_M. Coué._--Whether we wish it or not, 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 autosuggestion has the 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 autosuggestions which would set them free? _Answer._--Do not insist or lecture them about it. Just remind them simply that I advise them to make an autosuggestion 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 . . ." etc., 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 forces 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 be master of oneself 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 we do not do as we should, it would not be just, and autosuggestion, cannot . . . and ought not to prevent _just suffering._ _M. Coué_(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 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._--The 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 Mme. R----, who is doing an important work?