_M. E. Coué._--Here is the summary of the "Method" in a few words: Contrary to what is taught, it is not our will which makes 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. Ex: The more a person with insomnia _determines_ to sleep, the more excited she becomes; the more we _try_ to remember 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 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 _autosuggestion._ Conscious autosuggestion is based on this principle. Every idea that we have in our mind becomes true for us and tends 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 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 arrives bent, dragging himself painfully along, leaning on two sticks; he has on his face an expression of dull depression. As the hall is filling up, M. E. Coué enters. After having questioned this man, he says to him something like this: "So you have had rheumatism for 32 years and you cannot walk. Don't be afraid, it's not going to 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 M. Coué passes his hand over the legs of the patient, for 20 to 25 seconds). Now you are no longer in pain, get up and walk (the 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 séance of April 27th, 1920. (Clinic of Dr. Berillon.)