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
The adult of to-day carries in his Unconscious a memory clogged with a
mass of adverse suggestions which have been accumulating since
childhood. The first task of Induced Autosuggestion will be to clear
away this mass of mental lumber. Not until this has been accomplished
can the real man appear and the creative powers of autosuggestion begin
to manifest themselves.
By the use of this method each one of us should be able to look forward
to a life in which disease is a diminishing factor. But how great a
part it will play depends upon the conditions we start from and the
regularity and correctness of our practice. Should disease befall us
we possess within a potent means of expelling it, but this does not
invalidate the complementary method of destroying it from without.
Autosuggestion and the usual medical practice should go hand in hand,
each supplementing the other. If you are ill, call in your doctor as
before, but enlist the resources of Induced Autosuggestion to reinforce
and extend his treatment.
In this connection it must be insisted on that autosuggestion should be
utilised for every ailment, whatever its nature, and whether its
inroads be grave or slight. Every disease is either strengthened or
weakened by the action of the mind. We cannot take up an attitude of
neutrality. Either we must aid the disease to destroy us by allowing
our minds to dwell on it, or we must oppose it and destroy it by a
stream of healthful dynamic thought. Too frequently we spontaneously
adopt the former course.
The general opinion that functional and nervous diseases alone are
susceptible to suggestive treatment is at variance with the facts.
During Coue's thirty years of practice, in which many thousands of
cases have been treated, he has found that organic troubles yield as
easily as functional, that bodily derangements are even easier to cure
than nervous and mental. He makes no such distinctions; an illness is
an illness whatever its nature. As such Coue attacks it, and in 98 per
cent. of cases he attains in greater or less degree a positive result.
Apart from the permanently insane, in whose minds the machinery of
autosuggestion is itself deranged, there are only two classes of
patient with whom Induced Autosuggestion seems to fail. One consists
of persons whose intelligence is so low that the directions given are
never comprehended; the other of those who lack the power of voluntary
attention and cannot devote their minds to an idea even for a few
consecutive seconds. These two classes, however, are numerically
insignificant, together making up not much more than 2 per cent. of the
population.
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