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
Since the suggestions of Mlle. Kauffmant are applied individually, the
mothers were permitted to enter and leave the clinic at any time they
wished. Mademoiselle was present on certain days every week, but this
was not the sum of her labours. The greater part of her spare time was
spent in visiting the little ones in their own homes. She penetrated
into the dingiest tenements, the poorest slums, on this errand of
mercy. I was able to accompany her on several of these visits, and saw
her everywhere received not only with welcome, but with a respect akin
to awe. She was regarded, almost as much as Coue himself, as a worker
of miracles. But the reputation of both Coue and Mlle. Kauffmant rests
on a broader basis even than autosuggestion, namely on their great
goodness of heart.
They have placed not only their private means, but their whole life at
the service of others. Neither ever accepts a penny-piece for the
treatments they give, and I have never seen Coue refuse to give a
treatment at however awkward an hour the subject may have asked it.
The fame of the school has now spread to all parts not only of France,
but of Europe and America. Coue's work has assumed such proportions
that his time is taken up often to the extent of fifteen or sixteen
hours a day. He is now nearing his seventieth year, but thanks to the
health-giving powers of his own method he is able to keep abreast of
his work without any sign of fatigue and without the clouding of his
habitual cheerfulness by even the shadow of a complaint. In fact, he
is a living monument to the efficacy of Induced Autosuggestion.
It will be seen that Induced Autosuggestion is a method by which the
mind can act directly upon itself and upon the body to produce whatever
improvements, in reason, we desire. That it is efficient and
successful should be manifest from what has gone before. Of all the
questions which arise, the most urgent from the viewpoint of the
average man seems to be this--Is a suggester necessary? Must one
submit oneself to the influence of some other person, or can one in the
privacy of one's own chamber exercise with equal success this potent
instrument of health?
Coue's own opinion has already been quoted. Induced Autosuggestion is
_not_ dependent upon the mediation of another person. We can practise
it for ourselves without others being even aware of what we are doing,
and without devoting to it more than a few minutes of each day.
Here are a few quotations from letters written by those who have thus
practised it for themselves.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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