
that.
regulatethe circulation by
and by their action on
the
The
nerves
their
intermediation
by
affected.
contract.
or
President
of
the
the
by
movement
their direct action

blood
all the
on
unhealthy
Docteur
universelle
(Bull.No.
organs,
Paul
and
be
may
organs
Joire,
psychiques
d'Etudes
4 of the S. L.
nerves
the heart,
they dilate
on
vessels which
then
act
all the
Societe
the
nerves;
P.)
influence has
Moral
...
healing.
It is
very wrong
of human
factor
considerable
value
of the first order
as
which
help
it would
in
be
neglect,since in medicine as in every branch

activityit is the spiritualforces which lead the
to
Docteur
world.
Lecturing professor at
and
doctor
the
at
Louis
Renon,
Medicine
Faculty of
of Paris,
Hospital.
the Necker
*
*
C...
principleof autosug-j
and in spiteof everything,even
J
it.
to justify
J
sight of
gestion:Optimism always
Never
when
events
lose
do
not
seem
the
great
Rene
(Bull.11
de
Drabois,
of the S. L. P.
A.)
Suggestionsustained by
faith is
Docteur
41
A.
formidable
force.
L., Paris, (July,1920.)
Thoughts
To
must
order
wish
have
walk
and
with
to
the
Precepts of
inspire
to
possess
for the good
"Culture
and
this
assurance
of
others
de
la Force
more
"
Emile
unalterable
of
assurance
M.
Coue
confidence,
one
and
perfect sincerity,
and
than
sincerity,one
one's
own.
Morale", by C. Baudouin.
in
must
Observations
become
has
has
He
health.
weight. Since
in
life; he
runs
12
grown
then
up
stairs,rides
down
and
lived
has
gained 19 lbs.
perfectlynormal
and
centimeters
he
with
beams
face
upright boy, whose
tall
bicycle,and
plays football with his comrades.

Sore on
the temple
of Geneva, aged 13.
Mile. X
considered by several doctors as being of tubercular origin;
ent
for a year and a half it has refused to yield to the differShe is taken to M.
ordered.
treatments
Baudouin, a
her
follower of M. Coue
treats
at Geneva, who
by suggestion
,
and
back
tells her
the
drawn
knee
for
up
which
Baudouin
begun
had
had
the
Urbain
to
her
leg
(There
this case.)
manner.
Mme.
week.
also of Geneva.
17 years, owing
treat
to
when
in
return
she
When
comes
has healed.
sore
Mile.
to
to
an
had
operated upon.
by suggestion,and
be
of
bent
course
Marie, aged 55,
and
a
at
the
abscess
be
can
was
Has
unbent
right leg
above
She
asks
hardly has
in
M.
he
normal
psychologicalcause
Maxeville.
the
in
Varicose
half.
First
than a year and

ulcer, dating from more
a
visit in September, 1915, and a second
later.
week
one
a
In a fortnightthe cure
is complete.
Emile
Chenu, 10 years old, Grande-Rue, 19 (a refugee
from Metz). Some
unknown
heart complaint with vegetations.
Comes
first
Every night loses blood by the mouth.
in July,1915, and after a few visits the loss of blood diminishes,
and continues to do so until by the end of November
it has ceased completely. The
vegetationsalso seem
to be no
longer there,and by August, 1916, there had been
no
relapse.
M. Hazot, aged 48, livingat Brin.
Invalided the 15th of
chronic bronchitis,
January, 1915, with specific
which is getting
He
worse
in
to
in
comes
day.
me
1915.
every
October,
The
improvement is immediate, and has been maintained
since.
M.
At
the
moment,
although he is not completely
cured, he is very much
better.
B
has
suffered for 24 years
from
frontal
present
44
Observations
sinus, which
had
!! In spite
operations
the sinus persisted,
accompanied
physicalstate of the patientwas
necessitated
of all that had been done

by intolerable pains. The
eleven
uous
pitiablein the extreme; he had violent and almost continther
could neiweakness; lack of appetite,
pain,extreme
in nearly
walk, read nor sleep,etc. His nerves
were
bad a state as his body, and in spiteof the treatment
of
as
such
Bernheim
of Nancy, Dejerine of Paris,
men
as
Dubois
of Bern, X... of Strasburg,his ill health not only
continued
but even
worse
day. The patient
grew
every
of
in September, 1915, on the advice of one
to me
comes
other patients. From
that moment
he made
rapid
my
he
and
the
time
is
at
(1921)
perfectly
present
progress
well.
It is
real resurrection.
disease.
Pott's
Comes
to
me
encased
for six
having
been
Comes
regularlytwice
for
39.
Sellier,
Nagengast, aged 18, rue
M.
himself
the
usual
in the
months
Sufferingfrom
beginningof 1914,
in a plastercorset.
the "seances," and makes

suggestion morning and evening.
week
to
shows
itself,and in a short time the
Improvement soon
patientis able to do without his plastercasing. I saw him
completelycured, and was
again in April, 1916. He was
ant
carrying on his duties as postman, after having been assisthe had stayed until
ambulance
at Nancy, where
to an
done
it was
with.
away
Jarville.Paralysisof the left upper eyelid.

he receives injections,
Goes to the hospitalwhere
a
as
The
left eye was,
the eyelidis raised.
result of which
for more
than 45 degrees,and
however, deflected outwards
It was
be necessary.
this
at
to
an
operation seemed
D
M.
at
that he
moment
the eye
L
Mme.
went
to
came
me,
and
thanks
to
tion
autosugges-
littleby little to its normal

position.
Continuous
the
in
Nancy.
pain
right
back
of
She
side of the face,which had gone on for 10 years.
doctorswhose prescriptions
seemed of no
consulted many
and
comes
operationis
an
to
immediate
me
on
the
judged
25th
improvement.
to
of
In
45
be
necessary.
July, 1916, and

about
ten
The
use,
patient
there
days'
has
time
is
an
the
Observations
pain
entirelyvanished,
has
had
there
been
no
and
up
to
the
of
20th
ber,
Decem-
recurrence.
half, at Nancy: club feet.

A
first operation cures,
or
nearly so, the left foot, while
still remains
the
subsequent
crippled. Two
right one
for
operationsdo no good. The child is brought to me
in February, 1915; he walks
the first time
pretty well,
hold his feet straight.
contrivances
which
thanks
to two
The
first visit is followed
improvement,
by an immediate
in ordinary
and after the second, the child is able to walk
and more
The
marked,
boots.
improvement becomes more
and by the 17th of April the child is quite well. The right
foot, however, is not now
quite so strong as it was, owing
he gave it in February, 1916.
to a sprainwhich
Mile X
the left foot, probat Blainville. A
sore
on
ably
of specific
origin. A slightsprain has brought about
ferent
a
swellingof the foot accompanied by acute pains. Difhave only had a negative effect,and
in
treatments
littlewhile a suppurating sore
which seems
dicate
a
to inappears
caries of the bone.
and
more
Walking becomes
On
more
painful and difficult in spite of the treatment.
the advice of a former
patientwho had been cured, she
Maurice, aged 8 and
visits.
becomes
and
there is noticeable relief after the first

Little by little the swelling goes
down, the pain
less intense, the suppuration lessens,and
finally
to
comes
me,
the sore
heals over.
The process has taken a few months.
At
present the foot is practicallynormal, but although
the pain and swellinghave entirelydisappeared,
the back
flexion of the foot is not
makes
the
yet perfect,which
patientlimp slightly.
Mme.
of
,
Chavigny. Metritis dating
from
10
back.
Comes
of July, 1916.
at the end
ment
Improveis immediate, the pain and
loss of blood
diminish
rapidly,and by the following 29th of September both
have
disappeared. The
monthly period, which
lasted
years
from eightto ten days, is now

in four.
over
Mme.
H
rue
at
Guilbert-de-Piverecourt,
Nancy, aged
49.
Suffers
from
varicose
ulcer
46
dating from
September,
Observations
1914, which
but
has
without
treated
accordingto
lower
The
success.
her
part
doctor's
advice,
of
leg
the
is
franc
(the ulcer, which is as large as a two
piece and goes right down
to the bone, is situated above
the ankle). The inflammation
is very intense,the suppuration
copious,and the pains extremely violent. The patient
for the first time in April, 1916, and the improvecomes
ment
enormous
which
is visible after the first treatment,
continues
without
interruption.By the 18th of February, 1917, the
swelling has entirelysubsided, and the pain and

have
is still there, but
disappeared. The sore
largerthan a pea and it is only a few millimeters
it still discharges very
slightly. By 1920 the
long been complete.
Mile. D
Mirecourt, 16
at
,
from
of
attacks
first
nerves
infrequent,have
When
she
has
had
three
the
18th
of
that
which
to
comes
see
attacks
irritation
it is
in
depth;
M
,
has
cure
of age.
Has
suffered
for three years.
The
attacks, at
closer intervals.
at
gradually come
the 1st of April, 1917, she
me
on
in the
years
precedingfortnight. Up
April she did not have any at all. I may

this young
lady, from the time she began the
no
was
longer troubled by the bad headaches
she had suffered almost constantly.
Mme.
no
aged 43,
rue
d'Amance,
to
add
ment,
treat-
from
2, Malzeville.
1916 for violent pains in the head

she has suffered all her life. After
from
which
few
a
months
afterwards
visits they vanish
completely. Two
also cured of a prolapse of the
she realized that she was
Comes
which
uterus
she
the
at
not
was
(This
end
she
of
had
not
thinking when
mentioned
she
made
to
me,
her
and
of
which
autosuggestion.
"in every respect" conresult is due to the words:

tained
in the formula used morning and evening.)
D
Mme.
general suggesChoisy-le-Roi.Only one

tion
in July, 1916, and autosuggestionon her part
evening. In October of the same
year this
that she is cured of a prolapse of the uterus
,
from
me
morning and
lady tells me
from
which
she had
suffered for
47
more
than
twenty years.
Observations
is still holding good.

(Same
April, 1920, the cure
in
remark
the
as
precedingcase.)
Mme.
Jousselin,
aged 60, rue des Dominicains, 6. Comes
the 20th of July, 1917, for a violent pain in the right
on
swelling of the whole
leg, accompanied by considerable
limb.
She can
only drag herself along with groans, but
Up
to
after
the
"seance," to
great astonishment, she
her
can
walk
she comes
normally without feelingthe least pain. When
back four days afterwards, she has had no
of the
return
pain and the swellinghas subsided. This patienttells me
that since she has
of
cured
attended
the "seances"
she
has also been

of enteritis from
which
remark
as
above.) In
white
discharges,and
she had
long suffered.
(Same
November
the cure
is stillholdinggood.
Mile. G. L.
du Montet, 88.
aged 15, rue
Has
stammered
from infancy. Comes
the 20th of July, 1917,
on
and the stammering ceases
instantly.A month after I saw
her again and she had had no
recurrence.
M. Ferry (Eugene), aged 60, rue
de la Cote, 56.
For
five years
has
suffered
from
rheumatic
pains in the
shoulders and in the left leg. Walks
with difficulty
ing
leanon
a
lift the arms
stick,and cannot
higher than the
shoulders.
Comes
the 17th of September, 1917.
on
After
the first "seance," the pains vanish
completely and the.
not
take
patientcan
only
long strides but even
Still
run.
,
he
more,
the
Mme.
the
can
cure
face
whirl both arms

like
is stillholdinggood.
Lacour, aged 63, chemin
dating
have
treatments
patient refuses
time
on
ceases.
Mme.
from
than
more
failed.
An
undergo
July 25th, 1916, and
The
cure
In November
des
Sables.
twenty
years
Pains
back.
in
All
operation is advised,but the

it.
to
windmill.
She
four
for
the
first
days later
day.
the
pain
comes
has held good to this
Martin, Grande-Rue
of the uterus
pains and white and
of
105.
(Ville-Vieille),
13 years
mation
Inflam-
standing,accompanied by
discharges.The period,which is
22 or 23 days and lasts 10-12
very painful,recurs
every
days. Comes for the first time on the 15th of November,
red
48
Observations
is visible
There
1917, and returns regularlyevery week.
improvement after the first visit,which continues rapidly
until at the beginning of January, 1918, the inflammation
has
at
more
entirely disappeared; the period comes
regular intervals and without the slightest
pain. A pain
for 13 years
in the knee which
the patienthad had
was
also cured.
Castelli,aged 41, livingat Einville
Mme.
Has
suffered
(M.-et M.).
pains in the right
intermittent rheumatic
Five years ago she had
from
violent
13 years.
a
more
attack than usual, the leg swells as well as the knee, then
the lower part of the limb atrophies,and the patientis
with the aid of a stick
reduced
to walking very painfully
for
knee
or
crutch.
She
1917.
November,
either crutch
crutch
at
or
comes
She
stick.
all, but
for
the
goes
Since
first time
away
then
on
the
without
she no
longer
occasionallymakes
use
of
Sth
the
of
help of
her
uses
her
stick.
back
from
time to time, but
pain in the knee comes
only very slightly.
has
Mme.
Meder, aged 52, at Einville. For six months
ing,
suffered from pain in the rightknee accompanied by swellthe leg. Comes
it impossibleto bend
makes
which
Returns
Dec. 7th, 1917.
for the first time on
on
Jan.
4th, 1918, saying that she has almost ceased to suffer and
walk normally. After that visit of the 4th,
that she can
and the patientwalks like other
the pain ceases
entirely,
people.
The
EMILE
49
COUE.
TO
It may
of
In
BE
paradoxicalbut, nevertheless,the
ought to begin before its birth.
seem
child
OUGHT
IT
AS
EDUCATION
truth, if
sober
makes
mental
woman,
pictureof
few
the
weeks
Education
after
tion,
concep-
of the child she
sex
is
bring forth into the world, of the physicaland

moral qualities
with which she desires to see it endowed and
if she will continue during the time of gestationto impress
herself the same
mental
on
image, the child will have the
and qualities
desired.
sex
Spartan women
only brought forth robust children,who
be redoubtable
their strongest
to
warriors, because
grew
desire was
to give such heroes
to their country;
whilst, at
had
intellectual children
whose
mental
Athens, mothers
hundredfold
a
qualitieswere
greater than their physical
going
to
attributes.
The
child thus
engendered
will be
good suggestions which may be made

them
into autosuggestionwhich
the
course
of
his
life.
For
you
the
apt to
to
must
him
accept readily
and
to
later,will
know
that
form
trans-
influence
all
our
words, all our

result of autosuggestions
acts, are
only
caused, for the most part, by the suggestion of example or
speech.
How
education
then
should
of
children
parents, and
avoid
those
entrusted
with
the
provoking bad autosuggestions

and, on the other hand, influence good autosuggestions?
In dealing with
children, always be even-tempered and
in
a
speak
In this way
gentle but firm tone.
they will
become
obedient
without ever
having the slightestdesire to
resist authority.
Above
all above
all,avoid harshness and brutality,
for
there the risk is incurred of influencing
an
autosuggestion
of crueltyaccompanied by hate.
Moreover, avoid carefully,in their presence, saying evil
"
SO
Education
must
the
have
the
It
To
Ought
Be
desire
qualities
you
in them
Awaken
As
love
of
children to possess.
your
work
and of study,making
by explainingthings carefullyand in a pleasant

dote
anecfashion, and by introducingin the explanation some
which
will make
the child eager
for the following
it easier
lesson.
Above
all
impress
them
on
that
Work
is essential
for
and that he who

does not work
in some
fashion or
man,
another, is a worthless,useless creature, and that all work
produces in the
who
in it
healthy and profound

sired
satisfaction;whilst idleness,so longed for and deby .s.ome, produces weariness, neurasthenia,disgust
man
engages
of life,and leads those who

do
satisfyingthe passions created
and
even
Teach
to
not
possess
the
means
of
by idleness,to debauchery
crime.
children
be always politeand kind to all,and

to those whom
the chance of birth has placed
particularly
in a lower
class than their own,
and
also to respect age,
and
to
never
to
mock
the
at
physicalor
moral
defects
that
age often produces.

Teach
them
to love
all mankind, without

distinction of
That one
caste.
must
always be ready to succor
those who
in need of help,and that one
are
must
be afraid of
never
for those who
spending time and money
in need; in
are
short, that they

In
so
doing
must
inner
an
egoistever
seeks
Develop
embarking
in
think
and
never
more
of
satisfaction is
others
than
of themselves.
experienced that
the
finds.
them
and teach that, before

self-confidence,
it should be submitted
upon
any undertaking,
to
the control
of reason,
thus avoiding acting impulsively,
and, after having reasoned the matter
should form
out, one
decision by which one
a
abides, unless,indeed, some
fresh
fact proves you may
have been mistaken.
Teach them above all that
must
every one
with a very definite idea that he will
set
out
succeed,
and
in life
that,
under the influence of this idea he will

succeed!
inevitably
Not indeed,that he should quietlyremain
expectingevents
52
Education
to
As
It
Ought
happen, but because, impelled by
what
is necessary
He will know
to make
how
it
come
To
Be
this idea, he
will do
true.
or
advantage of opportunities,
of
the
even
which
perhaps
singleopportunity
present
may
i
t
be
who
thread
whilst
he
itself, may
or
hair,
only a single
distrusts himself is a Constant
ing
nothGuignard with whom
succeeds, because his efforts are all directed to that
to
take
end.
Such
indeed
swim
in
of opporan
ocean
tunities,
with
heads
of
hair
like
Absalom
himself,
provided
and he will be unable to seize a singlehair, and often determine
make
him
which
himself the causes
fail; whilst
in himself, often
has the idea of success
he, who
gives
stances
circumin
unconscious
the
birth,
fashion, to
an
very
a
one
may
success.
produce that same
and
But
let
masters
above
ample.
all,
preach by exparents
A child is extremely suggestive,
let something turn
up that he wishes to do, and he does it.
children
As soon
ing
can
as
speak, make them repeat morntimes
and evening,twenty
consecutively:
in
all
better",which will
"Day by day,
respects, I grow
moral
and
healthy
produce in them an excellent physical,
atmosphere.
If you
make
the followingsuggestionyou will help the
in
child enormously to eliminate his faults,and to awaken
him the correspondingdesirable qualities.
the child is asleep,approach quietly,
Every night when
not to awaken
him, to within about three or four feet
so
as
onous
Stand
his bed.
from
there, murmuring in a low monotvoice the thing or things you wish him to do.
Finally,it is desirable that all teachers should, every
in the
morning, make suggestionsto their pupils,somewhat
following fashion.
dren,
Telling them to shut their eyes, they should say: "ChilI expect you always to be politeand kind to everyone,
when
and
teachers,
they give
obedient to your parents
will
always listen
order, or tell you anything;you
an
you
which
to
the
order
given
or
the
fact told
S3
without
thinkingit
Education
used
tiresome; you
It
As
Be
To
when
it tiresome
understand
you
think
to
Ought
you
were
well
very
anything,but now
sequently,
told things, and conit is for your good that you are
with those who
instead of being cross
speak to
be gratefulto them.
you will now
of
reminded
that
you,
"Moreover
be; in your
may
will
you
love
now
it
work, whatever
always enjoy those things

not
learn, especiallywhatever
may
you
lessons you
have
to
you
may
till now
have cared
your
will
for.
giving a lesson in class,

devote
all your
will now
attention, solelyand entirely
you
he says, instead of attending to any
to what
sillythings
said or done
by your companions, and without doing or
saying anything sillyyourself.
"Under
these conditions as you
all intelligent,
for,
are
children,you are all intelligent,
easily
you will understand
and
remember
It will remain
easilywhat you have learned.
in your memory,
embedded
ice,
ready to be at your serv"Moreover
and
when
will be
you
the teacher
is
able to make
use
of it
as
soon
as
you
it.
need
"In
the
when
working at your lessons

alone, or at home, when
are
accomplishing a task or
you
fix
attention solelyon
the
studying a lesson,you will
your
work you are
and
will always obtain good
doing,
you
same
for your
This
is the
marks
truly from
the
way
you
are
lessons."
Counsel, which, if followed

henceforth, will produce a race
highestphysicaland
moral
faithfullyand
endowed
qualities.
Emile
54
with
Coue.
SURVEY
OF
AT
The
"SEANCES'
THE
COUE'S
M.
thrills at
this name,
for from
rank
of
every
and everyone
with
to him
is welcomed
societypeople come
the same
benevolence, which already goes for a good deal.
But
town
is
what
extremely poignant is at the end of the seance

in gloomy, bent, almost
the people who
to see
hostile
came
in pain), go away
like everybody else; unconstrained,
(they were
radiant
cheerful, sometimes
(they are no longer
in pain!!). With
and
a
smiling goodness of which
strong
he
has
those
in turn
and
the secret,
consult
who
speaks
"Well,
Oh,
what
in
the
to
pain,
to them
are
the
that
him
it
as
in his
persons
in these terms
and
what
looking for
cause
is
of your
enough...
who
many
pain
I
he
the
hearts
himself
addresses
him,
consult
to
come
of
is your
two
holds
were,
hand;
numerous
Madame,
you
does
Coue,
M.
trouble
"
?
.
whys
matter
will teach
wherefores
and
to
you?
you
to
You
get
;
are
rid
of
that...
varicose
ulcer
is
already better.
That
is good, very good indeed, do you
know, considering
have
only been here twice; I congraulate you on the
you
If you
obtained.
have
suggestions
result you
doing your autogo on
be cured...
You
properly, you will very soon
does
had
this ulcer for ten
have
say? What
years,
you
You
that matter?
might have had it twenty and more,
and it could be cured just the same.
Monsieur,
And
you,
And
say that you

you
know
Do
you
confidence
better, you
your
have
not
obtained
any
ment?...
improve-
why?... Simply because you

I tell you
that you
in yourself. When
don't you?
feel better at once,
Why?
55
lack
are
Be-
Survey of
faith in
have
you
cause
will obtain the
you
Oh, Madame
for
out
the "Seances"
not
the
at
Just
me.
M.
believe
Couffs
yourselfand
in
result.
same
so
ing
details,I beg you! By lookcreate
them, and you would
many
details you
As a
yard long to contain all your maladies.
of fact,with you it is the mental
outlook which
is
matter
mind
that it is going to get
Well, make
wrong.
up your
better and it will be so.
It's as simpleas the Gospel...
want
list a
tell
You
Well, from
will
you
You
me
have
you
to-dayyou
have
to
cease
attacks
going
are
of
to
what
week...
every
nerves
do
I tell you
and
them...
have
suffered from
it matter
how
Yes, I heard what
constipationfor a long time?...

long it is?... You say it is forty
the less
years?
you said,but it is none
that you can
true
be cured to-morrow;
row,
hear, to-moryou
on
condition,naturally,of your doing exactlywhat
does
What
I tell you
Ah!
have
you
promise
to
does
That
do, in the way
to
known
cure
not
glaucoma, Madame.
you of that, for I
mean
that you cannot

in the case
of
it to happen
of Lorraine.
and another
Saone
Well, Mademoiselle,
attacks
them
the
I tell you
since
day,
every
same,
you
so
as
came
you are
that I may
you
have
to
do it...
I cannot
absolutely
that I can.
sure
be cured, for I have
lady of Chalon-surnot
am
not
had
here, whereas
you
your
used
cured.
back
sometimes
keep
Come
you
nervous
to
have
all
going along the right
lines.
The
feelingof oppressionwill disappearwith the lesions

will disappear when
which
assimilate properly; that
you
all in good time, but
will come
mustn't
you
put the cart
before the horse... it is the same
with oppression as with
heart trouble,it generallydiminishes
very quickly...
56
you had
think then
that
not
more
no
that it may
back
come
sotto
voice, "What
(A woman,
wonderfullypainstakingman!")
All
that
we
think
you
cannot
away,"
going
and
hand
think
it."
Try! (she cannot),you
good
to
so
To
avoid
vanquished.
but
promise to
Observation.
certain
them
becomes
one
of
the
method.
eliminate the
the
tion,
imagina-
in which
them
older
seems
the
doxical,
para-
therapeutictreatments;
suggestionsto you, but I cannot
to
make
use
you.
"
have
and
diminish
what
and
diabetes
seen
is still
more
completely cured
extraordinary,the
disappear from
even
the
urine
of
patients.
This
you
as
"Continue
cure
times,
albumen
will
it is true.
quitewillingto
several
you
that your
see
yourself to
conflict between
stronger
diabetes:
am
address
to
become
For
only
be
as
as
you.
completelyand
will would
just
surely the
going away,"
I
properly: "Now
"
will
must
hands.
Observation.
This is the essential point
order to make
auto-suggestions,
you must
In
We
us.
wrongly.
think
your
has!
patiencehe
for
back...
What
come
will not," the more

You
"It's
must
say:
say:
about.
it. Close your
open
much
it will
"/
comes
think
is not
is
open
you
Coue's
M.
or
true
to
trouble
cannot
more
contrary
and
becomes
ourselves
"my
Think
The
think
allow
then
not
at
enough to think
quite true; it was
pain for the pain to disappear;do
is
I told you
What
the "Seances"
Survey of
obsession
used
and
Ah, but
to
detest
they like
to
be
must
are
real
nightmare. The people

becoming your friends,you like
a
you.
will and
to
desire is not
58
the
same
thing.
Survey of the "Seances"
at M.
Cone's
Then, after having asked them to close their eyes, M.

Coue
gives to his patientsthe little suggestivediscourse
which
is to be found
in "Self Mastery." When
this is
he again addresses himself to each
one
separately,
over,
each
few
words
his
to
a
on
case
saying
:
To
the first:
"You, Monsieur, are in pain,but I tell you

it is
of this pain whether
that, from
to-day, the cause
called arthritis or anything else,is going to disappearwith
the help of your
unconscious, and the cause
having disappeared,
the pain will graduallybecome
less and less,and in
short time it will be nothing but a moment."
a
To
the
second
person:
"Your
stomach
does
not
tion
func-
less dilated. Well, as I told

or
properly,it is more
digestivefunctions are going to work
your
you just now,
better
and
better, and I add that the dilatation of the
stomach
is going to
disappear little by little. Your
organism is going to give back progressivelyto your
stomach
the force and elasticity
it had lost,and by degrees
this phenomenon is produced, the stomach
will return
as
and
and will carry out more
to its primitive form
more
into the intestine
movements
to pass
easilythe necessary
it contains.
At the same
time the pouch
the nourishment
formed
by the relaxed stomach will diminish in size,the
nutriment
will not
longer stagnate in this pouch, and in
the
fermentation
will end
set
by totally
consequence
up
disappearing.
To the third : To you, Mademoiselle, I say that whatever
in your
have
lesions you
liver, your
organism is
may
make
the lesions disappear
to
doing what is necessary
every day, and by degrees as they heal over, the symptoms
suffer will go on
which
from
lessening and disappearing.
you
Your
normal
way,
in the
liver then
functions
the bile it secretes

right quantity and
in
more
is alcaline and
and
no
more
longer
quality,so that it passes

acid,
naturallyinto the intestines and helps intestinal digestion.
To the fourth:
My child,you hear what I say; every
feel you
time you
are
going to have an attack, you will
voice tellingyou as quick as lightning:"No, no!
hear my
59
Survey of
friend, you
my
going
to
To
the
not
are
the "Seances"
going
disappearbefore
fifth,etc., etc.
to
have
Coue's
M.
at
that
attack, and
it is
it comes..."
attended
been
Coue
tells
to, M.
those present to open
their eyes, and adds:
"You
have
heard the advice I have just given you.
form
Well, to transinto
it
what you must
do is this: As long as
reality,
When
everyone
live, every
evening as soon
has
morning
before
getting up, and every

in bed, you
shut your
must
as
are
you
eyes, so as to concentrate
your attention,and repeat twenty
times following,moving your
lips (that is indispensable)
and counting mechanicallyon
a
string with twenty knots
in it the followingphrase: "Every day, in
respect,
every
I am
gettingbetter and better."
There
is no need to think of anything in particular,
as
the words
"in every
respect" apply to everything. This
be made
with confidence,with faith,
autosuggestionmust
with
the certaintyof obtaining what
is desired.
The
you
greater the
conviction
of
the person,
the
more
rapid will be the results obtamfed.
Further, every time that in the course
night you
yourself that
feel any
physicalor
greater and
of
the
the
day
or
mental
discomfort,affirmto
will not
consciouslycontribute to it,
you
and that you
it vanish; then isolate
are
going to make
much
and passing your
yourselfas
as
possible,
hand
over
forehead
if
it is something mental, or on
your
whatever
part that is painful if it is something physical,repeat
moving the lips,the words : "It is going, it is
very quickly,
going...,
etc., etc." as long as it is necessary.
With
little
a
practice,the mental or physical discomfort will disappear
in about 20 to 25 seconds.
Begin again every time it is
necessary.
For
this
act
with
to
same
M.
for the other autosuggestionsit is

necessary
the same
confidence,the same
conviction,the
as
faith,and
Coue
yourself
did it
above
also adds
to
all without effort."

what
follows:
"If
make
unconsciously,
now
bad
lowed
formerlyal-
autosuggestionsbecause
that you
60
you
know
what
I have
you
just
Survey of
the "Seances"
at M.
Cone's
taught you, you must

no
if,
longer let this happen. And
in spiteof all,you stilldo it,
only accuse
self,
youryou must
and say "Mea
maxima
culpa,mea
culpa."
And
if
admirer
of
the
work
and of the
a grateful
now,
founder
of the method
I will say.
"Monsieur
get health
be allowed
may
Coue
shows
to say
few
words,
luminously that
us
the
and
happiness is within us : we have

indeed received this gift."
first of all,every cause
ing
of sufferTherefore, suppressing,
created
or
encouraged by ourselves, then putting into
favorite
maxim
of
"Know
Socrates:
practice the
I
and
the
advice
of
thyself,"
Pope: "That
rejectnone
may
of the benefits that Thy goodness bestows
me," let
upon
take possessionof the entire benefit of autosuggestion,
us
let us
this very
become
of the "Lorraine
day members
of
Society of applied Psychology;"let us make members
it those who
be in our
care
(itis a good deed to do
may
to them).
shall follow first of all the great
we
By this means
power
to
of
movement
the
future
of
which
M.
E.
Coue
is the
originator(he devotes to it his days,his nights,his worldly

of this!
goods, and refuses to accept...but hush; no more
lest his modesty refuses to allow these lines to be published
but above all by this means
without
shall
we
alteration),
know
exactly the days and hours of his lectures at Paris,
Nancy and other towns, where he devotedlygoes to sow
the good seed,and where we can go too to see him, and hear
and with his help awake
him and consult him personally,
the personal power
that everyone
stir up in ourselves
or
of us has received of becoming happy and well.
May I be allowed to add that when M. Coue has charged
fee for his lectures, they have
entrance
an
brought in
thousands
of francs
for the Disabled
suffered through the

Note.
"
Entrance
and
others who
have
war.
is free to the members
Societyof appliedPsychology.
61
E. Vs... oer.
of the Lorraine
EXTRACTS
TO
ADDRESSED
The
LETTERS
FROM
final results of the
COUE
M.
English secondary Certificate have
only been posted up these two hours, and I

about
it,at least in so far as it concerns
you
with
passed the viva voce
flying colors, and
a
of the
trace
which
nervousness
intolerable
sensation
the
astonished
at
listened to me
the
latter I
those
who
myself.
scarcely felt
me
cause
the
tell
to
tests.
such
an
During
calm, which
gave
impression of perfect selfshort, it was
just the tests I
own
my
part. In
my
which
contributed
most
to
before
nausea
was
possession on
dreaded
of
used
hasten
most
to
my
The
success.
jury placed me Second, and I am

infinitely
grateful to you
for help, which
an
undoubtedly gave me
advantage over
the other candidates...,
etc.
(The case is that of a young
of excessive nervousness,
had failed
lady,who, on account
in 1915.
The
of
placed 2nd
having
nervousness
autosuggestion,she
of
out
than
more
vanished
under
the
fluence
in-
passed successfully,being
200
competitors.)
Mile.
V...,
Schoolmistress,August, 1916.
*
*
It is with
most
great pleasurethat I write to thank you

sincerelyfor the great benefit I have received from
your
method.
very
Before
in walking
difficulty
breath, whereas
Several
times
which
Yours
most
day and
from
minutes
Glacis,that is to
the
say,
I suffered
went
100
now
40
from
rue
to
you
yards,
can
go
without
miles
had
the
being
without
greatest
out
fatigue.
I am
quite easily,
du Bord-de-1'Eau
nearly four
has almost
able to walk in
to the rue
des
kilometers.
The
asthma
entirely
disappeared.
gratefully.
Paul
Rue
de
Chenot,
Strasbourg,141 Nancy, Aug., 1917.
62
of
Extracts
I do
know
not
that I
say
From
how
almost
am
Letters
to
Addressed
thank
be
so
It seemed
confined
to
your
That
up.
each
on
the
to
left foot is not
you
can
only waiting
was
suffering
foot.
That
the
on
hand, is entirelycured.
my
as
For
I had
weeks
immediately after
bed, but almost

my
letter the ulcer healed
on
Thanks
you.
disappearby magic.
to
Coue
entirelycured, and I was

gratitude. I
express
my
in order to
varicose ulcers, one
from two
right foot, which was as big
to
M.
to
over
that
so
been
I
I could
ceived
re-
get
yet absolutelyhealed, but
be so.
will soon
Night and morning I do, and always shall,
I have entire conrecite the prescribedformula, in which
fidence.
hard
I may
a
as
as
legs were
say also that my
touch.
I can
Now
and I could not bear the slightest
stone
walk
without
the least pain, and I can
them
once
press
which
more,
is the greatest
joy.
Mme.
Ligny,
{Haute Saone),
M oilieroncourt-Charette
May,
1918.
B.
N.
"
worthy of
It is
remark
that
this
lady
never
Coue, and that it is only thanks to a letter he wrote

April 15th, that she obtained the result announced
M.
on
her
letter of
May
I have
very
escaped
dangerous
what
express
my
the risk of an
one.
method
your
all the medicines
life, for
in
writing to
am
her
3rd.
*
saw
can
of
and
gratitude,for thanks to you

operationwhich is always a
say
more:
you
have
autosuggestionhas
ordered
treatments
saved
my
done
alone
for the terrible
I suffered for 19
from
which
intestinal obstruction
I followed
when
the moment
days, had failed to do. From
instructions and applied your excellent principles,
my
your
functions
have
accomplished themselves
quitenaturally.
Mme.
Pont
63
Mousson,
S...,
Feb., 1920.
From
Extracts
Addressed
Letters
to
Coue
M.
for my
thank you
happinessin
than 15 years I had suffered from
For more
being cured.
caused the most
tions
attacks of asthma, which
painful suffocato your
splendid method, and
night. Thanks
every
of your
the
above
all,since I was
present at one
seances,
I do
have
attacks
how
know
not
to
if
disappeared as
miracle, for the various

that there
was
no
by magic.
doctors
attended
who
is
It
me
real
all declared
for asthma.
cure
Mme.
V...,
Saint-Die, Feb., 1920.
*
writing to thank you

brought to my knowledge,
with
all my
heart
for
having
a
new
therapeuticmethod, a
instrument
marvellous
which
like the magic
to act
seems
wand
of a fairy,since, thanks to the simplest means,
it
about
the
results.
most
From
the
brings
extraordinary
first I was
interested
in
extremely
experiments, and
your
after my
with
own
personal success
method, I began
your
I
have
become
to
enthusiastic supardently
apply it,as
an
porter
am
of it.
Docteur
Vachet,
Vincennes, May, 1920.
*
*
For
8 years I have suffered from

prolapse of the uterus.
I have
used
method
of autosuggestion for the last
your
five months, and am
now
completelycured, for which I do
know
not
how
to
thank
you
enough.
Mme.
Place
du
Marche
Soulier,
Toul, May, 1920.
*
*
have
suffered
terriblyfor
11
without respite.
years
Every night I had attacks of asthma, and suffered also from
and general weakness
insomnia
which
prevented any occupation.
Mentally, I was
depressed,restless,worried, and
64
Extracts
From
Addressed
Letters
to
CouS
M.
for a few days, ill,

home
to Lorraine
I dreaded
the shock
heart full of sorrow,
and with my
I should feel at the sightof the ruins and distress...
which
I was
and went
comforted
and in good health.
at
away
tial
help. Coming
of my tether,and
I longed to find some
one
the end
you
by
chance
at
help I sought.
unfortunatelyI am
could help me,
who
cousin's house
my
you
not
and
religious.
meeting
me
gave
the very
I suggest
spirit,
unconscious
to my
to
physicalequilibrium,
and I do not doubt that I shall regain my
former
good
health. A very noticeable improvement has already shown
and you
will better understand
itself,
gratitudewhen
my
I tell you
that, sufferingfrom diabetes with a renal complication,
I have had several attacks of glaucoma, but
my
their
Since
then
are
now
recovering
suppleness.
eyes
my
has
become
almost
and
health
sight
normal,
general
my
has much
improved.
I
work
in a
re-establish my
can
now
new
Mile. Th
,
Professor at the Young Ladies'

Collegeat Ch...,Jan., 1920.
*
read
thesis with
my
mark
highest
and
success,
and
was
awarded
the
the
of the jury. Of all

congratulations
a
large share belongs to you, and I do not
I
it.
forget
only regrettedthat you were
not
present to
hear your
referred to with warm
name
and
sympathetic
interest by the distinguished
Jury. You can consider that
the doors of the Universityhave been flung wide
to
open
thank me
for it,for I owe
not
your teaching. Do
you far
these "honours"
more
than
you
can
owe
me.
Ch.
Professorat
Baudouin,
the Institut. J.-J.
Rousseau, Geneva.
...I admire
it will
help
your
to
turn
courageousness,
many
friends
66
and
into
am
a
quite sure
useful
and
that
intelli-
Extracts
From
gent direction.
by
I confess
personallybenefited
do so too.
patients
lectivel
apply your method col-
that I have
teaching,and have made my

the Nursing Home
we
try to
and have alreadyobtained
your
At
Coue
to M.
Letters Addressed
visible results in this
way.
Docteur
Berillon,
Paris, March,
1920.
*
*
...I have
received
your
letter
kind
well
as
as
very
your
lecture.
interesting
I
am
glad to
and
hetero
the
see
that you
make
is what
vene
inter-
not
great number
tween
be-
particularly
note
that the will must
you say
passage
in autosuggestion. That
of
autosuggestion,and
in which
professors
large number
rational connection
of
autosuggestion,unfortunately including a
do not realize at all. I also

of medical men,
tween
that an
absolute distinction should be established beautosuggestionand the trainingof the will.
think
Van
Velsen,
Brussels, March,
Docteur
1920.
*
*
What
Oh,
you?
think
must
you
I
no,
of
you
assure
gratefulaffection, and
most
I have
That
forgotten
that I think of you with the
I wish
to
repeat that your
me?
I never
and
efficacious;
more
spend a
teachingsare more
day without using autosuggestionwith increased success,
is the true one.
and I bless you every day, for your method
Thanks
to it, I am
assimilatingyour excellent directions,
able to control myself better every day, and I feel
and am
that
am
stronger... I
am
sure
that
you
would
find it
active in spiteof
so
difficult to recognizein this woman,
often ailing,
who
creature
was
so
her 66 years, the poor
and who
only began to be well, thanks to you and your
guidance. May
you
be
blessed
67
for
this,for
the
sweetest
Extracts
thing in
From
the world
much, and do
do
Letters
is to
do
Addressed
good
for which
little,
those
to
Coue
M.
to
around
I thank
us.
You
God.
Mm.
M...,
Cesson-Saint-Brieuc.
*
*
As
feelingbetter and better since I began to follow

I should like to offer
of autosuggestion,
you
The
lesion in the lungs has disapthanks.
peared,
am
method
your
sincere
my
heart
my
short
is better.
have
no
albumen,
more
in
quitewell.
am
Mme.
Lemaitre,
Richemont, June, 1920.
*
*
Your
would
should
booklet
be
desirable
be
greater
the
interested
the
in
us
much.
very
good of humanity
several
every
and
race
languages,so
country, and
that
that
thus
It
they
they
reach
of unfortunate
people who suffer from

all-powerful(and almost divine)
important to man,
affirm and
as
you
of
use
faculty,the
so
to
number
wrong
prove
lecture
for
published
might penetrate
a
and
that
most
luminouslyand
which
judiciously,
we
call the
I had
Imagination.
books on the will,
already read many
had quitean arsenal of formulae, thoughts,
aphorisms,
Your
etc.
conclusive.
I do not
phrases are
think that
before have "compressed tablets of self confidence."
ever
I call your
as
healing phrases been condensed
into
in
formulae
such
typical
an
intelligent
manner.
and
"
"
Don
Enrique C...,
Madrid.
*
*
Your
strong
pamphlet
on
"the
self-control"
contains
very
and
arguments
strikingexamples. I think
very
that the substitution of imagination for the
of the
power
will is a great progress.
It is milder and more
persuasive.
A.
68
F., Reimiremont.
Extracts
...I am
From
Letters Addressed
to
M.
Coui
be able to tell you that my

stomach
is
well. My metritis is also much
better. My little
a
gland in his thigh as big as an egg which is
happy
to
going on
boy had
graduallydisappearing.
L...,Saint-Clement
E.
(M-et-M.)
*
*
After
I had
of
account
operations in my left leg on

local tuberculosis,that leg became
ill again
undergone
three
in
Several doctors declared that a new

September, 1920.
about to open
operation was
They were
necessary.
my
leg from the knee to the ankle, and if the operationhad
failed,they would have had to perform an amputation.
As
saw
heard
of
for the first time

I felt
the seance,
exactly
you.
followed
At
the
wondrous
your
cures
and
came
the 6th
of November, 1920.
immediately a little better. I
three
instructions and
times
went
you
After
to
had
your
third
on
time, I could
tell you
that
was
completelycured.
Mme.
L...,Henry
(Lorraine).
...I will not wait any longer to thank

heartilyfor
you
all the good I owe
Autosuggestion has positively
you.
and I am
better than
transformed
now
me
getting much
The
of illness
I have been
these many
symptoms
years.
have
the
disappearedlittle by little,
become
body
come
now
normally. The result is that, after having bethinner and thinner during several years I have regained
work
rarer
and
rarer,
and
all the
morbid
symptoms
functions
have
of the
several kilos in a few months.

do otherwise than bless the Coue system.
I cannot
L...,Cannes (A.
M.).
*
*
Since
1917,
crises.
my
little girl has
Several
doctors
69
had
been
told
sufferingfrom
me
that about
leptic
epithe
Extracts
14
of
age
or
Having heard
December
From
15
Letters
they would
of you,
till May.
six months
Addressed
her
her
Now
she has had
become
disappear or
I sent
to
worse.
the end
from
you
is
cure
Coue
M.
to
of
ing
complete, for dur-
relapse.
no
Perrin
(Charles),
Essey-lesNancy.
*
*
For
eight years, I had suffered from a sinking of the

After having practicedyour autosuggestionfor five
uterus.
cured.
I don't know
how to
months, I have been radically
deep gratitude.
express
my
Mme.
6, Place
du
Soulie,
Marche, Toul.
*
*
...Havingsuffered
from
glaucoma since 191/, I have

two
oculists who
told me
that only an
operation
would
end
to
put an
sufferings,but unfortunately
my
neither of them
would assure
of a good result.
me
In the month
of June, 1920, after having attended
one
of your seances
I felt much
better. In September I ceased
the drops of pilocarpine
to use
which were
the daily bread
of my
and
since
I
then
have felt no
more
eye,
pain. My
is
no
more
dilated,my eyes are normal; it is a real
pupil
a
consulted
miracle.
Mme.
*
dedication
to
M.
Coue
M..., a Soulosse.
by the
author
of
medical
treatise :
To
and
M.
to
extract
conscious
The
Coue
who
knew
from
it
how
to
dissect the
psychologicmethod
human
founded
soul
on
autosuggestion.
is entitled to the thanks

of all; he has
cleverlysucceeded in disciplining
the vagrant (Imagination)
and in associating
it usefully
with the will.
master
70
Extracts
From
Letters
Addressed
to
M.
Coue
he has given man

Thus
the means
of increasingtenfold
his moral
force by giving him
confidence in himself.
Docteur
P. R.,
Francfort.
...Itis difficult to
cised
speak of the profound influence exeron
me
by your so kindlyallowingme to view so often
work.
Seeing it day by day, as I have done, it has
your
and as you
and more,
more
impressed me
yourself said,
and future scope
there seems
limits to the possibilities
no
of the principlesyou
enunciate, not only in the physical
for changing the
life of children but also in possiblities
ideas now
prevalent in punishment of crime, in government,
in fact,in all the relations

Miss
of life...
JosephineM.
Richardson.
*
*
...When
have
my
seen,
came,
thanks
to
expected
your
great deal, but
great kindness, exceeds
what
greatly
expectation.
Montagu
S. Monier-Williams,
London.
71
M.
D.,
Addressed
LETTERS
FROM
FRAGMENTS
Disciple of
Leon,
Emile
Mme.
to
Couia
M.
wanting to write and thank

this
known
to
me
most
sincerely for having made
you
to
method
of autosuggestion. Thanks
good advice
your
I was
of nerves
to which
the attacks
subject, have entirely
ther,
Furcertain that I am
quite cured.
disappeared, and I am
I feel myself surrounded
by a superior force which
aid
I surmount
is an
by whose
unfaltering guide, and
For
with
the
ease
I have
time
some
been
difficulties of
life.
Mme.
Rue
F...,
Bougainville, 4, Paris.
de
*
*
Amazed
which
the
at
you
made
obtained
results
known
to
me,
the
by
thank
autosuggestion
all my
with
you
heart.
For
year
of
for
eight
had
still
declared
I
I possess
I have
the
years,
been
entirelycured
right shoulder
and
from
from
chronic
of
which
articular
I
bronchitis
had
matism
rheu-
suffered
which
had
I had
doctors
consulted
numerous
longer. The
incurable, but thanks to you and to your treatme
ment,
have
found
with perfect health the conviction
that
the power
to keep it.
Mme.
L. T.",
du
Rue
Laos, 4, Paris.
*
*
want
wonderful
my
been
tell you
method
has
what
to
excellent
produced
in my
results
case,
M.
and
to
Coue's
express
deep gratitude for your valuable help. I have always

had
anaemic, and have
health, but after my
poor
husband's
death
I became
much
worse.
I suffered
with
my
Fragments From
kidneys, I
could
and
nervousness
the
spread
simple, so
longer
no
of
for
gone
I
have
suffer,
cheerful.
feel
new
My
myself
as
to
so
from
am
ance,
endur-
more
method,
continue
to
and
friends
woman.
this wonderful
beneficent, and
suffered
also
All that has
more
and
news
best results
upright, I
aversions.
different person.
I am
and
recognize me,
stand
not
Letters
hardly
intend
to
clear,
get from
so
it the
well.
M.
L.
D..., Paris, June, 1920.
*
*
I cannot
find
words
thank
for
teachingme
your
me!
to
good
happiness you
brought
I thank God who
for you
led me
to make
your acquaintance,
life. Formerly I suffered
have
entirelytransformed
my
obliged to he in
terriblyat each monthly period and was
all is quiteregular and painless. It is the same
bed.
Now
with my
no
longer obliged to live on
digestion,and I am
milk as I used, and I have
no
more
pain, which is a joy.
find that when
I travel I
is astonished
to
My husband
before
I was
have
headaches, whereas
no
more
always
I
need
remedies
no
taking tablets. Now, thanks to you,
at all,but I do not
forget to repeat 20 times morning and
"Every day, in every
evening, the phrase you taught me:
gettingbetter and better."
respect, I am
method.
to
What
have
B.
In
you
P...,Paris, October, 1920.
I find it more
re-reading the method
to all the developments inspiredby
all that
has
been
invented
of
and
it.
more
perior
su-
It surpasses
scientific systems,
results of an
uncertain
so-called
the uncertain
based on
themselves
deceives
and
feels its way
itself,and of
science, which
also fairlyprecarious
of observation
the means
are
which
Coue, on the other
the learned say, M.
in spite of what
tains
hand, suffices for everything,
goes straightto the aim, atin freeing his patient carries
it with certaintyand
73
generosity and knowledge

leaves to the patienthimself
the
use
of
Letters
From
Fragments
its
to
the
highest point, since
merit
marvellous
he
of this freedom, and

No, really,there is
power.
It is
alter in this method.
a
as
so
strikingly
nothing
you
and
his acts and words
say : a Gospel. To report faithfully
I
be done, and what
spread his method, that is what must
shall do myself as far as is in any way
possible.
to
P. C.
*
*
amazed
am
at the results that I have
obtained
and
tinue
con-
daily,by the use of the excellent method

of conscious
have taught me
autosuggestion. I was
you
also
I am
well and am
ill mentally and
physically. Now
is to say that my
That
sion
depresnearly always cheerful.
has given way
to
cheerfulness, and certainlyI do
not
complain of the change, for it is very preferable,I
wretched
I used to be!
I could digest
How
assure
you.
I digestperfectlywell and the intestines act
nothing; now
the
now
naturally. I also used to sleep so badly, whereas
I
nights are not long enough; I could not work, but now
able to work
hard.
Of all my
ailments nothing is left
am
to
but
will
obtain
occasional
an
disappear
method.
I cannot
touch
like
the
of
rheumatism,
feel
sure
by
rest
find words
which
to
continuing your
good
deep gratitude
express
my
to you.
Mme.
Boulevard
74
Friry,
Malesherbes, Paris.
EXTRACTS
Addressed
As
to
have
LETTERS
FROM
Mile.
Coufi
Discipleof M.
Kaufmant,
ing
feeling better and better since followthe method
of autosuggestion which
taught me, I
you
feel I owe
the sincerest thanks, I am
now
qualified
you
to
speak of the great and undeniable
advantages of this
method, as
to
been
it alone
owe
my
lesion
caused
suffered
me
lungs which
from
lack
of appetite,daily vomiting, loss of flesh, and
obstinate
constipation. The
spittingof blood, lessened at
and
once
soon
entirelydisappeared. The vomiting ceased,
the constipation no
longer exists, I have
got back
my
in
I
and
months
have
two
stone
a
gained
nearly
appetite,
in weight. In the face of such results observed, not
only
but
also
the
and
doctor
who
has
friends,
by
by parents
for several months,
it is impossible to
been
attending me
clare
deny the good effect of autosuggestion and not to dethat I owe
return
openly that it is to your method
my
if it is likely
I authorize
to publish my
name
to life.
you
I beg you
believe me.
be of service to others, and
to
to
Yours
most
gratefully,
Jeanne Gilli,
Av.
15,
Borriglione,Nice, March, 1918.
in
the
I had
recovery.
I
to
spit blood.
to you
grateful I am
benefits
of autosuggestion.
the
with
for
acquainting me
I no
Thanks
to you,
longer suffer from those agonizing and
frequent heart stoppages, and I have regained my appetite
Still more,
I had
lost for months.
which
as
a
hospital
it
I consider
nurse,
miraculous
with
must
duty
thank
recovery
to
tell you
from
you
of
tuberculosis, which
one
of
caused
75
how
for
the
almost
my
heart
my
patients,seriously ill
him
to
vomit
blood
con-
copiously. His
stantlyand
after
few
present, he
those
before
myself
him.
After
ceased, his
were
very
first
your
appetite returned,
his sick bed,

tions.
functheir normal
little resumed
had the pleasantsurpriseand
we
arrive
seeing him
of
to
you
by
visits made
more
and
family
blood
little by
organs
At last one
day
all the
joy
sent
spittingof
visit the
and
heaven
when
anxious
Letters
From
Extracts
at
where,
private seance,
your
made
himself
to
you
of
declaration
the
kind intervention.
your
you with all my heart.
Yours
gratefullyand sympathetically,
due
his cure,
Thank
to
A. Kettnee,
1918.
Nice, March,
26, Av. Borriglione,
...From
day
for the
you
the
doctors
done
but
day
to
of
cure
to
try the
I
advised
to
me
that there
going
and
to
see
Arcachon
of
do
so
you.
have
in
was
nothing
was
sanitorium
was
go
put off writingto you
little Sylvain. I
my
tellingme
Dunkirk.
near
I have
when
to
despair,
be
to
more
or
thank
Juicoot,
Collard
Mme.
hesitated,as
felt
the proof of your skill,

about it; but I now
sceptical
His
for Sylvain has completely recovered.
appetite is
good, his pimples and his glands are
completely cured,
the first time
and
since
what
is still more
extraordinary,
he has not
that we
went
to see
coughed any more,
you
not
he
I
even
has
the
once;
gained
proclaimto
result is,that
lbs.; I
everyone
can
since the month

thank
never
the benefits
we
you
of
enough
June
and
have received.
Mme.
Poirson,
Liverdun, August, 1920.

*
How
saved
can
my
I prove
to
life. I had
attacks of
fact
they
were
deep gratitude? You have

a
displacedheart,which caused terrible
in
suffocation,which went
on
continually;
violent that I had no
so
rest day or
night,
you
my
76
Extracts
in
From
Letters
of morphia.
spiteof dailyinjections
instant
without
vomiting.
I had
I could
eat
nothing
violent
pains in the head

result I lost my
sight.
whole
fered
organism suf-
which
became
all swollen, and as a
I was
in a lamentable
and my
state
from
the
it. I had abscesses on
after having tried
despaired of me
liver.
The
doctor
everything; blood
letting,cupping and scarifying,
poultices,ice, and every
course
possible remedy, without
improvement. I had reany
to
After
and
kindness
your
the doctor's advice.
on
first visits the
your
attacks
less violent
became
less
frequent,and soon
disappearedcompletely. The
bad and
troubled
able
calmer, until I was
nights became
the
whole
to
sleep
night through without waking. The
pains I had in the liver ceased completely. I could
begin to take my food again, digestingit perfectlywell,
and I again experiencedthe feelingof hunger which I had
known
for months.
not
ceased, and my
My headaches
had
troubled me
much,
so
are
quite cured,
eyes, which
since I
am
able
now
to
occupy
myself with
little manual
work.
At
each
resuming
were
only
every
one
to
week
it, for the doctor
observe
found
since
recovery,
eleven
months.
could
I
It is indeed
says
thanks
that for
all that
well have taken
you
to
came
see
me
finallythere came
after having been in bed
get up
got
to
who
better, and
much
me
up
the least giddiness,
and
even
as
paid me, I felt that my organs

you
their natural
I was
functions.
the
not
visit that
without
in
that
discomfort,
any
fortnightI
am
the medicines
could
cured, for
did me,
not
go out.
the doctor
might just
none.
doctors
who
held
all the
same,
and
After
having been given up by two

cured
out
no
hope of cure, here I am
I
it is indeed a complete cure, for now
eat a pound of bread
day. How
every
for I repeat, it is thanks
life.
that I owe
my
to
the
eat
can
can
meat,
I thank
suggestionyou
and
you,
taught me
Jeanne Grosjean,
Nancy, Nov., 1920.
77
From
Extracts
Letters
I
science
of
autosuggestion for
...Personallythe
has rendered
me
consider it as entirelya science
great
I
continue
services;but truth compels me to declare that if
I find in
in it,it is because
to interest myself particularly
it the means
of exercisingtrue charity.
"
"
1915
In
when
present for
was
Coue's
lectures, I confess
Before
facts
rare) in which
were
very
cases,
neurasthenia
is
he
entirelysceptical.
was
even
I have
it fail
seen
are
nervous
imaginary illness.
or
need
no
yourself,but
"that
M.
repeated in my presence, I
suggestion
to evidence, and recognizethat autogrees,
always acted, though naturallyin different deThe
(and those
only cases
organic diseases.
on
There
at
times
hundred
obligedto surrender
was
that
first time
the
to
tell you
again that
strongly,insists
more
M.
on
miracle
Coue, like
this
point:
anybody, but
cures
or
performs a
I confess
themselves."
how
to cure
people
that on this point I stillremain a trifle incredulous, for if
M. Coue
does not actuallycure
people,he is a powerful
in "giving heart"
aid to their recovery,
to
the sick, in
ing
to despair,in uplifting
them, in leadteachingthem never
moral
them... higher than themselves
into
spheres that
of
the
humanity, plunged in materialism, has
majority
that he
never
never
shows
reached.
The
more
study autosuggestion,the
divine
the
also
stand
underconfidence
and
love that Christ
shalt love thy neighbor" and
by
law
of
"Thou
preached us:
giving a little of one's heart and of
help him to rise if he has fallen and
is ill. Here
better
from
one's
to
moral
cure
force
himself
to
if he
Christian
point of view, is the

which
I
consider as a ficial
beneautosuggestion
and
science
which
stand
comforting
helps us to underthat as the children of God, we
all have within us
forces whose
existence we
did not suspect, which
properly
my
applicationof
directed, serve
to
elevate
us
morally
and
to
heal
us
physically.
Those
who
do not
know
your
78
science,or who
only know
(Reprinted from the

artistique"
of
the
\"th
EMILE
TO
of
of the month
course
Institute
professor at the
et
COUE
September, 1920,
of Charles
the book
for the first time
politique,litteraire
of December, 1920)
"Renaissance
HOMAGE
In the
WITHIN
MIRACLE
THE
Baudouin,
opened
of Geneva,
in that town.
J. J. Rousseau
and
work, published by the firm of Delachaux
"SuggesNiestle, 26, rue Saint-Dominique, Paris, is called: tion
This
et
Emile
reached
author
Coue, the initiator
and
benefactor,with
put
down
it and
the
did
not
the very
work,
magnificentlyhumanitarian
which
may
appear
of everyone.
scope
the greatest
After
the
book
it : "To
deep gratitude".
until
I had
end.
fact is that it contains
The
a
The
read
has
dedicated
Autosuggestion".
good
childish
just
simple expositionof
founded
on
a
theory
because
if everyone
puts
will proceed from
it.
than
And
of
it is within
it into
the
practice,
indefatigablework,
Coue
Emile
who
at the present time lives at Nancy, where
he latelyfollowed
the work
and experiments of Liebault,
the father of the doctrine
of suggestions,for more
than
has been
occupied exclusively
twenty years, I say, Coue
with this question,but particularly
in order
to
bring his
fellow creatures
to cultivate autosuggestion.
At the beginning of the century Coue
had attained the
object of his researches, and had disengaged the general
and immense
force of autosuggestion. After
innumerable
thousands
of
experiments on
the action
subjects,he showed
the
unconscious
in
This is new,
of
and the
organic cases.
merit
of
this
great
profoundly,modest learned man, is to
have found
a
remedy for terrible ills,reputed incurable or
terriblypainful,without any hope of relief.
As I cannot
enter
here into long scientific details I will
more
twenty
years
80
The
Miracle
Within
of Nancy
myself by saying how the learned man
his method.
practises
The
chiselled epitome of a whole
life of patientresearches
and of ceaseless observations,
is a brief formula
which
is to be repeatedmorning and evening.
It must
be said in a low voice,with the eyes closed,in a
positionfavourable to the relaxingof the muscular system,
be in bed, or it may
it may
be in an easy chair,and in a
of voice as if one
tone
a litany.
were
reciting
Here are the magic words : "Every day, in every respect.
I am
gettingbetter and better".
They must be said twenty times following,with the help
of a string with
a
as
serves
twenty knots in it, which
This
detail
has
it
material
its
ensures
importance;
rosary.
mechanical
which
essential.
is
recitation,
these words, which
While articulating
are
registeredby
the unconscious, one
think
of
not
must
cular,
anything parti-
content
neither
of
one's
illness
nor
of
one's
troubles,
passive,just with the desire that all may

formula
"in every
The
the best.
respect" has a
be
must
be
one
for
general
effect.
expressed without passion,without

but with absolute confidence.
will,with gentleness,
does
of autosuggestion,
Coue at the moment
For Emile
This
not
desire must
be
call in the will in any
way,
on
the
contrary; there
must
but the imagithe will at that moment,

nation,
active than
force infinitely
the great motive
more
is usually invoked, the imaginationalone must
that which
be brought into play.
confidence in yourself,"
"Have
says this good counsellor,
indeed all is
And
"believe firmly that all will be well".
be
no
questionof
well for those who have faith,fortifiedby perseverance.

As deeds talk louder than words, I will tell you what
happened to myself before I had ever seen M. Coue.
I
of September when
I must
go back then to the month
At the end of a
opened M. Charles Baudouin's volume.
of
the care
the author enumerates
substantial exposition,
illnesses such
as
enteritis,
eczema,
81
stammering,dumbness,
The
a
Within
Miracle
had necessitated
twenty years back which
fibrous tueleven
mours,
operations,metritis, salpingitis,
cular
varicose veins, etc., lastlyand above all,deep tuber-
dating from
sinus
the last stages of phthisis(case of Mme.

mother
of Troyes, aged 30 years, who has become
a
and
sores,
D
,
since her
cure;
case
followed
was
relapse). All this is often
up,
testified to
but
there
no
was
by doctors in
dance
atten-
the
patients.
These
examples impressed me
profoundly; there
the miracle.
It was
not
a
question of nerves, but of
on
which
medicine
tuberculosis
attacks
without
revelation to me.
suffered for two
years from
Having
was
This
success.
was
ills
of
cure
acute
neuritis in the
pain. Four doctors, two of them

be
had pronounced the sentence
which
would
specialists,
enough, of itself alone, to increase the trouble by its fatal
This
influence on
the mind:
"Nothing to be done!"
of autosuggestions.
"nothing to be done" had been for me the worst
face, I
In
was
in horrible
possessionof
the formula:
"Every day,
in every
spect...",
re-
etc., I recited it with

had
faith which, although it

a
the less capable of removing
none
suddenly,was
shawls and scarves,
headed,
baremountains, and throwing down
I went
into the garden in the rain and wind repeating
gently "/ am going to be cured, I shall have no more
.".
neuritis,it is going away, it will not come
back, etc.
The next day I was
cured and never
since have
any more
I suffered from
this abominable
complaint,which did not
come
allow
take
of doors
and
made
able.
life unbearIt was
immense
an
joy. The incredulous will say:
"It was
all nervous."
Obviously,and I give them this first
point. But, delightedwith the result,I tried the Coue
for an oedema
Method
of the left ankle,resulting
from an
affection of the kidneys reputed incurable.
In two
days
the
me
to
oedema
step
out
had
disappeared. I then treated fatigueand

depression,
etc, and extraordinary
improvement was
produced,and I had but one idea: to go to Nancy to thank
mental
my
benefactor.
82
The
there and
I went
Miracle
Within
found
the excellent man,

attractive by
friend.
who
has become
simplicity,
my
goodness and
It was
him in his field of action. He
to see
indispensable
I heard
invited me
to
a
cert
cona
popular "seance."
of gratitude. Lesions in the lungs, displacedorgans,
asthma, Pott's disease ( !), paralysis,the whole
deadly
of diseases were
I
horde
to
a
saw
being put
flight.
and
who
twisted in his chair, get
sat contorted
paralytic,
Coue
had spoken, he demanded
walk.
M.
fidence,
conup and
his
great, immense
"Learn
to
cure
confidence
yourselves,you
cured
The
and
Having
in
oneself.
do
can
said:
He
I have
so;
never
is within you
yourselves,call
power
anyone.
make
it act for your physicaland mental
upon
your spirit,
good, and it will come, it will cure you, you will be strong
happy".
paralytic:"You
will walk?"
you
got up,
woman
The
miracle
what
Coue
approached
the
said, do you believe that

"Yes.""
"Very well then, get up!" The
round
the garden.
she walked, and
went
was
heard
spoken,
I
accomplished.
girlwith Pott's disease,whose vertebral column

young
became
what an
straightagain after three visits,told me
A
to
happinessit was
having thought herself
intense
after
Three
women,
cured
their
delightat going
Coue
in the
midst
of
of
back
those
feel herself
a
coming
back
to
life
hopelesscase.
lesions in the
to
work
and
lungs, expressed
to
people whom
normal
he
life.
loves, seemed
all his
ignores money,
being apart, for this man
and his extraordinarydisinterestedness
work
is gratuitous,
"I owe
forbids his taking a farthing for it
thing",
someyou
I said to him, "I simply owe
everything..."
you
"No, only the pleasureI shall have from your continuing
to keep well..."
this simpleAn
irresistible sympathy attracts
to
one
round
the
in arm
walked
minded
arm
we
philanthropist;
he
kitchen
cultivates himself, getting up
garden which
he considers with
a
Practically
vegetarian,
early to do so.
to
me
satisfaction the results of his work.

conversation
goes
on:
"In
your
83
mind
And
you
then
the serious
possess
an
un
The
limited
It acts
power.
it.
Within
Miracle
if
matter
on
how
know
we
mestica
do-
to
imagination is like a horse without a

bridle;if such a horse is pullingthe carriagein which you
do all sorts of foolish things and take you to
are, he may
But
harness him properly,drive him with a
death.
your
The
sure
hand, and
with
the mind, the
our
which
order
an
unknown
out
the
the
marvelous
When
be directed for
the
feel
lips,
the
it
night, so that
important. It gives
physicalpain, add the

quickly repeated,in a
method
having
ask
can
with
all at
the most
going away...",very
voice, placing your hand
the pain,or on the forehead,if
one
it is
results.
you
For
above
and
ourselves
to
Thus
receives,it carries
unconscious
evening autosuggestionis
After
like.
you
imagination. They must

good. Autosuggestion,formulated
own
is
wherever
will go
he
acts
it
it is
kind
ing
dron-
help
of
the
is
feel
you
distress.
soul
the
mind.
for the
for all the circumstances
again
of
part where
mental
"It
on
efficaciously
very
called in the
the
on
formula
and
body,
ties
difficul-
of life.
also
There
I know
modified
singularly
You
know
it
by reading
"Culture
de
from
by this
experience that
of
to-day,and
making
Nancy to
this unique
and
know
it better
I have
been
fetch
the
still
himself
found
at
M.
"Self
will
seem
surelyis worth
tery."
Mas-
Coue's.
able to
inspirein you the desire

pilgrimage yourself, you will go
booklet.
unique by
man,
Coue
Like
of
reason
fellows,as
myself
his
you
noble
will love
charity
Christ taught it.
myself also,you
Life
That
will
you
book, and then his pamphlet:

la force morale", and
then, lastly,the little
of his love for his
Like
be
Baudouin's
M.
this excellent
to
can
process.
succinct treatise written by M.

All these works
be
may
If however
events
will be cured physically

and mentally.
better and
to you
beautiful.
more
the trouble of trying for.
M.
84
Burnat-Provins.
SOME
ON
NOTES
M.
OF
THE
COUE
TO
desire
that
should
October
the
1919
teachings
be
not
IN
PARIS
OCTOBER,
The
JOURNEY
lost
to
of
M.
Coue
in
others, has
last
Paris
urged
to
me
Putting aside this time the numerous

their
have
mentally ill,who
seen
people, physically or
lessen and
ficent
troubles
disappear as the result of his beneof his
let us begin by quoting just a few
treatment,
teachings.
is it that I do not
obtain better results
Question. Why
and prayer?
although I use your method
mind
Answer.
Because, probably, at the back of your
make
there is an
unconscious
doubt, or because
efforts.
you
if
determined
the
remember
that efforts are
Now,
will;
by
risk of
serious
a
bring the will into play, you run
you
bringing the imagination into play too, but in the contrary
of
what
direction, which
brings about
just the reverse
them
write
down.
"
"
desire.
you
Question.
What
"
are
to
we
do
when
something
troubles
us?
Answer.
repeat
at
something
When
"
"No,
once
that
does
least, the fact is rather

short, the idea is to work
the
instead
of in
Question.
that
happens
not
trouble
agreeable
than
ourselves
up
troubles
otherwise."
in
in
all, not
at
me
you,
good
In
sense
bad.
Are
the
preliminary experiments indispensable

if they are
unacceptable to the pride of the subject?
Anszccr.
not
No, they are
indispensable,but they are
of great utility;for although they may
childish to
seem
certain people,they are
the contrary
on
extremely serious;
they do indeed prove three things:
"
"
1. That
every
idea
that
have
we
85
in
our
minds
becomes
Some
for
true
Notes
and
us,
the
on
has
tendency
Coue
Journey of M.
to
itself into
transform
action.
there is
when
2. That
the
conflict between
imagination
in
will,it is always the imagination which wins; and

wish
do exactly the contrary of what
this case
we
we
to
do.
and
the
3. That
it is easy for
effort,the idea that
any
to
us
we
think
without
effort to
and then "I can."
able
been
put into our minds, without

have
wish to have, since we
in succession
preliminaryexperiments should
"I
not,"
can-
be
repeated at
home; alone, one is often unable to put oneself in the right
physicaland mental conditions,there is a risk of failure,
The
and
in this
one's
case
Question. When
of
is in
pain, one
ing
help think-
cannot
one's trouble.
Answer.
do
of
self-confidence is shaken.
one
"
not
Do
"
think
be
afraid to think of it;

of it,but to say to it, "I am
not
on
the
not
trary,
con-
afraid
you."
If
anywhere and a dog rushes at you barking,

look it firmly in the eyes and it will not bite you;
but if
fear
if
he
turn
will
have
his
it,
back,
soon
you
you
teeth in your legs.
Question. And if one does a retreat?
you
go
"
Answer.
Go
"
backwards.
Question. How can we realize what we desire?

Answer.
By often repeating what you desire: "I am
gaining assurance," and you will do so; "My memory
is improving," and
it really does so;
"I
am
becoming
of myself," and
find
absolutelymaster
that
are
you
you
becoming so.
"
"
If
come
you
say
the
contrary, it is the
will
quickly comes
to
about.
What
you
say
and
persistently
pass (within the domain

Some
testimonies :
A
contrary which
young
ladyto
another
very
of the reasonable,of
lady: "How
86
course).
simpleit is ! There
When
has
one
benefit; when
almost
and
urgent
their
benefit
absolute
duty
of
of
who
it
though
al-
all
the
not
an
initiated)
are
For
of
great
everyone,
it, is
of
them?
results
amazing
Cou".
M.
reach
ignorant
(for those
around
those
to
the
own
is
of
advantage
take
to
is within
everyone
it known
make
to
able
been
this
Disciple
Leon,
Emile
Mme.
By
EVERYONE"
FOR
"EVERYTHING
make
can
Coue
"Emile
Method."
To
drive
lead
to
pain is much...
possession of
away
into
the
but
life
new
much
how
is it
more
all
who
those
suffer...
Last
April
here
and
are
the
on
what
had
the
of
his
some
Question.
of
we
Eternal
M.
make
to
Coue
theist:
trick
Coue
think
obedience
our
calls
Emile
M.
Paris,
at
teachings :
of
Question
"
visit of
to
it is
his
mechanical
or
unworthy
will, depend
:
process
scious
con-
autosuggestion.
M.
Coue.
always
Whether
"
overrules
lead
our
it into
wish
we
it
will, when
not,
or
they
are
our
in
imagination
conflict.
We
the
right path indicated by our

by
reason,
that
consciously employing the mechanical
we
ploy
emprocess
often
lead
into
to
the
unconsciously
wrong.
the thoughtful questioner
And
to herself:
"Yes, it
says
is true, in this elevated
of
sphere
thought, conscious
suggestion
auto-
can
has
by
the
power
ourselves, which
and
God, just as
us
the
prevent
can
Question.
dear
to
"
who
one
autosuggestions
Answer.
"
sun
How
Do
may
which
not
to
free
us
from
obstacles
created
might as
were
put a veil between
of
a
stuff, hanging in a window,
piece
from
coming into a room.
about
to
set
ought one
bringing those
it
be
suffering,to
would
insist
set
or
them
lecture
make
themselves
good
free?
them
about
it.
Just
'EverythingFor
remind
them
simply
with
result
that I advise
the
conviction
them
that
make
to
an
suggestion
auto-
will obtain
they
the
they want.
Question. How
is
plain
explain to oneself and to ex"I
to others that the repetition
words:
of the same
going to sleep...It is going away..."etc., has the power
produce the effect,and above all so powerful an effect
"
am
to
that it is a certain
Anstver.
to
Everyone"
think
The
"
one
to
one
repetitionof
them, and
when
the
words
same
think
forces
one
they become true

and transform
themselves
us
reality.
is one
to
Question. How
keep inwardly the mastery
we
for
them
into
"
of oneself?
Answer.
that
To
"
be master
of oneself it is enough to
and in order to think it,one
should
is so,
repeat it without
Question. And
one
"
making any effort.

outwardly, how
is
keep
to
one
think
often
one's
?
liberty
Answer.
Self
"
mastery
applies just as
much
physically
mentally.
as
Question (Affirmation). It is
trouble or sadness, if we
do not do
"
be
not
just,and
impossible to
as
we
escape
it
would
should,
autosuggestion,cannot...
and
ought
not
prevent justsuffering.
to
M.
and
any
CouS
(very seriouslyand
assuredlyit ought not to be
rate
for
affirmatively).Certainly
"
so,
but it is
so
often... at
time.
Question. Why did that patientwho has been entirely

have those terrible attacks?
cured, continually
Answer.
He
expected his attacks, he feared them...
and so he provoked them; if this gentleman gets well into
his mind
the idea that he will have no
more
attacks,he
if he thinks that he will have them, he
will not have any;
"
"
will indeed
do
Question.
others.
"
Answer.
"
so.
In
The
what
does
difference
your
in
89
my
method
method
differ
is: that
from
it is
Everyone''
"Everything For
the will which
not
rules
but
us
imagination;that is the
the
basis.
basis,the fundamental
Question. Will
a
give me
you
"Method"
for Mme.
R...,who is doing
"
M.
a
E.
few
If
makes
time
Here
"
often
we
your
important work?
an
is the summary
of the "Method"
in
Contrary to what is taught,it is not our will
us
act, but our
imagination (the unconscious).
Coue.
words:
which
of
summary
do act
think that
as
will,it is because
we
the
at
same
If it is not so, we
do exactly
we
can.
the reverse
of what
wish.
Ex:
The
we
a
more
person
with
insomnia
determines
the
to
excited
more
sleep,
she becomes; the more
remember
we
a
name
try to
which
think
have
the
we
it escapes
we
forgotten,
more
we
(it comes
us
idea:
back
"I
have
back") ; the
laughing,the
determine
the
more
more
you
replace the
"it
will
come
from
prevent ourselves
laughter bursts out; the more
we
our
rush
we
strive
we
avoid
to
more
We
only if, in your mind,

forgotten",by the idea
to
obstacle,when
an
learningto bicycle,
it.
upon
then
apply ourselves to directingour imagination

directs
now
we
us; in this way
easilyarrive at
of
ourselves
becoming masters
physicallyand morally.
How
are
to arrive at this result?
we
By the practice
of conscious autosuggestion.
must
which
Conscious
autosuggestion is based
Every idea that we have in

and tends to realize itself.
Thus,
if
end
of
this
thing
whether
desire
we
more
is
it is
or
our
mind
something,we
less
long time,
going to come, or
a
good qualityor
this principle.
becomes true for us
on
to
a
can
if
obtain
often
we
it at
the
repeat that
disappear,according to
fault,either physical or
mental.
Everythingis
the
included
general formula:
getting better and
Question." For
Answer."
be
As
by employing night and morning

"Every day, in every respect, I am
better".
those who
long
cheerful,and
as
you
in
are
sad"
think:
order
90
to
"I
who
am
think
are
in distress?
sad",
you
not
can-
something,it
is
''EverythingFor
enough
to
without
say
the distress it will
to
that I
can
Everyone"
effort : "I do think this
however
disappear,
"
thing
"
as
be,
violent it may
affirm.
arrives
bent, dragging himself
painfullyalong,
leaningon two sticks ; he has on his face an expressionof
dull depression. As the hall is filling
ters.
enup, M. E. Coue
he says to him
After
having questioned this man,
for
something like this: "So you have had rheumatism
walk.
Don't be afraid, it's not
32 years and you cannot
going to last as long as that again".
Then
after the preliminary experiments: "Shut
your
the
and
repeat very quicklyindeed, moving your lips,
eyes,
time M. Coue
words : "It is going,it is going" (at the same
for 20 to 25
the legs of the patient,
over
passes his hand
seconds). Now you are no longer in pain,get up and walk
quicklystill!
(the patientwalks) quickly!quicker!more
and since you can walk so well, you are going to run ; run !
almost as if
The patientruns
Monsieur, run!
(joyously,
he had recovered his youth),to his great astonishment,and
man
also to that of the numerous

present at the seance
persons
of April 27th, 1920.
(Clinicof Dr. Berillon.)
suffered from attacks of
A lady declares: "My husband
in breathsuch difficulty
ing
years, he had
many
feared a fatal issue; his medical adviser, Dr.
that we
cured
almost radically
had given him up.
He was
X
visit from M. Coue".
of his attacks,after only one
M.
Coue
with lively
to thank
A
comes
woman
young
asthma
for
gratitude.Her
doctor, Dr. Vachet, who
the
room,
that the
had
suffered
says
for
cerebral
anaemia
long while, which
with
was
from
he had
her
which
in
she
succeeded
not
had disappeared as if by
checking by the usual means,
magic through the use of conscious autosuggestion.
had had a fractured leg and could
who
Another
person
in
walk
not
without
normally. No
In
break
or
more
the hall which

out
from
pain
and
limping,could
at
once
walk
limping.
thrills with interest,
joyful testimonies
pain, no
numerous
more
persons
cured.
91
who
have
been
relieved
'EverythingFor
Everyone''
of healing".
"Autosuggestion is the weapon
As to this philosopherwho
his name),
writes (he mentions
he relies on the genius of Coue.
A
a
gentleman, a former magistrate,whom
lady had
in a
asked
his appreciation,
exclaims
moved
to
express
"I cannot
I think
tone:
appreciationinto words
put my
it is admirable
A woman
of the world, excited by the
disappearanceof her sufferings:"Oh, M. Coue, one could
A
doctor:
"
"
"
kneel
to
you
You
"
the
are
merciful
God!"
Another
lady, very much

impressed herself, rectifies: "No, his
messenger".
An
is aged and
when
aged lady: It is delightful,
one
fragile,to replace a feelingof general ill health by that
of refreshment
and general well-being,
and M. E. Coue's
I affirm for I have
method
proved it, produce this
can,
happy result,which is all the more
complete and lasting
since it relies on the all-powerfulforce which is within us.
A warmly sympatheticvoice calls him the modest
name
he prefersto that of "Master"
Coue.
: Professor
A
who
has been entirelywon
"M.
over:
Coue goes straightto his aim, attains it with sureness,
and,
in settingfree his patient,carries generosity and knowledge
to
himself
woman
young
its
highest point, since
the merit
power".
literary
man,
d'oeuvre"
on
the
he
leaves
to
the
use
of
of his liberation and
the
whom
write
lady asks
beneficent
to
"Method"
patient
a
vellous
mar-
little"chef
refuses
absolutely,
which, used according to the
all sufferingdisappear: IT
IS
is the chef-d'oeuvre"he affirms.
emphasizingthe simple words

Method,
help
GOING
And
AWAY"
or
make
to
that
the thousands
of sick folks who
cured will not contradict him.
lady who
the "Method"
has
I find it
it has
add
it. I shall do
away
nor
suffered
much
and
more
have
declares:
more
been
"In
re-reading
superiorto
inspired;there is reallynothing
to
this "Method"
so
in every
"
all that is left is to
possibleway"
92
relieved
the developmen
to
take
spread
CONSCIOUS
PRACTICE
TO
HOW
AUTOSUGGESTION
Every
soon
as
times
before
morning
in
are
you
shut
bed,
succession,
in
getting
your
moving
your
mechanically
and
counting
knots, the
following
twenty
I
way,
getting better
the
particular, as
and
lips
(this is
by
"Day
Do
"in
able),
indispensin
day,
every
of
way"
every
with
string
think
not
as
twenty
repeat
long
better".
words
evening
every
eyes,
on
phrase:
and
am
and
up
thing
any-
apply
to
everything.
this
Make
with
with
autosuggestion
of
what
certainty
obtaining
the
the
conviction,
greater
greater
obtained.
be the
results
the
Further,
that
to
feel
you
affirm
any
that
it, and
yourself
passing
in
the
distress
yourself
to
isolate
time
every
that
you
as
hand
going
are
of
course
will
much
the
make
to
the
it
possible, shut
if
forehead,
as
day
will
night
or
immediately
contribute
consciously
not
The
rapid
more
mental,
or
faith,
want.
you
and
physical
you
with
confidence,
disappear;
your
then
eyes,
and
it is
something
if
it
is
painful,
part
something
physical, repeat
extremely
quickly, moving
lips, the
your
words:
"It
is going,
it is going
", etc., etc., as
long as
your
mental,
or
over
over
your
the
which
is
"
it may
be
mental
necessary.
distress
Begin
again
effort
in
will
whenever
With
have
it is
little
vanished
necessary.
practice the
in
20
Avoid
physical
25
to
seconds.
carefully
practising autosuggestion.
EMILE
or
COUE
any

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"Our

actions spring not from our

of this force is useful

erring, the unconscious

of sugproperly the phenomena

"immediately" bringing into

bringing about the disappearance of

organism, but also

while in the second

you imagine that you

they think they can do it.

have forgotten,the more

catchingsight of the smallest obstacle in the

Self Mastery Through

cannot"; "I want

his troops and always

that the entire flock would

the obstacle,but I cannot"

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help it, something impelledme,

speak the truth;

the parts are reversed.

this self,hitherto considered

it is necessary to define carefully

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Properly speaking, no.

exist except on the sine qua non

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'.'"'.*If the unconscious

persuade yourselfthat you

the least effort,often find it impossible

it is sufficient to think a pain is going,

predictin advance that they

strong is its action

that it is the property

they produce.) But above all,and this is an essential

the will and the imagination,

the least considered

twenty years, and

is of capital importance, and

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the will and

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upright,with the body as stiff as an iron bar, the

Self Mastery Through Conscious

Repeat the experiment using a tone of

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contrary it is preferableto employ the

successful, all the

and it is easy to recogvery sensitive,

easilyproduced. After two

"think that" ; You

subject finds it absolutelyimpossible

de-contraction takes place instantaneously.

subjectjoin his hands, and suggest

the table,and suggest that it is stuck to it; tell him

lift it,etc., etc.

Self Mastery Through Conscious

it,that, there, it is going

swallowing it. In these conditions

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evacuating the bowels,

being obligedto take medicine

gloomy and prone to worry and look on the dark