The Practice of AutosuggestionBrooks, C. Harry (Cyrus Harry)
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The Practice of Autosuggestion
Brooks, C. Harry (Cyrus Harry)
Coué, Emile, 1857-1926; Mental suggestion
"Before you go," he said, "you will run up and down those stairs
without suffering any inconvenience."
At the close of the consultation, under the influence of the suggestion
"I can," the patient did this without difficulty. That night the
trouble recurred in a mild form, but he continued to attend the clinic
and to practise the exercises at home, and within a fortnight the
asthma had finally left him.
Among other patients with whom I conversed was a young man suffering
from curvature of the spine. He had been attending the clinic for four
months and practising the method at home. His doctor assured him that
the spine was gradually resuming its normal position. A girl of
twenty-two had suffered from childhood with epileptic fits, recurring
at intervals of a few weeks. Since her first visit to the clinic six
months previously the fits had ceased.
But the soundest testimony to the power of Induced Autosuggestion is
that borne by the patients themselves. Here are a few extracts from
letters received by Coue:
"At the age of sixty-three, attacked for more than thirty years by
asthma and all the complications attendant upon it, I spent
three-quarters of the night sitting on my bed inhaling the smoke of
anti-asthma powders. Afflicted with almost daily attacks, especially
during the cold and damp seasons, I was unable to walk--I could not
even _go down hill_.
Nowadays I have splendid nights, and have put the powders in a drawer.
Without the slightest hesitation I can go upstairs to the first floor."
D. (Mont de Marsan.)
15 _December_, 1921.
"Yesterday I felt really better, that is to say, of my fever, so I
decided to go back to my doctor, whom I had not seen since the summer.
The examination showed a normal appendix. On the other hand, the
bladder is still painful, but is better. At any rate, there is at
present no question of the operation which had worried me so much. I
am convinced that I shall cure myself completely."
M. D. (Mulhouse.)
24 _September_, 1921.
"I have very good news to give you of your dipsomaniac--she is cured,
and asserts it herself to all who will listen. She told me yesterday
that for fourteen years she had not been so long without drink as she
has been lately, and what surprises her so much is that she has not had
to struggle against a desire; she has simply not felt the need of
drink. Further, her sleep continues to be splendid. She is getting
more and more calm, in spite of the fact that on several occasions her
sang-froid has been severely tested. To put the matter in a nutshell,
she is a changed woman. But what impresses me most is the fact that
when she took to your method she thought herself at the end of her
tether, and in the event of its doing her no good had decided to kill
herself (she had already attempted it once)."
P. (a Paris doctor.)
1 _February_, 1922.
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