Full text of 'YALEMEDICALJ^RARYGift of theOld Dominion Foundationfrom the Libr-ary ofGregory Zilboorg, M.D.Autosuggestionand itsPersonal ApplicationAutosuggestionand itsPersonal ApplicationBy J. Herbert DuckworthMember of the Lorraine Societyof Applied Psychology, Nancv, FranceTHE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANYNEW YORK: MCMXXIICopyright 192?
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ByTHE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANYAll Rifhta IteMrvedrRlNTBD IN THE V. A.ToFrederick M.
KerbyAUTHOR'S PREFACEThe most significant and far-reaching discoveryin the field of psychology in recent years is that ofEmile Coue, of Nancy, France. Coue hasdemonstrated that the subconscious, or, as he pre-fers to call it, the unconscious mind, may be per-suaded to receive a voluntary idea as a fact, thusmaking it possible to effect any desired physicalreaction. He has, moreover, shown — and this isthe most revolutionary part of his discovery — that,when the imagination (thought) and the will areopposed, thought invariably prevails. This M.Coue calls The Law of Reversed Effort.In his free clinic at Nancy, M. Coue can beseen daily applying his discovery to the ameliora-tion, and often complete cure, of imperfections ofboth mind and body.
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Recently I travelled as farfrom Nancy as Stockholm, Moscow, Vienna andNew York, and I know that the Coue methodsof self-healing are being followed in places verydistant from the spot where they originated.Autosuggestion, as taught at the new NancySchool, is a science by which is put to practicalpurposes logical lessons learned from the studyviii AUTHOR'S PREFACEof the subconscious mind — that great, and, untilcomparatively recently, uncharted ocean whosefascinating mysteries have been so thoroughly ex-plored by Freud, Jung and other psychoanalysts.M. Coue conducted his expedition independently.There is a story that, at a banquet during one ofthe annual conferences of The British Association,an eminent savant offered the toast: 'Here's topure science; may it never become practical!' Coue does not approach the science and art ofpsychotherapy in the spirit of this jest. Havingascertained experimentally that thought controlsthe subconscious which, as is already known, is theseat of many of our mental and physical ills, heproceeded, with his characteristically logicalFrench mind, to put his discovery to practical use— to make it possible for mankind to heal itself bymaking the unconscious operate for good insteadof evil.'
Coue has shown that we have in our-selves the power to heal through imagination. Ourcanon of conduct must henceforth be changed from'Who wills can' to 'Who thinks can.'
The methods of autosuggestion as taught atNancy are particularly simple. Thousands ofpeasants in France have with ease comprehendedautosuggestion, and have been able to heal them-selves by its means. Coue's visit to Lon-don many people in England, from all stationsof life, have, with amazing results, availed them-AUTHOR'S PREFACE ixselves of these methods. The practice of auto-suggestion is now spreading to the United States,thanks, partly, to the interest taken in M. Coue'swork by the American Ambassador, Col.
Harvey,and his wife.M. Coue has exerted little effort to make knownthrough the written word the benefits which every-one can share by the study of autosuggestion. Theonly available pamphlet by M. Coue, 'Self Mas-tery,' is obtainable at the Institute for the Practiceof Autosuggestion, 20 Grosvenor Gardens, Lon-don, S.
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For those who may desire to makea technical study of the subject there is no moreexcellent work than that of Professor CharlesBaudouin, 'Suggestion and Autosuggestion.' It was for the purpose of explaining in non-technical terms, as far as that was possible, themeans by which the average person may relievehimself or herself of mental and physical ills by thepractice of autosuggestion that the preparation ofthis book was undertaken. The chapters dealingwith psychology, on earlier psychotherapeuticpractice, and particularly those on psychoanalysis,give an outline of the field of knowledge uponwhich autosuggestion is primarily based, andshould help the reader to accept more readily M.Coue's doctrine. I have also attempted to makeit clear that there is nothing in autosuggestionfundamentally antagonistic to the orthodox teach-x AUTHOR'S PREFACEings of medicine and surgery, or even of religion.Instead of generalizing on things that can beaccomplished by autosuggestion, it has rather beenmy aim to signify specific uses to which autosug-gestion may be put. Who of us is perfect? Mostof us have little kinks and taints and imperfectionsin our personality, if not physical derangementsof a more serious nature.It is my sincere hope that readers of the follow-ing pages may succeed in acquiring the exceed-ingly simple Coue technique, and, by using itthemselves, thereby approach perfect health andhappiness in both body and mind.J.
Herbert Duckworth'Kingswood'Speen, Princes Risborough,Bucks, England.INTRODUCTIONAutosuggestion Founded on Psychology — The Two-Mind (the Conscious and the Unconscious) Theory— The Unconscious, Which Can Be Made to Obeythe Imagination, Regulates All Our Actions andBodily Functions — Think Health and You Will BeHealthy.WITH nothing but a first impression as a guidefor reasoning, the assertion of M. Coue that wecan 'think away' a sickness seems almost tooridiculous to be further considered.The idea is reminiscent of the old days of mir-acle workers, charlatans, soothsayers and otherpractitioners of hocus-pocus, and also of theirmodern prototype, the quack doctor. It is toopreposterous a declaration for this enlightenedage!Yet, as a matter of fact, autosuggestion, as taughtand practiced by M.
Coue — which is neither morenor less than simply 'thinking' ourselves well — isfounded on a most respectable and well-establishedscience — the science of psychology. When M.Coue says that if we repeat many times his for-mula: 'Every day, in every way, I am gettingbetter and better,' we will inevitably improve inxii INTRODUCTIONboth mental and physical health, he has soundpsychological and physiological reasons uponwhich to base his assertion.Psychologists have proved that we have twodistinct minds — the conscious and the unconscious,or subconscious. The existence of the unconsciousmind is indicated, for instance, in sleep walking.Here one who is asleep — whose conscious mind isin a state of inaction— gets out of bed, walks aboutthe house, or even goes out into the street. Hemakes many complicated motions, even talks to hisrelatives, or to the policeman he encounters on hisnocturnal promenade. Yet in the morning he hasnot, very often, the slightest recollection of any-thing that happened from the time he laid hishead on the pillow till the breakfast bell rang.It is the unconscious mind that guides the foot-steps and directs the speech of the somnambulist.M. Coue declares that it is the unconscious —through the imagination — that regulates all ouractions. This imagination is even stronger thanthe will.
Coue points out that in many com-mon, everyday situations the more we will to do athing, the more difficult becomes the performanceof the operation. We forget a telephone number.The harder we endeavor to recall the elusivefigures the further away they seem from recollec-tion. They have entirely 'slipped our memory,'and, the more angrily we thrash our will intoINTRODUCTION xiiiaction, the more confused and helpless we be-come over this particular thing.And have you not noticed that, not until wehave calmed ourselves, have ceased trying, — haveleft it to the unconscious — does the forgotten num-ber loom up in our consciousness?Perhaps we play golf. During an importanttournament, when we have set our will workingto observe religiously the all-important injunction,'Keep your eye on the ball,' we foozle every othershot. The more we will to keep our eyes rivetedon the ball, the more utterly impossible it is to doso.
We will to do the right thing, but imaginethat we will do just the opposite — and the imagina-tion invariably wins.Now many ills are purely imaginary. Andthose that really exist are, very often, the directresults of morbid imaginings. Others, trivial inorigin, are exaggerated by these same imaginings.And, it being the very essence of M. Coue's teach-ings that it is the unconscious that controls everyfunction of our bodies, it must necessarily followthat, if we can learn consciously to employ auto-suggestion — in this case 'think' health instead ofsickness — we shall become well.In other words, it is the claim of the new NancySchool that it is the unconscious, via the brain,that controls, for good or for evil, all organs ofour body. Therefore, think that a particularxiv INTRODUCTIONpart of the body is in good working order, ami itwill proceed to function normally.This may seem a revolutionary doctrine, but itis not really so.
It is simply an old truth grownup, matured, and developed, and now masquerad-ing in habiliments furnished by that most modernand instructively entertaining scientist — the psy-chologist, the man whose hobby is to probe into themysterious workings of the mind.CONTENTSPAGEAuthor's Preface viiIntroduction xiAutosuggestion Founded on Psychology — TheTwo-Mind (the Conscious and the Uncon-scious) Theory — The Conscious, Which Can beMade to Obey the Imagination, Regulates AllOur Actions and Bodily Functions — ThinkHealth and You Will be Healthy.PART ONEPSYCHOLOGYI Conscious and Unconscious Mind.
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