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, sotto voice, "What patience he has! What a wonderfully painstaking man!") --- ALL 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 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. --- 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, the albumen diminish and even disappear from the urine of certain patients. --- This obsession must be a real nightmare. The people you used 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, M. Coué gives to 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 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 dilatation of the 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 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."