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SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION: The Forgotten Foundation of the Law of Attraction – Emile Coué (1922) · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  Speaker 1: Self mastery through conscious auto suggestion by Emil Coup nineteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. Self mastery through conscious auto suggestion suggestion, or
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  Speaker 1: rather auto suggestion is quite a new subject, and yet
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  Speaker 1: at the same time it is as old as the world.
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  Speaker 1: It is new in the sense that until now it
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  Speaker 1: has been wrongly studied and in consequence wrongly understood. It
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  Speaker 1: is old because it dates from the appearance of man
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  Speaker 1: on the earth. In fact, auto suggestion is an instrument
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  Speaker 1: that we possess at birth, and in this instrument, or
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  Speaker 1: rather in this force, resides a marvelous and incalculable power, which,
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  Speaker 1: according to circumstances, produces the best or the worst results.
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  Speaker 1: Knowledge of this force is useful to each one of us,
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  Speaker 1: but it is peculiarly indispensable to doctors, magistrates, lawyers, and
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  Speaker 1: to those engaged in the work of education. By knowing
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  Speaker 1: how to practice it consciously, it is possible in the
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  Speaker 1: first place, to avoid provoking in others bad auto suggestions,
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  Speaker 1: which may have disastrous consequences, and secondly, consciously to provoke
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  Speaker 1: good ones instead, thus bringing physical health to the sick,
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  Speaker 1: and moral health to the neurotic, and the airing the
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  Speaker 1: unconscious victims of anterior auto suggestions, and to guide into
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  Speaker 1: the right path those who had a tendency to take
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  Speaker 1: the wrong one. The conscious self and the unconscious self.
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  Speaker 1: In order to understand properly the phenomena of suggestion, or
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  Speaker 1: to speak, more correctly, of auto suggestion, it is necessary
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  Speaker 1: to know that two absolutely distinct selves exist within us.
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  Speaker 1: Both are intelligent, but while one is conscious, the other
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  Speaker 1: is unconscious. For this reason, the existence of the latter
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  Speaker 1: generally escapes notice. It is, however, easy to prove its
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  Speaker 1: existence if one merely takes the trouble to examine certain
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  Speaker 1: phenomena and to reflect a few moments upon them. Let
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  Speaker 1: us take, for instance, the following examples. Every One has
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  Speaker 1: heard of somnambulism. Every One knows that a somnambulist gets
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  Speaker 1: up at night, without waking, leaves his room, after either
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  Speaker 1: dressing himself or not, goes downstairs, walks along corridors, and,
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  Speaker 1: after having executed certain acts or accomplished certain work, returns
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  Speaker 1: to his room, goes to bed again, and shows next
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  Speaker 1: day the greatest astonishment at finding work finished which he
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  Speaker 1: had left unfinished the day before. It is, however, he
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  Speaker 1: himself who has done it. Without being aware of it.
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  Speaker 1: What force has his body obeyed if it is not
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  Speaker 1: an unconscious force, in fact, his unconscious self. Let us
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  Speaker 1: now examine the alas too frequent case of a drunkard
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  Speaker 1: attacked by delirium tremens. As though seized with madness, he
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  Speaker 1: picks up the nearest weapon knife, hammer, or hatchet, as
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  Speaker 1: the case may be, and strikes furiously those who are
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  Speaker 1: unlucky enough to be in his vicinity. Once the attack
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  Speaker 1: is over, he recovers his senses and contemplates with horror
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  Speaker 1: the scene of carnage around him, without realizing that he
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  Speaker 1: himself is the author of it. Here again, is it
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  Speaker 1: not the unconscious self which has caused the unhappy man
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  Speaker 1: to act in this way? And what aversions? What ill
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  Speaker 1: is we can create for ourselves, every one of us,
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  Speaker 1: and in every domain, by not immediately bringing into play
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  Speaker 1: good conscious auto suggestions against our bad unconscious auto suggestions,
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  Speaker 1: thus bringing about the disappearance of all unjust suffering. If
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  Speaker 1: we compare the conscious with the unconscious self, we see
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  Speaker 1: that the conscious self is often possessed of a very
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  Speaker 1: unreliable memory, while the unconscious self, on the contrary, is
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  Speaker 1: provided with a marvelous and impeccable memory, which registers, without
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  Speaker 1: our knowledge, the smallest events, the least important acts of
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  Speaker 1: our existence. Further, it is credulous and accepts with unreasoning
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  Speaker 1: docility what it is told. Thus, as it is the
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  Speaker 1: unconscious that is responsible for the functioning of all our organs,
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  Speaker 1: but the intermediary of the brain, a result is produced
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  Speaker 1: which may seem rather paradoxical to you. That is, if
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  Speaker 1: it believes that as certain organ functions well or ill,
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  Speaker 1: or that we feel such and such an impression, the
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  Speaker 1: organ in question does indeed function well or ill, or
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  Speaker 1: we do feel that impression. Not only does the unconscious
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  Speaker 1: self preside over the functions of our organism, but also
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  Speaker 1: over all our actions, whatever they are. It is this
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  Speaker 1: that we call imagination, and it is this which, contrary
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  Speaker 1: to accepted opinion, always makes us act even and above
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  Speaker 1: all against our will when there is antagonism between these
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  Speaker 1: two forces, will and imagination. If we open a dictionary
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  Speaker 1: and look up the word will, we find this definition
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  Speaker 1: the faculty of freely determining certain acts. We accept this
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  Speaker 1: definition as true and unattackable, although nothing could be more false.
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  Speaker 1: This will that we claim so proudly always yields to
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  Speaker 1: the imagination. It is an absolute rule that admits of
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  Speaker 1: no exception blasphemy paradox, you will exclaim not at all.
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  Speaker 1: On the contrary, it is the purest truth, I shall reply.
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  Speaker 1: In order to convince yourself of it, open your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: look round you, and try to understand what you see.
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  Speaker 1: You will then come to the conclusion that what I
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  Speaker 1: tell you is not an idle theory offspring of a
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  Speaker 1: sick brain, but the simple expression of a fact. Suppose
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  Speaker 1: that we place on the ground a plank thirty feet
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  Speaker 1: long by one foot wide. It is evident that everybody
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  Speaker 1: will be capable of going from one end to the
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  Speaker 1: other of this plank without stepping over the edge. But
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  Speaker 1: now change the conditions of the experiment and imagine this
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  Speaker 1: plank placed at the height of the towers of a cathedral.
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  Speaker 1: Who then will be capable of advancing even a few
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  Speaker 1: feet along this narrow path? Could you hear me speak?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not. Before you had taken two steps, you would
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  Speaker 1: begin to tremble, and in spite of every effort of
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  Speaker 1: your will, you would be certain to fall to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it then that you would not fall if
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  Speaker 1: the plank is on the ground, and why should you
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  Speaker 1: fall if it is raised to a height above the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Simply because in the first case you imagine that it
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  Speaker 1: is easy to go to the end of this plank,
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  Speaker 1: while in the second case you imagine that you cannot
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  Speaker 1: do so. Notice that your will is powerless to make
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  Speaker 1: you advance. If you imagine that you cannot, it is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely impossible for you to do so. If tilers and
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  Speaker 1: carpenters are able to accomplish this feat, it is because
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  Speaker 1: they think they can do it. Vertigo is entirely caused
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  Speaker 1: by the picture we make in our minds that we
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  Speaker 1: are going to fall. This picture transforms itself immediately into
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  Speaker 1: fact in spite of all the efforts of our will,
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  Speaker 1: and the more violent these efforts are, the quicker is
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  Speaker 1: the opposite to the desired result brought about. Let us
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  Speaker 1: now consider the case of a person suffering from insomnia.
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  Speaker 1: If he does not make any effort to sleep, he
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  Speaker 1: will lie quietly in bed. If, on the contrary, he
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  Speaker 1: tries to force himself to sleep by his will, the
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  Speaker 1: more efforts he makes, the more restless he becomes. Have
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  Speaker 1: you not noticed that the more you try to remember
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  Speaker 1: the name of a person which you have forgotten, the
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  Speaker 1: more it eludes you, until substituting in your mind the
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  Speaker 1: idea I shall remember in a minute, to the idea
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  Speaker 1: I have forgotten, the name comes back to you of
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  Speaker 1: its own accord, without the least effort. Let those of
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  Speaker 1: you who are cyclists remember the days when you were
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  Speaker 1: learning to ride. You went along, clutching the handlebars and
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  Speaker 1: frightened of falling. Suddenly catching sight of the smallest obstacle
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  Speaker 1: in the road, you try to avoid it, and the
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  Speaker 1: more efforts you made to do so, the more surely
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  Speaker 1: you rushed upon it. Who has not suffered from an
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  Speaker 1: attack of uncontrollable laughter, which bursts out more violently the
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  Speaker 1: more one tries to control it. What was the state
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  Speaker 1: of mind of each person in these different circumstances. I
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  Speaker 1: do not want to fall, but I cannot help doing so.
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  Speaker 1: I want to sleep, but I cannot. I want to
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  Speaker 1: remember the name of missus so and so, but I cannot.
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  Speaker 1: I want to avoid the obstacle, but I cannot. I
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  Speaker 1: want to stop laughing, but I cannot. As you see,
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  Speaker 1: in each of these conflicts, it is always the imagination
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  Speaker 1: which gains the victory over the will without any exception.
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  Speaker 1: To the same order of ideas belongs the case of
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  Speaker 1: the leader who rushes forward at the head of his
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  Speaker 1: troops and always carries them along with him, while the
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  Speaker 1: cry each man for him is almost certain to cause
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  Speaker 1: a defeat. Why is this It is because in the
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  Speaker 1: first case the men imagine that they must go forward,
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  Speaker 1: and in the second they imagine that they are conquered
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  Speaker 1: and must fly for their lives. Panurge was quite aware
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  Speaker 1: of the contagion of example, that is to say, the
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  Speaker 1: action of the imagination, when to Avenge himself upon a
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  Speaker 1: merchant on board the same boat, he bought his biggest
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  Speaker 1: sheep and threw it into the sea, certain beforehand that
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  Speaker 1: the entire flock would follow, which indeed happened. We human
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  Speaker 1: beings have a certain resemblance to sheep, and involuntarily we
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  Speaker 1: are irresistibly impelled to follow other people's examples, imagining that
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  Speaker 1: we cannot do otherwise. I could quote a thousand other examples,
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  Speaker 1: but I should fear to bore you by such an enumeration.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot, however, pass by in silence this fact, which
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  Speaker 1: shows the enormous power of the imagination, or in other words,
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  Speaker 1: of the unconscious in its struggle against the will. There
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  Speaker 1: are certain drunkards who wish to give up drinking, but
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  Speaker 1: who cannot do so. Ask them, and they will reply
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  Speaker 1: in all sincerity that they desire to be sober, that
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  Speaker 1: drink disgusts them, but that they are irresistibly impelled to
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  Speaker 1: drink against their will in spite of the harm they
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  Speaker 1: know it will do them. In the same way, certain
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  Speaker 1: criminals commit crimes in spite of themselves, and when they
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  Speaker 1: are asked why they acted so, they answer, I could
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  Speaker 1: not help it. Something impelled me. It was stronger than I.
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  Speaker 1: And the drunkard and the criminals speak the truth. They
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  Speaker 1: are forced to do what they do for the simple
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  Speaker 1: reason they imagine they cannot prevent themselves from doing so. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: we who are so proud of our will, who believe
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  Speaker 1: that we are free to act as we like, are
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  Speaker 1: in reality nothing but wretched puppets of which our imagination
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  Speaker 1: holds all the strings. We only cease to be puppets
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  Speaker 1: when we have learned to guide our imagination, suggestion and
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  Speaker 1: auto suggestion. According to the preceding remarks, we can compare
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  Speaker 1: the imagination to a torrent, which fatally sweeps away the
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  Speaker 1: poor wretch who has fallen into it in spite of
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  Speaker 1: his efforts to gain the bank. This torrent seems indomitable,
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  Speaker 1: but if you know how, you can turn it from
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  Speaker 1: its course and conduct it to the factory, and there
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  Speaker 1: you can transform its force into movement, heat, and electricity.
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  Speaker 1: If this simile is not enough, we may compare the
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  Speaker 1: imagination the mad man at home, as it has been called,
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  Speaker 1: to an unbroken horse, which has neither bridle nor reins.
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  Speaker 1: What can the rider do except let himself go wherever
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  Speaker 1: the horse wishes to take him. And often if the
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  Speaker 1: latter runs away, his mad career only comes to end
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  Speaker 1: in the ditch. If, however, the rider succeeds in putting
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  Speaker 1: a bridle on the horse, the parts are reversed. It
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  Speaker 1: is no longer the horse who goes where he likes.
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  Speaker 1: It is the rider who obliges the horse to take
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  Speaker 1: him wherever he wishes to go. Now that we have
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  Speaker 1: learned to realize the enormous power of the unconscious or
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  Speaker 1: imaginative being, I am going to show how this self,
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  Speaker 1: hitherto considered indomitable, can be as easily controlled as a
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  Speaker 1: torrent or an unbroken horse. But before going any further,
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  Speaker 1: it is net necessary to define carefully two words that
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  Speaker 1: are often used without being properly understood. These are the
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  Speaker 1: word suggestion and auto suggestion. What then, is suggestion? It
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  Speaker 1: may be defined as the act of imposing an idea
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  Speaker 1: on the brain of another. Does this action really exist
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  Speaker 1: properly speaking? No, Suggestion does not indeed exist by itself.
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  Speaker 1: It does not and cannot exist except on the sine
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  Speaker 1: qua non condition of transforming itself into auto suggestion in
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  Speaker 1: the subject. This latter word may be defined as the
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  Speaker 1: implanting of an idea in oneself by oneself. You may
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  Speaker 1: make a suggestion to someone. If the unconscious of the
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  Speaker 1: latter does not accept the suggestion, if it has not,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, digested it in order to transform it
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  Speaker 1: into autosuggestion, it produces no result. I have myself occasionally
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  Speaker 1: made a more or less commonplace suggestion to ordinarily very
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  Speaker 1: obedient subjects, quite unsuccessfully. The reason is that the unconscious
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  Speaker 1: of the subject refused to accept it and did not
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  Speaker 1: transform it into auto suggestion. The use of auto suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: Let us now return to the point where I said
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  Speaker 1: that we can control and lead our imagination just as
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  Speaker 1: a torrent or an unbroken horse can be controlled to
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  Speaker 1: do so. It is enough in the first place to
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  Speaker 1: know that this is possible, of which fact almost everyone
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  Speaker 1: is ignorant, and secondly to know by what means it
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  Speaker 1: can be done well. The means is very simple. It
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  Speaker 1: is that which we have used every day since we
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  Speaker 1: came into the world, without wishing or knowing it, and
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  Speaker 1: absolutely unconsciously, but which unfortunately for us, we often use
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  Speaker 1: wrongly and to our own detriment. This means is auto suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas we constantly give ourselves unconscious auto suggestions, all we
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  Speaker 1: have to do is to give ourselves conscious ones. And
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  Speaker 1: the process consists in this. First to weigh carefully in
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  Speaker 1: one's mind the things which are to be the object
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  Speaker 1: of the auto suggestion, and according as they require the
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  Speaker 1: answer yes or no, to repeat several times without thinking
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  Speaker 1: of anything else. This thing is coming or this thing
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  Speaker 1: is going away, this thing will or will not happen,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. If the unconscious accepts this suggestion
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  Speaker 1: and transforms it into an auto suggestion, the thing or
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  Speaker 1: things are realized in every particular. Thus understood, auto suggestion
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  Speaker 1: is nothing but hypnotism. As I see it, and I
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  Speaker 1: would define it in these simple words, the influence of
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  Speaker 1: the imagination upon the moral and physical being of mankind. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this influence is undeniable, and without returning to previous examples,
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  Speaker 1: I will quote a few others. If you persuade yourself
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  Speaker 1: that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing
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  Speaker 1: be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If,
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  Speaker 1: on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the
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  Speaker 1: simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you
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  Speaker 1: to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.
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  Speaker 1: Such is the case of neurasthenics, who, believing themselves incapable
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  Speaker 1: of the least effort, often find it impossible even to
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  Speaker 1: walk a few steps without being exhausted. And these same
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  Speaker 1: neurasthenics sink more deeply into their depression the more efforts
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  Speaker 1: they make to throw it off, like the poor wretch
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  Speaker 1: in the quicksands, who sinks in all the deeper the
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  Speaker 1: more he tries to struggle out. In the same way,
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  Speaker 1: it is sufficient to think a pain is going to
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  Speaker 1: feel it indeed disappear little by little, And inversely, it
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  Speaker 1: is enough to think that one suffers in order to
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  Speaker 1: feel the pain begin to come immediately. I know certain
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  Speaker 1: people who predict in advance that they will have a
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  Speaker 1: sick headache on a certain day in certain circumstances, and
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  Speaker 1: on that day, in the given circumstances, sure enough they
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  Speaker 1: feel it. They brought their illness on themselves, just as
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  Speaker 1: others cure theirs by conscious auto suggestion. I know that
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  Speaker 1: one generally passes for mad in the eyes of the
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  Speaker 1: world if one dares to put forward ideas which it
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  Speaker 1: is not accustomed to hear well, at the risk of
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  Speaker 1: being thought so, I say that if certain people are
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  Speaker 1: ill mentally and physically, it is that they imagine themselves
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  Speaker 1: to be ill mentally or physically. If certain others are paralytic,
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  Speaker 1: without having any lesion to account for it, it is
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  Speaker 1: that they imagine themselves to be paralyzed. And it is
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  Speaker 1: among such persons that the most extraordinary cures are produced.
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  Speaker 1: If others, again are happy or unhappy, it is that
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  Speaker 1: they imagine themselves to be so. For it is possible
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  Speaker 1: for two people in exactly the same circumstances to be
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  Speaker 1: the one perfectly happy, the other absolutely wretched. Neurasthenia stammering aversions, kleptomania,
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  Speaker 1: certain cases of paralysis are nothing but the result of
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  Speaker 1: unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say, the result of the
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  Speaker 1: action of the unconscious upon the physical and moral being.
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  Speaker 1: But if our unconscious is the source of many of
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  Speaker 1: our ills, it can also bring about the cure of
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  Speaker 1: our physical and mental ailments. It cannot only repair the
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  Speaker 1: ill it has done, but cure real illnesses, so strong
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  Speaker 1: is its action upon our organism. Shut yourself up alone
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  Speaker 1: in a room, Seat yourself in an arm chair, close
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  Speaker 1: your eyes to avoid any distraction, and concentrate your mind
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  Speaker 1: for a few moments on thinking such and such a
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  Speaker 1: thing is going to disappear, or such and such a
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  Speaker 1: thing is coming to pass. If you have really made
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  Speaker 1: the auto suggestion, that is to say, if your unconscious
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  Speaker 1: has assimilated the idea that you have presented to it,
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  Speaker 1: you are astonished to see the thing you have thought
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  Speaker 1: come to pass. Note that it is the property of
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  Speaker 1: ideas auto suggested to exist within us, unrecognized, and we
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  Speaker 1: can only know of their existence by the effect they produce.
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  Speaker 1: But above all, and this is an essential point, though,
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  Speaker 1: will must not be brought into play in practicing auto suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: For if it is not in agreement with the imagination.
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  Speaker 1: If one thinks I will make such and such a
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  Speaker 1: thing happen, and the imagination says you are willing it,
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  Speaker 1: but it is not going to be, not only does
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  Speaker 1: one not obtain what one wants, but even exactly the
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  Speaker 1: reverse is brought about. This remark is of capital importance
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  Speaker 1: and explains why results are so unsatisfactory when in treating
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  Speaker 1: moral ailments one strives to re educate the will. It
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  Speaker 1: is the training of the imagination which is necessary. And
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  Speaker 1: it is thanks to this shade of difference that my
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  Speaker 1: method has often succeeded where others, and those not the
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  Speaker 1: least considered, have failed. From the numerous experiments that I
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  Speaker 1: have made daily for twenty years, and which I have
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  Speaker 1: examined with minute care, I have been able to deduct
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  Speaker 1: the following conclusions, which I have summed up as laws. One.
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  Speaker 1: When the will and the imagination are antagonistic, it is
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  Speaker 1: always the imagination which wins, without any exception. Two. In
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  Speaker 1: the conflict between the will and the imagination, the force
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  Speaker 1: of the imagination is in direct ratio to the square
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  Speaker 1: of the will. Three. When the will and the imagination
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  Speaker 1: are in agreement. One does not add to the other,
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  Speaker 1: but one is multiplied by the other. Four the imagination
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  Speaker 1: can be directed. The expressions in direct ratio to the
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  Speaker 1: square of the will and is multiplied by are not
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  Speaker 1: rigorous exact. They are simply illustrations destined to make my
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: meaning clearer. After what has just been said, it would
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: seem that nobody ought to be ill. That is quite true.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Every illness, whatever it may be, can yield to auto suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: Daring and unlikely as my statement may seem, I do
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: not say does always yield, but can yield, which is
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: a different thing. But in order to lead people to
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: practice conscious auto suggestion, they must be taught, how just
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: as they are taught to read, or write or play.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: The piano. Auto suggestion is, as I said above, an
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: instrument that we possess at birth, and with which we
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: play unconsciously all our life, as a baby plays with
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: its rattle. It is, however, a dangerous instrument. It can
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: wound or even kill you if you handle it imprudently
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: and unconsciously. It can, on the contrary, save your life
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: when you know how to employ it consciously. One can
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: say of it as Esop said of the tongue, it
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: is at the same time the best and the worst
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: thing in the world. I am now going to show
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: you how every one can profit by the beneficent action
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: of auto suggestion consciously applied. In saying every one, I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: exaggerate a little, for there are two classes of persons
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: in whom it is difficult to arouse conscious auto suggestion.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: One the mentally undeveloped, who are not capable of understanding
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: what you say to them. Two those who are unwilling
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: to understand how to teach patients to make auto suggestions.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: The principle of the method may be summed up in
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: these few words. It is impossible to think of two
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: things at once. That is to say that two ideas
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: may be in juxtaposition, but they cannot be superimposed in
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: our mind. Every thought entirely filling our mind becomes true
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: for us and tends to transform itself into action. Thus,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: if you can make a sick person think that her
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: trouble is getting better, it will disappear. If you succeed
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: in making a kleptomaniac think that he will not steal
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: any more, he will cease to steal, et cetera. Et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: This tra which perhaps seems to you an impossibility, is, however,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the simplest thing in the world. It is enough, by
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: a series of appropriate and graduated experiments to teach the
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: subject as it worthy a be c of conscious thought.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And here is the series. By following it to the letter,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: one can be absolutely sure of obtaining a good result,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: except with the two categories of persons mentioned above. First
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: experiment preparatory. Ask the subject to stand upright, with the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: body as stiff as an iron bar, the feet close
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: together from toe to heel, while keeping the ankles flexible
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  Speaker 1: as if they were hinges. Tell him to make himself
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: like a plank with hinges at its base, which is
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: balanced on the ground. Make him notice that if one
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: pushes the plank slightly either way, it falls as a
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: mass without any resistance in the direction in which it
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: is pushed. Tell him that you are going to pull
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: him back by the shoulders, and that he must let
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: himself fall in your arms without the slightest resistance, turning
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: on his ankles as on hinges, that is to say,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: keeping the feet fixed to the ground. Then pull him
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: back by the shoulders, and if the experiment does not succeed,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: repeat it until it does or nearly so. Second experiment.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Begin by explaining to the subject that, in order to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: demonstrate the action of the imagination upon us, you are
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: going to ask him, in a moment to think, I
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: am falling backwards. I am falling backwards. Tell him that
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: he must have no thought but this in his mind.
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  Speaker 1: That he must not reflect or wonder if he is
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: going to fall or not, or think that if he
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: falls he may hurt himself, et cetera, or fall back
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: purposely to please you, but that if he really feels
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: something impelling him to fall backwards, he must not resist
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: but obey the impulse. Then ask your subject to raise
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the head high and to shut his eyes, and place
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: your right fist on the back of his neck and
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: your left hand on his forehead, and say to him, now,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: think I am falling backwards, I am falling backwards, et cetera,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: et cetera. And indeed you are falling backwards. You are
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: fall iron g back wards, et cetera. At the same time,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: slide the left hand lightly backwards to the left temple
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: above the ear, and remove very slowly, but with a
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: continuous movement, the right fist. The subject is immediately felt
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: to make a slight movement backwards and either to stop
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: himself from falling or else to fall completely. In the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: first case, tell him that he has resisted and that
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: he did not think just that he was falling, but
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: that he might hurt himself if he did fall. That
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: is true, for if he had not thought the latter,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: he would have fallen like a block. Repeat the experiment,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: using a tone of command as if you would force
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the subject to obey. You go on with it until
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: it is completely successful or very nearly so. The operator
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: should stand a little behind the subject, the left leg
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: forward and the right leg well behind him, so as
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: not to be knocked over by the subject when he falls.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Neglect of this precaution might result in a double fall
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: if the person is heavy. Third experiment. Place the subject
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: facing you, the body still stiff, the ankles flexible, and
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the feet joined in parallel. Put your two hands on
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: his temples without any pressure, Look fixedly, without moving the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: eyelids at the root of his nose, and tell him
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  Speaker 1: to think, I am falling forward. I am falling forward,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And repeat to him, stressing the syllables you are fall
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: iron g for ward. You are fall iron g for ward,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: without ceasing to look fixedly at him. Fourth experiment. Ask
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the subject to clasp his hands as tight as possible,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that is to say, until the fingers tremble slightly. Look
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: at him in the same way as in the preceding experiment,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and keep your hands on his as though to squeeze
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: them together still more tightly. Tell him to think that
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: he cannot unclasp his fingers, that you are going to
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: count three, and that when you say three, he is
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to try to separate his hands, while thinking all the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: time I cannot do it. I cannot do it, and
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: he will find it impossible. Then count very slowly one, two, three,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and add immediately detaching the syllables. You can not do it.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: You can not do it. If the subject is thinking properly,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I cannot do it. Not only is he unable to
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: separate his fingers, but the latter clasp themselves all the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: more tightly together. The more efforts he makes to separate them,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: he obtains, in fact, exactly the contrary to what he wants.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: In a few moments, say to him, now, think I
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: can do it, and his fingers will separate themselves. Be
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: careful always to keep your eyes fixed on the root
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: of the subject's nose, and do not allow him to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: turn his eyes away from yours for a single moment.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: If he is able to unclasp his hands, do not
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: think it is your own fault. It is the subjects
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: He has not properly thought. I cannot assure him firmly
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of this, and begin the experiment again. Always use a
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: tone of command which suffers no disobedience. I do not
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: mean that it is necessary to raise your voice. On
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the contrary, it is preferable to employ the ordinary pitch,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: but stress every word in a dry and imperative tone.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: When these experiments have been successful, all the others succeed
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: equally well, and can be easily obtained by carrying out
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to the letter the instructions given above. Some subjects are
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: very sensitive, and it is easy to recognize them by
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the fact that the contraction of their fingers and limbs
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: is easily produced. After two or three successful experiments, it
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: is no longer necessary to say to them, think this,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: or think that. You need only, for example, say to
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: them simply, but in the imperative tone employed by all
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: good suggestionists. Close your hands now, you cannot open them.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Shut your eyes now, you cannot open them. And the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: subject finds it absolutely impossible to open the hands or
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the eyes, in spite of all his efforts. Tell him
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: in a few moments, you can do it now, and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the decontraction takes place instantaneously. These experiments can be varied
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to infinity. Here are a few more. Make the subject
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: join his hands and suggest that they are welded together.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Make him put his hand on the table and suggest
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that it is stuck to it. Tell him that he
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: is fixed to his chair and cannot rise. Make him
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: rise and tell him he cannot walk. Put a pen
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: holder on the table and tell him that it weighs
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: a hundredweight and that he cannot lift it, et cetera,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: et cetera. In all these experiments I cannot repeat too often.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: It is not suggestion properly so called, which produces the phenomena,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: but the auto suggestion, which is consecutive to the suggestion
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: of the operator. Method of procedure. In curative suggestion, when
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the subject has passed through the preceding experiments and has
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: understood them, he is ripe for curative suggestion. He is
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: like a cultivated field in which the seed can germinate
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and develop, whereas before it was but rough earth, in
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: which it would have perished. Whatever ailment the subject suffers from,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: whether it is physical or mental, it is important to
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: proceed always in the same way, and to use the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: same words, with a few variations according to the case.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Say to the subject, sit down and close your eyes.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I am not going to try and put you to sleep,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: as it is quite unnecessary. I ask you to close
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: your eyes simply in order that your attention may not
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: be distracted by the objects around you. Now tell yourself
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: that every word I say is going to fix itself
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: in your mind and be printed, engraved and incrusted in it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: That there it is going to stay fixed, imprinted, and encrusted.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: And that without your will or knowledge, in fact, perfectly
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: unconsciously on your part, you, yourself, and your whole organism
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: are going to obey. In the first place, I say
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: that every day, three times a day, in the morning,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: at midday and in the evening at the usual meal times,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: you will feel hungry. That is to say, you will
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: experience the agreeable sensation which makes you think and say, oh,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: how nice it will be to have something to eat,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: will then eat and enjoy your food, without of course overeating.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: You will also be careful to masticate it properly, so
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: as to transform it into a sort of soft paste
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: before swallowing it. In these conditions, you will digest it
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: properly and so feel no discomfort, inconvenience, or pain of
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: any kind, either in the stomach or intestines. You will
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: assimilate what you eat, and your organism will make use
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: of it to make blood, muscle, strength, and energy, in
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: a word, life. Since you will have digested your food properly,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the function of excretion will be normal, and every morning,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: on rising, you will feel the need of evacuating the bowels,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and without ever being obliged to take medicine or to
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: use any artifice, you will obtain a normal and satisfactory result. Further,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: every night, from the time you wish to go to
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: sleep till the time you wish to wake next morning,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: you will sleep deeply, calmly, and quietly, without nightmares, and
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: on waking you will feel perfectly well, cheerful, and active. Likewise,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: if you occasionally suffer from depression, if you are gloomy
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and prone to worry and look on the dark side
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: of things. From now onwards, you will cease to do so,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and instead of worrying and being depressed and looking on
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the dark side of things, you are going to feel
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: perfectly cheerful, possibly without any special reason for it, just
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: as you used to feel depressed for no particular reason.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I say further still, that even if you have real
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: reason to be worried and depressed, you are not going
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to be so. If you are also subject to occasional
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: fits of impatience or ill temper, you will cease to
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: have them. On the contrary, you will be always patient
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and master of yourself, and the things which worried, annoyed,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: or irritated you will henceforth leave you absolutely indifferent and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: perfectly calm. If you are sometimes attacked, pursued, haunted by
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: bad and unwholesome ideas, by apprehensions, fears, aversions, temptations, or
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: grudges against other people, all that will be gradually lost
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: sight of by your imagination, and will melt away and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: lose itself, as though in a distance cloud, where it
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: will finally disappear completely. As a dream vanishes when we wake,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: so will all these vain images disappear to this I
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: add that all your organs are performing their functions properly.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: The heart beats in a normal way, and the circulation
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: of the blood takes place as it should. The lungs
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: are carrying out their functions, as also the stomach, the intestines,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the liver, the biliary duct, the kidneys, and the bladder.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: If at the present moment any of them is acting abnormally,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: that abnormality is becoming less every day, so that quite
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: soon it will have vanished completely and the organ will
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: have recovered its normal function. Further, if there should be
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: any lesions in any of these organs, they will get
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: better from day to day and will soon be entirely healed.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: With regard to this, I may say that it is
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: not necessary to know which organ is affected for it
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: to be cured. Under the influence of the auto suggestion,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: every day, in every respect I am getting better and
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: better the unconscious acts upon the old organ, which it
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: can pick out itself. I must also add, and it
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: is extremely important, that if up to the present you
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: have lacked confidence in yourself, I tell you that this
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: self distrust will disappear little by little and give place
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: to self confidence based on the knowledge of this force
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: of incalculable power which is in each one of us.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: It is absolutely necessary for every human being to have
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: this confidence. Without it, one can accomplish nothing. With it,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: one can accomplish whatever one likes. Within reason. Of course,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: you are then going to have confidence in yourself, and
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: this confidence gives you the assurance that you are capable
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: of accomplishing perfectly well whatever you wish to do, on
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: condition that it is reasonable, and whatever it is your
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: duty to do. So, when you wish to do something
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: reasonable or when you have a duty to perform, always
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: think that it is easy, and make the words difficult impossible.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I cannot. It is stronger than I. I cannot prevent
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: myself from disappear from your vocabulary. They are not English.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: What is English? Is it is easy? And I can.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: By considering the thing easy, it becomes so for you.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Although it might seem difficult to others. You will do
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: it quickly and well and without fatigue, because you do
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: it without effort. Whereas if you had considered it as
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: difficult or impossible, it would have become so for you
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: simply because you would have thought it so. To these
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: general suggestions, which will perhaps seem long and even childish
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: to some of you, but which are necessary must be
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: added those which apply to the particular case of the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: patient you are dealing with. All these suggestions must be
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: made in a monotonous and soothing voice, always emphasizing the
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: essential words, which, although it does not actually send the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: subject to sleep, at least makes him feel drowsy and
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: think of nothing in particular. When you have come to
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the end of the series of suggestions, you address the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: subject in these terms. In short, I mean that from
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: every point of view, physical as well as mental, you
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: are going to enjoy excellent health, better health than that
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you have been able to enjoy up to the present.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Now I am going to count three, and when I
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: say three, you will open your eyes and come out
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: of the passive state in which you are now. You
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: will come out of it quite naturally, without feeling in
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: the least drowsy or tired. On the contrary, you will
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: feel strong, vigorous, alert, active, full of life. Further still,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: you will feel very cheerful and fit in every way. One, two, three.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: At the word three, the subject opens his eyes, always
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: with a smile and an expression of well being and
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: contentment on his face. Sometimes though rarely the patient is
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: cured on the spot. At other times, and this is
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: more generally the case, he finds himself relieved, his pain
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: or his depression has partially or totally disappeared, though only
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: for a certain lapse of time. In every case, it
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: is necessary to renew the suggestions more or less frequently
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: according to your subject, being careful always to space them
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: out at longer and longer intervals according to the progress obtained,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: until they are no longer necessary, that is to say,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: when the cure is complete. Before sending away your patient,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you must tell him that he carries within him the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: instrument by which he can cure himself, and that you are,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: as it were, only a professor teaching him to use
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: this instrument, and that he must help you in your task. Thus,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: every morning, before rising and every night on getting into bed,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: he must shut his eyes and in thought transport himself
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: into your presence, and then repeat twenty times consecutively in
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: a monotonous voice, counting by means of a string with
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: twenty knots in it, this little phrase. Every day, in
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: every respect, I am getting better and better in his mind.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: He should emphasize the words in every respect which applies
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: to every need, mental or physical. This general suggestion is
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: more efficacious than special ones. Thus it is easy to
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: realize the part played by the giver of the suggestions.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: He is not a master who gives orders, but a friend,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: a guide who leads the patient step by step on
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: the road to health. As all the suggestions are given
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: in the interest of the patient, the unconscious of the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: latter asks nothing better than to assimilate them and transform
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: them into auto suggestions. When this has been done, the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: cure is obtained, more or less rapidly, according to circumstances.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: The superiority of this method. This method gives absolutely marvelous results,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and it is easy to understand why. Indeed, by following
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: out my advice, it is impossible to fail, except with
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: the two classes of persons mentioned above, who fortunately represent
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: barely three percent of the whole. If, however, you try
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to put your subjects to sleep right away without the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: explanations and preliminary experiments necessary to bring them to accept
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the suggestions and to transform them into auto suggestions, you
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: cannot and will not succeed except with peculiarly sensitive subjects,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: and these are rare. Everybody may become so by training,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: but very few are so sufficiently without the preliminary instruction
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: that I recommend, which can be done in it few minutes. Formerly,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: imagining that suggestions could only be given during sleep, I
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: always tried to put my patient to sleep, but on
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: discovering that it was not indispensable, I left off doing
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: it in order to spare him the dread and uneasiness
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: he almost always experiences when he is told that he
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: is going to be sent to sleep, and which often
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: makes him offer, in spite of himself, an involuntary resistance. If,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: on the contrary, you tell him that you are not
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: going to put him to sleep, as there is no
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: need to do so, you gain his confidence. He listens
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to you without fear or any ulterior thought, and it
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: often happens, if not the first time, anyhow, very soon that,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: soothed by the monotonous sound of your voice, he falls
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: into a deep sleep, from which he awakes astonished at
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: having slept at all. If there are skeptics among you,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: as I am quite sure there are, all I have
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: to say to them is come to my house and
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: see what is being done, and you will be convinced
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: by fact. You must not however, run away with the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: idea that auto suggestion can only be brought up in
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: the way I have described. It is possible to make
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: suggestions to people without their knowledge and without any preparation.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: For instance, if a doctor, who by his title alone
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: has a suggestive influence on his patient, tells him that
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: he can do nothing for him and that his illness
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: is incurable, he provokes in the mind of the latter
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: an auto suggestion, which may have the most disastrous consequences. If, however,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: he tells him that his illness is a serious one
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: it is true, but that with care, time and patience
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: he can be cured. He sometimes and even often obtains
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: results which will surprise him. Here is another example. If
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: a doctor, after examining his patient, writes a prescription and
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: gives it to him without any comment, the remedies prescribed
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: will not have much chance of succeeding. If, on the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: other hand, he explains to his patient that such and
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: such medicines must be taken in such and such conditions,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: and that they will produce certain results, those results are
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: practically certain to be brought about. If in this hall
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: there are medical men or brother chemists, I hope they
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: will not think me their enemy. I am, on the contrary,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: their best friend. On the one hand, I should like
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: to see the theoretical and practical study of suggestion on
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the syllabus of the medical schools for the great benefit
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: of the sick and of the doctors themselves. And on
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the other hand, in my opinion, every time that a
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: patient goes to see his doctor, the latter should order
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: him one or even several medicines, even if they are
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: not necessary. As a matter of fact, when a patient
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: visits his doctor it is in order to be told
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: what medicine will cure him. He does not realize that
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: it is the hygiene and regimen which do this, and
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: he attaches little importance to them. It is a medicine
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: that he wants. In my opinion, if the doctor only
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: prescribes a regiment without any medicine, his patient will be dissatisfied.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: He will say that he took the trouble to consult
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: him for nothing, and often goes to another doctor. It
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: seems to me, then, that the doctor should always prescribe
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: medicines to his patient, and as much as possible, medicines
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: made up by himself rather than the standard remedies so
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: much advertised in which owe their only value to the advertisement.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: The doctor's own prescriptions will inspire infinitely more confidence than
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: So and so's pills, which anyone can procure easily at
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the nearest drug store without any need of a prescription.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: How suggestion works. In order to understand properly the part
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: played by suggestion, or rather by autosuggestion, it is enough
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: to know that the unconscious self is the grand director
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: of all our functions. Make this believed. As I said above,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: that a certain organ which does not function well must
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: perform its function, and instantly the order is transmitted. The
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: organ obeys with docility, and either at once or little
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: by little, performs its functions in a normal manner. This
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: explains simply and clearly how by means of suggestion one
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: can stop hemorrhages, cure constipation, cause fibrous tumors to disappear,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: cure paralysis, tubercular lesions, vericos ulcers, et cetera. Let us take,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: for example, a case of Denis hemorrhage, which I had
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: the opportunity of observing in the consulting room of M.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Goth a dentist Atchrouais, a young lady whom I had
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: helped to cure herself of asthma, from which she had
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: suffered for eight years, told me one day that she
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: wanted to have a tooth out. As I knew her
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: to be very sensitive, I offered to make her feel
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: nothing of the operation. She naturally accepted with pleasure, and
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: we made an appointment with the dentist On the day
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: we had arranged. We presented ourselves at the dentist's end,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: standing opposite my patient. I looked fixedly at her, saying,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: you feel nothing, You feel nothing, et cetera, et cetera,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: And then, while still continuing the suggestion, I made a
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: sign to the dentist. In an instant, the tooth was out,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: without Mademoiselle D turning a hair, As fairly often happens,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: a hemorrhach followed, but I told the dentist that I
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: would try suggestion without his using a hemistatic, without knowing
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: beforehand what would happen. I then asked Mademoiselle D to
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: look at me fixedly, and I suggested to her that
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: in two minutes, the hemorrhage would cease of its own accord.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: And we waited. The patient spat blood again once or twice,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: and then ceased. I told her to open her mouth,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: and we both looked and found that a clot of
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: blood had formed in a dental cavity. How is this
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: phenomenon to be explained in the simplest way, Under the
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: influence of the idea the hemorrhage is to stop. The
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: unconscious had sent to the small arteries and veins the
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: order to stop the flow of blood, and obediently they
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: contracted naturally, as they would have done artificially at the
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: contact of a hemistatic like adrenaline. For example. The same
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: reasoning explains how a fibrous tumor can be made to disappear.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: The unconscious, having accepted the idea it is to go.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: The brain orders the arteries which nourish it to contract.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: They do so, refusing their services and ceasing to nourish.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: The tumor, which deprived of nourishment, dies, dries up, is reabsorbed,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: and disappears. The use of suggestion for the cure of
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: moral ailments and taints, either congenital or acquired neurasthenia, so
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: common nowadays, generally yields to suggestion constantly practiced in the
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: way I have indicated I had had the happiness of
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: contributing to the cure of a large number of neur
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: asthenics with whom every other treatment had failed. One of
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: them had even spent a month in a special establishment
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: at Luxembourg without obtaining any improvement. In six weeks he
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: was completely cured, and he is now the happiest man
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: one would wish to find, after having thought himself the
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: most miserable. Neither is he ever likely to fall ill
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: again in the same way. For I showed him how
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: to make use of conscious otto suggestion, and he does
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: it marvelously well. But if suggestion is useful in treating
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: moral complaints and physical ailments, may it not render still
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: greater services to society in turning into honest folks the
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: wretched children whom people are reformatories, and who only leave
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: them to enter the army of crime. Let no one
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: tell me it is possible. The remedy exists, and I
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: can prove it. I will quote the two following cases,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: which are very characteristic. But here I must insert a
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: few remarks in parenthesis to make you understand the way
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: in which suggestion acts in the treatment of moral taints.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I will use the following comparison. Suppose our brain is
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: a plank in which are driven nails, which represent the ideas, habits,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: and instincts which determine our actions. If we find that
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: there exists in a subject a bad idea, a bad habit,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: a bad instinct, as it were, a bad nail, we
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: take another, which is the good idea, habit, or instinct,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: place it on top of the bad one, and give
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: a tap with a hammer. In other words, we make
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: a suggestion. The new nail will be driven in perhaps
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: a fraction of an inch, while the old one will
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: come out to the same extent. At each fresh blow
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: with the hammer, that is to say, at each fresh suggestion,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: the one will be driven in a fraction further and
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the other will be driven out the same amount, until
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: after a cert number of blows, the old nail will
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: come out completely and be replaced by the new one.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: When this substitution has been made, the individual obeys it.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Let us return to our examples. Little M, a child
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: of eleven living at Chrouis, was subject night and day
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to certain accidents inherent to early infancy. He was also
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: a kleptomaniac, and of course untruthful into the bargain. At
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: his mother's request, I treated him by suggestion. After the
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: first visit, the accident ceased by day, but continued at night.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Little by little they became less frequent, and finally, a
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: few months afterwards, the child was completely cured. In the
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: same period, his thieving propensities lessened, and in six months
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: they had entirely ceased. This child's brother, aged eighteen, had
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: conceived a violent hatred against another of his brothers. Every
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: time that he had taken a little too much wine,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: he felt impelled to draw a knife and stab his brother.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: He felt that one day or other he would end
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: by doing so, and he knew at the same time
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: that having done so, he would be inconsolable. I treated
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: him also by suggestion, and the result was marvelous. After
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: the first treatment, he was cured. His hatred for his
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: brother had disappeared, and they have since become good friends
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: and got on capitally together. I followed up the case
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: for a long time, and the cure was permanent. Since
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: such results are to be obtained by suggestion, would it
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: not be beneficial, I might even say indispensable, to take
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: up this method and introduce it into our reformatories. I
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: am absolutely convinced that if suggestion were daily applied to
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: vicious children, more than fifty percent could be reclaimed. Would
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: it not be an immense service to render society, to
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: bring back to its sane and well members of it
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: who were formerly corroded by moral decay? Perhaps I shall
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: be told that suggestion is a dangerous thing, and that
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: it can be used for evil purposes. This is no
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: valid objection, first, because the practice of suggestion would only
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: be confided by the patient to reliable and honest people,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: to the reformatory doctors, for instance. And on the other hand,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: those who seek to use it for evil ask no
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: one's permission. But even admitting that it offers some danger,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: which is not so, I should like to ask whoever
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: proffers the objection, to tell me what thing we use
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: that is not dangerous? Is it? Steam? Gunpowder, railways, ships, electricity, automobiles, aeroplanes?
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Are the poisons not dangerous which we doctors and chemists
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: use daily in minute dozes, and which might easily destroy
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the patient if in a moment's carelessness, we unfortunately made
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: a mistake in weighing them out. A few typical cures.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: This little work would be incomplete if it did not
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: include a few examples of the cures obtained. It would
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: take too long and would also perhaps be some with tiring.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: If I were to relate all those in which I
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: have taken part, I will therefore content myself by quoting
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: a few of the most remarkable. Mademoiselle M. D. Of
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Chruis had suffered for eight years from asthma, which obliged
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: her to sit up in bed nearly all night fighting
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: for breath. Preliminary experiments show that she is a very
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: sensitive subject. She sleeps immediately and the suggestion is given.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: From the first treatment there is an enormous improvement. The
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: patient has a good night, only interrupted by one attack
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: of asthma, which only lasts a quarter of an hour.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: In a very short time, the asthma disappears completely and
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: there is no relapse. Later on. M. M. A working
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: hosier living at Saint Savine near Chua, paralyzed for two
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: years as the result of injuries at the junction of
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the spinal column and the pelvis. The paralysis is only
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: in the lower limbs, in which the circulation of the
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: blood has practically ceased, making them swollen, congested and discolored.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Several treatments, including the anti syphilitic, have been tried without success.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Preliminary experiment, successful suggestion applied by me and auto suggestion
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: by the patient for eight days. At the end of
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: this time there is an almost imperceptible but still appreciable
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: movement of the left leg. Renewed suggestion in eight days,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: the improvement is noticeable. Every week or fortnight there is
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: an increased improvement with progressive lessening of the swelling, and
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: so on. Eleven months afterwards, on the first of November
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: nineteen o six, the patient goes downstairs alone and walks
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: eight hundred yards, and in the month of July nineteen
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: o seven goes back to the factory, where he has
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: continued to work since that time with no trace of paralysis. M. A. G.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Living at Chrouis has long suffered from enteritis, for which
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: different treatments have been tried in Vain. He is also
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: in a very bad state mentally, being depressed, gloomy, unsociable,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: and obsessed by thoughts of suicide. Preliminary experiments easy followed
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: by suggestion, which produces an appreciable result from the very
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: day for three months daily suggestions to begin with, then
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: at increasingly longer intervals. At the end of this time,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: the cure is complete, the enteritis has disappeared, and his
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: morals have become excellent. As the cure dates back twelve
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: years without the shadow of a relapse, it may be
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: considered as permanent. M G is a striking example of
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: the effects that can be produced by suggestion, or rather
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: by auto suggestion. At the same time as I made
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: suggestions to him from the physical point of view, I
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: also did so from the mental and he accepted both
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: suggestions equally well. Every day his confidence in himself increased, and,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: as he was an excellent workman, in order to earn more,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: he looked out for a machine which would enable him
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: to work at home for his employer. A little later,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: a factory owner, having seen with his own eyes what
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: a good workman he was, entrusted him with the very
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: machine he desired. Thanks to his skill, he was able
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: to turn out much more than an ordinary workman, and
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: his employer, delighted with the result, gave him another and
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: yet another machine, until m G, who but for suggestion,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: would have remained an ordinary workman, is now in charge
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: of six machines, which bring him a very handsome profit.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Madam d at chouas about thirty years of age. She
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: is in the last stages of consumption and grows thinner
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: daily in spite of special nourishment. She suffers from coughing
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: and spitting, and has difficulty in breathing. In fact, from
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: all appearances, she has only a few months to live.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Preliminary experiments show great sensitiveness, and suggestion is followed by
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: immediate improvement. From the next day, the morbid symptoms begin
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: to lessen. Every day the improvement becomes more marked. The
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: patient rapidly puts on flesh, although she no longer takes
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: special nourishment. In a few months, the cure is apparently complete.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: This person wrote to me on the first of January
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: nineteen eleven, that is to say, eight months after I
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: had left Chhuah, to thank me and to tell me
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: that although pregnant, she was perfectly well. I have purposely
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: chosen these cases dating some time back, in order to
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: show that the cures are permanent. But I should like
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: to add a few more recent ones. M X Post
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Office clerk at Lunarville, having lost one of his children
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: in January nineteen ten. The trouble produces in him a
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: cerebral disturbance which manifests itself by uncontrollable nervous trembling. His
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: uncle brings him to me in the month of June
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: preliminary experiments followed by suggestion for days. Afterwards, the patient
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: returns to tell me that the trembling has disappeared. I
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: renew the suggestion and tell him to return in eight days.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: A week, then a fortnight, then three weeks, then a
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: month pass by without my hearing any more of him.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: Shortly afterwards, his uncle comes and tells me that he
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: has just had a letter from his nephew, who is
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: perfectly well. He has taken on again his work as telegraphist,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: which he had been obliged to give up, and the
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: day before he had sent off a telegram of one
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy words without the least difficulty he could easily,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: he added in his letter, have sent off an even
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: longer one. Since then he has had no relapse. M
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Why of Nancy has suffered from neurasthenia for several years.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: He has aversions, nervous fears, and disorders of the stomach,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: and intestines. He sleeps badly, is gloomy, and is haunted
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: by ideas of suicide. He staggers when he walks like
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: a drunken man, and can think of nothing but his trouble.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: All treatments have failed, and he gets worse and worse.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: A stay in a special nursing home for such cases
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: has no effect whatever. M Why comes to see me
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of October nineteen ten. Preliminary experiments comparatively easy.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: I explain to the patient the principles of otto suggestion
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: and the existence within us of the conscious and the
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: unconscious self, and then make the required suggestion. For two
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: or three days. M Why has a little difficulty with
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: the explanations I have given him. In a short time,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: light breaks in upon his mind and he grasps the
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: whole thing. I renew the suggestion, and he makes it
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: himself too. Every day the improvement, which is at first slow,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: becomes more and more rapid, and in a month and
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: a half the cure is complete. The ex invalid, who
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: had lately considered himself the most wretched of men, now
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: thinks himself the happiest. M e of chruis an attack
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: of gout. The right ankle is inflamed and painful, and
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: he is unable to walk. The preliminary experiments show him
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: to be a very sensitive subject. After the first treatment,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: he is able to regain without the help of his
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: stick the carriage which brought him, and the pain has ceased.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: The next day he does not return as I had
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: told him to do. Afterwards, his wife comes alone and
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: tells me that that morning her husband had got up,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: put on his shoes and gone off on his bicycle
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: to visit his yards. He is a painter. It is
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: needless to tell you my utter astonishment. I was not
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: able to follow up this case, as the patient never
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: deigned to come and see me again. But some time
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: afterward I heard that he had had no relapse. Madam
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: t of Nancy neurasthenia, dyspepsia, gastralgia, enteritis and pains in
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: different parts of the body. She has treated herself for
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: several years with a negative result. I treat her by
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: suggestion and she makes auto suggestions for herself every day.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: From the first day. There is a noticeable improvement which
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: continues without interruption. At the present moment, this person has
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: long been cured mentally and physically, and follows no regimen.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: She thinks that she still has perhaps a slight touch
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: of enteritis, but she is not sure. Madame X a
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: sister of Madame t Dash acute neurasthenia. She stays in
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: bed a fortnight every month as it is totally impossible
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: for her to move or work. She suffers from lack
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: of appetite, depression, and digestive disorders. She is cured by
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: one visit and the cure seems to be permanent as
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: she has had no relapse. Madam H at Maxville general exema,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: which is particularly severe on the left leg. Both legs
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: are inflamed above all at the ankles. Walking is difficult
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: and painful. I treat her by suggestion that same evening,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Madam H is able to walk several hundred yards without fatigue.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: The day after, the feet and ankles are no longer
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: swollen and have not been swollen again since. The exema
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: disappears rapidly. Madame F at Lenouvuville pains and the kidneys
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: and the knees. The illness dates from ten years back
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: and is becoming worse every day. Suggestion from me and
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: auto suggestion from herself. The improvement is immediate and increases progressively.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: The cure is obtained rapidly and is a permanent one.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: Madame Z of Nancy felt ill in January nineteen ten
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: with congestion of the lungs, from which she had not recovered.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Two months later. She suffers from general weakness, loss of appetite,
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: bad digestive trouble, rare and difficult bowel action, insomnia, copious
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: night sweats. After the first suggestion, the patient feels much better,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: and two days later she returns and tells me that
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: she feels quite well. Every trace of illness has disappeared,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: and all the organs are functioning normally. Three or four
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: times she had been on the point of sweating, but
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: each time prevented it by the use of conscious auto suggestion.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: From this time Madame Z has an enjoyed perfectly good health.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: M X at Belford cannot talk for more than ten
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: minutes or a quarter of an hour without becoming completely
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: a fhonus. Different doctors consulted find no lesion in the
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: vocal organs, but one of them says that m X
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: suffers from senility of the larynx, and this conclusion confirms
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: him in the belief that he is incurable. He comes
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: to spend his holidays at Nancy, and a lady of
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: my acquaintance advises him to come and see me. He
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: refuses at first, but eventually consents in spite of his
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: absolute disbelief in the effects of suggestion. I treat him
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: in this way nevertheless, and ask him to return two
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: days afterwards. He comes back on the appointed day and
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: tells me that the day before he was able to
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: converse the whole afternoon without becoming a fonus. Two days
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: later he returns again to say that his trouble had
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: not reappeared, although he had not only conversed a great
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: deal but even sung the day before. The cure still
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: holds good, and I am convinced that it will always
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: do so. Before closing, I should like to say a
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: few words on the application of my method to the
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: training and correction of children by their parents. The latter
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: should wait until the child is asleep, and then one
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: of them should enter his room with precaution, stop a
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: yard from his bed, and repeat fifteen or twenty times
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: in a murmur, all the things they wish to obtain
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: from the child. From the point of view of health, work, sleep, application, conduct,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: et cetera. He should then retire as he came, taking
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: great care not to awake the child. This extremely simple
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: process gives the best possible results, and it is easy
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: to understand why. When the child is asleep, his body
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: and his conscious self are at rest, and, as it were, annihilated,
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: his unconscious self, however, is awake. It is then to
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: the latter alone that one speaks, and as it is
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: very credulous, it accepts what one says to it without dispute,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: so that little by little the child arrives at making
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: of himself what his parents desire him to becclusion. What
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: conclusion is to be drawn from all this? The conclusion
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: is very simple and can be expressed in a few words.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: when we handle it unconsciously, is often prejudicial to us. If,
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: on the contrary, we direct it in a conscious and
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: wise manner, it gives us the mastery of ourselves and
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: allows us not only to escape and to aid others
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: live in relative happiness, whatever the conditions in which we
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: may find ourselves. Lastly, and above all, it should be
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: applied to the moral regeneration of those who have wandered
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: from the right path. Thoughts and precepts of Emil Siui
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: taken down literally by Madame Emil Leon his disciple. Do
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: not spend your time in thinking of illness you might have,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: for if you have no real ones, you will create
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: artificial ones. When you make conscious auto suggestions, do it naturally, simply,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: with conviction, and above all, without any effort. If unconscious
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: and bad auto suggestions are so often realized, it is
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: because they are made without effort. Be sure that you
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: will obtain what you want, and you will obtain it,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: so long as it is within reason to become master
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: of ones self. It is enough to think that one
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: is becoming. So your hands tremble, your steps falter, Tell
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: yourself that all that is going to cease, and little
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: by little it will disappear. It is not in me,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: but in yourself that you must have confidence, for it
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: is in yourself alone that dwells the force which can
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: cure you. My part simply consists in teaching you to
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: make use of that force. Never discuss things you know
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: nothing about, or you will only make yourself ridiculous. Things
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: which seem miraculous to you have a perfectly natural cause.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: If they seem extraordinary, it is only because the cause
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: escapes you. When you know that, you realize that nothing
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: could be more natural. When the will and the imagination
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: are in conflict, it is always the imagine which wins.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Such a case is only too frequent, and then not
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: only do we not do what we want, but just
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: the contrary of what we want. For example, the more
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: we try to go to sleep, the more we try
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: to remember the name of someone, the more we try
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: to stop laughing, the more we try to avoid an
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: obstacle while thinking that we cannot do so. The more
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: excited we become, the less we can remember the name,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: the more uncontrollable our laughter becomes, and the more surely
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: we rush upon the obstacle. It is then, the imagination,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: and not the will, which is the most important faculty
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: of man. And thus it is a serious mistake to
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: advise people to train their wills. It is the training
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: of their imaginations which they ought to set about. Things
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: are not for us what they are, but what they seem.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: This explains the contradictory evidence of persons speaking in all
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: good faith. By believing oneself to be the master of
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: one's thoughts, one becomes so every one of our thoughts,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in shorter reality.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: We are what we make ourselves, and not what circumstances
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: make us. Whoever starts off in life with the idea
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: I shall succeed, always does succeed, because he does what
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: is necessary to bring about this result. If only one
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: opportunity presents itself to him, and if this opportunity has,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: as it were, only one hair on its head, he
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: seizes it by that one hair. Further, he often brings
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: about unconsciously or not propitious circumstances, He who, on the contrary,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: always doubts himself, never succeeds in doing anything. He might
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: find himself in the midst of an army of opportunities
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: with heads of hair like Absalom, and yet he would
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: not see them, and could not seize a single one,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: even if he had only to stretch out his hand
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: in order to do so. And if he brings about
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: circumstances they are generally unfavorable ones, do not then blame fate.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: You have only yourself to blame. People are always preaching
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: the doctrine of effort, but this idea must be repudiated.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Effort means will, and will means the possible entrance of
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: the imagination in opposition and the bringing about of the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: exactly contrary result to the desired one. Always think that
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: what you have to do is easy, if possible. In
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: this state of mind, you will not spend more of
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: your strength than just what is necessary. If you consider
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: it difficult, you will spend ten twenty times more strength
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: than you need. In other words, you will waste it.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: Autosuggestion is an instrument which you have to learn how
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: to use, just as you would for any other instrument.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: An excellent gun in inexperienced hands only gives wretched results.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: But the more skilled the same hands become, the more
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: easily they place the bullets in the target. Conscious auto suggestion,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: made with confidence, with faith, with perseverance, realizes itself mathematically
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: within reason. When certain people do not obtain satisfactory results
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: with auto suggestion, it is either because they lack confidence
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: or because they make efforts, which is the more or
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: frequent case. To make good suggestions, it is absolutely necessary
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: to do it. Without effort. The latter implies the use
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: of the will, which must be entirely put aside. One
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: must have recourse exclusively to the imagination. Many people who
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: have taken care of their health all their life in
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: vain imagine that they can be immediately cured by auto suggestion.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: It is a mistake, for it is not reasonable to think. So.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: It is no use expecting from suggestion more than it
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: can normally produce, that is to say, a progressive improvement
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: which little by little transforms itself into a complete cure.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: When that is possible, the means employed by the healers
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: all go back to autosuggestion. That is to say that
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: these methods, whatever they are, words, incantations, gestures, staging, all
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: produce in the patient the auto suggestion of recovery. Every
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: illness has two aspects, unless it is exclusively a mental one. Indeed,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: on every physical illness, a mental walk one comes and
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: attaches itself. If we give to the physical illness the
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: coefficient one, the mental illness may have the coefficient one, two, ten, twenty, fifty,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: one hundred and more. In many cases, this can disappear instantaneously,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: and if its coefficient is a very high one one hundred,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: for instance, while that of the physical ailment is one.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: Only this latter is left, or one hundred first of
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: the total illness. Such a thing is called the miracle,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: and yet there is nothing miraculous about it. Contrary to
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: common opinion, physical diseases are generally far more easily cured
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: than mental ones. Bouffon used to say, style is the
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: man we would put in. That man is what he thinks.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: The fear of failure is almost certain to cause failure
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: in the same way as the idea of success brings
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: success and enables one always to surmount the obstacles that
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: may be met with Conviction is as necessary to the
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: suggestor as to his subject. It is this conviction, this faith,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: which enables him to obtain results where all other means
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: have failed. It is not the person who acts, it
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: is the method. Contrary to general opinion, suggestion or autosuggestion
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: can bring about the cure of organic lesions. Formerly it
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: was believed that hypnotism could only be applied to the
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: treatment of nervous illnesses. Its domain is far greater than that.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: It is true that hypnotism acts through the intermediary of
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: the nervous system. But the nervous system dominates the whole organism.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: The muscles are set in movement by the nerves. The
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: nerves regulate the circulation by their direct action on the
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: heart and by their action on the blood vessels, which
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: they dilate or contract. The nerves act then on all
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: the organs, and by their intermediation all the unhealthy organs
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: may be effected. Doctor Paul Jouarre, president of the Societe
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: Universal Datude Psychics, Bull Number four of the s l P.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: Moral influence has a consider value as a help in healing.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: It is a factor of the first order, which it
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: would be very wrong to neglect, since in medicine, as
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: in every branch of human activity, it is the spiritual
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: forces which lead the world. Doctor Lewis reenan lecturing professor
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris and doctor at
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: the Necker Hospital, never lose sight of the great principle
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: of auto suggestion optimism always, and in spite of everything,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: even when events do not seem to justify it. Renee
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: de Drebois Bull eleven of the s l P. A
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: suggestion sustained by faith is a formidable force doctor A. L. Paris,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: July nineteen twenty. To have and to inspire unalterable confidence,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: one must walk with the assurance of perfect sincerity, And
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: in order to possess this assurance and sincerity, one must
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: wish for the good of others more than one's own. Culture.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: De la force morale by C. Bodoin observes on what
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: auto suggestion can do. Young B thirteen years old, enters
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: the hospital in January nineteen twelve. He has a very
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: serious heart complaint, characterized by a peculiarity in the respiration.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: He has such difficulty in breathing that he can only
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: take very slow and short steps. The doctor who attends him,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: one of our best practitioners, predicts a rapid and fatal issue.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: The invalid leaves the hospital in February no better. A
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: friend of his family brings him to me, and when
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: I see him, I regard him as a hopeless case.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: But nevertheless I make him pass through the preliminary experiments,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: which are marvelously successful. After having made him a suggestion
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: and advised him to do the same thing for himself,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: I tell him to come back in two days. When
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: he does so, I notice, to my astonishment, a remarkable
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: improvement in his respiration and his walking. I renew the
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: suggestion in two days afterwards. When he returns, the improvement
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: has continued, and so it is at every visit. So
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: rapid is the progress that he makes, that three weeks
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: after the first visit, my little patient is able to
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: go on foot with his mother to the plateau of Villers.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: He can breathe with ease, and almost normally he can
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: walk without getting out of breath, and can mount the stairs,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: which was impossible for him before. As the improvement is
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: steadily maintained, little b asks me if he can go
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: and stay with his grandmother at Kerrigan, as he seems well.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: I advise him to do so, and he goes off,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: but sends me news of himself from time to time.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: His health is becoming better and better. He has a
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: good appetite, digests and assimilates his food well, and the
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: feeling of oppression has entirely disappeared. Not only can he
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: walk like everybody else, but he even runs and chases butterflies.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: He returns in October, and I can hardly recognize him
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: for the bent and puny little fellow who had left
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: me and may have become a tall, upright boy whose
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: face beams with health. He has grown twelve centimeters in
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: gained nineteen pounds in weight. Since then he has lived
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: a perfectly normal life. He runs up and downstairs, rides
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: a bicycle, and plays football with his comrades. Mademoiselle X
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: of Geneva, aged thirteen, sore on the temple, considered by
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: several doctors as being of tubercular origin. For a year
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: and a half it has refused to yield to the
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: different treatments ordered. She is taken to M. Boudewin, a
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: follower of Coue at Geneva, who treats her by suggestion
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: and tells her to return in a week. When she
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: comes back, the sore has healed. Mademoiselle Z, also of Geneva,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: has had the right leg drawn up for seventeen years,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: owing to an abscess above the knee, which had had
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: to be operated upon. She asks m. Bodewin to treat
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: her by suggestion, and hardly has he begun when the
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: leg can be bent and unbent in a normal manner.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: There was, of course a psychological cause in this case.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: Madame Urbaine Marie, aged d fifty five at Maxville Vericos Nicer,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: dating from more than a year and a half. First
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: visit in September nineteen fifteen and a second one a
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: week later in a fortnight, the cure is complete. Emil Chenu,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: ten years old, Granderous, nineteen, a refugee from METS some
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: unknown heart complaint with vegetations every night, loses blood by
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: the mouth. Comes first in July nineteen fifteen, and after
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: a few visits the loss of blood diminishes and continues
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: to do so until by the end of November it
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: has ceased completely. The vegetations also seem to be no
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: longer there, and by August nineteen sixteen there had been
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: no relapse. M has It, aged forty eight, living at Britain,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: invalid the fifteenth of January nineteen fifteen with specific chronic
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: bronchitis which is getting worse every day. He comes into
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: me in October eighteen fifteen. The improvement is immediate and
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: has been maintained since. At the present moment, although he
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: is not completely cured, he is very much better. M
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: b has suffered for twenty four years from frontal sinus,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: which had necessitated eleven operations. In spite of all that
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: had been done. The sinus persisted, accompanied by intolerable pains.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: The physical state of the patient was pitiable in the extreme.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: He had violent and almost continuous pain, extreme weakness, lack
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: of appetite, could neither walk, read, nor sleep, et cetera.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: His nerves were nearly as bad as state as his body,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: and in spite of the treatment of such men as
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: Bernheim of Nancy, Dejahine of Paris, du Bois of bern
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: X of Strasbourg, his ill health not only continued, but
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: even grew worse every day. The patient comes to me
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: in September nineteen fifteen on the advice of one of
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: my other patients. From that moment he made rapid progress,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: and at the present time, nineteen twenty one, he is
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: perfectly well. It is a real resurrection. M Nagingast aged eighteen.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: Rue Celler thirty nine, suffering from Pott's disease, comes to
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: me in the beginning of nineteen fourteen, having been encased
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: for six months in a plaster corset. Comes regularly twice
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: a week to the seances and makes for himself the
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: usual suggestion morning and evening. Improvement soon shows itself, and
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: in a short time the patient is able to do
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: without his plaster casing. I saw him again in April
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixteen. He was completely cured and was carrying on
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: his duties as postman, after having been assistant to an
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: ambulance at Nancy, where he had stayed until it was
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: done away with m d at Jarville. Paralysis of the
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: left upper eyelid. Goes to the hospital where he receives injections,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: as a result of which the eyelid is raised. The
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: left I was, however, deflected outwards from more than forty
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: five degrees and an operation seemed to be necessary. It
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: was at this moment that he came to me, and
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: thanks to otto suggestion, the eye went back little by
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: little to its normal position. Madame L of Nancy continuous
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: pain in the right side of the face, which had
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: gone on for ten years. She has consulted many doctors
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: whose prescriptions seemed of no use, and an operation is
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: judged to be necessary. The patient comes to me on
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: the twenty fifth of July nineteen sixteen, and there is
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: an immediate improvement. In about ten days time, the pain
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: has entirely vanished, and up to the twentieth of December
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: there had been no recurrence t Maurice, aged eight and
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: a half at Nancy club feet. A first operation cures
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: or nearly so, the left foot, while the right one
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: still remains crippled. Two subsequent operations do no good. The
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: child is brought to me for the first time in
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: February nineteen fifteen. He walks pretty well thanks to two
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: contrivances which hold his feet straight. The first visit is
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: followed by an immediate improvement, and after the second the
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: child is able to walk in ordinary boots. The improvement
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: becomes more and more marked. By the seventeenth of April,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: the child is quite well. The right foot, however, is
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: not now quite so strong as it was, owing to
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: a sprain which he gave it in February nineteen sixteen
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: Lee X at Blainville. A sore on the left foot,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: probably of specific origin. A slight sprain has brought about
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: a swelling of the foot accompanied by acute pains. Different
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: treatments have only had a negative effect, and in a
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: little while a sepurating sore appears, which seems to indicate
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: carries of the bone. Walking becomes more and more painful
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: and difficult. In spite of the treatment on the advice
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: of a former patient who had been cured. She comes
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: to me and there is noticeable relief. After the first visit.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: Little by little, the swelling goes down, the pain becomes
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: less intense, the suppuration lessens, and finally the sore heals over.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: The process has taken a few months. At present the
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: foot is practically normal, but although the pain and swelling
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: have entirely disappeared, the back flexion of the foot is
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: not yet perfect, which makes the patient limp slightly. Madam
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: r of Chavigni metritis, dating from ten years back, comes
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: at the end of July nineteen sixteen. Improvement is immediate.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: The pain and loss of blood diminish rapidly, and by
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: the following twenty ninth of September both have disappeared. The
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: monthly period, which lasted from eight to ten days, is
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: now over. In four Madam h Rue Gilbert de Pivercourt
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: at Nancy, aged forty nine, suffers from a vericose ulcer
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: dating from September nineteen fourteen, which has treated according to
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: her doctor's advice, but without success. The lower part of
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: the leg is enormous. The ulcer, which is as large
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: as a two franc piece and goes right down to
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: the bone is situated above the ankle. The inflammation is
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: very intense, the suppuration copious, and the pains extremely violent.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: The patient comes for the first time in April nineteen sixteen,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: and the improvement which is visible after the first treatment
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: continues without interruption. By the eighteenth of February nineteen seventeen,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: the swelling has entirely subsided and the pain and irritation
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: have disappeared. The sore is still there, but it is
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: no larger than a pea, and it is only a
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: few millimeters in depth. It still discharges very slightly. By
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty, the cure has long been complete. Mademoiselle d
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: at Meyercourt, sixteen years of age, has suffered from attacks
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: of nerves for three years. The attacks, at first infrequent,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: have gradually come at closer intervals. When she comes to
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: see me on the first of April nineteen seventeen, she
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: has had three attacks. In the preceding fortnight, up to
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: the eighteenth of April, she did not have any at all.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: I may add that this young lady, from the time
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: she began the treatment, was no longer troubled by the
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: bad headaches from which she had suffered almost constantly. Madame
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: m Aged forty three Rude Diamance to Mausville, comes at
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: the end of nineteen sixteen for violent pains in the head,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: from which she has suffered all her life. After a
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: few visits, they vanished completely. Two months afterwards, she realized
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: that she was also cured of a prolapse of the uterus,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: which she had not mentioned to me, and of which
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: she was not thinking when she made her auto suggestion.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: This result is due to the words in every respect
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: contained in the formula used morning and evening. Madame d
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: schwasileroi only one general suggestion from me in July nineteen sixteen,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: and auto suggestion on her part morning and evening. In
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: October of the same year. This lady tells me that
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: she is cured of a prolapse of a uterus, from
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: which she had suffered for more than twenty years up
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: to April nineteen twenty. The cure is still holding good.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Same remark as in the preceding case. Madame Joselyn aged
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: sixty Rue de Dominicans six comes on the twentieth of
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: July nineteen seventeen for a violent pain in the right leg,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: accompanied by considerable swelling of the whole limb. She can
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: only drag herself along with groans. But after the seance,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: to her great astonishment, she can walk normally without feeling
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: the least pain. When she comes back four days afterwards,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: she has had no return of the pain and the
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: swelling has subsided. This patient tells me that since she
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: has attended the seances, she has also been cured of
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: white discharges and of enteritis from which she had long suffered.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: Same remark as above. In November, the cure is still
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: holding good. Mademoiselle g l aged fifteen, Rue du montet
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: eighty eight has stammered from infancy. Comes on the twentieth
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: of July nineteen seventeen, and the stammering ceases instantly. A
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: month after I saw her again and she had had
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: no recurrence. M Ferry Eugene, aged sixty, Rue de la Cote,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: fifty six. For five years has suffered from rheumatic pains
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: in the shoulders and in the left leg. Walks with
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: difficulty leaning on a stick and cannot lift the arms
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: higher than the shoulders. Comes on the seventeenth of September
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen. After the first seance, the pains vanished completely,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: and the patient can not only take long strides, but
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: even run still more. He can whirl both arms like
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: a windmill. In November, the cure is still holding good.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: Madame Lecoeur, aged sixty three, chemin disables pains in the
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: faced days for more than twenty years back. All treatments
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: have failed. An operation is advised, but the patient refuses
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: to undergo it. She comes for the first time on
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: July twenty fifth, nineteen sixteen, and four days later the
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: pain ceases. The cure has held good to this day.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: Madame Martin Grandeerous Vilviers one hundred and five inflammation of
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: the uterus of thirteen years standing, accompanied by pains and
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: white and red discharges. The period, which is very painful,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: recurs every twenty two or twenty three days and lasts
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: ten to twelve days. Comes for the first time on
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: the fifteenth of November nineteen seventeen and returns regularly every week.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: There is visible improvement after the first visit, which continues
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: rapidly until at the beginning of January nineteen eighteen, the
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: inflammation has entirely disappeared. The period comes at more regular
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: intervals and without the slightest pain. A pain in the knee,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: which the patient had had for thirteen years, was also cured.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: Madame Castelli, aged forty one, living at Einville, m et M,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: has suffered from intermittent rheumatic pains in the right knee
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: for thirteen years. Five years ago she had a more
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: violent attack than usual. The leg swells as well as
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: the knee than The lower part of the limb atrophies,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: and the patient is reduced to walking very painfully with
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: the aid of a stick or crutch. She comes for
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: the first time on the fifth of November nineteen seventeen.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: She goes away without the help of either crutch or stick.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: Since then she no longer uses her crutch at all,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: but occasionally makes use of her stick. The pain in
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: the knee comes back from time to time, but only
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: very slightly. Madam Meter, aged fifty two, at Einville, for
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: six months, has suffered from pain in the right knee
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: accompanied by swelling which makes it impossible to bend the leg.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: Comes for the first time on December seventh, nineteen seventeen.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: Returns on January fourth, nineteen eighteen, saying that she has
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: almost ceased to suffer, and that she can walk normally.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: After that visit of the fourth the pain ceases entirely,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: and the patient walks like other people emil cue. Education
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: as it ought to be. It may seem paradoxical, but
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: nevertheless the education of a child ought to begin before
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: its birth. In sober truth, if a woman a few
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: weeks after conception makes a mental picture of the sex
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: of the child she is going to bring forth into
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: the world of the physical and moral qualities with which
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: she desires to see it en doubt, and if she
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: will continue during the time of gestation to impress on
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: herself the same mental image, the child will have the
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: sex and qualities desired. Spartan women only brought fourth robust
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: children who grew to be redoubtable warriors, because their strongest
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: desire was to give such heroes to their country, Whilst
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: at Athens mothers had intellectual children whose mensnal qualities were
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: a hundredfold greater than their physical attributes. The child, thus
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: engendered will be apt to accept readily good suggestions which
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: may be made to him, and to transform them into
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: auto suggestion, which later will influence the course of his life,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: for you must know that all our words, all our acts,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: are only the result of auto suggestions, caused for the
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: most part by the suggestion of example or speech. How then,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: should parents and those entrusted with the education of children
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: avoid provoking bad auto suggestions, and, on the other hand,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: influence good auto suggestions. In dealing with children, always be
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: even tempered and speak in a gentle but firm tone.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: In this way, they will become obedient without ever having
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: the slightest desire to resist authority. Above all, above all,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: avoid harshness and brutality, for there the risk is incurred
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: of influencing an autosuggestion of cruelty accompanied by hate. Moreover,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: avoid carefully in their presence saying evil of any one,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: as too often happens when without any deliberate intention, the
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: absent nurse is picked to pieces in the drawing room. Inevitably,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: this fatal example will be followed and may produce later
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: a real catastrophe. Awaken in them a desire to know
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: the reason of things and a love of nature, and
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: endeavor to interest them by giving all possible explanations very
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: clearly in a cheerful, good tempered tone. You must answer
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: their questions pleasantly, instead of checking them with what a
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: bother you are to be quiet, You will learn that later.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: Never on any account say to a child you are
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: lazy and good for nothing, because that gives birth in
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: him to the very faults of which you accuse him.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: If a child is lazy and does his tasks badly,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: you should say to him one day, even if it
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: is not true, there this time your work is much
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: better than it generally is well done. The child, flattered
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: by the unaccustomed commendation, will certainly work better the next time, and,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: little by little, thanks to your judicious encouragement, will succeed
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: in becoming a real worker. At all costs, avoid speaking
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: of illness before children, as it will certainly create in
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: them bad auto suggestions. Teach them, on the contrary, that
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: health is the normal state of man, and that sickness
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: is an anomaly, a sort of backsliding, which may be
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: avoided by living in a temperate, regular way. Do not
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: create defects in them by teaching them to fear this
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: or that cold or heat, rain or wind, et CETERA.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: Man is created to endure such variations without injury, and
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: should do so without grumbling. Do not make the child
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: nervous by filling his mind with stories of hobgoblins and
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: wore wolves, for there is always the risk that timidity
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: contracted in childhood will persist later. It is necessary that
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: those who do not bring up then children themselves should
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: choose carefully those to whom they are entrusted. To love
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: them is not sufficient. They must have the qualities you
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: desire your children to possess, awaken in them the love
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: of work and of study. Making it easier by explaining
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: things carefully and in a pleasant fashion, and by introducing
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: in the explanation some anecdote which will make the child
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: eager for the following lesson. Above all, impress on them
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: that work is essential for man, and that he who
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: does not work in some fashion or another is a worthless,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: useless creature, and that all work produces in the man
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: who engages in it a healthy and profound satisfaction. Whilst idleness,
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: so longed for and desired by some, produces weariness, neurasthenia,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: disgust of life, and leads those who do not possess
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: the means of satisfying the passions created by idleness to
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: debauchery and even to crime. Teach children to be always
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: polite and kind to all, and particularly to those whom
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: the chance of birth has placed in a lower class
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: than their own, And also to respect age, and never
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: to mock at the physical or moral defects that age
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: often produces. Teach them to love all mankind without distinction
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: of caste, That one must always be ready to see
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: succor those who are in need of help, and that
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: one must never be afraid of spending time and money
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: for those who are in need. In short, that they
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: must think more of others than of themselves. In so doing,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: an inner satisfaction is experienced. That the egoist ever seeks
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: and never finds, develop in them self confidence. And teach
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: that before embarking upon any undertaking, it should be submitted
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: to the control of reason, thus avoiding acting impulsively, and
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: after having reason the matter out, one should form a
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: decision by which one abides, unless indeed some fresh fact
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: proves you may have been mistaken. Teach them above all
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: that every one must set out in life with a
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: very definite idea that he will succeed, and that under
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: the influence of this idea he will inevitably succeed, not
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: indeed that he should quietly remain expecting events to happen.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: But because impelled by this idea, he will do what
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: is necessary to make it come true. He will know
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: how to take advantage of opportunities, or even perhaps of
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: the single opportuitunity which may present itself. It may be
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: only a single thread or hair. Whilst he who distrusts
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: himself is a constant mignard, with whom nothing succeeds, because
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: his efforts are all directed to that end. Such a
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: one may indeed swim in an ocean of opportunities, provided
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: with heads of hair like Absalom himself, and he will
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: be unable to seize a single hair, and often determines
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: himself the causes which make him fail. Whilst he who
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: has the idea of success in himself often gives birth
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: in an unconscious fashion to the very circumstances which produce
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: that same success. But above all, let parents and masters
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: preach by example. A child is extremely suggestive. Let something
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: turn up that he wishes to do, and he does
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: it as soon as children can speak. Make them repeat
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: morning and evening twenty times consecutively, day by day, in
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: all respects I grow better, which will produce in them
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: an excellent physical, moral, and healthy atmosphere. If you make
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: the following suggestion, you will help the child enormously to
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: eliminate his faults and to awaken in him the corresponding
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: desirable qualities. Every night, when the child is asleep, approach quietly,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: so as not to awaken him, to within about three
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: or four feet from his bed. Stand there, murmuring in
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: a low monotonous voice, the thing or things you wish
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: him to do. Finally, it is desirable that all teachers
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: should every morning make suggestions to their pupils, somewhat in
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: the following fashion, telling them to shut their eyes. They
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: should say, children, I expect you always to be polite
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: and kind to every one, obedient to your parents and teachers.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: When they give you an order or tell you anything,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: you will always listen to the order given or the
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: fact told, without thinking it tiresome. You used to think
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: it tiresome when you were reminded of anything, But now
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: you understand very well that it is for your good
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: that you are told things. And consequently, instead of being
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: cross with those who speak to you, you will now
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: be grateful to them. Moreover, you will now love your work,
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: whatever it may be. In your lessons, you will always
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: enjoy those things you may have to learn, especially whatever
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: you may not till now have cared for. Moreover, when
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: the teacher is giving a lesson in class, you will
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: now devote all your attention solely and entirely to what
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: he says, instead of attending to any silly thing said
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: or done by your companions, and without doing or saying
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: anything silly yourself. Under these conditions, as you are all
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: intelligent for children, you are all intelligent. You will understand
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: easily and remember easily what you have learned. It will
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: remain embedded in your memory, ready to be at your service,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: and you will be able to make use of it
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you need it. In the same way,
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  Speaker 1: when you are working at your lessons alone or at home,
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  Speaker 1: when you are accomplishing a task or studying a lesson,
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  Speaker 1: you will fix your attention solely on the work you
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  Speaker 1: are doing, and you will always obtain good marks for
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: your lessons. This is the counsel, which, if followed faithfully
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  Speaker 1: and truly from henceforth, will produce a race endowed with
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: the highest physical and moral qualities. Emil coup a survey
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: of the sanss at Kus. The town thrills at this name,
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: for from every rank of society people come to him,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone is welcomed with the same benevolence, which already
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: goes for a good deal. But what is extremely poignant
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: is at the end of the seance to see the
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  Speaker 1: people who came in gloomy, bent, almost hostile they were
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  Speaker 1: in pain, go away like everybody else, unconstrained, cheerful, sometimes radiant.
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  Speaker 1: They are no longer in pain, with a strong and
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  Speaker 1: smiling goodness of which he has the secret coup, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, holds the hearts of those who consult him
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  Speaker 1: in his hand. He addresses himself in turn to the
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  Speaker 1: numerous persons who come to consult him, and speaks to
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: them in these terms, Well, madam, and what is your trouble? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: You are looking for too many whys? And wherefores? What
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: does the cause of your pain matter to you? You
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: are in pain. That is enough. I will teach you
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: to get rid of that. And you, monsieur, your vericose
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: ulcer is already better. That is good, very good. Indeed,
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: do you know, considering you have only been here twice?
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  Speaker 1: I congratulate you on the result you have obtained. If
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  Speaker 1: you go on doing your auto suggestions properly, you will
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: very soon be cured. You have had this ulcer for
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: ten years, you say, what does that matter? You might
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: have had it twenty and more and it could be
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: cured just the same. And you say that you have
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: not obtained any improvement. Do you know why? Simply because
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: you lack confidence in yourself. When I tell you that
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: you are better, you feel better at once, don't you why?
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  Speaker 1: Because you have faith in me. Just believe in yourself
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: and you will obtain the same result. Oh madam, not
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: so many details. I beg you by looking out for
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: the details, you create them. And you would want to
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: list a yard long to contain all your maladies. As
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, with you, it is the mental
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: outlook which is wrong. Well, make up your mind that
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: it is going to get better, and it will be so.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: It's as simple as the gospel. You tell me you
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: have attacks of nerves every week. Well, from today you
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: are going to do what I tell you and you
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: will cease to have them. You have suffered from constipation
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: for a long time. What does it matter how long
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: it is you say it is forty years. Yes, I
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: heard what you said, but it is none the less
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  Speaker 1: true that you can be cured tomorrow. You hear tomorrow
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: on condition naturally of your doing exactly what I tell
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  Speaker 1: you to do in the way I tell you to
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: do it. Ah, you have glaucoma, Madam. I cannot absolutely
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  Speaker 1: promise to cure you of that, for I am not
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: sure that I can. That does not mean that you
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: cannot be cured, for I have known it to happen
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: in the case of a lady of challenge, Sir Sown,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: and another of Lorraine. Well, mademoiselle, as you have not
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: had your nervous attacks since you came here, whereas you
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: used to have them every day. You are cured, come
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  Speaker 1: back sometimes all the same. So that I may keep
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: you going along the right lines. The feeling of oppression
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: will disappear with the lesions, which will disappear when you
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: assimilate properly. That will come all in good time. But
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: you mustn't put the cart before the horse. It is
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: the same with oppression as with heart trouble. It generally
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: diminishes very quickly. Suggestion does not prevent you from going
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: on with your usual treatment. As for the blemish you
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: have on your eye, and which is lessening almost daily.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: The opacity and the size are both growing less every day.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: To a child, in a clear and commanding voice, shut
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  Speaker 1: your eyes. I am not going to talk to you
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: about lesions or anything else. You would not understand. The
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: pain in your chest is going away, and you won't
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: want to cough any more. Observation. It is curious to
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: notice that all those suffering from chronic bronchitis are immediately
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: relieved and their morbid symptoms rapidly disappear. Children are very
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: easy and very obedient subjects. Their organism almost always obeys immediately.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: To suggestion to a person who complains of fatigue, well
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: so do I. There are also days when it tires
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: me to receive people, but I receive them all the
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: same and all day long. Do not say I cannot
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: help it. One can always overcome one's self. Observation. The
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: idea of fatigue necessarily brings fatigue, and the idea that
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: we have a duty to accomplish always gives us the
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: necessary strength to fulfill it. The mind can and must
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: remain master of the animal side of our nature. The
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: cause which prevents you from walking. Whatever it is is
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: going to disappear little by little every day. You know
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: the proverb Heaven helps those who help themselves. Stand up
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: two or three times a day, supporting yourself on two persons,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: and say to yourself firmly, my kidneys are not so
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: weak that I cannot do it. On the contrary, I can,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: after having said every day in every respect, I am
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: getting better and better. Ad the people who are pursuing
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: me cannot pursue me any more. They are not pursuing me.
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  Speaker 1: What I told you is quite true. It was enough
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: to think that you had no more pain. For the
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: pain to disappear. Do not think then that it may
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: come back, or it will come back a woman soddle voice,
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: What patience he has, what a wonderfully painstaking man. All
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: that we think becomes true for us. We must not
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: then allow ourselves to think wrongly. Think my trouble is
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: going away. Just as you think you cannot open your hands.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: The more you say I will not, the more surely
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: the contrary comes about. You must say it's going away
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: and think it. Close your hand and think properly, now
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: I cannot open it. Try she cannot. You see that
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: your will is not much good to you, observation. This
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: is the essential point of the method. In order to
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: make auto suggestions, you must eliminate the will completely and
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: only address yourself to the imagination, so as to avoid
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: a conflict between them, in which the will would be vanquished.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: To become stronger as one becomes older seems paradoxical, but
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: it is true. For diabetes, continue to use therapeutic treatments.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: I am quite willing to make suggestions to you, but
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: I cannot promise to cure you. Observation. I have seen
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: diabetes completely cured several times. And what is still more extraordinary,
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: the albumin diminish and even disappear from the urine of
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: certain patients. This obsession must be a real nightmare. The
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: people you use to detest are becoming your friends. You
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: like them and they like you. Ah. But to will
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: and to desire is not the same thing. Then, after
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: having asked them to close their eyes, Couad gives to
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: his patients the little suggestive discourse which is to be
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: found in self mastery. When this is over, he again
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: addresses himself to each one separately, saying to each a
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: few words on his case to the first, you, monsieur,
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: are in pain. But I tell you that from to
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: day the cause of this pain, whether it is called
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: arthritis or anything else, is going to disappear with the
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: help of your unconscious and the cause having disappeared, the
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: pain will gradually become less and less, and in a
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: short time it will be nothing but a moment. To
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: the second person, your stomach does not function properly. It
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: is more or less dilated. Well, as I told you
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: just now, your digestive functions are going to work better
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: and better, and I add that the diletation of the
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: stomach is going to disappear. Little by little. Your organism
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: is going to give back progressively to your stomach the
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: force and elasticity it had lost, and by degrees. As
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: this phenomenon is produced, the stomach will return to its
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: primitive form and will carry out more and more easily
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: the necessary movements to pass into the intestine the nourishment
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: it contains. At the same time, the pouch formed by
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: the relaxed stomach will diminish in size. The nutriment will
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: not longer stagnate in this pouch, and in consequence, the
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: fermentation set up will end by totally disappearing. To the third,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: to you, mademoiselle, I say that whatever lesions you may
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: have in your liver, your organism is doing what is
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: necessary to make the lesions disappear. Every day, and by
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: degrees as they heal over, the symptoms from which you
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: suffer will go on lessening and disappearing. Your liver then
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: functions in a more and more normal way. The bile
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: it secretes is alkaline and no longer acid, in the
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: right quantity and quality, so that it passes naturally into
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: the intestines and helps intestinal digestion. To the fourth, my child,
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: you hear what I say. Every time you feel you
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: are going to have an attack, you will hear my
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: voice telling you as quick as lightning. No, no, my friend,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: you are not going to have that attack, and it
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: is going to disappear before it comes to the fifth,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. When everyone has been attended to,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: courtells those present to open their eyes, and adds you
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: have heard the advice I have just given you, well
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: to transform it into reality. What you must do is this.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: As long as you live every morning, before getting up
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: and every evening as soon as you are in bed,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: you must shut your eyes so as to concentrate your attention,
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: and repeat twenty times, following, moving your lips that is indispensable,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: and counting mechanically on a string with twenty knots in it,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: the following phrase. Every day, in every respect, I am
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: getting better and better. There is no need to think
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: of anything in particular, as the words in every respect
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: apply to everything. This auto suggestion must be made with confidence,
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: with faith, with the certainty of obtaining what is desired.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: The greater the conviction of the person, the greater and
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: the more rapid will be the results obtained. Further, every
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: time that in the course of the day or night,
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: you feel any physical or mental discomfort, affirm to yourself
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: that you will not consciously contribute to it, and that
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: you are going to make it vanish. Then isolate yourself
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: as much as possible, and passing your hand over your
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: forehead if it is something mental or on whatever part
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: that is painful. If it is something physical, repeat very quickly,
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: moving the lips the words it is going, it is going,
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. As long as it is necessary,
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: with a little practice, the mental or physical discomfort will disappear.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: In about twenty to twenty five seconds, begin again every time.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: It is necessary for this, as for the other auto suggestions,
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: it is necessary to act with the same confidence, the
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: same conviction, the same faith, and above all without effort.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: Co also adds what follows. If you formerly allowed yourself
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: to make bad auto suggestions because you did it unconsciously,
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: now that you know what I have just taught you,
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: you must no longer let this happen. And if in
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: spite of all you still do it, you must only
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: accuse yourself and say, may a culpa, may a maxima culpa.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: And now, if a grateful admirer of the work and
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: of the founder of the method, may be allowed to
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: say a few words, I will say, Monsieur core shows
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: us luminously that the power to get health and happiness
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: is within us. We have indeed received this gift. Therefore
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: suppressing first of all every cause of suffering created or
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: encouraged by ourselves. Then putting into practice the favorite maxim
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: of Socrates, know thyself, and the advice of Pope, that
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: I may reject none of the benefits that thy goodness
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: bestows upon me. Let us take possession of the entire
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: benefit of atto suggestion, let us become this very day
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: members of the Lorraine Society of Applied Psychology. Let us
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: make members of it those who may be in our care.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: It is a good deed to do to them. By
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: this means we shall follow, first of all, the great
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: movement of the future, of which Coup is the originator.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: He devotes to it his days, his knights, his worldly goods,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: and refuses to accept but hush no more of this
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: lest is modesty. He refuses to allow these lines to
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: be published without alteration. But above all, by this means
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: we shall know exactly the days and hours of his
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: lectures at Paris, Nancy, and other towns where he devotedly
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: goes to sow the good seed, and where we can
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: go too, to see him and hear him, and consult
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: him personally, and with his help away courstir up in
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: ourselves the personal power that every one of us has
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: received of becoming happy and well. May I be allowed
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: to add that when Kuh has charged an entrance fee
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: for his lectures, they have brought in thousands of francs
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: for the disabled and others who have suffered through the war.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: E v o'er note. Entrance is free to the members
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: of the Lorraine Society of Applied Psychology. Extracts from letters
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: addressed to KU. The final results of the English Secondary
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: Certificate have only been posted up these two hours, and
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: I hasten to tell you about it, at least in
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: so far as it concerns myself. I passed the Viva
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: Voce with flying colors, and scarcely felt a trace of
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: the nervousness which she used to cause me such an
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: intolerable sensation of nausea before the tests. During the latter
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: I was astonished at my own calm, which gave those
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: who listened to me the impression of perfect self possession
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: on my part. In short, it was just the tests
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: I dreaded most which contributed most to my success. The
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: jury placed me second, and I am infinitely grateful to
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: you for help, which undoubtedly gave me an advantage over
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: the other candidates, et cetera. The case is that of
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: a young lady on account of excessive nervousness, had failed
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: in nineteen fifteen, the nervousness having vanished under the influence
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: of auto suggestion, she passed successfully, being placed second out
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: of more than two hundred competitors. Mademoiselle Vie, schoolmistress, August
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixteen. It is with very great pleasure that I
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: write to thank you most sincerely for the great benefit
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: I have received from your method. Before I went to you,
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: I had the greatest difficulty in walking one hundred yards
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: without being out of breath, Whereas now I I can
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: go miles without fatigue several times a day, and quite easily.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: I am able to walk in forty minutes from the
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: Rue deu borde'ello to the Rue de Glacis, that is
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: to say, nearly four kilometers. The asthma from which I
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: suffered has almost entirely disappeared. Yours, most gratefully, Paul channat
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  Speaker 1: Rue de Strasbourg, one forty one Nancy, August nineteen seventeen.
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: I do not know how to thank you. Thanks to you,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: I can say that I am almost entirely cured, and
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: I was only waiting to be so in order to
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: express my gratitude. I was suffering from two vericos ulcers,
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: one on each foot. That on the right foot, which
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: was as big as my hand, is entirely cured. It
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: seemed to disappear by magic. For weeks. I have been
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: confined to my bed. But almost immediately after I received
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: your letter, the ulcer healed over so that I could
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: get up. That on the left foot is not yet
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: absolutely healed, but will soon be so. Night and morning,
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: I do and always shall recite the prescribed formula, in
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: which I have entire confidence. I may say also that
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: my legs were as hard as a stone, and I
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: could not bear the slightest touch. Now I can press
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: them without the least pain, and I can walk once more,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: which is the greatest joy. Madame Ligny mailer and courticheret
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: Hote Sown, May nineteen eighteen n b. It is worthy
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: of remark that this lady never saw coup, and that
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: it is only thanks to a letter he wrote her
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: on April fifteenth that she obtained the result announced in
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: her letter of May third. I am writing to express
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: my gratitude for thanks to you, I have escaped the
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: risk of an operation, which is always a very dangerous one.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: I can say more you have saved my life, for
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: your method of auto suggestion has done alone what all
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: the medicines and treatments ordered for the terrible intestinal obstruction
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: from which I suffered for nineteen days had failed to do.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: From the moment when I followed your instructions and applied
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: your excellent principles, my functions have accomplished themselves quite naturally.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: Madame s Pontar Mausen, February nineteen twenty. I do not
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: know how to thank you for my happiness in being cured.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: For more than fifteen years, I had suffered from attacks
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: of asthma, which caused the most painful suffocations every night.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: Thanks to your splendid method, and above all, since I
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: was present at one of your seances, the attacks have disappeared,
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: as if by magic. It is a real miracle for
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: the various doctors who attended me all declared that there
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: was no cure for asthma. Madam V. Saint I, February
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty. I am writing to thank you with all
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  Speaker 1: my heart for having brought to my knowledge a new
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: therapeutic method, A marvelous instrument which seems to act like
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: the magic wand of a fairy, since, thanks to the
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: simplest means, it brings about the most extraordinary results. From
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: the first I was extremely interested in your experiments, and
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: after my own personal secs says with your method, I
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: began ardently to apply it, as I have become an
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: enthusiastic supporter of it, Doctor Vachet, Vincennes, May nineteen twenty.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: For eight years I have suffered from prolapse of a uterus.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: I have used your method of auto suggestion for the
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: last five months and am now completely cured, for which
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: I do not know how to thank you enough, Madame Soulier,
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: placed to Marque Toole, May nineteen twenty. I have suffered
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: terribly for eleven years without respite. Every night I had
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: attacks of asthma, and suffered also from insomnia and general weakness,
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: which prevented any occupation. Mentally, I was depressed, restless, worried,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: and was inclined to make mountains out of mole hills.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: I had followed many treatments without success, having even undergone
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: in Switzerland the removal of the turbinate bone of the
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: nose without obtaining any relief. In November nineteen eighteen, I
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: became worse in consequence of a great sorrow. While my
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: husband was at Corfu, he was an officer on a warship.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: I lost our only son in six days from influenza.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: He was a delightful child of ten, who was the
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: joy of our life. Alone and overwhelmed with sorrow, I
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: reproached myself bitterly for not having been able to protect
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: and save our treasure. I wanted to lose my reason
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: or to die. When my husband returned, which was not
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: until February, he took me to a new doctor, who
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: ordered me various remedies and the waters of Mondor. I
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: spent the month of August in that station, but on
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: my return I had a recurrence of the asthma, and
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: I realized with despair that in every respect I was
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: getting worse and worse. It was then that I had
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: the pleasure of meeting you, Without expecting much good from it,
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: I must say, I went to your October lectures, and
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: I am happy to tell you that by the end
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: of November I was cured insomnia, feelings of oppression, gloomy
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: thoughts disappeared, as though by magic, and I am now
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: well and strong and full of courage. With physical health,
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: I have recovered my mental equilibrium, and but for the
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: ineffaceable wound caused by my child's loss, I could say
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: that I am perfectly happy. Why did I not meet
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: you before? My child would have known a cheerful and
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: courageous mother. Thank you again and again coup yours most gratefully,
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: e Idier Rue de Lille, Paris, April nineteen twenty. I
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  Speaker 1: can now take up again the struggle I have sustained
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: for thirty years and which had exhausted me. I found
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: in you last August a wonderful and providential help. Coming
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: home to Lorraine for a few days ill and with
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: my heart full of sorrow, I dreaded the shock which
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: I should feel at the sight of the ruins and distress,
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: and went away comforted and in good health. I was
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: at the end of my tether, and unfortunately I am
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: not religious. I longed to find some one who could
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: help me, and meeting you by chance at my cousin's house,
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: you gave me the very help I sought. I can
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: now work in a new spirit. I suggest to my
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: unconscious to re establish my physical equilibrium, and I do
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: not doubt that I shall regain my former good health.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: A very noticeable improvement has already shown itself, and you
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: will better understand my gratitude when I tell you that,
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: suffering from diabetes with a renal complication, I have had
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: several attacks of glaucoma, but my eyes are now recovering
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: their suppleness. Since then, my sight has become almost normal,
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: and my general health has much improved. Mademoiselle T. H.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: Professor at the Young Ladies College at c H. January
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty. I read my thesis with success and was
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: awarded the highest mark in the congratulations of the jury.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: Of all these honors, a large share belongs to you,
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: and I do not forget it. I only regretted that
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: you were not present to hear your name referred to
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: with warm and sympathetic interest by the distinguished jury. You
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: can consider that the doors of the university have been
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: flung wide open to your teaching. Do not thank me
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: for it, for I owe you far more than you
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: can owe me. C. H. Bodwin, Professor at the Institute J. J. Rousseau, Geneva.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: I admire your courageousness and am quite sure that it
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: will help to turn many friends into a useful and
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: intelligent direction. I confess that I have personally benefited by
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: your teaching and have made my patience do so too.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: At the Nursing Home, we try to apply your method
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: collectively and have already obtained visible results in this way,
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: Doctur Beryllen, Paris, March nineteen twenty. I have received your
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: kind letter as well as your very interesting lecture. I
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: am glad to see that you make a rational connection
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: between hetero and otto suggestion, and I note particularly the
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: passage in which you say that the will must not
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: intervene in auto suggestion. That is what a great number
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: of professors of auto suggestion, unfortunately, including a large number
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: of medical men, do not realize at all. I also
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: think that an absolute distinction should be established between auto's
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: suggestion and the training of the will. Doctor van Velsen, Brussels,
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: March nineteen twenty. What must you think of me that
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: I have forgotten you? Oh? No, I assure you that
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: I think of you with the most grateful affection, and
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: I wish to repeat that your teachings are more and
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: more efficacious. I never spend a day without using otto
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: suggestion with increased success, and I bless you every day
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: for your method is the true one. Thanks to it,
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: I am assimilating your excellent directions and am able to
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: control myself better every day, and I feel that I
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: am stronger. I am sure that you would find it
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: difficult to recognize in this woman so active in spite
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: of her sixty six years, the poor creature who was
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: so often ailing, and who only began to be well
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: thanks to you and your guidance. May you be blessed
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: for this, For the sweetest thing in the world is
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: to do good to those around us. You do much
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: and do a little, for which I thank God. Madame
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: m Cessen Saint Brook, As I am feeling better and
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: better since I began to follow your method of auto suggestion,
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: I should like to offer you my sincere thanks. The
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: lesion in the lungs has disappeared, my heart is better,
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: I have no more albumen. In short, I am quite well.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: Madame Lemetre Richemont, June nineteen twenty, your booklet and lecture
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: interested us very much. It would be desirable for the
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: good of humanity that they should be published in several languages,
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: so that they might penetrate to every race and country,
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: and thus reach a greater number of unfortunate people who
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: suffer from the wrong use of that all powerful and
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: almost divine faculty, the most important to man, as you
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: affirm and prove so luminously and judiciously, which we call
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: the imagination. I had already read many books on the will,
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: and had quite an arsenal of formulae, thoughts, aphorisms, et cetera.
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: Your phrases are conclusive. I do not think that ever
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: before have compressed tablets of self confidence, as I call
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: your healing phrases been condensed into typical formulae in such
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: an intelligent manner. Don Enrique C. Madrid, your pamphlet on
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: the self control contains very strong arguments and very striking examples.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: I think that the substitution of imagination for the power
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: of the will is a great progress. It is milder
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: and more persuasive. A f re ammirement. I am happy
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: to be able to tell you that my stomach is
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: going on well. My metritis is also much better. My
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: little boy had a gland in his thigh as big
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: as an egg, which is gradually disappearing. E. L. Saint
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: Clement M. E. T. M. After I had undergone three
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: operations in my left leg on account of a local tuberculosis,
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: that leg became ill again. In September nineteen twenty. Several
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: doctors declared that a new operation was necessary. They were
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: about to open my leg from the knee to the ankle,
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: and if the operation had failed, they would have had
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: to perform an amputation. As I had heard of your
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: wondrous cures, I came and saw you for the first
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: time on the sixth of November nineteen twenty. After the seance,
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: I felt immediately a little better. I exactly followed your
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: instructions and went three times to you. At the third
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: time I could tell you that I was completely cured.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: Madame l Henry Lorraine, I will not wait any longer
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: to thank you heartily for all the good I owe you.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: Otto's suggestion has positively transformed me, and I am now
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: getting much better than I have been these many years.
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: The symptoms of illness have disappeared little by little, the
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: morbid symptoms have become rarer and rarer, and all the
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: functions of the body work now normally. The result is that,
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: after having become thinner and thinner during several years, I
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: have regained several kilos in a few months. I cannot
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: do otherwise than bless the CoSystem. L ken A m.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: Since nineteen seventeen, my little girl has been suffering from
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: epileptic crises. Several doctors had told me that about the
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: age of fourteen or fifteen, they would disappear or become worse.
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: Having heard of you, I sent her to you from
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: the end of December till May. Now her cure is complete,
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: for during six months she has had no relapse. Perrin
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: Charles si Les Nancy. For eight years I had suffered
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: from a sinking of the uterus. After having practiced your
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: auto suggestion for five months, I have been radically cured.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to express my deep gratitude, Madame
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: Solai six Place du Marque Tuol. Having suffered from a
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: glaucoma since nineteen seventeen, I have consulted two oculists who
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: told me that only an operation would put an end
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: to my sufferings, but unfortunately, neither of them would assure
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: me of a good, wry result. In the month of
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: June nineteen twenty, after having attended one of your seances,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: I felt much better. In September, I ceased to use
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: the drops of pylocarpine, which were the daily bread of
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: my eye, and since then I have felt no more pain.
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: My pupil is no more dilated, my eyes are normal.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: It is a real miracle. Madame m A. Soulas a
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: dedication to Coup by the author of a medical treatise
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: to Coup, who knew how to dissect the human soul
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: and to extract from it a psychologic method founded on
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: conscious auto suggestion. The Master is entitled to the thanks
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: of all he has cleverly succeeded in disciplining the vagrant
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: imagination and in associating it usefully with the will. Thus
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: he has given man the means of increasing tenfold his
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: moral force by giving him confidence in himself. Doctor p. R. Frankfort,
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: it is difficult to speak of the profound influence exercised
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: on me by your so kindly allowing me to view
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: so often your work, seeing it day by day as
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: I have done, it has impressed me more and more.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: And as you yourself said, there seems no limits to
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: the possibilities and future scope of the principles you enunciate,
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: not only in the physical life of children, but also
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: in possibilities for changing the ideas now prevalent in punishment
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: of crime, in government, in fact, in all the relations
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: of life. Miss Josephine M. Richardson, when I came, I
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: expected a great deal. But what I have seen, thanks
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: to your great kindness exceeds greatly my expectation. Montague S. Moneier, Williams,
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: m D. London, Fragments from letters addressed to Madame emil Leon,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: Disciple of Coup. For some time I have been wanting
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: to write and thank you most sincerely for having made
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: known to me this method of autosuggestion. Thanks to your
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: good advice, the attacks of nerves to which I was
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: subject have entirely disappeared, and I am certain that I
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: am quite cured. Further, I feel myself surrounded by a
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: superior force which is an unfaltering guide, and by whose
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: aid I surmount with the ease the difficulties of life.
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: Madame f Rue de Bougainville for Paris. Amazed at the
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: results obtained by the auto suggestion which you made known
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: to me, I thank you with all my heart. For
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: a year I have been entirely cured of articular rheumatism
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: of the right shoulder, from which I had suffered for
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: eight years, and from chronic bronchitis, which I had had
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: still longer. The numerous doctors I had consulted declared me incurable.
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: But thanks to you and to your treatment, I have
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: found with perfect health, the conviction that I possessed the
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: power to keep it. Madame l t rue du Laus
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: for Paris. I want to tell you what excellent results
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  Speaker 1: co s wonderful method has produced in my case, and
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: to express my deep gratitude for your valuable help. I
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: have always been anemic and have had poor health, but
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: after my husband's death, I became much worse. I suffered
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: with my kidneys, I could not stand upright. I also
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: suffered from nervousness and aversions. All that has gone, and
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: I am a different person. I no longer suffer, I
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: have more endurance, and I am more cheerful. My friends
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: hardly recognize me, and I feel a new woman. I
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: intend to spread the news of this wonderful method, so clear,
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: so simple, so beneficent, and to continue to get from
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: it the best results for myself as well. M. L. D. Paris,
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: June nineteen twenty. I cannot find words to thank you
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: for teaching me your good method. What happiness you have
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: brought to me. I thank God who led me to
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: make your acquaintance, for you have entirely transformed my life.
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: Formerly I suffered terribly at each monthly period and was
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: obliged to lie in bed now all is quite regular
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: and painless. It is the same with my digestion, and
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: I am no longer obliged to live on milk as
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: I used, and I have no more pain, which is
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: a joy. My husband is astonished to find that when
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: I travel I have no more headaches, whereas before I
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: was always taking tablets. Now, thanks to you, I need
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: no remedies at all. But I do not forget to
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: repeat twenty times morning and evening the phrase you taught
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: me every day. In every respect, I am getting better
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: and better. B. P. Paris, October nineteen twenty. In rereading
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: the method, I find it more and more superior to
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: all the developments inspired by it. It surpasses all that
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: has been invented of so called scientific systems, themselves based
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: on the uncertain results of an uncertain science, which feels
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: its way and deceives itself, and of which the means
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: of observation are also fairly precarious. In spite of what
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: the learned say, KO, on the other hand, suffices, for
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: everything goes straight to the aim, attains it with certainty,
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: and in freeing his patient, carries generosity and knowledge to
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: its highest point. Since he leaves to the patient self
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: the merit of this freedom and the use of a
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: marvelous power. No, really, there is nothing to alter in
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: this method. It is, as you so strikingly say a gospel,
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: to report faithfully his acts and words and spread his method.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: That is what must be done, and what I shall
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: do myself, as far as is in any way possible.
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: P C. I am amazed at the results that I
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: have obtained, and continue to obtain daily, by the use
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: of the excellent method you have taught me. Of conscious
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: otto suggestion. I was ill mentally and physically. Now I
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: am well, and am also nearly always cheerful. That is
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: to say that my depression has given way to cheerfulness.
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: And certainly I do not complain of the change, for
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: it is very preferable. I assure you, how wretched I
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: used to be. I could digest nothing. Now I digest
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: perfectly well, and the intestines act naturally. I also used
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: to sleep so badly, whereas now the nights are not
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: long enough. I could not work, but now I am
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: able to work hard. Of all my ailments, nothing is
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: left but an occasional touch of rheumatism, which I feel
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: sure will disappear like the rest by continuing your good method.
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: I cannot find words to express my deep gratitude to you.
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: Madame Friary, Boulevard malerb Paris extracts from letters addressed to
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: Mademoiselle Kaufman, disciple of coup As. I have been feeling
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: better and better since following the method of auto suggestion
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: which you taught me. I feel I owe you the
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: sincerest thanks. I am now qualified to speak of the
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: great and undeniable advantages of this method, as to it alone,
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: I owe my recovery. I had a lesion in the
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: lungs which caused me to spit blood. I suffered from
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: lack of appetite, daily vomiting, loss of flesh, and obstinate constipation.
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: The spitting of blood lessened at once and soon entirely disappeared.
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: The vomiting ceased, the constipation no longer exists. I have
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: got back my appetite, and in two months, I have
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: gained nearly a stone in weight. In the face of
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: such results observed not only by parents and friends, but
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: also by the doctor who has been attending me for
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: several months, it is impossible to deny the good effect
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: of auto suggestion, and not to declare openly that it
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: is to your method that I owe my return to life.
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: I authorize you to publish my name if it is
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: likely to be of service to others, and I beg
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: you to believe me yours most gratefully, Jane Gilly fifteen A. V. Beryllion, Nice,
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  Speaker 1: March nineteen eighteen. I consider it a duty to tell
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  Speaker 1: you how grateful I am to you for acquainting me
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: with the benefits of autosuggestion. Thanks to you, I no
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: longer suffer from those agonizing and frequent heart stoppages, and
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: I have regained my appetite, which I had lost for months.
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: Still more, as a hospital nurse, I must thank you
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: for my heart for the almost miraculous recovery of one
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: of my patients, seriously ill with tuberculosis, which caused him
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: to vomit blood constantly and copiously. His family and myself
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: were very anxious when Heaven sent you to him. After
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: your first visit, the spitting of blood ceased, his appetite returned,
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: and after a few more visits made by you to
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: his sick bed, all the organs, little by little, resumed
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: their normal functions. At last, one day, we had the
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: pleasant surprise and joy of seeing him arrive at your
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: private seance, where before those present he himself made the
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: declaration of his cure due to your kind intervention. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you with all my heart, yours gratefully and sympathetically. A.
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  Speaker 1: Kettner twenty six A. V. Beryllion, Nice, March nineteen eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: From day to day I have put off writing to
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: you to thank you for the cure of my little Sulvain.
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: I was in despair, the doctors telling me that there
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: was nothing more to be done but to try the
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: sanitorium of Arkashon or Jukut near Dunkirk. I was going
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: to do so when mine collared of advised me to
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: go and see you. I hesitated, as I felt skeptical
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: about it. But I now have the proof of your skill,
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: for Sylvain has completely recovered. His appetite is good, his
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: pimples and his glands are completely cured. And what is
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: still more extraordinary, Since the first time that we went
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: to see you, he has not coughed any more, not
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: even once. The result is that since the month of
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: June he has gained six pounds. I can never thank
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: you enough, and I proclaim to every one the benefits
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: we have received, Madame Poerson Liver done August nineteen twenty.
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: How can I prove to you my deep gratitude you
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: have saved my life? I had a displaced heart which
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: caused terrible attacks of suffocation, which went on continually. In fact,
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: they were so violent that I had no rest day
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: or night. In spite of daily injections of morphia. I
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: could eat nothing without instant vomiting. I had violent pains
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: in the head which became all swollen, and as a
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: result I lost my sight. I was in a lamentable state,
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: and my whole organism suffered from it. I had abscesses
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: on the liver. The doctor despaired of me after having
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: tried everything blood letting, cupping and scarifying poultices, ice and
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: every possible remedy without any improvement. I had recourse to
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: your kindness on the doctor's advice. After your first visits,
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: the attacks became less violent and less frequent, and soon
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: disappeared completely. The bad and troubled nights became calmer until
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: I was able to sleep the whole night through without waking.
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: The pains I had in the liver ceased completely, I
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: could begin to take my food again, digesting it perfectly well,
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: and I again experienced the feeling of hunger, which I
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: had not known for months. My head ache ceased, and
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: my eyes, which had troubled me so much, are quite cured.
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: Since I am now able to occupy myself with a
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: little manual work. At each visit that you paid me,
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: I felt that my organs were resuming their natural functions.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: I was not the only one to observe it, for
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: the doctor who came to see me every week found
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: me much better, and finally there came recovery. Since I
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: could get up after having been in bed eleven months,
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: I got up without any discomfort, not even the least giddiness,
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: and in a fortnight I could go out. It is
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: indeed thanks to you that I am cured. For the
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: doctor says that for all that the medicines did me,
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: I might just as well have taken none, after having
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: been given up by two doctors who held out no
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: hope of cure. Here I am cured all the same,
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: and it is indeed a complete cure. For now I
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: can eat meat, and I eat a pound of bread
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: every day. How can I thank you for I repeat,
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: it is thanks to the suggestion you taught me that
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: I owe my life. Jeane Grojon Nancy, November nineteen twenty. Personally,
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: the science of auto suggestion, for I consider it as
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: entirely a science, has rendered me great services. But truth
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: compels me to declare that if I continue to interest
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: myself particularly in it, it is because as I find
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: in it the means of exercising true charity. In nineteen fifteen,
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: when I was present for the first time at Couz lectures,
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: I confess that I was entirely skeptical before facts a
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: hundred times repeated in my presence. I was obliged to
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: surrender to evidence and recognize that auto suggestion always acted,
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: though naturally in different degrees, on organic diseases. The only cases,
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: and those were very rare, in which I have seen
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: it fail, are nervous cases, neurasthenia or imaginary illness. There
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: is no need to tell you again that Coup, like yourself,
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: but even more strongly insists on this point that he
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: never performs a miracle or cures anybody, but that he
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: shows people how to cure themselves. I confess that on
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: this point I still remain a trifle incredulous, For if
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: could as not actually cure people, he is a powerful
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: aid to their recovery, in giving heart to the sick,
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: in teaching them never to despair, in uplifting them, in
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: leading them higher than themselves into moral spheres that the
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: majority of humanity plunged in materialism, has never reached. The
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: more I study auto suggestion, the better I understand the
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: divine law of confidence and love that Christ preached us.
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  Speaker 1: Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and by giving a little
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: of one's heart and of one's moral force, to help
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  Speaker 1: him to rise if he has fallen, and to cure
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: himself if he is ill. Here, also, from my Christian
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: point of view, is the application of auto suggestion, which
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: I consider as a beneficial and comforting science, which helps
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: us to understand that, as the children of God, we
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: all have within us forces whose existence we did not suspect,
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: which properly directed serve to elevate us morally and to
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: heal us physically. Those who do not know your science,
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: or who only know it imperfectly, should not judge it
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: without having seen the results it gives and the good
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: it does. Believe me to be your faithful admirer M. L. D. Nancy,
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: November nineteen twenty The Miracle Within Homage to Emial Coup.
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: In the course of the month of September nineteen twenty,
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: I opened for the first time the book of Charles
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: Baudwin of Geneva, professor at the Institute J. J. Rousseau
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: in that town. This work, published by the firm of
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: Delacox and Meissel twenty six Rue Saint Dominique, Paris, is
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: called Suggestion et auto suggestion. The author has dedicated it
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: to Emil Coup, the initiator and benefactor, with deep gratitude.
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: I read it and did not put down the book
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 1: until I had reached the end. The fact is that
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: it contains the very simple exposition of a magnificently humanitarian
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: work founded on a theory which may appear childish, just
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: because it is within the scope of everyone, and if
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: everyone puts it into practice, the greatest good will proceed
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: from it. After more than twenty years of indefatigable work. Emilkup,
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: who at the present time lives at Nancy, where he
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: lately followed the work in experiments of Leibault, the father
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: of the doctrine of suggestions. For more than twenty years,
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 1: I say Khu has been occupied exclusively with this question,
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: but particularly in order to bring his fellow creatures to
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: cultivate auto suggestion. At the beginning of the century, Kup
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: had attained the object of his researches and had disengaged
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: the general and immense force of auto suggestion. After innumerable
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: experiments on thousands of subjects, he showed the action of
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: the unconscious inorganic cases. This is new, and the great
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: merit of this profoundly modest learned man is to have
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: found a remedy for terrible ills, reputed incurable or terribly painful,
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: without any hope of relief. As I cannot enter here
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: into long scientific details, I will content myself by saying
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: how the learned man of Nancy practices his method. The
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: chiseled epitome of a whole life of patient researches and
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: of ceaseless observations is a brief formula which is to
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: be repeated morning and evening. It must be said in
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: a low voice, with the eyes closed, in a position
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: favorable to the relaxing of the muscular system. It may
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: be in bed, or it may be in an easy chair.
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: And in a tone of voice, as if one were
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: reciting a litany. Here are the magic words. Every day,
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: in every respect, I am getting better and better. They
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: must be said twenty times, following, with the help of
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: a string with twenty knots in it, which serves as
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: a rosary. This material detail has its importance. It insures
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: mechanical recitation, which is essential. While articulating these words, which
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: are registered by the unconscious, one must not think of
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: anything particular, neither of one's illness nor of one's troubles.
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: One must be passive, just with the desire that all
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: may be for the best. The formula, in every respect
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 1: has a general effect. This desire must be expressed without passion,
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: without will, with gentleness, but with absolute confidence. For Emil
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: cou at the moment of autosuggestion does not call in
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: the will in any way. On the contrary, there must
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 1: be no question of the will at that moment, but
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 1: the imagination, the great motive force, infinitely more active than
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: that which is usually invoked. The imagination alone must be
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 1: brought into play. Have confidence in yourself, says this good Counselor,
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: believe firmly that all will be well and Indeed, all
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 1: is well for those who have faith, fortified by perseverance.
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: As deeds talk louder than words. I will tell you
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 1: what happened to myself before I had ever seen co
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: I must go back then to the month of September
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: when I opened them Charles Bodwin's volume, At the end
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: of a substantial exposition, the author enumerates the cure of
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: illnesses such as enteritis, exema, stammering dumbness, a sinus dating
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: from twenty years back, which had necessitated eleven operations, metritis salpingidis,
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: fibrous tumors, vericose veins, et cetera. Lastly, and above all
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: deep tubercular sores and the last stages of thysis. Case
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: of Madame d of Trua, aged thirty years, who has
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: become a mother since her cure was followed up, but
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: there was no relapse. All this is often testified to
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: by doctors in attendance on the patients. These examples impressed
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: me profoundly. There was the miracle. It was not a
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: question of nerves, but of ills which medicine attacks without success.
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: This cure of tuberculosis was a revelation to me, having
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: suffered for two years from acute neuritis in the face.
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: I was in horrible pain for doctors, two of them specialists,
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: had pronounced the sentence, which would be enough of itself
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: alone to increase the trouble by its fatal influence on
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: the mind. Nothing to be done. This nothing to be
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: done had been for me the worst of auto suggestions.
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: In possession of the formula every day, in every respect,
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: et cetera, I recited it with a faith which, although
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: it had come suddenly, was none the less capable of
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: removing mountains and throwing down shawls and scarves. Bareheaded, I
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: went into the garden in the rain and wind, repeating gently,
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 1: I am going to be cured. I shall have no morneuritis.
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: It is going away, it will not come back, et cetera.
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: The next day I was cured, and never any more
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: since have I suffered from this abominable complaint, which did
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 1: not allow me to take a step out of doors
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: and made life unbearable. It was an immense joy. The
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: incredulous will say it was all nervous, obviously, and I
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 1: give them this first point. But delighted with the result,
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 1: I tried the commethod for an edema of the left
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 1: ankle resulting from an affection of the kidneys, reputed incurable.
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 1: In two days the edema had disappeared. I then treated
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 1: fatigue and mental depression, et cetera. An extraordinary improvement was produced,
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: and I had but one idea to go to Nancy
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: to thank my benefactor. I went there and found the
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: excellent man, attractive by his goodness and simplicity, who has
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: become my friend. It was indispensable to see him in
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: his field of action. He invited me to a popular seance.
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: I heard a concert of gratitude. Lesions in the lungs,
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: displaced organs, asthma, Pott's disease, paralysis, the whole deadly horde
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: of diseases were being put to flight. I saw a
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: paralytic who sat contorted and twisted in his chair, get
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: up and walk. Who had spoken? He demanded confidence, great
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: immense confidence in oneself. He said, learn to cure yourselves.
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: You can do so. I have never cured anyone. The
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 1: power is within you yourselves. Call upon your spirit, make
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: it act for your physical and mental good, and it
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: will come. It will cure you. You will be strong
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: and happy. Having spoken, could approach the paralytic. You heard
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 1: what I said. Do you believe that you will walk? Yes?
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: Very well? Then get up. The woman got up, She
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: walked and went round the garden. The miracle was accomplished.
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: A young girl with Pot's disease, whose vertebral column became
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: straight again after three visits, told me what an intense
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: happiness it was to feel herself coming back to life
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: after having thought herself a hopeless case. Three women cured
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: of lesions and the lungs expressed their delight at going
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: back to work and to a normal life. Who, in
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: the midst of those people whom he loves, seemed to
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: me of being a part for this man ignores money.
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: All his work is gratuitous, and his extraordinary disinterestedness forbids
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: his taking a farthing for it. I owe you something,
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 1: I said to him. I simply owe you everything, No,
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: only the pleasure I shall have from your continuing to
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: keep well. An irresistible sympathy attracts one to this simple
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: minded philanthropist. Arm in arm, we walked round the kitchen garden,
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: which he cultivates himself, getting up early to do so.
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: Practically a vegetarian, he considers with satisfaction the results of
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: his work, and then the serious conversation goes on in
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: your mind. You possess an unlimited power. It acts matter
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 1: if we know how to domesticate it. The imagination is
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: like a horse without a bridle. If such a horse
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: is pulling the carriage in which you are, he may
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: do all sorts of foolish things and take you to
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: your death. But harness him properly, drive him with a
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: sure hand, and he will go wherever you like. Thus
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: it is with the mind the imagination, they must be
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 1: directed for our own good. Auto suggestion formulated with the
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: lips is an order which the unconscious receives. It carries
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: it out unknown to ourselves, and above all at night,
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 1: so that the evening auto suggestion is the most important.
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: It gives marvelous results. When you feel a physical pain,
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: add the formula it is going away, very quickly, repeated
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: in a kind of droning voice, placing your hand on
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: the part where you feel the pain, or on the
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: forehead if it is a mental distress. For the method
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: acts very efficaciously on the mind. After having called in
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 1: the help of the soul for the body, one can
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: ask it again for all the circumstances and difficulties of life.
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: There also, I know from experience that events can be
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: singularly modified by this process. You know it today, and
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: you will know it better still by reading M. Bodwin's book,
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 1: and then his pamphlet Cultured de la force Morale, and
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 1: then lastly the little succinct treatise written by Coux himself
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: self Mastery. All these works may be found at Kues. If, however,
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 1: I have been able to inspire in you the desire
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: of making this excellent pilgrimage yourself, you will go to
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 1: Nancy to fetch the booklet. Like myself. You will love
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: this unique man, unique by reason of his noble charity
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: and of his love for his fellows, as Christ taught it.
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: Like myself also, you will be cured physically and mentally.
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: Life will seem to you better and more beautiful. That
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 1: surely is worth the trouble of trying for M. Burnet
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 1: province some notes on the journey of Coutu Paris in
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: October nineteen nineteen. The desire that the teachings of Cou
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: in Paris last October should not be lost to others
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: has urged me to write them down putting aside this
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: time the numerous people physically or mentally ill who have
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 1: seen their troubles lessen and disappear as the result of
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: his beneficent treatment. Let us begin by quoting just a
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: few of his teachings. Question why is it that I
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: do not obtain better results although I use your method
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: in prayer? Answer because probably at the back of your
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: mind there is an unconscious doubt, or because you make efforts.
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: Now remember that efforts are determined by the will. If
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: you bring the will into play, you run a serious
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: risk of bringing the imagination into play too, But in
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: the contrary direction, which brings about just the reverse of
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: what you desire. Question, what are we to do when
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: something troubles us? Answer? When something happens that troubles you,
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 1: repeat at once. Know that does not trouble me at all,
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: not in the least. The fact is rather agreeable than otherwise.
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: In short, the idea is to work ourselves up in
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  Speaker 1: a good sense instead of in a bad. Question are
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  Speaker 1: the preliminary experiments indispensable if they are unacceptable to the
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  Speaker 1: pride of the subject? Answer? No, they are not indispensable,
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  Speaker 1: but they are of great utility, For although they may
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  Speaker 1: seem childish to certain people, they are, on the contrary,
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  Speaker 1: extremely serious. They do indeed prove three things. One that
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  Speaker 1: every idea that we have in our minds becomes true
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  Speaker 1: for us and has a tendency to transform itself into action.
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  Speaker 1: Two that when there is a conflict between the imagination
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  Speaker 1: and the will, it is always the imagination which wins,
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  Speaker 1: and in this case we do exactly the contrary of
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  Speaker 1: what we wish to do. Three that it is easy
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  Speaker 1: for us to put into our minds without any effort
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  Speaker 1: the idea that we wish to have, since we have
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  Speaker 1: been able without effort to think in succession, I cannot,
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  Speaker 1: and then I can. The preliminary experiments should not be
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  Speaker 1: repeated at home alone. One is often unable to put
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  Speaker 1: one's self in the right physical and mental conditions. There
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: is a risk of failure, and in this case one's
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  Speaker 1: self confidence is shaken. Question. When one is in pain,
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  Speaker 1: one cannot help thinking of one's trouble. Answer, do not
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  Speaker 1: be afraid to think of it. On the contrary, do
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  Speaker 1: think of it, but to say to it, I am
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  Speaker 1: not afraid of you. If you go anywhere and a
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  Speaker 1: dog rushes at you barking, look it firmly in the eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and it will not bite you. But if you fear it,
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  Speaker 1: if you turn back, he will soon have his teeth
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  Speaker 1: in your legs. Question and if one does a retreat,
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  Speaker 1: answer go backwards? Question? How can we realize what we desire? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: By often repeating what you desire. I am gaining assurance,
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  Speaker 1: and you will do so. My memory is improving, and
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  Speaker 1: it really does so. I am becoming absolutely master of myself.
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  Speaker 1: And you find that you are becoming so. If you
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  Speaker 1: say the contrary, it is the contrary which will come about.
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  Speaker 1: What you say persistently and very quickly comes to pass
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  Speaker 1: within the domain of the reasonable. Of course, some testimonies.
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  Speaker 1: A young lady to another lady, how simple it is,
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  Speaker 1: there is nothing to add to it. He seems inspired.
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  Speaker 1: Do you not think that there are beings who radiate influence?
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: An eminent Parisian doctor to numerous doctors surrounding him. I
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  Speaker 1: have entirely come over to the ideas of Ku. A polytechnician.
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  Speaker 1: A severe critic thus defines cou he is a power. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he is a power of goodness without mercy for the
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: bad Otto suggestions of the defeatist type. But indefatigably painstaking,
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  Speaker 1: active and smiling, to help everyone to develop their personality
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  Speaker 1: and to teach them to cure themselves, which is the
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 1: characteristic of his beneficent method. How could one fail to
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  Speaker 1: desire from the depths of one's heart that all might
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  Speaker 1: understand and seize the good news that could brings It
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  Speaker 1: is the awakening possible for every one of the personal
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  Speaker 1: power which he has received, of being happy and well.
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  Speaker 1: It is if one consents the full development of this
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  Speaker 1: power which can transform one's life. Then, and is it
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  Speaker 1: not quite rightly? So? It is the strict duty and
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  Speaker 1: at the same time the happiness of those who have
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  Speaker 1: been initiated, to spread by every possible means the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of this wonderful method, the happy results of which have
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 1: been recognized and verified by thousands of persons, To make
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  Speaker 1: it known to those who suffer, who are sad, or
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: who are overburdened, to all, and to help them to
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: put it into practice. Then, thinking of France triumphant but bruised,
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 1: of her defenders, victorious but mutilated, of all the physical
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: and moral suffering entailed by the war, may those who
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  Speaker 1: have the power. The greatest power ever given to man
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: is the power of doing good. Socrates see that the
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: inexhaustible reservoir of physical and moral forces that the method
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: puts within our reach may soon become the patrimony of
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 1: all the nation, and through it, of humanity. Madame emil
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: Leon collaborator in Paris of Emil Coup. Everything for everyone
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: by Madame emil Leon, disciple of Cou when one has
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: been able to take advantage of a great benefit, when
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: this benefit is within reach of everyone, although almost everyone
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 1: is ignorant of it, is it not an urgent and
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: absolute duty for those who are initiated to make it
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 1: known to those around them, for all can make their own.
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: The amazing results of the emil kumethod to drive away
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: pain is much, but how much more is it to
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 1: lead into the possession of a new life all those
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 1: who suffer. Last April we had the visit of m
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 1: Emil Coup at Paris, and here are some of his teachings.
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 1: Question question of a theist. I think it is unworthy
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: of the eternal to make our obedience to his will
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  Speaker 1: depend on what Cook calls a trick or mechanical process
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: conscious auto suggestion coop, whether we wish it or not,
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 1: our imagination always overrules our will. When they are in conflict,
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 1: we can lead it into the right path indicated by
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: our reason, by consciously employing the mechanical process that we
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 1: employ unconsciously often to lead into the wrong. And the
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: thoughtful questioner says to herself, yes, it is true. In
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 1: this elevated sphere of thought, conscious auto suggestion has the
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  Speaker 1: power to free us from obstacles created by ourselves, which might,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, put a veil between us and God,
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: just as a piece of stuff hanging in a window
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: can prevent the sun from coming into a room. Question
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: how ought one to set about bringing those dear to
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 1: one who may be suffering to make themselves good auto
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 1: suggestions which would set them free? Answer? Do not insist
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: or lecture them about it, Just remind them simply that
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 1: I advise them to make an auto suggestion with the
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 1: conviction that they will obtain the result they want. Question
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 1: how is one to explain to oneself and to explain
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: to others that the repetition of the same words I
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: am going to sleep, it is going away, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: has the power to produce the effect, and above all,
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: so powerful an effect that it is a certain one. Answer.
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  Speaker 1: The repetition of the same words force is one to
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: think them, and when we think them, they become true
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: for us and transform themselves into reality. Question how is
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: one to keep inwardly the mastery of oneself? Answer? To
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 1: be master of ones self? It is enough to think
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 1: that one is so, and in order to think it,
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  Speaker 1: one should often repeat it without making any effort. Question
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 1: and outwardly, how is one to keep one's liberty? Answer?
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: Self mastery applies just as much physically as mentally. Question
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  Speaker 1: affirmation It is impossible to escape trouble or sadness if
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 1: we do not do as we should. It would not
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  Speaker 1: be just an auto suggestion. Cannot and ought not to
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: prevent just suffering. Coop very seriously and affirmatively, certainly and assuredly.
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 1: It ought not to be so, But it is so
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 1: often at any rate. For a time, Question, why did
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 1: that patient who has been entirely cured continually have those
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 1: terrible attacks? Answer? He expected his attacks, He feared them,
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: and so he provoked them. If this gentleman gets well
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: into his mind the idea that he will have no
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: more attacks, he will not have any. If he thinks
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 1: that he will have them, he will indeed do so.
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: Question in what does your method differ from others? Answer
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: that differ not the will which rules us, but the
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: imagination that is the basis, the fundamental basis. Question will
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 1: you give me a summary of your method? For Madamar,
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 1: who is doing an important work coup Here is the
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: summary of the method in a few words. Contrary to
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: what is taught, it is not our will which makes
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: us act, but our imagination the unconscious. If we often
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: do act as we will, it is because at the
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 1: same time we think that we can. If it is
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 1: not so, we do exactly the reverse of what we wish. X.
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 1: The more a person with insomnia determines to sleep, the
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 1: more excited she becomes. The more we try to remember
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 1: a name which we think we have forgotten, the more
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 1: it escapes us. It comes back only if in your
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 1: mind you replace the idea I have forgotten by the idea,
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 1: it will come back. The more we strive to prevent
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: ourselves from laughing, the more our laughter bursts out. The
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: more we determine to avoid an obstacle when learning to bicycle,
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: the more we rush upon it. We must then apply
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 1: ourselves to directing our imagination which now directs us. In
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 1: this way, we easily arrive at becoming masters of ourselves
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 1: physically and morally. How are we to arrive at this
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: result by the practice of conscious auto suggestion. Conscious auto
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 1: suggestion is based on this principle. Every idea that we
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 1: have in our mind becomes true for us and tends
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 1: to realize itself. Thus, if we desire something, we can
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 1: obtain it at the end of a more or less
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 1: long time. If we often repeat that this thing is
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 1: going to come or to disappear, according to whether it
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 1: is a good quality or a fault, either physical or mental.
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: Everything is included by employing night and morning the general
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 1: formula every day in every respect, I am getting better
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 1: and better. Question for those who are sad, who are
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: in distress. Answer, as long as you think I am sad,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot be cheerful. And in order to think something,
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 1: it is enough to say without effort, I do think
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 1: this thing. As to the distress, it will disappear, however
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: violent it may be, that I can affirm. A man
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 1: arrives bent, dragging himself painfully along, leaning on two stays.
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: He has on his face an expression of dull depression.
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: As the hall is filling up. Coo enters. After having
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: questioned this man, he says to him something like this,
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 1: So you have had rheumatism for thirty two years and
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 1: you cannot walk. Don't be afraid. It's not going to
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: last as long as that. Again, then after the preliminary experiments,
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 1: shut your eyes and repeat very quickly, indeed, moving your
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  Speaker 1: lips the words it is going, it is going. At
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 1: the same time, capasses his hand over the legs of
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 1: the patient for twenty to twenty five seconds. Now you
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: are no longer in pain, Get up and walk. The
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: patient walks quickly, quicker more quickly. Still, and since you
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: can walk so well, you are going to run, Run,
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 1: monsieur run. The patient runs joyously, almost as if he
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: had recovered his youth. To his great astonishment and also
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: to that of the numerous persons present at the seance
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: of April twenty, twenty seventh, nineteen twenty clinic of Doctor Beryllin,
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 1: a lady declares, my husband suffered from attacks of asthma
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: for many years. He had such difficulty in breathing that
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 1: we feared a fatal issue. His medical adviser, Doctor X,
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: had given him up. He was almost radically cured of
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 1: his attacks after only one visit from Coul. A young
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 1: woman comes to thank Kuh with lively gratitude. Her doctor,
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: doctor Vachet, who was with her in the room, says
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 1: that the cerebral anemia from which she had suffered for
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 1: a long while, which he had not succeeded in checking
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 1: by the usual means, had disappeared, as if by magic,
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: through the use of conscious auto suggestion. Another person who
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 1: had a fractured leg and could not walk without pain
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 1: and limping, could at once walk normally, no more pain,
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 1: no more limping. In the hall which thrills with interest,
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: joyful testimonies break out from numerous persons who have been
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: relieved or cured. A doctor auto suggestion is the weapon
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: of healing. As to this philosopher who writes he mentions
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: his name, he relies on the genius of Ku. A gentleman,
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: a former magistrate, whom a lady had asked to express
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 1: his appreciation, exclaims in a moved tone, I cannot put
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: my appreciation into words. I think it is admirable a
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 1: woman of the world excited by the disappearance of her sufferings,
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 1: Oh Cou, One could kneel to you. You are the
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 1: merciful God. Another lady, very much impressed herself, rectifies no
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 1: his messenger an aged lady. It is delightful when one
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: is aged and fragile to replace a feeling of general
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 1: ill health by that of refreshment and general well being.
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 1: And Ku as method can I affirm, for I have
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 1: proved it produce this happy result, which is all the
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 1: more complete and lasting since it relies on the all
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: powerful force which is within us. A warmly sympathetic voice
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 1: calls him the modest name. He prefers to that of
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 1: Master Professor Koh. A young woman who has been entirely
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 1: one over could go straight to his aim, attains it
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: with sureness, and in setting free his patient, carries generosity
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: and knowledge to its highest point, since he leaves to
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: the patient himself the merit of his liberation and the
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: use of a marvelous power. A literary man whom a
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 1: lady asks to write a little Chef derv on the
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: Beneficent Method, refuses, absolutely, emphasizing the simple words which used
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  Speaker 1: according to the method, help to make all suffering disappear.
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 1: It is going away, that is the chef dieuvre. He affirms,
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 1: and the thousands of sick folks who have been relieved
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 1: or cured will not contradict him. A lady who has
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 1: suffered much declares, in re reading the method, I find
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 1: it more and more superior to the developments it has inspired.
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: There is really nothing to take away nor add to
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 1: this method. All that is left is to spread it.
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 1: I shall do so in every possible way. And now,
• 2:37:53
  Speaker 1: in conclusion, I will say, although Kuz modesty makes him
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: reply to every one, I have no magnetic fluid, I
• 2:38:01
  Speaker 1: have no influence. I have never cured anybody. My disciples
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: obtain the same results as myself. I can say in
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: all sincerity that they tend to do so, instructed as
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 1: they are in a valuable method. And when in some
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: far distant future the thrilling voice of its author called
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 1: to a higher sphere, can no longer teach it here
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 1: below the method his work will help in aiding, comforting,
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: and curing thousands and thousands of human beings. It must
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 1: be immortal and communicated to the entire world by generous France.
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 1: For the man of letters was right and knew how
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: to illuminate in a word, this true, simple and marvelous
• 2:38:39
  Speaker 1: help in conquering pain. It is going away. There is
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  Speaker 1: the chef dieuvre. Emil Leon, Paris, June sixth, nineteen twenty