SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION: Achieve Success Through Self-Suggestion - Emile Coué (1922) - SECRETS OF SUCCESS: Masters’ Greatest Wisdom

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Self mastery through conscious auto suggestion by Emil Coup nineteen
twenty two. Self mastery through conscious auto suggestion suggestion, or
rather auto suggestion is quite a new subject, and yet
at the same time it is as old as the world.
It is new in the sense that until now it

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has been wrongly studied and in consequence wrongly understood. It
is old because it dates from the appearance of man
on the earth. In fact, auto suggestion is an instrument
that we possess at birth, and in this instrument, or
rather in this force, resides a marvelous and incalculable power, which,
according to circumstances, produces the best or the worst results.

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Knowledge of this force is useful to each one of us,
but it is peculiarly indispensable to doctors, magistrates, lawyers, and
to those engaged in the work of education. By knowing
how to practice it consciously, it is possible in the
first place, to avoid provoking in others bad auto suggestions,
which may have disastrous consequences, and secondly, consciously to provoke

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good ones instead, thus bringing physical health to the sick,
and moral health to the neurotic, and the airing the
unconscious victims of anterior auto suggestions, and to guide into
the right path those who had a tendency to take
the wrong one. The conscious self and the unconscious self.
In order to understand properly the phenomena of suggestion, or

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to speak, more correctly, of auto suggestion, it is necessary
to know that two absolutely distinct selves exist within us.
Both are intelligent, but while one is conscious, the other
is unconscious. For this reason, the existence of the latter
generally escapes notice. It is, however, easy to prove its
existence if one merely takes the trouble to examine certain

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phenomena and to reflect a few moments upon them. Let
us take, for instance, the following examples. Every One has
heard of somnambulism. Every One knows that a somnambulist gets
up at night, without waking, leaves his room, after either
dressing himself or not, goes downstairs, walks along corridors, and,
after having executed certain acts or accomplished certain work, returns

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to his room, goes to bed again, and shows next
day the greatest astonishment at finding work finished which he
had left unfinished the day before. It is, however, he
himself who has done it. Without being aware of it.
What force has his body obeyed if it is not
an unconscious force, in fact, his unconscious self. Let us
now examine the alas too frequent case of a drunkard

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attacked by delirium tremens. As though seized with madness, he
picks up the nearest weapon knife, hammer, or hatchet, as
the case may be, and strikes furiously those who are
unlucky enough to be in his vicinity. Once the attack
is over, he recovers his senses and contemplates with horror
the scene of carnage around him, without realizing that he

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himself is the author of it. Here again, is it
not the unconscious self which has caused the unhappy man
to act in this way? And what aversions? What ill
is we can create for ourselves, every one of us,
and in every domain, by not immediately bringing into play
good conscious auto suggestions against our bad unconscious auto suggestions,

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thus bringing about the disappearance of all unjust suffering. If
we compare the conscious with the unconscious self, we see
that the conscious self is often possessed of a very
unreliable memory, while the unconscious self, on the contrary, is
provided with a marvelous and impeccable memory, which registers, without
our knowledge, the smallest events, the least important acts of
our existence. Further, it is credulous and accepts with unreasoning

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docility what it is told. Thus, as it is the
unconscious that is responsible for the functioning of all our organs,
but the intermediary of the brain, a result is produced
which may seem rather paradoxical to you. That is, if
it believes that as certain organ functions well or ill,
or that we feel such and such an impression, the
organ in question does indeed function well or ill, or

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we do feel that impression. Not only does the unconscious
self preside over the functions of our organism, but also
over all our actions, whatever they are. It is this
that we call imagination, and it is this which, contrary
to accepted opinion, always makes us act even and above
all against our will when there is antagonism between these

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two forces, will and imagination. If we open a dictionary
and look up the word will, we find this definition
the faculty of freely determining certain acts. We accept this
definition as true and unattackable, although nothing could be more false.
This will that we claim so proudly always yields to

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the imagination. It is an absolute rule that admits of
no exception blasphemy paradox, you will exclaim not at all.
On the contrary, it is the purest truth, I shall reply.
In order to convince yourself of it, open your eyes,
look round you, and try to understand what you see.

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You will then come to the conclusion that what I
tell you is not an idle theory offspring of a
sick brain, but the simple expression of a fact. Suppose
that we place on the ground a plank thirty feet
long by one foot wide. It is evident that everybody
will be capable of going from one end to the
other of this plank without stepping over the edge. But
now change the conditions of the experiment and imagine this

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plank placed at the height of the towers of a cathedral.
Who then will be capable of advancing even a few
feet along this narrow path? Could you hear me speak?
Probably not. Before you had taken two steps, you would
begin to tremble, and in spite of every effort of
your will, you would be certain to fall to the ground.
Why is it then that you would not fall if

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the plank is on the ground, and why should you
fall if it is raised to a height above the ground.
Simply because in the first case you imagine that it
is easy to go to the end of this plank,
while in the second case you imagine that you cannot
do so. Notice that your will is powerless to make
you advance. If you imagine that you cannot, it is
absolutely impossible for you to do so. If tilers and

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carpenters are able to accomplish this feat, it is because
they think they can do it. Vertigo is entirely caused
by the picture we make in our minds that we
are going to fall. This picture transforms itself immediately into
fact in spite of all the efforts of our will,
and the more violent these efforts are, the quicker is
the opposite to the desired result brought about. Let us

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now consider the case of a person suffering from insomnia.
If he does not make any effort to sleep, he
will lie quietly in bed. If, on the contrary, he
tries to force himself to sleep by his will, the
more efforts he makes, the more restless he becomes. Have
you not noticed that the more you try to remember
the name of a person which you have forgotten, the

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more it eludes you, until substituting in your mind the
idea I shall remember in a minute, to the idea
I have forgotten, the name comes back to you of
its own accord, without the least effort. Let those of
you who are cyclists remember the days when you were
learning to ride. You went along, clutching the handlebars and
frightened of falling. Suddenly catching sight of the smallest obstacle

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in the road, you try to avoid it, and the
more efforts you made to do so, the more surely
you rushed upon it. Who has not suffered from an
attack of uncontrollable laughter, which bursts out more violently the
more one tries to control it. What was the state
of mind of each person in these different circumstances. I
do not want to fall, but I cannot help doing so.

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I want to sleep, but I cannot. I want to
remember the name of missus so and so, but I cannot.
I want to avoid the obstacle, but I cannot. I
want to stop laughing, but I cannot. As you see,
in each of these conflicts, it is always the imagination
which gains the victory over the will without any exception.
To the same order of ideas belongs the case of

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the leader who rushes forward at the head of his
troops and always carries them along with him, while the
cry each man for him is almost certain to cause
a defeat. Why is this It is because in the
first case the men imagine that they must go forward,
and in the second they imagine that they are conquered
and must fly for their lives. Panurge was quite aware

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of the contagion of example, that is to say, the
action of the imagination, when to Avenge himself upon a
merchant on board the same boat, he bought his biggest
sheep and threw it into the sea, certain beforehand that
the entire flock would follow, which indeed happened. We human
beings have a certain resemblance to sheep, and involuntarily we
are irresistibly impelled to follow other people's examples, imagining that

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we cannot do otherwise. I could quote a thousand other examples,
but I should fear to bore you by such an enumeration.
I cannot, however, pass by in silence this fact, which
shows the enormous power of the imagination, or in other words,
of the unconscious in its struggle against the will. There
are certain drunkards who wish to give up drinking, but

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who cannot do so. Ask them, and they will reply
in all sincerity that they desire to be sober, that
drink disgusts them, but that they are irresistibly impelled to
drink against their will in spite of the harm they
know it will do them. In the same way, certain
criminals commit crimes in spite of themselves, and when they
are asked why they acted so, they answer, I could

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not help it. Something impelled me. It was stronger than I.
And the drunkard and the criminals speak the truth. They
are forced to do what they do for the simple
reason they imagine they cannot prevent themselves from doing so. Thus,
we who are so proud of our will, who believe
that we are free to act as we like, are
in reality nothing but wretched puppets of which our imagination

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holds all the strings. We only cease to be puppets
when we have learned to guide our imagination, suggestion and
auto suggestion. According to the preceding remarks, we can compare
the imagination to a torrent, which fatally sweeps away the
poor wretch who has fallen into it in spite of
his efforts to gain the bank. This torrent seems indomitable,

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but if you know how, you can turn it from
its course and conduct it to the factory, and there
you can transform its force into movement, heat, and electricity.
If this simile is not enough, we may compare the
imagination the mad man at home, as it has been called,
to an unbroken horse, which has neither bridle nor reins.
What can the rider do except let himself go wherever

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the horse wishes to take him. And often if the
latter runs away, his mad career only comes to end
in the ditch. If, however, the rider succeeds in putting
a bridle on the horse, the parts are reversed. It
is no longer the horse who goes where he likes.
It is the rider who obliges the horse to take
him wherever he wishes to go. Now that we have

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learned to realize the enormous power of the unconscious or
imaginative being, I am going to show how this self,
hitherto considered indomitable, can be as easily controlled as a
torrent or an unbroken horse. But before going any further,
it is net necessary to define carefully two words that
are often used without being properly understood. These are the

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word suggestion and auto suggestion. What then, is suggestion? It
may be defined as the act of imposing an idea
on the brain of another. Does this action really exist
properly speaking? No, Suggestion does not indeed exist by itself.
It does not and cannot exist except on the sine

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qua non condition of transforming itself into auto suggestion in
the subject. This latter word may be defined as the
implanting of an idea in oneself by oneself. You may
make a suggestion to someone. If the unconscious of the
latter does not accept the suggestion, if it has not,
as it were, digested it in order to transform it

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into autosuggestion, it produces no result. I have myself occasionally
made a more or less commonplace suggestion to ordinarily very
obedient subjects, quite unsuccessfully. The reason is that the unconscious
of the subject refused to accept it and did not
transform it into auto suggestion. The use of auto suggestion.

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Let us now return to the point where I said
that we can control and lead our imagination just as
a torrent or an unbroken horse can be controlled to
do so. It is enough in the first place to
know that this is possible, of which fact almost everyone
is ignorant, and secondly to know by what means it
can be done well. The means is very simple. It

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is that which we have used every day since we
came into the world, without wishing or knowing it, and
absolutely unconsciously, but which unfortunately for us, we often use
wrongly and to our own detriment. This means is auto suggestion.
Whereas we constantly give ourselves unconscious auto suggestions, all we
have to do is to give ourselves conscious ones. And

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the process consists in this. First to weigh carefully in
one's mind the things which are to be the object
of the auto suggestion, and according as they require the
answer yes or no, to repeat several times without thinking
of anything else. This thing is coming or this thing
is going away, this thing will or will not happen,
et cetera, et cetera. If the unconscious accepts this suggestion

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and transforms it into an auto suggestion, the thing or
things are realized in every particular. Thus understood, auto suggestion
is nothing but hypnotism. As I see it, and I
would define it in these simple words, the influence of
the imagination upon the moral and physical being of mankind. Now,
this influence is undeniable, and without returning to previous examples,

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I will quote a few others. If you persuade yourself
that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing
be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If,
on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the
simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you
to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.
Such is the case of neurasthenics, who, believing themselves incapable

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of the least effort, often find it impossible even to
walk a few steps without being exhausted. And these same
neurasthenics sink more deeply into their depression the more efforts
they make to throw it off, like the poor wretch
in the quicksands, who sinks in all the deeper the
more he tries to struggle out. In the same way,
it is sufficient to think a pain is going to

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feel it indeed disappear little by little, And inversely, it
is enough to think that one suffers in order to
feel the pain begin to come immediately. I know certain
people who predict in advance that they will have a
sick headache on a certain day in certain circumstances, and
on that day, in the given circumstances, sure enough they
feel it. They brought their illness on themselves, just as

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others cure theirs by conscious auto suggestion. I know that
one generally passes for mad in the eyes of the
world if one dares to put forward 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 physically, it is that they imagine themselves
to be ill mentally or physically. If certain others are paralytic,

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without having any lesion to account for it, it is
that they imagine themselves to be paralyzed. And it is
among such persons that the most extraordinary cures are produced.
If others, again are happy or unhappy, it is that
they imagine themselves to be so. For it is possible
for two people in exactly the same circumstances to be
the one perfectly happy, the other absolutely wretched. Neurasthenia stammering aversions, kleptomania,

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certain cases of paralysis are nothing but the result of
unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say, the result of the
action of the unconscious upon the physical and moral being.
But if our unconscious is the source of many of
our ills, it can also bring about the cure of
our physical and mental ailments. It cannot only repair the
ill it has done, but cure real illnesses, so strong

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is its action upon our organism. Shut yourself up alone
in a room, Seat yourself in an arm chair, close
your eyes to avoid any distraction, and concentrate your mind
for a few moments on thinking such and such a
thing is going to disappear, or such and such a
thing is coming to pass. If you have really made
the auto suggestion, that is to say, if your unconscious

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has assimilated the idea that you have presented to it,
you are astonished to see the thing you have thought
come to pass. Note that it is the property of
ideas auto suggested to exist within us, unrecognized, and we
can only know of their existence by the effect they produce.
But above all, and this is an essential point, though,
will must not be brought into play in practicing auto suggestion.

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For if it is not in agreement with the imagination.
If one thinks I will make such and such a
thing happen, and the imagination says you are willing it,
but it is not going to be, not only does
one not obtain what one wants, but even exactly the
reverse is brought about. This remark is of capital importance
and explains why results are so unsatisfactory when in treating

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moral ailments one strives to re educate the will. It
is the training of the imagination which is necessary. And
it is thanks to this shade of difference that my
method has often succeeded where others, and those not the
least considered, have failed. From the numerous experiments that I
have made daily for twenty years, and which I have
examined with minute care, I have been able to deduct

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the following conclusions, which I have summed up as laws. One.
When the will and the imagination are antagonistic, it is
always the imagination which wins, without any exception. Two. In
the conflict between the will and the imagination, the force
of the imagination is in direct ratio to the square
of the will. Three. When the will and the imagination

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are in agreement. One does not add to the other,
but one is multiplied by the other. Four the imagination
can be directed. The expressions in direct ratio to the
square of the will and is multiplied by are not
rigorous exact. They are simply illustrations destined to make my
meaning clearer. After what has just been said, it would

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seem that nobody ought to be ill. That is quite true.
Every illness, whatever it may be, can yield to auto suggestion.
Daring and unlikely as my statement may seem, I do
not say does always yield, but can yield, which is
a different thing. But in order to lead people to
practice conscious auto suggestion, they must be taught, how just

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as they are taught to read, or write or play.
The piano. Auto suggestion is, as I said above, an
instrument that we possess at birth, and with which we
play unconsciously all our life, as a baby plays with
its rattle. It is, however, a dangerous instrument. It can
wound or even kill you if you handle it imprudently
and unconsciously. It can, on the contrary, save your life

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when you know how to employ it consciously. One can
say of it as Esop said of the tongue, it
is at the same time the best and the worst
thing in the world. I am now going to show
you how every one can profit by the beneficent action
of auto suggestion consciously applied. In saying every one, I
exaggerate a little, for there are two classes of persons

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in whom it is difficult to arouse conscious auto suggestion.
One the mentally undeveloped, who are not capable of understanding
what you say to them. Two those who are unwilling
to understand how to teach patients to make auto suggestions.
The principle of the method may be summed up in
these few words. It is impossible to think of two

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things at once. That is to say that two ideas
may be in juxtaposition, but they cannot be superimposed in
our mind. Every thought entirely filling our mind becomes true
for us and tends to transform itself into action. Thus,
if you can make a sick person think that her
trouble is getting better, it will disappear. If you succeed
in making a kleptomaniac think that he will not steal

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any more, he will cease to steal, et cetera. Et cetera.
This tra which perhaps seems to you an impossibility, is, however,
the simplest thing in the world. It is enough, by
a series of appropriate and graduated experiments to teach the
subject as it worthy a be c of conscious thought.
And here is the series. By following it to the letter,

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one can be absolutely sure of obtaining a good result,
except with the two categories of persons mentioned above. First
experiment preparatory. Ask the subject to stand 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 himself

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like a plank with hinges at its base, which is
balanced on the ground. Make him notice that if one
pushes the plank slightly either way, it falls as a
mass without any resistance in the direction in which it
is pushed. Tell him that you are going to pull
him back by the shoulders, and that he must let
himself fall in your arms without the slightest resistance, turning
on his ankles as on hinges, that is to say,

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keeping the feet fixed to the ground. Then pull him
back by the shoulders, and if the experiment does not succeed,
repeat it until it does or nearly so. Second experiment.
Begin by explaining to the subject that, in order to
demonstrate the action of the imagination upon us, you are
going to ask him, in a moment to think, I
am falling backwards. I am falling backwards. Tell him that

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he must have no thought but this in his mind.
That he must not reflect or wonder if he is
going to fall or not, or think that if he
falls he may hurt himself, et cetera, or fall back
purposely to please you, but that if he really feels
something impelling him to fall backwards, he must not resist
but obey the impulse. Then ask your subject to raise
the head high and to shut his eyes, and place

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your right fist on the back of his neck and
your left hand on his forehead, and say to him, now,
think I am falling backwards, I am falling backwards, et cetera,
et cetera. And indeed you are falling backwards. You are
fall iron g back wards, et cetera. At the same time,
slide the left hand lightly backwards to the left temple

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above the ear, and remove very slowly, but with a
continuous movement, the right fist. The subject is immediately felt
to make a slight movement backwards and either to stop
himself from falling or else to fall completely. In the
first case, tell him that he has resisted and that
he did not think just that he was falling, but
that he might hurt himself if he did fall. That

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is true, for if he had not thought the latter,
he would have fallen like a block. Repeat the experiment,
using a tone of command as if you would force
the subject to obey. You go on with it until
it is completely successful or very nearly so. The operator
should stand a little behind the subject, the left leg
forward and the right leg well behind him, so as

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not to be knocked over by the subject when he falls.
Neglect of this precaution might result in a double fall
if the person is heavy. Third experiment. Place the subject
facing you, the body still stiff, the ankles flexible, and
the feet joined in parallel. Put your two hands on
his temples without any pressure, Look fixedly, without moving the

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eyelids at the root of his nose, and tell him
to think, I am falling forward. I am falling forward,
And repeat to him, stressing the syllables you are fall
iron g for ward. You are fall iron g for ward,
without ceasing to look fixedly at him. Fourth experiment. Ask
the subject to clasp his hands as tight as possible,

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that is to say, until the fingers tremble slightly. Look
at him in the same way as in the preceding experiment,
and keep your hands on his as though to squeeze
them together still more tightly. Tell him to think that
he cannot unclasp his fingers, that you are going to
count three, and that when you say three, he is
to try to separate his hands, while thinking all the
time I cannot do it. I cannot do it, and

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he will find it impossible. Then count very slowly one, two, three,
and add immediately detaching the syllables. You can not do it.
You can not do it. If the subject is thinking properly,
I cannot do it. Not only is he unable to
separate his fingers, but the latter clasp themselves all the

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more tightly together. The more efforts he makes to separate them,
he obtains, in fact, exactly the contrary to what he wants.
In a few moments, say to him, now, think I
can do it, and his fingers will separate themselves. Be
careful always to keep your eyes fixed on the root
of the subject's nose, and do not allow him to
turn his eyes away from yours for a single moment.

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If he is able to unclasp his hands, do not
think it is your own fault. It is the subjects
He has not properly thought. I cannot assure him firmly
of this, and begin the experiment again. Always use a
tone of command which suffers no disobedience. I do not
mean that it is necessary to raise your voice. On

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the contrary, it is preferable to employ the ordinary pitch,
but stress every word in a dry and imperative tone.
When these experiments have been successful, all the others succeed
equally well, and can be easily obtained by carrying out
to the letter the instructions given above. Some subjects are
very sensitive, and it is easy to recognize them by
the fact that the contraction of their fingers and limbs

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is easily produced. After two or three successful experiments, it
is no longer necessary to say to them, think this,
or think that. You need only, for example, say to
them simply, but in the imperative tone employed by all
good suggestionists. Close your hands now, you cannot open them.
Shut your eyes now, you cannot open them. And the

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subject finds it absolutely impossible to open the hands or
the eyes, in spite of all his efforts. Tell him
in a few moments, you can do it now, and
the decontraction takes place instantaneously. These experiments can be varied
to infinity. Here are a few more. Make the subject
join his hands and suggest that they are welded together.

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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 pen
holder on the table and tell him that it weighs
a hundredweight and that he cannot lift it, et cetera,
et cetera. In all these experiments I cannot repeat too often.
It is not suggestion properly so called, which produces the phenomena,

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but the auto suggestion, which is consecutive to the suggestion
of the operator. Method of procedure. In curative suggestion, when
the subject has passed through the preceding experiments and has
understood them, he is ripe for curative suggestion. He is
like a cultivated field in which the seed can germinate
and develop, whereas before it was but rough earth, in

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which it would have perished. Whatever ailment the subject suffers from,
whether it is physical or mental, it is important to
proceed always in the same way, and to use the
same words, with a few variations according to the case.
Say to the subject, sit down and close your eyes.
I am not going to try and put you to sleep,
as it is quite unnecessary. I ask you to close

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your eyes simply in order that your attention may not
be distracted by the objects around you. Now tell yourself
that every word I say is going to fix itself
in your mind and be printed, engraved and incrusted in it.
That there it is going to stay fixed, imprinted, and encrusted.
And that without your will or knowledge, in fact, perfectly
unconsciously on your part, you, yourself, and your whole organism

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are going to obey. 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 agreeable sensation which makes you think and say, oh,
how nice it will be to have something to eat,

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will then eat and enjoy your food, without of course overeating.
You will also be careful to masticate it properly, so
as to transform it into a sort of soft paste
before swallowing it. In these conditions, you will digest it
properly and so feel no discomfort, inconvenience, or pain of
any kind, either in the stomach or intestines. You will

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assimilate what you eat, and your organism will make use
of it to make blood, muscle, strength, and energy, in
a word, life. Since you will have digested your food properly,
the function of excretion will be normal, and every morning,
on rising, you will feel the need of evacuating the bowels,
and without ever being obliged to take medicine or to
use any artifice, you will obtain a normal and satisfactory result. Further,

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every night, from the time you wish to go to
sleep till the time you wish to wake next morning,
you will sleep deeply, calmly, and quietly, without nightmares, and
on waking you will feel perfectly well, cheerful, and active. Likewise,
if you occasionally suffer from depression, if you are gloomy
and prone to worry and look on the dark side
of things. From now onwards, you will cease to do so,

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and instead of worrying and being depressed and looking on
the dark side of things, you are going to feel
perfectly cheerful, possibly without any special reason for it, just
as you used to feel depressed for no particular reason.
I say further still, that even if you have real
reason to be worried and depressed, you are not going
to be so. If you are also subject to occasional

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fits of impatience or ill temper, you will cease to
have them. On the contrary, you will be always patient
and master of yourself, and the things which worried, annoyed,
or irritated you will henceforth leave you absolutely indifferent and
perfectly calm. If you are sometimes attacked, pursued, haunted by
bad and unwholesome ideas, by apprehensions, fears, aversions, temptations, or

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grudges against other people, all that will be gradually lost
sight of by your imagination, and will melt away and
lose itself, as though in a distance cloud, where it
will finally disappear completely. As a dream vanishes when we wake,
so will all these vain images disappear to this I
add that all your organs are performing their functions properly.

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The heart beats in a normal way, and the circulation
of the blood takes place as it should. The lungs
are carrying out their functions, as also the stomach, the intestines,
the liver, the biliary duct, the kidneys, and the bladder.
If at the present moment any of them is acting abnormally,
that abnormality is becoming less every day, so that quite
soon it will have vanished completely and the organ will

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have recovered its normal function. Further, if there should be
any lesions in any of these organs, they will get
better from day to day and will soon be entirely healed.
With regard to this, I may say that it is
not necessary to know which organ is affected for it
to be cured. Under the influence of the auto suggestion,
every day, in every respect I am getting better and

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better the unconscious acts upon the old organ, which it
can pick out itself. I must also add, and it
is extremely important, that if up to the present you
have lacked confidence in yourself, I tell you that this
self distrust will disappear little by little and give place
to self confidence based on the knowledge of this force
of incalculable power which is in each one of us.

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It is absolutely necessary for every human being to have
this confidence. Without it, one can accomplish nothing. With it,
one can accomplish whatever one likes. Within reason. Of course,
you are then going to have confidence in yourself, and
this confidence gives you the assurance that you are capable
of accomplishing perfectly well whatever you wish to do, on

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condition that it is reasonable, and whatever it is your
duty to do. So, when you wish to do something
reasonable or when you have a duty to perform, always
think that it is easy, and make the words difficult impossible.
I cannot. It is stronger than I. I cannot prevent
myself from disappear from your vocabulary. They are not English.

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What is English? Is it is easy? And I can.
By considering the thing easy, it becomes so for you.
Although it might seem difficult to others. You will do
it quickly and well and without fatigue, because you do
it without effort. Whereas if you had considered it as
difficult or impossible, it would have become so for you
simply because you would have thought it so. To these

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general suggestions, which will perhaps seem long and even childish
to some of you, but which are necessary must be
added those which apply to the particular case of the
patient you are dealing with. All these suggestions must be
made in a monotonous and soothing voice, always emphasizing the
essential words, which, although it does not actually send the
subject to sleep, at least makes him feel drowsy and

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think of nothing in particular. When you have come to
the end of the series of suggestions, you address the
subject in these terms. In short, I mean that from
every point of view, physical as well as mental, you
are going to enjoy excellent health, better health than that
you have been able to enjoy up to the present.
Now I am going to count three, and when I
say three, you will open your eyes and come out

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of the passive state in which you are now. You
will come out of it quite naturally, without feeling in
the least drowsy or tired. On the contrary, you will
feel strong, vigorous, alert, active, full of life. Further still,
you will feel very cheerful and fit in every way. One, two, three.
At the word three, the subject opens his eyes, always

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with a smile and an expression of well being and
contentment on his face. Sometimes though rarely the patient is
cured on the spot. At other times, and this is
more generally the case, he finds himself relieved, his pain
or his depression has partially or totally disappeared, though only
for a certain lapse of time. In every case, it

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is necessary to renew the suggestions more or less frequently
according to your subject, being careful always to space them
out at longer and longer intervals according to the progress obtained,
until they are no longer necessary, that is to say,
when the cure is complete. Before sending away your patient,
you must tell him that he carries within him the
instrument by which he can cure himself, and that you are,

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as it were, only a professor teaching him to use
this instrument, and that he must help you in your task. Thus,
every morning, before rising and every night on getting into bed,
he must shut his eyes and in thought transport himself
into your presence, and then repeat twenty times consecutively in
a monotonous voice, counting by means of a string with
twenty knots in it, this little phrase. Every day, in

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every respect, I am getting better and better in his mind.
He should emphasize the words in every respect which applies
to every need, mental or physical. This general suggestion is
more efficacious than special ones. Thus it is easy to
realize the part played by the giver of the suggestions.
He is not a master who gives orders, but a friend,

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a guide who leads the patient step by step on
the road to health. As all the suggestions are given
in the interest of the patient, the unconscious of the
latter asks nothing better than to assimilate them and transform
them into auto suggestions. When this has been done, the
cure is obtained, more or less rapidly, according to circumstances.

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The superiority of this method. This method gives absolutely marvelous results,
and it is easy to understand why. Indeed, by following
out my advice, it is impossible to fail, except with
the two classes of persons mentioned above, who fortunately represent
barely three percent of the whole. If, however, you try

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to put your subjects to sleep right away without the
explanations and preliminary experiments necessary to bring them to accept
the suggestions and to transform them into auto suggestions, you
cannot and will not succeed except with peculiarly sensitive subjects,
and these are rare. Everybody may become so by training,
but very few are so sufficiently without the preliminary instruction

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that I recommend, which can be done in it few minutes. Formerly,
imagining that suggestions could only be given during sleep, I
always tried to put my patient to sleep, but on
discovering that it was not indispensable, I left off doing
it in order to spare him the dread and uneasiness
he almost always experiences when he is told that he
is going to be sent to sleep, and which often

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makes him offer, in spite of himself, an involuntary resistance. If,
on the contrary, you tell him that you are not
going to put him to sleep, as there is no
need to do so, you gain his confidence. He listens
to you without fear or any ulterior thought, and it
often happens, if not the first time, anyhow, very soon that,

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soothed by the monotonous sound of your voice, he falls
into a deep sleep, from which he awakes astonished at
having slept at all. If there are skeptics among you,
as I am quite sure there are, all I have
to say to them is come to my house and
see what is being done, and you will be convinced
by fact. You must not however, run away with the
idea that auto suggestion can only be brought up in

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the way I have described. It is possible to make
suggestions to people without their knowledge and without any preparation.
For instance, if a doctor, who by his title alone
has a suggestive influence 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 auto suggestion, which may have the most disastrous consequences. If, however,

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he tells him that his illness is a serious one
it is true, but that with care, time and patience
he can be cured. He sometimes and even often obtains
results which will surprise him. Here is another example. If
a doctor, after examining his patient, writes a prescription and
gives it to him without any comment, the remedies prescribed
will not have much chance of succeeding. If, on the

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other hand, he explains to his patient that such and
such medicines must be taken in such and such conditions,
and that they will produce certain results, those results are
practically certain to be brought about. If in this hall
there are medical men or brother chemists, I hope they
will not think me their enemy. I am, on the contrary,
their best friend. On the one hand, I should like

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to see the theoretical and practical study of suggestion on
the syllabus of the medical schools for the great benefit
of the sick and of the doctors themselves. And on
the other hand, in my opinion, every time that a
patient goes to see his doctor, the latter should order
him one or even several medicines, even if they are
not necessary. As a matter of fact, when a patient
visits his doctor it is in order to be told

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what medicine will cure him. He does not realize that
it is the hygiene and regimen which do this, and
he attaches little importance to them. It is a medicine
that he wants. In my opinion, if the doctor only
prescribes a regiment without any medicine, his patient will be dissatisfied.
He will say that he took the trouble to consult
him for nothing, and often goes to another doctor. It

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seems to me, then, that the doctor should always prescribe
medicines to his patient, and as much as possible, medicines
made up by himself rather than the standard remedies so
much advertised in which owe their only value to the advertisement.
The doctor's own prescriptions will inspire infinitely more confidence than
So and so's pills, which anyone can procure easily at
the nearest drug store without any need of a prescription.

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How suggestion works. In order to understand properly the part
played by suggestion, or rather by autosuggestion, it is enough
to know that the unconscious self is the grand director
of all our functions. Make this believed. As I said above,
that a certain organ which does not function well must
perform its function, and instantly the order is transmitted. The

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organ obeys with docility, and either at once or little
by little, performs its functions in a normal manner. This
explains simply and clearly how by means of suggestion one
can stop hemorrhages, cure constipation, cause fibrous tumors to disappear,
cure paralysis, tubercular lesions, vericos ulcers, et cetera. Let us take,

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for example, a case of Denis hemorrhage, which I had
the opportunity of observing in the consulting room of M.
Goth a dentist Atchrouais, a young lady whom I had
helped to cure herself of asthma, from which she had
suffered for eight years, told me one day that she
wanted to have a tooth out. As I knew her
to be very sensitive, I offered to make her feel
nothing of the operation. She naturally accepted with pleasure, and

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we made an appointment with the dentist On the day
we had arranged. We presented ourselves at the dentist's end,
standing opposite my patient. I looked fixedly at her, saying,
you feel nothing, You feel nothing, et cetera, et cetera,
And then, while still continuing the suggestion, I made a
sign to the dentist. In an instant, the tooth was out,

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without Mademoiselle D turning a hair, As fairly often happens,
a hemorrhach followed, but I told the dentist that I
would try suggestion without his using a hemistatic, without knowing
beforehand what would happen. I then asked Mademoiselle D to
look at me fixedly, and I suggested to her that
in two minutes, the hemorrhage would cease of its own accord.

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And we waited. The patient spat blood again once or twice,
and then ceased. I told her to open her mouth,
and we both looked and found that a clot of
blood had formed in a dental cavity. How is this
phenomenon to be explained in the simplest way, Under the
influence of the idea the hemorrhage is to stop. The

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unconscious had sent to the small arteries and veins the
order to stop the flow of blood, and obediently they
contracted naturally, as they would have done artificially at the
contact of a hemistatic like adrenaline. For example. The same
reasoning explains how a fibrous tumor can be made to disappear.
The unconscious, having accepted the idea it is to go.

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The brain orders the arteries which nourish it to contract.
They do so, refusing their services and ceasing to nourish.
The tumor, which deprived of nourishment, dies, dries up, is reabsorbed,
and disappears. The use of suggestion for the cure of
moral ailments and taints, either congenital or acquired neurasthenia, so

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common nowadays, generally yields to suggestion constantly practiced in the
way I have indicated I had had the happiness of
contributing to the cure of a large number of neur
asthenics with whom every other treatment had failed. One of
them had even spent a month in a special establishment
at Luxembourg without obtaining any improvement. In six weeks he

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was completely cured, and he is now the happiest man
one would wish to find, after having thought himself the
most miserable. Neither is he ever likely to fall ill
again in the same way. For I showed him how
to make use of conscious otto suggestion, and he does
it marvelously well. But if suggestion is useful in treating
moral complaints and physical ailments, may it not render still

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greater services to society in turning into honest folks the
wretched children whom people are reformatories, and who only leave
them to enter the army of crime. Let no one
tell me it is possible. The remedy exists, and I
can prove it. I will quote the two following cases,
which are very characteristic. But here I must insert a
few remarks in parenthesis to make you understand the way

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in which suggestion acts in the treatment of moral taints.
I will use the following comparison. Suppose our brain is
a plank in which are driven nails, which represent the ideas, habits,
and instincts which determine our actions. If we find that
there exists in a subject a bad idea, a bad habit,
a bad instinct, as it were, a bad nail, we

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take another, which is the good idea, habit, or instinct,
place it on top of the bad one, and give
a tap with a hammer. In other words, we make
a suggestion. The new nail will be driven in perhaps
a fraction of an inch, while the old one will
come out to the same extent. At each fresh blow
with the hammer, that is to say, at each fresh suggestion,
the one will be driven in a fraction further and

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the other will be driven out the same amount, until
after a cert number of blows, the old nail will
come out completely and be replaced by the new one.
When this substitution has been made, the individual obeys it.
Let us return to our examples. Little M, a child
of eleven living at Chrouis, was subject night and day

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to certain accidents inherent to early infancy. He was also
a kleptomaniac, and of course untruthful into the bargain. At
his mother's request, I treated him by suggestion. After the
first visit, the accident ceased by day, but continued at night.
Little by little they became less frequent, and finally, a

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few months afterwards, the child was completely cured. In the
same period, his thieving propensities lessened, and in six months
they had entirely ceased. This child's brother, aged eighteen, had
conceived a violent hatred against another of his brothers. Every
time that he had taken a little too much wine,
he felt impelled to draw a knife and stab his brother.

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He felt that one day or other he would end
by doing so, and he knew at the same time
that having done so, he would be inconsolable. I treated
him also by suggestion, and the result was marvelous. After
the first treatment, he was cured. His hatred for his
brother had disappeared, and they have since become good friends
and got on capitally together. I followed up the case

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for a long time, and the cure was permanent. Since
such results are to be obtained by suggestion, would it
not be beneficial, I might even say indispensable, to take
up this method and introduce it into our reformatories. I
am absolutely convinced that if suggestion were daily applied to
vicious children, more than fifty percent could be reclaimed. Would

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it not be an immense service to render society, to
bring back to its sane and well members of it
who were formerly corroded by moral decay? Perhaps I shall
be told that suggestion is a dangerous thing, and that
it can be used for evil purposes. This is no
valid objection, first, because the practice of suggestion would only
be confided by the patient to reliable and honest people,

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to the reformatory doctors, for instance. And on the other hand,
those who seek to use it for evil ask no
one's permission. But even admitting that it offers some danger,
which is not so, I should like to ask whoever
proffers the objection, to tell me what thing we use
that is not dangerous? Is it? Steam? Gunpowder, railways, ships, electricity, automobiles, aeroplanes?

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Are the poisons not dangerous which we doctors and chemists
use daily in minute dozes, and which might easily destroy
the patient if in a moment's carelessness, we unfortunately made
a mistake in weighing them out. A few typical cures.
This little work would be incomplete if it did not
include a few examples of the cures obtained. It would

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take too long and would also perhaps be some with tiring.
If I were to relate all those in which I
have taken part, I will therefore content myself by quoting
a few of the most remarkable. Mademoiselle M. D. Of
Chruis had suffered for eight years from asthma, which obliged
her to sit up in bed nearly all night fighting
for breath. Preliminary experiments show that she is a very

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sensitive subject. She sleeps immediately and the suggestion is given.
From the first treatment there is an enormous improvement. The
patient has a good night, only interrupted by one attack
of asthma, which only lasts a quarter of an hour.
In a very short time, the asthma disappears completely and
there is no relapse. Later on. M. M. A working

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hosier living at Saint Savine near Chua, paralyzed for two
years as the result of injuries at the junction of
the spinal column and the pelvis. The paralysis is only
in the lower limbs, in which the circulation of the
blood has practically ceased, making them swollen, congested and discolored.
Several treatments, including the anti syphilitic, have been tried without success.

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Preliminary experiment, successful suggestion applied by me and auto suggestion
by the patient for eight days. At the end of
this time there is an almost imperceptible but still appreciable
movement of the left leg. Renewed suggestion in eight days,
the improvement is noticeable. Every week or fortnight there is

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an increased improvement with progressive lessening of the swelling, and
so on. Eleven months afterwards, on the first of November
nineteen o six, the patient goes downstairs alone and walks
eight hundred yards, and in the month of July nineteen
o seven goes back to the factory, where he has
continued to work since that time with no trace of paralysis. M. A. G.

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Living at Chrouis has long suffered from enteritis, for which
different treatments have been tried in Vain. He is also
in a very bad state mentally, being depressed, gloomy, unsociable,
and obsessed by thoughts of suicide. Preliminary experiments easy followed
by suggestion, which produces an appreciable result from the very

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day for three months daily suggestions to begin with, then
at increasingly longer intervals. At the end of this time,
the cure is complete, the enteritis has disappeared, and his
morals have become excellent. As the cure dates back twelve
years without the shadow of a relapse, it may be
considered as permanent. M G is a striking example of

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the effects that can be produced by suggestion, or rather
by auto suggestion. At the same time as I made
suggestions to him from the physical point of view, I
also did so from the mental and he accepted both
suggestions equally well. Every day his confidence in himself increased, and,
as he was an excellent workman, in order to earn more,

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he looked out for a machine which would enable him
to work at home for his employer. A little later,
a factory owner, having seen with his own eyes what
a good workman he was, entrusted him with the very
machine he desired. Thanks to his skill, he was able
to turn out much more than an ordinary workman, and
his employer, delighted with the result, gave him another and

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yet another machine, until m G, who but for suggestion,
would have remained an ordinary workman, is now in charge
of six machines, which bring him a very handsome profit.
Madam d at chouas about thirty years of age. She
is in the last stages of consumption and grows thinner
daily in spite of special nourishment. She suffers from coughing

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and spitting, and has difficulty in breathing. In fact, from
all appearances, she has only a few months to live.
Preliminary experiments show great sensitiveness, and suggestion is followed by
immediate improvement. From the next day, the morbid symptoms begin
to lessen. Every day the improvement becomes more marked. The
patient rapidly puts on flesh, although she no longer takes

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special nourishment. In a few months, the cure is apparently complete.
This person wrote to me on the first of January
nineteen eleven, that is to say, eight months after I
had left Chhuah, to thank me and to tell me
that although pregnant, she was perfectly well. I have purposely
chosen these cases dating some time back, in order to

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show that the cures are permanent. But I should like
to add a few more recent ones. M X Post
Office clerk at Lunarville, having lost one of his children
in January nineteen ten. The trouble produces in him a
cerebral disturbance which manifests itself by uncontrollable nervous trembling. His
uncle brings him to me in the month of June

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preliminary experiments followed by suggestion for days. Afterwards, the patient
returns to tell me that the trembling has disappeared. I
renew the suggestion and tell him to return in eight days.
A week, then a fortnight, then three weeks, then a
month pass by without my hearing any more of him.
Shortly afterwards, his uncle comes and tells me that he

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has just had a letter from his nephew, who is
perfectly well. He has taken on again his work as telegraphist,
which he had been obliged to give up, and the
day before he had sent off a telegram of one
hundred and seventy words without the least difficulty he could easily,
he added in his letter, have sent off an even
longer one. Since then he has had no relapse. M

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Why of Nancy has suffered from neurasthenia for several years.
He has aversions, nervous fears, and disorders of the stomach,
and intestines. He sleeps badly, is gloomy, and is haunted
by ideas of suicide. He staggers when he walks like
a drunken man, and can think of nothing but his trouble.

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All treatments have failed, and he gets worse and worse.
A stay in a special nursing home for such cases
has no effect whatever. M Why comes to see me
at the beginning of October nineteen ten. Preliminary experiments comparatively easy.
I explain to the patient the principles of otto suggestion
and the existence within us of the conscious and the

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unconscious self, and then make the required suggestion. For two
or three days. M Why has a little difficulty with
the explanations I have given him. In a short time,
light breaks in upon his mind and he grasps the
whole thing. I renew the suggestion, and he makes it
himself too. Every day the improvement, which is at first slow,

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becomes more and more rapid, and in a month and
a half the cure is complete. The ex invalid, who
had lately considered himself the most wretched of men, now
thinks himself the happiest. M e of chruis an attack
of gout. The right ankle is inflamed and painful, and
he is unable to walk. The preliminary experiments show him

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to be a very sensitive subject. After the first treatment,
he is able to regain without the help of his
stick the carriage which brought him, and the pain has ceased.
The next day he does not return as I had
told him to do. Afterwards, his wife comes alone and
tells me that that morning her husband had got up,
put on his shoes and gone off on his bicycle

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to visit his yards. He is a painter. It is
needless to tell you my utter astonishment. I was not
able to follow up this case, as the patient never
deigned to come and see me again. But some time
afterward I heard that he had had no relapse. Madam
t of Nancy neurasthenia, dyspepsia, gastralgia, enteritis and pains in

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different parts of the body. She has treated herself for
several years with a negative result. I treat her by
suggestion and she makes auto suggestions for herself every day.
From the first day. There is a noticeable improvement which
continues without interruption. At the present moment, this person has
long been cured mentally and physically, and follows no regimen.

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She thinks that she still has perhaps a slight touch
of enteritis, but she is not sure. Madame X a
sister of Madame t Dash acute neurasthenia. She stays in
bed a fortnight every month as it is totally impossible
for her to move or work. She suffers from lack
of appetite, depression, and digestive disorders. She is cured by

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one visit and the cure seems to be permanent as
she has had no relapse. Madam H at Maxville general exema,
which is particularly severe on the left leg. Both legs
are inflamed above all at the ankles. Walking is difficult
and painful. I treat her by suggestion that same evening,

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Madam H is able to walk several hundred yards without fatigue.
The day after, the feet and ankles are no longer
swollen and have not been swollen again since. The exema
disappears rapidly. Madame F at Lenouvuville pains and the kidneys
and the knees. The illness dates from ten years back

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and is becoming worse every day. Suggestion from me and
auto suggestion from herself. The improvement is immediate and increases progressively.
The cure is obtained rapidly and is a permanent one.
Madame Z of Nancy felt ill in January nineteen ten
with congestion of the lungs, from which she had not recovered.

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Two months later. She suffers from general weakness, loss of appetite,
bad digestive trouble, rare and difficult bowel action, insomnia, copious
night sweats. After the first suggestion, the patient feels much better,
and two days later she returns and tells me that
she feels quite well. Every trace of illness has disappeared,

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and all the organs are functioning normally. Three or four
times she had been on the point of sweating, but
each time prevented it by the use of conscious auto suggestion.
From this time Madame Z has an enjoyed perfectly good health.
M X at Belford cannot talk for more than ten
minutes or a quarter of an hour without becoming completely

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a fhonus. Different doctors consulted find no lesion in the
vocal organs, but one of them says that m X
suffers from senility of the larynx, and this conclusion confirms
him in the belief that he is incurable. He comes
to spend his holidays at Nancy, and a lady of
my acquaintance advises him to come and see me. He
refuses at first, but eventually consents in spite of his

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absolute disbelief in the effects of suggestion. I treat him
in this way nevertheless, and ask him to return two
days afterwards. He comes back on the appointed day and
tells me that the day before he was able to
converse the whole afternoon without becoming a fonus. Two days
later he returns again to say that his trouble had
not reappeared, although he had not only conversed a great

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deal but even sung the day before. The cure still
holds good, and I am convinced that it will always
do so. Before closing, I should like to say a
few words on the application of my method to the
training and correction of children by their parents. The latter
should wait until the child is asleep, and then one
of them should enter his room with precaution, stop a

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yard from his bed, and repeat fifteen or twenty times
in a murmur, all the things they wish to obtain
from the child. From the point of view of health, work, sleep, application, conduct,
et cetera. He should then retire as he came, taking
great care not to awake the child. This extremely simple
process gives the best possible results, and it is easy

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to understand why. When the child is asleep, his body
and his conscious self are at rest, and, as it were, annihilated,
his unconscious self, however, is awake. It is then to
the latter alone that one speaks, and as it is
very credulous, it accepts what one says to it without dispute,
so that little by little the child arrives at making
of himself what his parents desire him to becclusion. What

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conclusion is to be drawn from all this? The conclusion
is very simple and can be expressed in a few words.
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which,
when we handle it unconsciously, is often prejudicial to us. If,
on the contrary, we direct it in a conscious and
wise manner, it gives us the mastery of ourselves and
allows us not only to escape and to aid others

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to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to
live in relative happiness, whatever the conditions in which we
may find ourselves. Lastly, and above all, it should be
applied to the moral regeneration of those who have wandered
from the right path. Thoughts and precepts of Emil Siui
taken down literally by Madame Emil Leon his disciple. Do

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not spend your time in thinking of illness you might have,
for if you have no real ones, you will create
artificial ones. When you make conscious auto suggestions, do it naturally, simply,
with conviction, and above all, without any effort. If unconscious
and bad auto suggestions are so often realized, it is
because they are made without effort. Be sure that you

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will obtain what you want, and you will obtain it,
so long as it is within reason to become master
of ones self. It is enough to think that one
is becoming. So your hands tremble, your steps falter, Tell
yourself that all that is going to cease, and little
by little it will disappear. It is not in me,
but in yourself that you must have confidence, for it

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is in yourself alone that dwells the force which can
cure you. My part simply consists in teaching you to
make use of that force. Never discuss things you know
nothing about, or you will only make yourself ridiculous. Things
which seem miraculous to you have a perfectly natural cause.
If they seem extraordinary, it is only because the cause

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escapes you. When you know that, you realize that nothing
could be more natural. When the will and the imagination
are in conflict, it is always the imagine which wins.
Such a case is only too frequent, and then not
only do we not do what we want, but just
the contrary of what we want. For example, the more

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we try to go to sleep, the more we try
to remember the name of someone, the more we try
to stop laughing, the more we try to avoid an
obstacle while thinking that we cannot do so. The more
excited we become, the less we can remember the name,
the more uncontrollable our laughter becomes, and the more surely
we rush upon the obstacle. It is then, the imagination,

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and not the will, which is the most important faculty
of man. And thus it is a serious mistake to
advise people to train their wills. It is the training
of their imaginations which they ought to set about. Things
are not for us what they are, but what they seem.
This explains the contradictory evidence of persons speaking in all
good faith. By believing oneself to be the master of

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one's thoughts, one becomes so every one of our thoughts,
good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in shorter reality.
We are what we make ourselves, and not what circumstances
make us. Whoever starts off in life with the idea
I shall succeed, always does succeed, because he does what

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is necessary to bring about this result. If only one
opportunity presents itself to him, and if this opportunity has,
as it were, only one hair on its head, he
seizes it by that one hair. Further, he often brings
about unconsciously or not propitious circumstances, He who, on the contrary,
always doubts himself, never succeeds in doing anything. He might

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find himself in the midst of an army of opportunities
with heads of hair like Absalom, and yet he would
not see them, and could not seize a single one,
even if he had only to stretch out his hand
in order to do so. And if he brings about
circumstances they are generally unfavorable ones, do not then blame fate.
You have only yourself to blame. People are always preaching

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the doctrine of effort, but this idea must be repudiated.
Effort means will, and will means the possible entrance of
the imagination in opposition and the bringing about of the
exactly contrary result to the desired one. Always think that
what you have to do is easy, if possible. In
this state of mind, you will not spend more of
your strength than just what is necessary. If you consider

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it difficult, you will spend ten twenty times more strength
than you need. In other words, you will waste it.
Autosuggestion is an instrument which you have to learn how
to use, just as you would for any other instrument.
An excellent gun in inexperienced hands only gives wretched results.
But the more skilled the same hands become, the more
easily they place the bullets in the target. Conscious auto suggestion,

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made with confidence, with faith, with perseverance, realizes itself mathematically
within reason. When certain people do not obtain satisfactory results
with auto suggestion, it is either because they lack confidence
or because they make efforts, which is the more or
frequent case. To make good suggestions, it is absolutely necessary

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to do it. Without effort. The latter implies the use
of the will, which must be entirely put aside. One
must have recourse exclusively to the imagination. Many people who
have taken care of their health all their life in
vain imagine that they can be immediately cured by auto suggestion.
It is a mistake, for it is not reasonable to think. So.

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It is no use expecting from suggestion more than it
can normally produce, that is to say, a progressive improvement
which little by little transforms itself into a complete cure.
When that is possible, the means employed by the healers
all go back to autosuggestion. That is to say that
these methods, whatever they are, words, incantations, gestures, staging, all

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produce in the patient the auto suggestion of recovery. Every
illness has two aspects, unless it is exclusively a mental one. Indeed,
on every physical illness, a mental walk one comes and
attaches itself. If we give to the physical illness the
coefficient one, the mental illness may have the coefficient one, two, ten, twenty, fifty,

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one hundred and more. In many cases, this can disappear instantaneously,
and if its coefficient is a very high one one hundred,
for instance, while that of the physical ailment is one.
Only this latter is left, or one hundred first of
the total illness. Such a thing is called the miracle,
and yet there is nothing miraculous about it. Contrary to

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common opinion, physical diseases are generally far more easily cured
than mental ones. Bouffon used to say, style is the
man we would put in. That man is what he thinks.
The fear of failure is almost certain to cause failure
in the same way as the idea of success brings
success and enables one always to surmount the obstacles that

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may be met with Conviction is as necessary to the
suggestor as to his subject. It is this conviction, this faith,
which enables him to obtain results where all other means
have failed. It is not the person who acts, it
is the method. Contrary to general opinion, suggestion or autosuggestion

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can bring about the cure of organic lesions. Formerly it
was believed that hypnotism could only be applied to the
treatment of nervous illnesses. Its domain is far greater than that.
It is true that hypnotism acts through the intermediary of
the nervous system. But the nervous system dominates the whole organism.
The muscles are set in movement by the nerves. The

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nerves regulate the circulation by their direct action on the
heart and by their action on the blood vessels, which
they dilate or contract. The nerves act then on all
the organs, and by their intermediation all the unhealthy organs
may be effected. Doctor Paul Jouarre, president of the Societe
Universal Datude Psychics, Bull Number four of the s l P.

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Moral influence has a consider value as a help in healing.
It is a factor of the first order, which it
would be very wrong to neglect, since in medicine, as
in every branch of human activity, it is the spiritual
forces which lead the world. Doctor Lewis reenan lecturing professor
at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris and doctor at
the Necker Hospital, never lose sight of the great principle

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of auto suggestion optimism always, and in spite of everything,
even when events do not seem to justify it. Renee
de Drebois Bull eleven of the s l P. A
suggestion sustained by faith is a formidable force doctor A. L. Paris,
July nineteen twenty. To have and to inspire unalterable confidence,

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one must walk with the assurance of perfect sincerity, And
in order to possess this assurance and sincerity, one must
wish for the good of others more than one's own. Culture.
De la force morale by C. Bodoin observes on what
auto suggestion can do. Young B thirteen years old, enters
the hospital in January nineteen twelve. He has a very

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serious heart complaint, characterized by a peculiarity in the respiration.
He has such difficulty in breathing that he can only
take very slow and short steps. The doctor who attends him,
one of our best practitioners, predicts a rapid and fatal issue.
The invalid leaves the hospital in February no better. A
friend of his family brings him to me, and when

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I see him, I regard him as a hopeless case.
But nevertheless I make him pass through the preliminary experiments,
which are marvelously successful. After having made him a suggestion
and advised him to do the same thing for himself,
I tell him to come back in two days. When
he does so, I notice, to my astonishment, a remarkable
improvement in his respiration and his walking. I renew the

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suggestion in two days afterwards. When he returns, the improvement
has continued, and so it is at every visit. So
rapid is the progress that he makes, that three weeks
after the first visit, my little patient is able to
go on foot with his mother to the plateau of Villers.
He can breathe with ease, and almost normally he can
walk without getting out of breath, and can mount the stairs,

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which was impossible for him before. As the improvement is
steadily maintained, little b asks me if he can go
and stay with his grandmother at Kerrigan, as he seems well.
I advise him to do so, and he goes off,
but sends me news of himself from time to time.
His health is becoming better and better. He has a
good appetite, digests and assimilates his food well, and the

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feeling of oppression has entirely disappeared. Not only can he
walk like everybody else, but he even runs and chases butterflies.
He returns in October, and I can hardly recognize him
for the bent and puny little fellow who had left
me and may have become a tall, upright boy whose
face beams with health. He has grown twelve centimeters in

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gained nineteen pounds in weight. Since then he has lived
a perfectly normal life. He runs up and downstairs, rides
a bicycle, and plays football with his comrades. Mademoiselle X
of Geneva, aged thirteen, sore on the temple, considered by
several doctors as being of tubercular origin. For a year

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and a half it has refused to yield to the
different treatments ordered. She is taken to M. Boudewin, a
follower of Coue at Geneva, who treats her by suggestion
and tells her to return in a week. When she
comes back, the sore has healed. Mademoiselle Z, also of Geneva,
has had the right leg drawn up for seventeen years,

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owing to an abscess above the knee, which had had
to be operated upon. She asks m. Bodewin to treat
her by suggestion, and hardly has he begun when the
leg can be bent and unbent in a normal manner.
There was, of course a psychological cause in this case.
Madame Urbaine Marie, aged d fifty five at Maxville Vericos Nicer,

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dating from more than a year and a half. First
visit in September nineteen fifteen and a second one a
week later in a fortnight, the cure is complete. Emil Chenu,
ten years old, Granderous, nineteen, a refugee from METS some
unknown heart complaint with vegetations every night, loses blood by

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the mouth. Comes first in July nineteen fifteen, 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 vegetations also seem to be no
longer there, and by August nineteen sixteen there had been
no relapse. M has It, aged forty eight, living at Britain,

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invalid the fifteenth of January nineteen fifteen with specific chronic
bronchitis which is getting worse every day. He comes into
me in October eighteen fifteen. The improvement is immediate and
has been maintained since. At the present moment, although he
is not completely cured, he is very much better. M

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b has suffered for twenty four years from frontal sinus,
which had necessitated eleven operations. In spite of all that
had been done. The sinus persisted, accompanied by intolerable pains.
The physical state of the patient was pitiable in the extreme.
He had violent and almost continuous pain, extreme weakness, lack
of appetite, could neither walk, read, nor sleep, et cetera.

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His nerves were nearly as bad as state as his body,
and in spite of the treatment of such men as
Bernheim of Nancy, Dejahine of Paris, du Bois of bern
X of Strasbourg, his ill health not only continued, but
even grew worse every day. The patient comes to me
in September nineteen fifteen on the advice of one of
my other patients. From that moment he made rapid progress,

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and at the present time, nineteen twenty one, he is
perfectly well. It is a real resurrection. M Nagingast aged eighteen.
Rue Celler thirty nine, suffering from Pott's disease, comes to
me in the beginning of nineteen fourteen, having been encased
for six months in a plaster corset. Comes regularly twice

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a week to the seances and makes for himself the
usual suggestion morning and evening. Improvement soon shows itself, and
in a short time the patient is able to do
without his plaster casing. I saw him again in April
nineteen sixteen. He was completely cured and was carrying on
his duties as postman, after having been assistant to an

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ambulance at Nancy, where he had stayed until it was
done away with m d at Jarville. Paralysis of the
left upper eyelid. Goes to the hospital where he receives injections,
as a result of which the eyelid is raised. The
left I was, however, deflected outwards from more than forty
five degrees and an operation seemed to be necessary. It

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was at this moment that he came to me, and
thanks to otto suggestion, the eye went back little by
little to its normal position. Madame L of Nancy continuous
pain in the right side of the face, which had
gone on for ten years. She has consulted many doctors
whose prescriptions seemed of no use, and an operation is
judged to be necessary. The patient comes to me on

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the twenty fifth of July nineteen sixteen, and there is
an immediate improvement. In about ten days time, the pain
has entirely vanished, and up to the twentieth of December
there had been no recurrence t Maurice, aged eight and
a half at Nancy club feet. A first operation cures
or nearly so, the left foot, while the right one

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still remains crippled. Two subsequent operations do no good. The
child is brought to me for the first time in
February nineteen fifteen. He walks pretty well thanks to two
contrivances which hold his feet straight. The first visit is
followed by an immediate improvement, and after the second the
child is able to walk in ordinary boots. The improvement

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becomes more and more marked. By the seventeenth of April,
the child is quite well. The right foot, however, is
not now quite so strong as it was, owing to
a sprain which he gave it in February nineteen sixteen
Lee X at Blainville. A sore on the left foot,
probably of specific origin. A slight sprain has brought about

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a swelling of the foot accompanied by acute pains. Different
treatments have only had a negative effect, and in a
little while a sepurating sore appears, which seems to indicate
carries of the bone. Walking becomes more and more painful
and difficult. In spite of the treatment on the advice
of a former patient who had been cured. She comes
to me and there is noticeable relief. After the first visit.

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Little by little, the swelling goes down, the pain becomes
less intense, the suppuration lessens, and finally the sore heals over.
The process has taken a few months. At present the
foot is practically normal, but although the pain and swelling
have entirely disappeared, the back flexion of the foot is
not yet perfect, which makes the patient limp slightly. Madam

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r of Chavigni metritis, dating from ten years back, comes
at the end of July nineteen sixteen. Improvement is immediate.
The pain and loss of blood diminish rapidly, and by
the following twenty ninth of September both have disappeared. The
monthly period, which lasted from eight to ten days, is

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now over. In four Madam h Rue Gilbert de Pivercourt
at Nancy, aged forty nine, suffers from a vericose ulcer
dating from September nineteen fourteen, which has treated according to
her doctor's advice, but without success. The lower part of
the leg is enormous. The ulcer, which is as large

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as a two franc 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 comes for the first time in April nineteen sixteen,
and the improvement which is visible after the first treatment
continues without interruption. By the eighteenth of February nineteen seventeen,

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the swelling has entirely subsided and the pain and irritation
have disappeared. The sore is still there, but it is
no larger than a pea, and it is only a
few millimeters in depth. It still discharges very slightly. By
nineteen twenty, the cure has long been complete. Mademoiselle d
at Meyercourt, sixteen years of age, has suffered from attacks

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of nerves for three years. The attacks, at first infrequent,
have gradually come at closer intervals. When she comes to
see me on the first of April nineteen seventeen, she
has had three attacks. In the preceding fortnight, up to
the eighteenth of April, she did not have any at all.
I may add that this young lady, from the time

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she began the treatment, was no longer troubled by the
bad headaches from which she had suffered almost constantly. Madame
m Aged forty three Rude Diamance to Mausville, comes at
the end of nineteen sixteen for violent pains in the head,
from which she has suffered all her life. After a
few visits, they vanished completely. Two months afterwards, she realized

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that she was also cured of a prolapse of the uterus,
which she had not mentioned to me, and of which
she was not thinking when she made her auto suggestion.
This result is due to the words in every respect
contained in the formula used morning and evening. Madame d
schwasileroi only one general suggestion from me in July nineteen sixteen,

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and auto suggestion on her part morning and evening. In
October of the same year. This lady tells me that
she is cured of a prolapse of a uterus, from
which she had suffered for more than twenty years up
to April nineteen twenty. The cure is still holding good.
Same remark as in the preceding case. Madame Joselyn aged

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sixty Rue de Dominicans six comes on the twentieth of
July nineteen seventeen for a violent pain in the right leg,
accompanied by considerable swelling of the whole limb. She can
only drag herself along with groans. But after the seance,
to her great astonishment, she can walk normally without feeling
the least pain. When she comes back four days afterwards,

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she has had no return of the pain and the
swelling has subsided. This patient tells me that since she
has attended the seances, she has also been cured of
white discharges and of enteritis from which she had long suffered.
Same remark as above. In November, the cure is still
holding good. Mademoiselle g l aged fifteen, Rue du montet

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eighty eight has stammered from infancy. Comes on the twentieth
of July nineteen seventeen, and the stammering ceases instantly. A
month after I saw her again and she had had
no recurrence. M Ferry Eugene, aged sixty, Rue de la Cote,
fifty six. For five years has suffered from rheumatic pains

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in the shoulders and in the left leg. Walks with
difficulty leaning on a stick and cannot lift the arms
higher than the shoulders. Comes on the seventeenth of September
nineteen seventeen. After the first seance, the pains vanished completely,
and the patient can not only take long strides, but
even run still more. He can whirl both arms like

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a windmill. In November, the cure is still holding good.
Madame Lecoeur, aged sixty three, chemin disables pains in the
faced days for more than twenty years back. All treatments
have failed. An operation is advised, but the patient refuses
to undergo it. She comes for the first time on

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July twenty fifth, nineteen sixteen, and four days later the
pain ceases. The cure has held good to this day.
Madame Martin Grandeerous Vilviers one hundred and five inflammation of
the uterus of thirteen years standing, accompanied by pains and
white and red discharges. The period, which is very painful,

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recurs every twenty two or twenty three days and lasts
ten to twelve days. Comes for the first time on
the fifteenth of November nineteen seventeen and returns regularly every week.
There is visible improvement after the first visit, which continues
rapidly until at the beginning of January nineteen eighteen, the
inflammation has entirely disappeared. The period comes at more regular

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intervals and without the slightest pain. A pain in the knee,
which the patient had had for thirteen years, was also cured.
Madame Castelli, aged forty one, living at Einville, m et M,
has suffered from intermittent rheumatic pains in the right knee
for thirteen years. Five years ago she had a more
violent attack than usual. The leg swells as well as

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the knee than The lower part of the limb atrophies,
and the patient is reduced to walking very painfully with
the aid of a stick or crutch. She comes for
the first time on the fifth of November nineteen seventeen.
She goes away without the help of either crutch or stick.
Since then she no longer uses her crutch at all,
but occasionally makes use of her stick. The pain in

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the knee comes back from time to time, but only
very slightly. Madam Meter, aged fifty two, at Einville, for
six months, has suffered from pain in the right knee
accompanied by swelling which makes it impossible to bend the leg.
Comes for the first time on December seventh, nineteen seventeen.
Returns on January fourth, nineteen eighteen, saying that she has

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almost ceased to suffer, and that she can walk normally.
After that visit of the fourth the pain ceases entirely,
and the patient walks like other people emil cue. Education
as it ought to be. It may seem paradoxical, but
nevertheless the education of a child ought to begin before

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its birth. In sober truth, if a woman a few
weeks after conception makes a mental picture of the sex
of the child she is going to bring forth into
the world of the physical and moral qualities with which
she desires to see it en doubt, and if she
will continue during the time of gestation to impress on
herself the same mental image, the child will have the
sex and qualities desired. Spartan women only brought fourth robust

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children who grew to be redoubtable warriors, because their strongest
desire was to give such heroes to their country, Whilst
at Athens mothers had intellectual children whose mensnal qualities were
a hundredfold greater than their physical attributes. The child, thus
engendered will be apt to accept readily good suggestions which
may be made to him, and to transform them into
auto suggestion, which later will influence the course of his life,

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for you must know that all our words, all our acts,
are only the result of auto suggestions, caused for the
most part by the suggestion of example or speech. How then,
should parents and those entrusted with the education of children
avoid provoking bad auto suggestions, and, on the other hand,
influence good auto suggestions. In dealing with children, always be

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even tempered and speak in a gentle but firm tone.
In this way, they will become obedient without ever having
the slightest desire to resist authority. Above all, above all,
avoid harshness and brutality, for there the risk is incurred
of influencing an autosuggestion of cruelty accompanied by hate. Moreover,
avoid carefully in their presence saying evil of any one,

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as too often happens when without any deliberate intention, the
absent nurse is picked to pieces in the drawing room. Inevitably,
this fatal example will be followed and may produce later
a real catastrophe. Awaken in them a desire to know
the reason of things and a love of nature, and
endeavor to interest them by giving all possible explanations very

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clearly in a cheerful, good tempered tone. You must answer
their questions pleasantly, instead of checking them with what a
bother you are to be quiet, You will learn that later.
Never on any account say to a child you are
lazy and good for nothing, because that gives birth in
him to the very faults of which you accuse him.

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If a child is lazy and does his tasks badly,
you should say to him one day, even if it
is not true, there this time your work is much
better than it generally is well done. The child, flattered
by the unaccustomed commendation, will certainly work better the next time, and,
little by little, thanks to your judicious encouragement, will succeed

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in becoming a real worker. At all costs, avoid speaking
of illness before children, as it will certainly create in
them bad auto suggestions. Teach them, on the contrary, that
health is the normal state of man, and that sickness
is an anomaly, a sort of backsliding, which may be
avoided by living in a temperate, regular way. Do not

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create defects in them by teaching them to fear this
or that cold or heat, rain or wind, et CETERA.
Man is created to endure such variations without injury, and
should do so without grumbling. Do not make the child
nervous by filling his mind with stories of hobgoblins and
wore wolves, for there is always the risk that timidity

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contracted in childhood will persist later. It is necessary that
those who do not bring up then children themselves should
choose carefully those to whom they are entrusted. To love
them is not sufficient. They must have the qualities you
desire your children to possess, awaken in them the love
of work and of study. Making it easier by explaining
things carefully and in a pleasant fashion, and by introducing

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in the explanation some anecdote which will make the child
eager for the following lesson. Above all, impress on them
that work is essential for man, and that he who
does not work in some fashion or another is a worthless,
useless creature, and that all work produces in the man
who engages in it a healthy and profound satisfaction. Whilst idleness,
so longed for and desired by some, produces weariness, neurasthenia,

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disgust of life, and leads those who do not possess
the means of satisfying the passions created by idleness to
debauchery and even to crime. Teach children to be always
polite and kind to all, and particularly to those whom
the chance of birth has placed in a lower class
than their own, And also to respect age, and never
to mock at the physical or moral defects that age

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often produces. Teach them to love all mankind without distinction
of caste, That one must always be ready to see
succor those who are in need of help, and that
one must never be afraid of spending time and money
for those who are in need. In short, that they
must think more of others than of themselves. In so doing,
an inner satisfaction is experienced. That the egoist ever seeks

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and never finds, develop in them self confidence. And teach
that before embarking upon any undertaking, it should be submitted
to the control of reason, thus avoiding acting impulsively, and
after having reason the matter out, one should form a
decision by which one abides, unless indeed some fresh fact
proves you may have been mistaken. Teach them above all

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that every one must set out in life with a
very definite idea that he will succeed, and that under
the influence of this idea he will inevitably succeed, not
indeed that he should quietly remain expecting events to happen.
But because impelled by this idea, he will do what
is necessary to make it come true. He will know
how to take advantage of opportunities, or even perhaps of

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the single opportuitunity which may present itself. It may be
only a single thread or hair. Whilst he who distrusts
himself is a constant mignard, with whom nothing succeeds, because
his efforts are all directed to that end. Such a
one may indeed swim in an ocean of opportunities, provided
with heads of hair like Absalom himself, and he will
be unable to seize a single hair, and often determines

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himself the causes which make him fail. Whilst he who
has the idea of success in himself often gives birth
in an unconscious fashion to the very circumstances which produce
that same success. But above all, let parents and masters
preach by example. A child is extremely suggestive. Let something
turn up that he wishes to do, and he does

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it as soon as children can speak. Make them repeat
morning and evening twenty times consecutively, day by day, in
all respects I grow better, which will produce in them
an excellent physical, moral, and healthy atmosphere. If you make
the following suggestion, you will help the child enormously to
eliminate his faults and to awaken in him the corresponding

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desirable qualities. Every night, when the child is asleep, approach quietly,
so as not to awaken him, to within about three
or four feet from his bed. Stand there, murmuring in
a low monotonous voice, the thing or things you wish
him to do. Finally, it is desirable that all teachers
should every morning make suggestions to their pupils, somewhat in

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the following fashion, telling them to shut their eyes. They
should say, children, I expect you always to be polite
and kind to every one, obedient to your parents and teachers.
When they give you an order or tell you anything,
you will always listen to the order given or the
fact told, without thinking it tiresome. You used to think
it tiresome when you were reminded of anything, But now

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you understand very well that it is for your good
that you are told things. And consequently, instead of being
cross with those who speak to you, you will now
be grateful to them. Moreover, you will now love your work,
whatever it may be. In your lessons, you will always
enjoy those things you may have to learn, especially whatever
you may not till now have cared for. Moreover, when

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the teacher is giving a lesson in class, you will
now devote all your attention solely and entirely to what
he says, instead of attending to any silly thing said
or done by your companions, and without doing or saying
anything silly yourself. Under these conditions, as you are all
intelligent for children, you are all intelligent. You will understand

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easily and remember easily what you have learned. It will
remain embedded in your memory, ready to be at your service,
and you will be able to make use of it
as soon as you need it. In the same way,
when you are working at your lessons alone or at home,
when you are accomplishing a task or studying a lesson,
you will fix your attention solely on the work you
are doing, and you will always obtain good marks for

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your lessons. This is the counsel, which, if followed faithfully
and truly from henceforth, will produce a race endowed with
the highest physical and moral qualities. Emil coup a survey
of the sanss at Kus. The town thrills at this name,
for from every rank of society people come to him,
and everyone is welcomed with the same benevolence, which already

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goes for a good deal. But what is extremely poignant
is at the end of the seance to see the
people who came in gloomy, bent, almost hostile they were
in pain, go away like everybody else, unconstrained, cheerful, sometimes radiant.
They are no longer in pain, with a strong and
smiling goodness of which he has the secret coup, as

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it were, holds the hearts of those who consult him
in his hand. He addresses himself in turn to the
numerous persons who come to consult him, and speaks to
them in these terms, Well, madam, and what is your trouble? Oh?
You are looking for too many whys? And wherefores? What
does the cause of your pain matter to you? You
are in pain. That is enough. I will teach you

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to get rid of that. And you, monsieur, your vericose
ulcer is already better. That is good, very good. Indeed,
do you know, considering you have only been here twice?
I congratulate you on the result you have obtained. If
you go on doing your auto suggestions properly, you will
very soon be cured. You have had this ulcer for

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ten years, you say, what does that matter? You might
have had it twenty and more and it could be
cured just the same. And you say that you have
not obtained any improvement. Do you know why? Simply because
you lack confidence in yourself. When I tell you that
you are better, you feel better at once, don't you why?

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Because you have faith in me. Just believe in yourself
and you will obtain the same result. Oh madam, not
so many details. I beg you by looking out for
the details, you create them. And you would want to
list a yard long to contain all your maladies. As
a matter of fact, with you, it is the mental
outlook which is wrong. Well, make up your mind that

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it is going to get better, and it will be so.
It's as simple as the gospel. You tell me you
have attacks of nerves every week. Well, from today you
are going to do what I tell you and you
will cease to have them. You have suffered from constipation
for a long time. What does it matter how long
it is you say it is forty years. Yes, I

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heard what you said, but it is none the less
true that you can be cured tomorrow. You hear tomorrow
on condition naturally of your doing exactly what I tell
you to do in the way I tell you to
do it. Ah, you have glaucoma, Madam. I cannot absolutely
promise to cure you of that, for I am not
sure that I can. That does not mean that you

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cannot be cured, for I have known it to happen
in the case of a lady of challenge, Sir Sown,
and another of Lorraine. Well, mademoiselle, as you have not
had your nervous attacks since you came here, whereas you
used to have them every day. You are cured, come
back sometimes all the same. So that I may keep
you going along the right lines. The feeling of oppression

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will disappear with the lesions, which will disappear when you
assimilate properly. That will come all in good time. But
you mustn't put the cart before the horse. It is
the same with oppression as with heart trouble. It generally
diminishes very quickly. Suggestion does not prevent you from going
on with your usual treatment. As for the blemish you
have on your eye, and which is lessening almost daily.

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The opacity and the size are both growing less every day.
To a child, in a clear and commanding voice, shut
your eyes. I am not going to talk to you
about lesions or anything else. You would not understand. The
pain in your chest is going away, and you won't
want to cough any more. Observation. It is curious to
notice that all those suffering from chronic bronchitis are immediately

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relieved and their morbid symptoms rapidly disappear. Children are very
easy and very obedient subjects. Their organism almost always obeys immediately.
To suggestion to a person who complains of fatigue, well
so do I. There are also days when it tires
me to receive people, but I receive them all the
same and all day long. Do not say I cannot

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help it. One can always overcome one's self. Observation. The
idea of fatigue necessarily brings fatigue, and the idea that
we have a duty to accomplish always gives us the
necessary strength to fulfill it. The mind can and must
remain master of the animal side of our nature. The
cause which prevents you from walking. Whatever it is is

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going to disappear little by little every day. You know
the proverb Heaven helps those who help themselves. Stand up
two or three times a day, supporting yourself on two persons,
and say to yourself firmly, my kidneys are not so
weak that I cannot do it. On the contrary, I can,
after having said every day in every respect, I am

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getting better and better. Ad the people who are pursuing
me cannot pursue me any more. They are not pursuing me.
What I told you is quite true. It was enough
to think that you had no more pain. For the
pain to disappear. Do not think then that it may
come back, or it will come back a woman soddle voice,
What patience he has, what a wonderfully painstaking man. All

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that we think becomes true for us. We must not
then allow ourselves to think wrongly. Think my trouble is
going away. Just as you think you cannot open your hands.
The more you say I will not, the more surely
the contrary comes about. You must say it's going away
and think it. Close your hand and think properly, now

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I cannot open it. Try she cannot. You see that
your will is not much good to you, observation. This
is the essential point of the method. In order to
make auto suggestions, you must eliminate the will completely and
only address yourself to the imagination, so as to avoid
a conflict between them, in which the will would be vanquished.

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To become stronger as one becomes older seems paradoxical, but
it is true. For diabetes, continue to use therapeutic treatments.
I am quite willing to make suggestions to you, but
I cannot promise to cure you. Observation. I have seen
diabetes completely cured several times. And what is still more extraordinary,

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the albumin diminish and even disappear from the urine of
certain patients. This obsession must be a real nightmare. The
people you use to detest are becoming your friends. You
like them and they like you. Ah. But to will
and to desire is not the same thing. Then, after
having asked them to close their eyes, Couad gives to

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his patients the little suggestive discourse which is to be
found in self mastery. When this is over, he again
addresses himself to each one separately, saying to each a
few words on his case to the first, you, monsieur,
are in pain. But I tell you that from to
day the cause of this pain, whether it is called
arthritis or anything else, is going to disappear with the

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help of your unconscious and the cause having disappeared, the
pain will gradually become less and less, and in a
short time it will be nothing but a moment. To
the second person, your stomach does not function properly. It
is more or less dilated. Well, as I told you
just now, your digestive functions are going to work better
and better, and I add that the diletation of the

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stomach is going to disappear. Little by little. Your organism
is going to give back progressively to your stomach the
force and elasticity it had lost, and by degrees. As
this phenomenon is produced, the stomach will return to its
primitive form and will carry out more and more easily
the necessary movements to pass into the intestine the nourishment
it contains. At the same time, the pouch formed by

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the relaxed stomach will diminish in size. The nutriment will
not longer stagnate in this pouch, and in consequence, the
fermentation set up will end by totally disappearing. To the third,
to you, mademoiselle, I say that whatever lesions you may
have in your liver, your organism is doing what is
necessary to make the lesions disappear. Every day, and by
degrees as they heal over, the symptoms from which you

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suffer will go on lessening and disappearing. Your liver then
functions in a more and more normal way. The bile
it secretes is alkaline and no longer acid, in the
right quantity and quality, so that it passes naturally into
the intestines and helps intestinal digestion. To the fourth, my child,
you hear what I say. Every time you feel you

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are going to have an attack, you will hear my
voice telling you as quick as lightning. No, no, my friend,
you are not going to have that attack, and it
is going to disappear before it comes to the fifth,
et cetera, et cetera. When everyone has been attended to,
courtells those present to open their eyes, and adds you

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have heard the advice I have just given you, well
to transform it into reality. What you must do is this.
As long as you live every morning, before getting up
and every evening as soon as you are in bed,
you must shut your eyes so as to concentrate your attention,
and repeat twenty times, following, moving your lips that is indispensable,
and counting mechanically on a string with twenty knots in it,

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the following phrase. Every day, in every respect, I am
getting better and better. There is no need to think
of anything in particular, as the words in every respect
apply to everything. This auto suggestion must be made with confidence,
with faith, with the certainty of obtaining what is desired.
The greater the conviction of the person, the greater and

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the more rapid will be the results obtained. Further, every
time that in the course of the day or night,
you feel any physical or mental discomfort, affirm to yourself
that you will not consciously contribute to it, and that
you are going to make it vanish. Then isolate yourself
as much as possible, and passing your hand over your
forehead if it is something mental or on whatever part
that is painful. If it is something physical, repeat very quickly,

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moving the lips the words it is going, it is going,
et cetera, et cetera. As long as it is necessary,
with a little practice, the mental or physical discomfort will disappear.
In about twenty to twenty five seconds, begin again every time.
It is necessary for this, as for the other auto suggestions,

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it is necessary to act with the same confidence, the
same conviction, the same faith, and above all without effort.
Co also adds what follows. If you formerly allowed yourself
to make bad auto suggestions because you did it unconsciously,
now that you know what I have just taught you,
you must no longer let this happen. And if in
spite of all you still do it, you must only

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accuse yourself and say, may a culpa, may a maxima culpa.
And now, if a grateful admirer of the work and
of the founder of the method, may be allowed to
say a few words, I will say, Monsieur core shows
us luminously that the power to get health and happiness
is within us. We have indeed received this gift. Therefore

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suppressing first of all every cause of suffering created or
encouraged by ourselves. Then putting into practice the favorite maxim
of Socrates, know thyself, and the advice of Pope, that
I may reject none of the benefits that thy goodness
bestows upon me. Let us take possession of the entire
benefit of atto suggestion, let us become this very day
members of the Lorraine Society of Applied Psychology. Let us

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make members of it those who may be in our care.
It is a good deed to do to them. By
this means we shall follow, first of all, the great
movement of the future, of which Coup is the originator.
He devotes to it his days, his knights, his worldly goods,
and refuses to accept but hush no more of this
lest is modesty. He refuses to allow these lines to

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be published without alteration. But above all, by this means
we shall know exactly the days and hours of his
lectures at Paris, Nancy, and other towns where he devotedly
goes to sow the good seed, and where we can
go too, to see him and hear him, and consult
him personally, and with his help away courstir up in
ourselves the personal power that every one of us has
received of becoming happy and well. May I be allowed

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to add that when Kuh has charged an entrance fee
for his lectures, they have brought in thousands of francs
for the disabled and others who have suffered through the war.
E v o'er note. Entrance is free to the members
of the Lorraine Society of Applied Psychology. Extracts from letters
addressed to KU. The final results of the English Secondary

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Certificate have only been posted up these two hours, and
I hasten to tell you about it, at least in
so far as it concerns myself. I passed the Viva
Voce with flying colors, and scarcely felt a trace of
the nervousness which she used to cause me such an
intolerable sensation of nausea before the tests. During the latter
I was astonished at my own calm, which gave those

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who listened to me the impression of perfect self possession
on my part. In short, it was just the tests
I dreaded most which contributed most to my success. The
jury placed me second, and I am infinitely grateful to
you for help, which undoubtedly gave me an advantage over
the other candidates, et cetera. The case is that of
a young lady on account of excessive nervousness, had failed

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in nineteen fifteen, the nervousness having vanished under the influence
of auto suggestion, she passed successfully, being placed second out
of more than two hundred competitors. Mademoiselle Vie, schoolmistress, August
nineteen sixteen. It is with very great pleasure that I
write to thank you most sincerely for the great benefit

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I have received from your method. Before I went to you,
I had the greatest difficulty in walking one hundred yards
without being out of breath, Whereas now I I can
go miles without fatigue several times a day, and quite easily.
I am able to walk in forty minutes from the
Rue deu borde'ello to the Rue de Glacis, that is
to say, nearly four kilometers. The asthma from which I

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suffered has almost entirely disappeared. Yours, most gratefully, Paul channat
Rue de Strasbourg, one forty one Nancy, August nineteen seventeen.
I do not know how to thank you. Thanks to you,
I can say that I am almost entirely cured, and
I was only waiting to be so in order to

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express my gratitude. I was suffering from two vericos ulcers,
one on each foot. That on the right foot, which
was as big as my hand, is entirely cured. It
seemed to disappear by magic. For weeks. I have been
confined to my bed. But almost immediately after I received
your letter, the ulcer healed over so that I could

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get up. That on the left foot is not yet
absolutely healed, but will soon be so. Night and morning,
I do and always shall recite the prescribed formula, in
which I have entire confidence. I may say also that
my legs were as hard as a stone, and I
could not bear the slightest touch. Now I can press

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them without the least pain, and I can walk once more,
which is the greatest joy. Madame Ligny mailer and courticheret
Hote Sown, May nineteen eighteen n b. It is worthy
of remark that this lady never saw coup, and that
it is only thanks to a letter he wrote her
on April fifteenth that she obtained the result announced in

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her letter of May third. I am writing to express
my gratitude for thanks to you, I have escaped the
risk of an operation, which is always a very dangerous one.
I can say more you have saved my life, for
your method of auto suggestion has done alone what all
the medicines and treatments ordered for the terrible intestinal obstruction
from which I suffered for nineteen days had failed to do.

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From the moment when I followed your instructions and applied
your excellent principles, my functions have accomplished themselves quite naturally.
Madame s Pontar Mausen, February nineteen twenty. I do not
know how to thank you for my happiness in being cured.
For more than fifteen years, I had suffered from attacks
of asthma, which caused the most painful suffocations every night.

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Thanks to your splendid method, and above all, since I
was present at one of your seances, the attacks have disappeared,
as if by magic. It is a real miracle for
the various doctors who attended me all declared that there
was no cure for asthma. Madam V. Saint I, February
nineteen twenty. I am writing to thank you with all

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my heart for having brought to my knowledge a new
therapeutic method, A marvelous instrument which seems to act like
the magic wand of a fairy, since, thanks to the
simplest means, it brings about the most extraordinary results. From
the first I was extremely interested in your experiments, and
after my own personal secs says with your method, I
began ardently to apply it, as I have become an

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enthusiastic supporter of it, Doctor Vachet, Vincennes, May nineteen twenty.
For eight years I have suffered from prolapse of a uterus.
I have used your method of auto suggestion for the
last five months and am now completely cured, for which
I do not know how to thank you enough, Madame Soulier,

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placed to Marque Toole, May nineteen twenty. I have suffered
terribly for eleven years without respite. Every night I had
attacks of asthma, and suffered also from insomnia and general weakness,
which prevented any occupation. Mentally, I was depressed, restless, worried,
and was inclined to make mountains out of mole hills.

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I had followed many treatments without success, having even undergone
in Switzerland the removal of the turbinate bone of the
nose without obtaining any relief. In November nineteen eighteen, I
became worse in consequence of a great sorrow. While my
husband was at Corfu, he was an officer on a warship.
I lost our only son in six days from influenza.

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He was a delightful child of ten, who was the
joy of our life. Alone and overwhelmed with sorrow, I
reproached myself bitterly for not having been able to protect
and save our treasure. I wanted to lose my reason
or to die. When my husband returned, which was not
until February, he took me to a new doctor, who
ordered me various remedies and the waters of Mondor. I

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spent the month of August in that station, but on
my return I had a recurrence of the asthma, and
I realized with despair that in every respect I was
getting worse and worse. It was then that I had
the pleasure of meeting you, Without expecting much good from it,
I must say, I went to your October lectures, and
I am happy to tell you that by the end

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of November I was cured insomnia, feelings of oppression, gloomy
thoughts disappeared, as though by magic, and I am now
well and strong and full of courage. With physical health,
I have recovered my mental equilibrium, and but for the
ineffaceable wound caused by my child's loss, I could say
that I am perfectly happy. Why did I not meet

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you before? My child would have known a cheerful and
courageous mother. Thank you again and again coup yours most gratefully,
e Idier Rue de Lille, Paris, April nineteen twenty. I
can now take up again the struggle I have sustained
for thirty years and which had exhausted me. I found

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in you last August a wonderful and providential help. Coming
home to Lorraine for a few days ill and with
my heart full of sorrow, I dreaded the shock which
I should feel at the sight of the ruins and distress,
and went away comforted and in good health. I was
at the end of my tether, and unfortunately I am
not religious. I longed to find some one who could

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help me, and meeting you by chance at my cousin's house,
you gave me the very help I sought. I can
now work in a new spirit. I suggest to my
unconscious to re establish my physical equilibrium, and I do
not doubt that I shall regain my former good health.
A very noticeable improvement has already shown itself, and you
will better understand my gratitude when I tell you that,

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suffering from diabetes with a renal complication, I have had
several attacks of glaucoma, but my eyes are now recovering
their suppleness. Since then, my sight has become almost normal,
and my general health has much improved. Mademoiselle T. H.
Professor at the Young Ladies College at c H. January
nineteen twenty. I read my thesis with success and was

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awarded the highest mark in the congratulations of the jury.
Of all these honors, a large share belongs to you,
and I do not forget it. I only regretted that
you were not present to hear your name referred to
with warm and sympathetic interest by the distinguished jury. You
can consider that the doors of the university have been
flung wide open to your teaching. Do not thank me

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for it, for I owe you far more than you
can owe me. C. H. Bodwin, Professor at the Institute J. J. Rousseau, Geneva.
I admire your courageousness and am quite sure that it
will help to turn many friends into a useful and
intelligent direction. I confess that I have personally benefited by

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your teaching and have made my patience do so too.
At the Nursing Home, we try to apply your method
collectively and have already obtained visible results in this way,
Doctur Beryllen, Paris, March nineteen twenty. I have received your
kind letter as well as your very interesting lecture. I
am glad to see that you make a rational connection

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between hetero and otto suggestion, and I note particularly the
passage in which you say that the will must not
intervene in auto suggestion. That is what a great number
of professors of auto suggestion, unfortunately, including a large number
of medical men, do not realize at all. I also
think that an absolute distinction should be established between auto's

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suggestion and the training of the will. Doctor van Velsen, Brussels,
March nineteen twenty. What must you think of me that
I have forgotten you? Oh? No, I assure you that
I think of you with the most grateful affection, and
I wish to repeat that your teachings are more and
more efficacious. I never spend a day without using otto

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suggestion with increased success, and I bless you every day
for your method is the true one. Thanks to it,
I am assimilating your excellent directions and am able to
control myself better every day, and I feel that I
am stronger. I am sure that you would find it
difficult to recognize in this woman so active in spite
of her sixty six years, the poor creature who was

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so often ailing, and who only began to be well
thanks to you and your guidance. May you be blessed
for this, For the sweetest thing in the world is
to do good to those around us. You do much
and do a little, for which I thank God. Madame
m Cessen Saint Brook, As I am feeling better and
better since I began to follow your method of auto suggestion,

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I should like to offer you my sincere thanks. The
lesion in the lungs has disappeared, my heart is better,
I have no more albumen. In short, I am quite well.
Madame Lemetre Richemont, June nineteen twenty, your booklet and lecture
interested us very much. It would be desirable for the

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good of humanity that they should be published in several languages,
so that they might penetrate to every race and country,
and thus reach a greater number of unfortunate people who
suffer from the wrong use of that all powerful and
almost divine faculty, the most important to man, as you
affirm and prove so luminously and judiciously, which we call
the imagination. I had already read many books on the will,

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and had quite an arsenal of formulae, thoughts, aphorisms, et cetera.
Your phrases are conclusive. I do not think that ever
before have compressed tablets of self confidence, as I call
your healing phrases been condensed into typical formulae in such
an intelligent manner. Don Enrique C. Madrid, your pamphlet on

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the self control contains very strong arguments and very striking examples.
I think that the substitution of imagination for the power
of the will is a great progress. It is milder
and more persuasive. A f re ammirement. I am happy
to be able to tell you that my stomach is
going on well. My metritis is also much better. My

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little boy had a gland in his thigh as big
as an egg, which is gradually disappearing. E. L. Saint
Clement M. E. T. M. After I had undergone three
operations in my left leg on account of a local tuberculosis,
that leg became ill again. In September nineteen twenty. Several
doctors declared that a new operation was necessary. They were

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about to open my leg from the knee to the ankle,
and if the operation had failed, they would have had
to perform an amputation. As I had heard of your
wondrous cures, I came and saw you for the first
time on the sixth of November nineteen twenty. After the seance,
I felt immediately a little better. I exactly followed your
instructions and went three times to you. At the third

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time I could tell you that I was completely cured.
Madame l Henry Lorraine, I will not wait any longer
to thank you heartily for all the good I owe you.
Otto's suggestion has positively transformed me, and I am now
getting much better than I have been these many years.
The symptoms of illness have disappeared little by little, the

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morbid symptoms have become rarer and rarer, and all the
functions of the body work now normally. The result is that,
after having become thinner and thinner during several years, I
have regained several kilos in a few months. I cannot
do otherwise than bless the CoSystem. L ken A m.
Since nineteen seventeen, my little girl has been suffering from

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epileptic crises. Several doctors had told me that about the
age of fourteen or fifteen, they would disappear or become worse.
Having heard of you, I sent her to you from
the end of December till May. Now her cure is complete,
for during six months she has had no relapse. Perrin
Charles si Les Nancy. For eight years I had suffered

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from a sinking of the uterus. After having practiced your
auto suggestion for five months, I have been radically cured.
I don't know how to express my deep gratitude, Madame
Solai six Place du Marque Tuol. Having suffered from a
glaucoma since nineteen seventeen, I have consulted two oculists who

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told me that only an operation would put an end
to my sufferings, but unfortunately, neither of them would assure
me of a good, wry result. In the month of
June nineteen twenty, after having attended one of your seances,
I felt much better. In September, I ceased to use
the drops of pylocarpine, which were the daily bread of
my eye, and since then I have felt no more pain.

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My pupil is no more dilated, my eyes are normal.
It is a real miracle. Madame m A. Soulas a
dedication to Coup by the author of a medical treatise
to Coup, who knew how to dissect the human soul
and to extract from it a psychologic method founded on
conscious auto suggestion. The Master is entitled to the thanks

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of all he has cleverly succeeded in disciplining the vagrant
imagination and in associating it usefully with the will. Thus
he has given man the means of increasing tenfold his
moral force by giving him confidence in himself. Doctor p. R. Frankfort,
it is difficult to speak of the profound influence exercised

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on me by your so kindly allowing me to view
so often your work, seeing it day by day as
I have done, it has impressed me more and more.
And as you yourself said, there seems no limits to
the possibilities and future scope of the principles you enunciate,
not only in the physical life of children, but also
in possibilities for changing the ideas now prevalent in punishment

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of crime, in government, in fact, in all the relations
of life. Miss Josephine M. Richardson, when I came, I
expected a great deal. But what I have seen, thanks
to your great kindness exceeds greatly my expectation. Montague S. Moneier, Williams,
m D. London, Fragments from letters addressed to Madame emil Leon,

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Disciple of Coup. For some time I have been wanting
to write and thank you most sincerely for having made
known to me this method of autosuggestion. Thanks to your
good advice, the attacks of nerves to which I was
subject have entirely disappeared, and I am certain that I
am quite cured. Further, I feel myself surrounded by a
superior force which is an unfaltering guide, and by whose

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aid I surmount with the ease the difficulties of life.
Madame f Rue de Bougainville for Paris. Amazed at the
results obtained by the auto suggestion which you made known
to me, I thank you with all my heart. For
a year I have been entirely cured of articular rheumatism
of the right shoulder, from which I had suffered for
eight years, and from chronic bronchitis, which I had had

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still longer. The numerous doctors I had consulted declared me incurable.
But thanks to you and to your treatment, I have
found with perfect health, the conviction that I possessed the
power to keep it. Madame l t rue du Laus
for Paris. I want to tell you what excellent results
co s wonderful method has produced in my case, and

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to express my deep gratitude for your valuable help. I
have always been anemic and have had poor health, but
after my husband's death, I became much worse. I suffered
with my kidneys, I could not stand upright. I also
suffered from nervousness and aversions. All that has gone, and
I am a different person. I no longer suffer, I

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have more endurance, and I am more cheerful. My friends
hardly recognize me, and I feel a new woman. I
intend to spread the news of this wonderful method, so clear,
so simple, so beneficent, and to continue to get from
it the best results for myself as well. M. L. D. Paris,
June nineteen twenty. I cannot find words to thank you

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for teaching me your good method. What happiness you have
brought to me. I thank God who led me to
make your acquaintance, for you have entirely transformed my life.
Formerly I suffered terribly at each monthly period and was
obliged to lie in bed now all is quite regular
and painless. It is the same with my digestion, and

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I am no longer obliged to live on milk as
I used, and I have no more pain, which is
a joy. My husband is astonished to find that when
I travel I have no more headaches, whereas before I
was always taking tablets. Now, thanks to you, I need
no remedies at all. But I do not forget to
repeat twenty times morning and evening the phrase you taught

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me every day. In every respect, I am getting better
and better. B. P. Paris, October nineteen twenty. In rereading
the method, I find it more and more superior to
all the developments inspired by it. It surpasses all that
has been invented of so called scientific systems, themselves based
on the uncertain results of an uncertain science, which feels

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its way and deceives itself, and of which the means
of observation are also fairly precarious. In spite of what
the learned say, KO, on the other hand, suffices, for
everything goes straight to the aim, attains it with certainty,
and in freeing his patient, carries generosity and knowledge to
its highest point. Since he leaves to the patient self
the merit of this freedom and the use of a

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marvelous power. No, really, there is nothing to alter in
this method. It is, as you so strikingly say a gospel,
to report faithfully his acts and words and spread his method.
That is what must be done, and what I shall
do myself, as far as is in any way possible.
P C. I am amazed at the results that I

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have obtained, and continue to obtain daily, by the use
of the excellent method you have taught me. Of conscious
otto suggestion. I was ill mentally and physically. Now I
am well, and am also nearly always cheerful. That is
to say that my depression has given way to cheerfulness.
And certainly I do not complain of the change, for
it is very preferable. I assure you, how wretched I

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used to be. I could digest nothing. Now I digest
perfectly well, and the intestines act naturally. I also used
to sleep so badly, whereas now the nights are not
long enough. I could not work, but now I am
able to work hard. Of all my ailments, nothing is
left but an occasional touch of rheumatism, which I feel

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sure will disappear like the rest by continuing your good method.
I cannot find words to express my deep gratitude to you.
Madame Friary, Boulevard malerb Paris extracts from letters addressed to
Mademoiselle Kaufman, disciple of coup As. I have been feeling
better and better since following the method of auto suggestion

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which you taught me. I feel I owe you the
sincerest thanks. I am now qualified to speak of the
great and undeniable advantages of this method, as to it alone,
I owe my recovery. I had a lesion in the
lungs which caused me to spit blood. I suffered from
lack of appetite, daily vomiting, loss of flesh, and obstinate constipation.

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The spitting of blood lessened at once and soon entirely disappeared.
The vomiting ceased, the constipation no longer exists. I have
got back my appetite, and in two months, I have
gained nearly a stone in weight. In the face of
such results observed not only by parents and friends, but
also by the doctor who has been attending me for

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several months, it is impossible to deny the good effect
of auto suggestion, and not to declare openly that it
is to your method that I owe my return to life.
I authorize you to publish my name if it is
likely to be of service to others, and I beg
you to believe me yours most gratefully, Jane Gilly fifteen A. V. Beryllion, Nice,

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March nineteen eighteen. I consider it a duty to tell
you how grateful I am to you for acquainting me
with the benefits of autosuggestion. Thanks to you, I no
longer suffer from those agonizing and frequent heart stoppages, and
I have regained my appetite, which I had lost for months.
Still more, as a hospital nurse, I must thank you

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for my heart for the almost miraculous recovery of one
of my patients, seriously ill with tuberculosis, which caused him
to vomit blood constantly and copiously. His family and myself
were very anxious when Heaven sent you to him. After
your first visit, the spitting of blood ceased, his appetite returned,
and after a few more visits made by you to

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his sick bed, all the organs, little by little, resumed
their normal functions. At last, one day, we had the
pleasant surprise and joy of seeing him arrive at your
private seance, where before those present he himself made the
declaration of his cure due to your kind intervention. Thank
you with all my heart, yours gratefully and sympathetically. A.

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Kettner twenty six A. V. Beryllion, Nice, March nineteen eighteen.
From day to day I have put off writing to
you to thank you for the cure of my little Sulvain.
I was in despair, the doctors telling me that there
was nothing more to be done but to try the
sanitorium of Arkashon or Jukut near Dunkirk. I was going

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to do so when mine collared of advised me to
go and see you. I hesitated, as I felt skeptical
about it. But I now have the proof of your skill,
for Sylvain has completely recovered. His appetite is good, his
pimples and his glands are completely cured. And what is
still more extraordinary, Since the first time that we went
to see you, he has not coughed any more, not

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even once. The result is that since the month of
June he has gained six pounds. I can never thank
you enough, and I proclaim to every one the benefits
we have received, Madame Poerson Liver done August nineteen twenty.
How can I prove to you my deep gratitude you
have saved my life? I had a displaced heart which

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caused terrible attacks of suffocation, which went on continually. In fact,
they were so violent that I had no rest day
or night. In spite of daily injections of morphia. I
could eat nothing without instant vomiting. I had violent pains
in the head which became all swollen, and as a
result I lost my sight. I was in a lamentable state,

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and my whole organism suffered from it. I had abscesses
on the liver. The doctor despaired of me after having
tried everything blood letting, cupping and scarifying poultices, ice and
every possible remedy without any improvement. I had recourse to
your kindness on the doctor's advice. After your first visits,

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the attacks became less violent and less frequent, and soon
disappeared completely. The bad and troubled nights became calmer until
I was able to sleep the whole night through without waking.
The pains I had in the liver ceased completely, I
could begin to take my food again, digesting it perfectly well,
and I again experienced the feeling of hunger, which I

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had not known for months. My head ache ceased, and
my eyes, which had troubled me so much, are quite cured.
Since I am now able to occupy myself with a
little manual work. At each visit that you paid me,
I felt that my organs were resuming their natural functions.
I was not the only one to observe it, for
the doctor who came to see me every week found

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me much better, and finally there came recovery. Since I
could get up after having been in bed eleven months,
I got up without any discomfort, not even the least giddiness,
and in a fortnight I could go out. It is
indeed thanks to you that I am cured. For the
doctor says that for all that the medicines did me,
I might just as well have taken none, after having

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been given up by two doctors who held out no
hope of cure. Here I am cured all the same,
and it is indeed a complete cure. For now I
can eat meat, and I eat a pound of bread
every day. How can I thank you for I repeat,
it is thanks to the suggestion you taught me that
I owe my life. Jeane Grojon Nancy, November nineteen twenty. Personally,

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the science of auto suggestion, for I consider it as
entirely a science, has rendered me great services. But truth
compels me to declare that if I continue to interest
myself particularly in it, it is because as I find
in it the means of exercising true charity. In nineteen fifteen,
when I was present for the first time at Couz lectures,
I confess that I was entirely skeptical before facts a

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hundred times repeated in my presence. I was obliged to
surrender to evidence and recognize that auto suggestion always acted,
though naturally in different degrees, on organic diseases. The only cases,
and those were very rare, in which I have seen
it fail, are nervous cases, neurasthenia or imaginary illness. There

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is no need to tell you again that Coup, like yourself,
but even more strongly insists on this point that he
never performs a miracle or cures anybody, but that he
shows people how to cure themselves. I confess that on
this point I still remain a trifle incredulous, For if
could as not actually cure people, he is a powerful
aid to their recovery, in giving heart to the sick,

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in teaching them never to despair, in uplifting them, in
leading them higher than themselves into moral spheres that the
majority of humanity plunged in materialism, has never reached. The
more I study auto suggestion, the better I understand the
divine law of confidence and love that Christ preached us.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and by giving a little
of one's heart and of one's moral force, to help

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him to rise if he has fallen, and to cure
himself if he is ill. Here, also, from my Christian
point of view, is the application of auto suggestion, which
I consider as a beneficial and comforting science, which helps
us to understand that, as the children of God, we
all have within us forces whose existence we did not suspect,
which properly directed serve to elevate us morally and to

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heal us physically. Those who do not know your science,
or who only know it imperfectly, should not judge it
without having seen the results it gives and the good
it does. Believe me to be your faithful admirer M. L. D. Nancy,
November nineteen twenty The Miracle Within Homage to Emial Coup.

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In the course of the month of September nineteen twenty,
I opened for the first time the book of Charles
Baudwin of Geneva, professor at the Institute J. J. Rousseau
in that town. This work, published by the firm of
Delacox and Meissel twenty six Rue Saint Dominique, Paris, is
called Suggestion et auto suggestion. The author has dedicated it

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to Emil Coup, the initiator and benefactor, with deep gratitude.
I read it and did not put down the book
until I had reached the end. The fact is that
it contains the very simple exposition of a magnificently humanitarian
work founded on a theory which may appear childish, just
because it is within the scope of everyone, and if

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everyone puts it into practice, the greatest good will proceed
from it. After more than twenty years of indefatigable work. Emilkup,
who at the present time lives at Nancy, where he
lately followed the work in experiments of Leibault, the father
of the doctrine of suggestions. For more than twenty years,
I say Khu has been occupied exclusively with this question,

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but particularly in order to bring his fellow creatures to
cultivate auto suggestion. At the beginning of the century, Kup
had attained the object of his researches and had disengaged
the general and immense force of auto suggestion. After innumerable
experiments on thousands of subjects, he showed the action of
the unconscious inorganic cases. This is new, and the great

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merit of this profoundly modest learned man is to have
found a remedy for terrible ills, reputed incurable or terribly painful,
without any hope of relief. As I cannot enter here
into long scientific details, I will content myself by saying
how the learned man of Nancy practices his method. The
chiseled epitome of a whole life of patient researches and

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of ceaseless observations is a brief formula which is to
be repeated morning and evening. It must be said in
a low voice, with the eyes closed, in a position
favorable to the relaxing of the muscular system. It may
be in bed, or it may be in an easy chair.
And in a tone of voice, as if one were
reciting a litany. Here are the magic words. Every day,

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in every respect, I am getting better and better. They
must be said twenty times, following, with the help of
a string with twenty knots in it, which serves as
a rosary. This material detail has its importance. It insures
mechanical recitation, which is essential. While articulating these words, which
are registered by the unconscious, one must not think of

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anything particular, neither of one's illness nor of one's troubles.
One must be passive, just with the desire that all
may be for the best. The formula, in every respect
has a general effect. This desire must be expressed without passion,
without will, with gentleness, but with absolute confidence. For Emil

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cou at the moment of autosuggestion does not call in
the will in any way. On the contrary, there must
be no question of the will at that moment, but
the imagination, the great motive force, infinitely more active than
that which is usually invoked. The imagination alone must be
brought into play. Have confidence in yourself, says this good Counselor,
believe firmly that all will be well and Indeed, all

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is well for those who have faith, fortified by perseverance.
As deeds talk louder than words. I will tell you
what happened to myself before I had ever seen co
I must go back then to the month of September
when I opened them Charles Bodwin's volume, At the end
of a substantial exposition, the author enumerates the cure of

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illnesses such as enteritis, exema, stammering dumbness, a sinus dating
from twenty years back, which had necessitated eleven operations, metritis salpingidis,
fibrous tumors, vericose veins, et cetera. Lastly, and above all
deep tubercular sores and the last stages of thysis. Case
of Madame d of Trua, aged thirty years, who has

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become a mother since her cure was followed up, but
there was no relapse. All this is often testified to
by doctors in attendance on the patients. These examples impressed
me profoundly. There was the miracle. It was not a
question of nerves, but of ills which medicine attacks without success.

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This cure of tuberculosis was a revelation to me, having
suffered for two years from acute neuritis in the face.
I was in horrible pain for doctors, two of them specialists,
had pronounced the sentence, which would be enough of itself
alone to increase the trouble by its fatal influence on
the mind. Nothing to be done. This nothing to be

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done had been for me the worst of auto suggestions.
In possession of the formula every day, in every respect,
et cetera, I recited it with a faith which, although
it had come suddenly, was none the less capable of
removing mountains and throwing down shawls and scarves. Bareheaded, I
went into the garden in the rain and wind, repeating gently,

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I am going to be cured. I shall have no morneuritis.
It is going away, it will not come back, et cetera.
The next day I was cured, and never any more
since have I suffered from this abominable complaint, which did
not allow me to take a step out of doors
and made life unbearable. It was an immense joy. The
incredulous will say it was all nervous, obviously, and I

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give them this first point. But delighted with the result,
I tried the commethod for an edema of the left
ankle resulting from an affection of the kidneys, reputed incurable.
In two days the edema had disappeared. I then treated
fatigue and mental depression, et cetera. An extraordinary improvement was produced,
and I had but one idea to go to Nancy

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to thank my benefactor. I went there and found the
excellent man, attractive by his goodness and simplicity, who has
become my friend. It was indispensable to see him in
his field of action. He invited me to a popular seance.
I heard a concert of gratitude. Lesions in the lungs,

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displaced organs, asthma, Pott's disease, paralysis, the whole deadly horde
of diseases were being put to flight. I saw a
paralytic who sat contorted and twisted in his chair, get
up and walk. Who had spoken? He demanded confidence, great
immense confidence in oneself. He said, learn to cure yourselves.

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You can do so. I have never cured anyone. The
power is within you yourselves. Call upon your spirit, make
it act for your physical and mental good, and it
will come. It will cure you. You will be strong
and happy. Having spoken, could approach the paralytic. You heard
what I said. Do you believe that you will walk? Yes?

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Very well? Then get up. The woman got up, She
walked and went round the garden. The miracle was accomplished.
A young girl with Pot's disease, whose vertebral column became
straight again after three visits, told me what an intense
happiness it was to feel herself coming back to life
after having thought herself a hopeless case. Three women cured

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of lesions and the lungs expressed their delight at going
back to work and to a normal life. Who, in
the midst of those people whom he loves, seemed to
me of being a part for this man ignores money.
All his work is gratuitous, and his extraordinary disinterestedness forbids
his taking a farthing for it. I owe you something,
I said to him. I simply owe you everything, No,

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only the pleasure I shall have from your continuing to
keep well. An irresistible sympathy attracts one to this simple
minded philanthropist. Arm in arm, we walked round the kitchen garden,
which he cultivates himself, getting up early to do so.
Practically a vegetarian, he considers with satisfaction the results of
his work, and then the serious conversation goes on in

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your mind. You possess an unlimited power. It acts matter
if we know how to domesticate it. The imagination is
like a horse without a bridle. If such a horse
is pulling the carriage in which you are, he may
do all sorts of foolish things and take you to
your death. But harness him properly, drive him with a
sure hand, and he will go wherever you like. Thus

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it is with the mind the imagination, they must be
directed for our own good. Auto suggestion formulated with the
lips is an order which the unconscious receives. It carries
it out unknown to ourselves, and above all at night,
so that the evening auto suggestion is the most important.
It gives marvelous results. When you feel a physical pain,

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add the formula it is going away, very quickly, repeated
in a kind of droning voice, placing your hand on
the part where you feel the pain, or on the
forehead if it is a mental distress. For the method
acts very efficaciously on the mind. After having called in
the help of the soul for the body, one can
ask it again for all the circumstances and difficulties of life.

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There also, I know from experience that events can be
singularly modified by this process. You know it today, and
you will know it better still by reading M. Bodwin's book,
and then his pamphlet Cultured de la force Morale, and
then lastly the little succinct treatise written by Coux himself
self Mastery. All these works may be found at Kues. If, however,

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I have been able to inspire in you the desire
of making this excellent pilgrimage yourself, you will go to
Nancy to fetch the booklet. Like myself. You will love
this unique man, unique by reason of his noble charity
and of his love for his fellows, as Christ taught it.
Like myself also, you will be cured physically and mentally.
Life will seem to you better and more beautiful. That

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surely is worth the trouble of trying for M. Burnet
province some notes on the journey of Coutu Paris in
October nineteen nineteen. The desire that the teachings of Cou
in Paris last October should not be lost to others
has urged me to write them down putting aside this
time the numerous people physically or mentally ill who have

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seen their troubles lessen and disappear as the result of
his beneficent treatment. Let us begin by quoting just a
few of his teachings. Question why is it that I
do not obtain better results although I use your method
in prayer? Answer because probably at the back of your
mind there is an unconscious doubt, or because you make efforts.

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Now remember that efforts are determined by the will. If
you bring the will into play, you run a serious
risk of bringing the imagination into play too, But in
the contrary direction, which brings about just the reverse of
what you desire. Question, what are we to do when
something troubles us? Answer? When something happens that troubles you,

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repeat at once. Know that does not trouble me at all,
not in the least. The fact is rather agreeable than otherwise.
In short, the idea is to work ourselves up in
a good sense instead of in a bad. Question are
the preliminary experiments indispensable if they are unacceptable to the
pride of the subject? Answer? No, they are not indispensable,

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but they are of great utility, For although they may
seem childish to certain people, they are, on the contrary,
extremely serious. They do indeed prove three things. One that
every idea that we have in our minds becomes true
for us and has a tendency to transform itself into action.
Two that when there is a conflict between the imagination

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and the will, it is always the imagination which wins,
and in this case we do exactly the contrary of
what we wish to do. Three that it is easy
for us to put into our minds without any effort
the idea that we wish to have, since we have
been able without effort to think in succession, I cannot,
and then I can. The preliminary experiments should not be

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repeated at home alone. One is often unable to put
one's self in the right physical and mental conditions. There
is a risk of failure, and in this case one's
self confidence is shaken. Question. When one is in pain,
one cannot help thinking of one's trouble. Answer, do not
be afraid to think of it. On the contrary, do

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think of it, but to say to it, I am
not afraid of you. If you go anywhere and a
dog rushes at you barking, look it firmly in the eyes,
and it will not bite you. But if you fear it,
if you turn back, he will soon have his teeth
in your legs. Question and if one does a retreat,
answer go backwards? Question? How can we realize what we desire? Answer?

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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 absolutely master of myself.
And you find that you are becoming so. If you
say the contrary, it is the contrary which will come about.
What you say persistently and very quickly comes to pass

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within the domain of the reasonable. Of course, some testimonies.
A young lady to another lady, how simple it is,
there is nothing to add to it. He seems inspired.
Do you not think that there are beings who radiate influence?
An eminent Parisian doctor to numerous doctors surrounding him. I

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have entirely come over to the ideas of Ku. A polytechnician.
A severe critic thus defines cou he is a power. Yes,
he is a power of goodness without mercy for the
bad Otto suggestions of the defeatist type. But indefatigably painstaking,
active and smiling, to help everyone to develop their personality

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and to teach them to cure themselves, which is the
characteristic of his beneficent method. How could one fail to
desire from the depths of one's heart that all might
understand and seize the good news that could brings It
is the awakening possible for every one of the personal
power which he has received, of being happy and well.
It is if one consents the full development of this

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power which can transform one's life. Then, and is it
not quite rightly? So? It is the strict duty and
at the same time the happiness of those who have
been initiated, to spread by every possible means the knowledge
of this wonderful method, the happy results of which have
been recognized and verified by thousands of persons, To make
it known to those who suffer, who are sad, or

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who are overburdened, to all, and to help them to
put it into practice. Then, thinking of France triumphant but bruised,
of her defenders, victorious but mutilated, of all the physical
and moral suffering entailed by the war, may those who
have the power. The greatest power ever given to man
is the power of doing good. Socrates see that the

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inexhaustible reservoir of physical and moral forces that the method
puts within our reach may soon become the patrimony of
all the nation, and through it, of humanity. Madame emil
Leon collaborator in Paris of Emil Coup. Everything for everyone
by Madame emil Leon, disciple of Cou when one has

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been able to take advantage of a great benefit, when
this benefit is within reach of everyone, although almost everyone
is ignorant of it, is it not an urgent and
absolute duty for those who are initiated to make it
known to those around them, for all can make their own.
The amazing results of the emil kumethod to drive away
pain is much, but how much more is it to

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lead into the possession of a new life all those
who suffer. Last April we had the visit of m
Emil Coup at Paris, and here are some of his teachings.
Question question of a theist. I think it is unworthy
of the eternal to make our obedience to his will
depend on what Cook calls a trick or mechanical process
conscious auto suggestion coop, whether we wish it or not,

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our imagination always overrules our will. When they are in conflict,
we can lead it into the right path indicated by
our reason, by consciously employing the mechanical process that we
employ unconsciously often to lead into the wrong. And the
thoughtful questioner says to herself, yes, it is true. In
this elevated sphere of thought, conscious auto suggestion has the

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power to free us from obstacles created by ourselves, which might,
as it were, put a veil between us and God,
just as a piece of stuff hanging in a window
can prevent the sun from coming into a room. Question
how ought one to set about bringing those dear to
one who may be suffering to make themselves good auto
suggestions which would set them free? Answer? Do not insist

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or lecture them about it, Just remind them simply that
I advise them to make an auto suggestion with the
conviction that they will obtain the result they want. Question
how is one to explain to oneself and to explain
to others that the repetition of the same words I
am going to sleep, it is going away, et cetera,

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has the power to produce the effect, and above all,
so powerful an effect that it is a certain one. Answer.
The repetition of the same words force is one to
think them, and when we think them, they become true
for us and transform themselves into reality. Question how is
one to keep inwardly the mastery of oneself? Answer? To

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be master of ones self? It is enough to think
that one is so, and in order to think it,
one should often repeat it without making any effort. Question
and outwardly, how is one to keep one's liberty? Answer?
Self mastery applies just as much physically as mentally. Question
affirmation It is impossible to escape trouble or sadness if

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we do not do as we should. It would not
be just an auto suggestion. Cannot and ought not to
prevent just suffering. Coop very seriously and affirmatively, certainly and assuredly.
It ought not to be so, But it is so
often at any rate. For a time, Question, why did
that patient who has been entirely cured continually have those

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terrible attacks? 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 will not have any. If he thinks
that he will have them, he will indeed do so.
Question in what does your method differ from others? Answer

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that differ not the will which rules us, but the
imagination that is the basis, the fundamental basis. Question will
you give me a summary of your method? For Madamar,
who is doing an important work coup Here is the
summary of the method in a few words. Contrary to
what is taught, it is not our will which makes

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us act, but our imagination the unconscious. If we often
do act as we will, it is because at the
same time we think that we can. If it is
not so, we do exactly the reverse of what we wish. X.
The more a person with insomnia determines to sleep, the
more excited she becomes. The more we try to remember

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a name which we think we have forgotten, the more
it escapes us. It comes back only if in your
mind you replace the idea I have forgotten by the idea,
it will come back. The more we strive to prevent
ourselves from laughing, the more our laughter bursts out. The
more we determine to avoid an obstacle when learning to bicycle,
the more we rush upon it. We must then apply

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ourselves to directing our imagination which now directs us. In
this way, we easily arrive at becoming masters of ourselves
physically and morally. How are we to arrive at this
result by the practice of conscious auto suggestion. Conscious auto
suggestion is based on this principle. Every idea that we
have in our mind becomes true for us and tends

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to realize itself. Thus, if we desire something, we can
obtain it at the end of a more or less
long time. If we often repeat that this thing is
going to come or to disappear, according to whether it
is a good quality or a fault, either physical or mental.
Everything is included by employing night and morning the general
formula every day in every respect, I am getting better

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and better. Question for those who are sad, who are
in distress. Answer, as long as you think I am sad,
you cannot be cheerful. And in order to think something,
it is enough to say without effort, I do think
this thing. As to the distress, it will disappear, however
violent it may be, that I can affirm. A man

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arrives bent, dragging himself painfully along, leaning on two stays.
He has on his face an expression of dull depression.
As the hall is filling up. Coo enters. After having
questioned this man, he says to him something like this,
So you have had rheumatism for thirty two years and
you cannot walk. Don't be afraid. It's not going to

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last as long as that. Again, then after the preliminary experiments,
shut your eyes and repeat very quickly, indeed, moving your
lips the words it is going, it is going. At
the same time, capasses his hand over the legs of
the patient for twenty to twenty five seconds. Now you
are no longer in pain, Get up and walk. The

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patient walks quickly, quicker more quickly. Still, and since you
can walk so well, you are going to run, Run,
monsieur run. The patient runs joyously, almost as if he
had recovered his youth. To his great astonishment and also
to that of the numerous persons present at the seance

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of April twenty, twenty seventh, nineteen twenty clinic of Doctor Beryllin,
a lady declares, my husband suffered from attacks of asthma
for many years. He had such difficulty in breathing that
we feared a fatal issue. His medical adviser, Doctor X,
had given him up. He was almost radically cured of
his attacks after only one visit from Coul. A young

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woman comes to thank Kuh with lively gratitude. Her doctor,
doctor Vachet, who was with her in the room, says
that the cerebral anemia from which she had suffered for
a long while, which he had not succeeded in checking
by the usual means, had disappeared, as if by magic,
through the use of conscious auto suggestion. Another person who
had a fractured leg and could not walk without pain

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and limping, could at once walk normally, no more pain,
no more limping. In the hall which thrills with interest,
joyful testimonies break out from numerous persons who have been
relieved or cured. A doctor auto suggestion is the weapon
of healing. As to this philosopher who writes he mentions
his name, he relies on the genius of Ku. A gentleman,

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a former magistrate, whom a lady had asked to express
his appreciation, exclaims in a moved tone, I cannot put
my appreciation into words. I think it is admirable a
woman of the world excited by the disappearance of her sufferings,
Oh Cou, One could kneel to you. You are the
merciful God. Another lady, very much impressed herself, rectifies no

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his messenger an aged lady. It is delightful when one
is aged and fragile to replace a feeling of general
ill health by that of refreshment and general well being.
And Ku as method can I affirm, for I have
proved it produce this happy result, which is all the
more complete and lasting since it relies on the all
powerful force which is within us. A warmly sympathetic voice

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calls him the modest name. He prefers to that of
Master Professor Koh. A young woman who has been entirely
one over could go straight to his aim, attains it
with sureness, and in setting free his patient, carries generosity
and knowledge to its highest point, since he leaves to
the patient himself the merit of his liberation and the
use of a marvelous power. A literary man whom a

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lady asks to write a little Chef derv on the
Beneficent Method, refuses, absolutely, emphasizing the simple words which used
according to the method, help to make all suffering disappear.
It is going away, that is the chef dieuvre. He affirms,
and the thousands of sick folks who have been relieved
or cured will not contradict him. A lady who has

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suffered much declares, in re reading the method, I find
it more and more superior to the developments it has inspired.
There is really nothing to take away nor add to
this method. All that is left is to spread it.
I shall do so in every possible way. And now,
in conclusion, I will say, although Kuz modesty makes him
reply to every one, I have no magnetic fluid, I

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have no influence. I have never cured anybody. My disciples
obtain the same results as myself. I can say in
all sincerity that they tend to do so, instructed as
they are in a valuable method. And when in some
far distant future the thrilling voice of its author called
to a higher sphere, can no longer teach it here

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below the method his work will help in aiding, comforting,
and curing thousands and thousands of human beings. It must
be immortal and communicated to the entire world by generous France.
For the man of letters was right and knew how
to illuminate in a word, this true, simple and marvelous
help in conquering pain. It is going away. There is

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the chef dieuvre. Emil Leon, Paris, June sixth, nineteen twenty

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