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    The Practice of Autosuggestion
    The Practice of Autosuggestion
    The Practice of Autosuggestion
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    The Practice of Autosuggestion

    By C. Harry Brooks

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    C. Harry Brooks' "The Practice of Autosuggestion" is a study on mental health. In America, the home of so many systems of mental healing, it is perhaps even more necessary than in Europe to insist on the distinctive features of M. Coué's teaching. It is based, not on transcendental or mystical postulates, but the simple and acknowledged facts of psychology. This does not mean that it has no relation to religion. On the contrary, it has a very close one. Indeed I hope in a future volume to point out its deep significance for the Christian churches. But that relationship remains in M. Coué's teaching unexpressed. The powers he has revealed are part of the natural endowment of the human mind. Therefore they are available to all men, independently of adherence or non-adherence to any sect or creed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateApr 25, 2021
    ISBN4057664625427
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      The Practice of Autosuggestion - C. Harry Brooks

      C. Harry Brooks

      The Practice of Autosuggestion

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664625427

      Table of Contents

      FOREWORD

      I COUÉ'S NANCY PRACTICE

      II THE NATURE OF AUTOSUGGESTION

      III THE PRACTICE OF AUTOSUGGESTION

      I

      COUÉ'S NANCY PRACTICE

      THE CLINIC OF EMILE COUÉ

      A FEW OF COUÉ'S CURES

      THE CHILDREN'S CLINIC

      II

      THE NATURE OF AUTOSUGGESTION

      THOUGHT IS A FORCE

      THOUGHT AND THE WILL

      III

      THE PRACTICE OF AUTOSUGGESTION

      GENERAL RULES

      THE GENERAL FORMULA

      PARTICULAR SUGGESTIONS

      HOW TO DEAL WITH PAIN

      AUTOSUGGESTION AND THE CHILD

      CONCLUSION

      FOREWORD

      Table of Contents

      The materials for this little book were collected by Mr. Brooks during a visit he paid me in the summer of 1921. He was, I think, the first Englishman to come to Nancy with the express purpose of studying my method of conscious autosuggestion. In the course of daily visits extending over some weeks, by attending my consultations, and by private conversations with myself, he obtained a full mastery of the method, and we threshed out a good deal of the theory on which it rests.

      The results of this study are contained in the following pages. Mr. Brooks has skilfully seized on the essentials and put them forward in a manner that seems to me both simple and clear. The instructions given are amply sufficient to enable anyone to practise autosuggestion for him or herself, without seeking the help of any other person.

      It is a method which everyone should follow—the sick to obtain healing, the healthy to prevent the coming of disease in the future. By its practice we can insure for ourselves, all our lives long, an excellent state of health, both of the mind and the body.

      E. COUÉ.

      NANCY.

      I

      COUÉ'S NANCY PRACTICE

      Table of Contents

      II

      THE NATURE OF AUTOSUGGESTION

      Table of Contents

      III

      THE PRACTICE OF AUTOSUGGESTION

      Table of Contents

      I

      COUÉ'S NANCY PRACTICE

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER I

      THE CLINIC OF EMILE COUÉ

      Table of Contents

      The clinic of Emile Coué, where Induced Autosuggestion is applied to the treatment of disease, is situated in a pleasant garden attached to his house at the quiet end of the rue Jeanne d'Arc in Nancy. It was here that I visited him in the early summer of 1921, and had the pleasure for the first time of witnessing one of his consultations.

      We entered the garden from his house a little before nine o'clock. In one corner was a brick building of two stories, with its windows thrown wide to let in the air and sunshine—this was the clinic; a few yards away was a smaller one-storied construction which served as a waiting-room. Under the plum and cherry trees, now laden with fruit, little groups of patients were sitting on the garden seats, chatting amicably together and enjoying the morning sunshine while others wandered in twos and threes among the flowers and strawberry beds. The room reserved for the treatments was already crowded, but in spite of that eager newcomers constantly tried to gain entrance. The window-sills on the ground floor were beset, and a dense knot had formed in the doorway. Inside, the patients had first occupied the seats which surrounded the walls, and then covered the available floor-space, sitting on camp-stools and folding-chairs. Coué with some difficulty found me a seat, and the treatment immediately began.

      The first patient he addressed was a frail, middle-aged man who, accompanied by his daughter, had just arrived from Paris to consult him. The man was a bad case of nervous trouble. He walked with difficulty, and his head, arms and legs were afflicted with a continual tremor. He explained that if he encountered a stranger when walking in the street the idea that the latter would remark his infirmity completely paralysed him, and he had to cling to whatever support was at hand to save himself from falling. At Coué's invitation he rose from his seat and took a few steps across the floor. He walked slowly, leaning on a stick; his knees were half bent, and his feet dragged heavily along the ground.

      Coué encouraged him with the promise of improvement. You have been sowing bad seed in your Unconscious; now you will sow good seed. The power by which you have produced these ill effects will in future produce equally good ones.

      The next patient was an excitable, over-worked woman of the artisan class. When Coué inquired the nature of her trouble, she broke into a flood of complaint, describing each symptom with a voluble minuteness. Madame, he interrupted, you think too much about your ailments, and in thinking of them you create fresh ones.

      Next came a girl with headaches, a youth with inflamed eyes, and a farm-labourer incapacitated by varicose veins. In each case Coué stated that autosuggestion should bring complete relief. Then it was the turn of a business man who complained of nervousness, lack of self-confidence and haunting fears.

      When you know the method, said Coué, you will not allow yourself to harbour such ideas.

      I work terribly hard to get rid of them, the patient answered.

      You fatigue yourself. The greater the efforts you make, the more the ideas return. You will change all that easily, simply, and above all, without effort.

      I want to, the man interjected.

      That's just where you're wrong, Coué told him. If you say 'I want to do something,' your imagination replies 'Oh, but you can't.' You must say 'I am going to do it,' and if it is in the region of the possible you will succeed.

      A little further on was another neurasthenic—a girl. This was her third visit to the clinic, and for ten days she had been practising the method at home. With a happy smile, and a little pardonable self-importance, she declared that she already felt a considerable improvement. She had more energy, was beginning to enjoy life, ate heartily and slept more soundly. Her sincerity and naïve delight helped to strengthen the faith of her fellow-patients. They looked on her as a living proof of the healing which should come to themselves.

      Coué continued his questions. Those who were unable, whether through rheumatism or some paralytic affection, to make use of a limb were called on, as a criterion of future progress, to put out their maximum efforts.

      In addition to the visitor from Paris there were present a man and a woman who could not walk without support, and a burly peasant, formerly a blacksmith, who for nearly ten years had not succeeded in lifting his right arm above the level of his shoulder. In each case Coué predicted a complete cure.

      During this preliminary stage of the treatment, the words he spoke were not in the nature of suggestions. They were sober expressions of opinion, based on years of experience. Not once did he reject the possibility of cure, though with several patients suffering from organic disease in an advanced stage, he admitted its unlikelihood. To these he promised, however, a cessation of pain, an improvement of morale, and at least a retardment of the progress of the disease. Meanwhile, he added, the limits of the power of autosuggestion are not yet known; final recovery is possible. In all cases of functional and nervous disorders, as well as the less serious ones of an organic nature, he stated that autosuggestion, conscientiously applied, was capable of removing the trouble completely.

      It took Coué nearly forty minutes to complete his interrogation. Other patients bore witness to the benefits the treatment had already conferred on them. A woman with a painful swelling in her breast, which a doctor had diagnosed (in Coué's opinion wrongly), as of a cancerous nature, had found complete relief after less than three weeks' treatment. Another woman had

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