Produced by Ruth Hart [Note: many of the people quoted in this text are identified only by their initials along with either a dash or three periods. For consistency's sake, I have used four dashes for each person instead of periods. I have also added quotation marks where appropriate. Finally, I have made the following spelling change: I congraulate you to I congratulate you.] SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION by EMILE COUÉ AMERICAN LIBRARY SERVICE PUBLISHERS 500 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK Copyright 1922 _by_ AMERICAN LIBRARY SERVICE _All Translation Rights Reserved_ CONTENTS Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion, by _Emile Coué_ 5 Thoughts and Precepts, by _Emile Coué_ 36 Observations on What Autosuggestion Can Do, by _Emile Coué_ 43 Education As It Ought To Be, by _Emile Coué_ 50 A Survey of the "Séances" at M. Emile Coué's 55 Letters from Patients Treated by the Coué Method 62, 72, 75 The Miracle Within, by _M. Burnet-Provins_ 80 Some Notes on the Journey of M. Coué to Paris in October, 1919 85 Everything for Everyone! by Mme. Emile Leon 88 [Illustration of Emile Coué] SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION Suggestion, or rather Autosuggestion, 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 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 autosuggestion 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. 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 practise it _consciously_ it is possible in the first place to avoid provoking in others bad autosuggestions which may have disastrous consequences, and secondly, consciously to provoke good ones instead, thus bringing physical health to the sick, and moral health to the neurotic and the erring, the unconscious victims of anterior autosuggestions, and to guide into the right path those who had a tendency to take the wrong one. THE CONSCIOUS SELF AND THE UNCONSCIOUS SELF