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    SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION (Unabridged): Thoughts and Precepts, Observations on What Autosuggestion Can Do & Education As It Ought To Be
    SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION (Unabridged): Thoughts and Precepts, Observations on What Autosuggestion Can Do & Education As It Ought To Be
    SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION (Unabridged): Thoughts and Precepts, Observations on What Autosuggestion Can Do & Education As It Ought To Be
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    SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION (Unabridged): Thoughts and Precepts, Observations on What Autosuggestion Can Do & Education As It Ought To Be

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    Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion is the most famous work of Emile Coue in which isdefined what later became known as Couéism or the Coué method - the application of his mantra-like conscious autosuggestion, "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better" or sometimestranslated differently, "Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better." The Coué method centered on a routine repetition of this particular expression according to a specified ritual—preferably as much as twenty times a day, and especially at the beginning and at the end of each day. Coué explains how we hold within us a potency of infinite power and when we handle it unconsciously it is frequently harmful to us. If we direct it in a conscious and sensible way, it provides us the mastery of ourselves and permits us to escape from mental or physical illnesses, and to live in relative happiness, regardless to the circumstances we find ourselves in.
    Émile Coué (1857-1926) was a French psychologist and pharmacist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion. Working as an apothecary Coué quickly discovered what later came to be known as the placebo effect. He became known for reassuring his clients by praising each remedy's efficiency and leaving a small positive notice with each given medication. Unlike a commonly held belief that a strong conscious will constitutes the best path to success, Coué maintained that curing some of our troubles requires a change in our unconscious thought, which can be achieved only by using our imagination.Although his teachings were, during his lifetime, more popular in Europe, many Americans who adopted his ideas and methods became famous by spreading his words.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publishere-artnow
    Release dateJun 14, 2016
    ISBN9788026854043
    SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION (Unabridged): Thoughts and Precepts, Observations on What Autosuggestion Can Do & Education As It Ought To Be

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    SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION (Unabridged) - Emile Coué

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    Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion

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    Suggestion, or rather Autosuggestion, is quite a new subject, and yet at the same time it is as old as the world.

    It is new in the sense that until now it has been wrongly studied and in consequence wrongly understood; it is old because it dates from the appearance of man on the earth. In fact autosuggestion is an instrument that we possess at birth, and in this instrument, or rather in this force, resides a marvelous and incalculable power, which according to circumstances produces the best or the worst results. Knowledge of this force is useful to each one of us, but it is peculiarly indispensable to doctors, magistrates, lawyers, and to those engaged in the work of education.

    By knowing how to practise it consciously it is possible in the first place to avoid provoking in others bad autosuggestions which may have disastrous consequences, and secondly, consciously to provoke good ones instead, thus bringing physical health to the sick, and moral health to the neurotic and the erring, the unconscious victims of anterior autosuggestions, and to guide into the right path those who had a tendency to take the wrong one.

    THE CONSCIOUS SELF AND THE UNCONSCIOUS SELF

    In order to understand properly the phenomena of suggestion, or to speak more correctly of autosuggestion, it is necessary to know that two absolutely distinct selves exist within us. Both are intelligent, but while one is conscious the other is unconscious. For this reason the existence of the latter generally escapes notice. It is however easy to prove its existence if one merely takes the trouble to examine certain phenomena and to reflect a few moments upon them. Let us take for instance the following examples:

    Every one has heard of somnambulism; every one knows that a somnambulist gets up at night without waking, leaves his room after either dressing himself or not, goes downstairs, walks along corridors, and after having executed certain acts or accomplished certain work, returns to his room, goes to bed again, and shows next day the greatest astonishment at finding work finished which he had left unfinished the day before.

    It is however he himself who has done it without being aware of it. What force has his body obeyed if it is not an unconscious force, in fact his unconscious self?

    Let us now examine the alas, too frequent case of a drunkard attacked by delirium tremens. As though seized with madness he picks up the nearest weapon, knife, hammer, or hatchet, as the case may be, and strikes furiously those who are unlucky enough to be in his vicinity. Once the attack is over, he recovers his senses and contemplates with horror the scene of carnage around him, without realizing that he himself is the author of it. Here again is it not the unconscious self which has caused the unhappy man to act in this way? *

    * And what aversions, what ills we create for ourselves, everyone of us and in every domain by not immediately bringing into play good conscious autosuggestions against our bad unconscious autosuggestions, thus bringing about the disappearance of all unjust suffering.

    If we compare the conscious with the unconscious self we see that the conscious self is often possessed of a very unreliable memory while the unconscious self on the contrary is provided with a marvelous and impeccable memory which registers without our knowledge the smallest events, the least important acts of our existence. Further, it is credulous and accepts with unreasoning docility what it is told. Thus, as it is the unconscious that is responsible for the functioning of all our organs but the intermediary of the brain, a result is produced which may seem rather paradoxical to you: that is, if it believes that a certain organ functions well or ill or that we feel such and such an impression, the organ in question does indeed function well or ill, or we do feel that impression.

    Not only does the unconscious self preside over the functions of our organism, but also over all our actions whatever they are. It is this that we call imagination, and it is this which, contrary to accepted opinion, always makes us act even, and above all, against our will when there is antagonism between these two forces.

    WILL AND IMAGINATION

    If we open a dictionary and look up the word will, we find this definition: The faculty of freely determining certain acts. We accept this definition as true and unattackable, although nothing could be more false. This will that we claim so proudly, always yields to the imagination. It is an absolute rule that admits of no exception.

    Blasphemy! Paradox! you will exclaim. "Not at all! On the contrary, it is the

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