Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion Part 6

And you, Monsieur, your varicose ulcer is already better. That is good, very good indeed, do you know, considering you have only been here twice; I congratulate you on the result you have obtained.

If you go on doing your autosuggestions properly, you will very soon be cured... . You have had this ulcer for ten years, you say?

What does that matter? You might have had it twenty and more, and it could be cured just the same.

And you say that you have not obtained any improvement? ... Do you know why? ... Simply because you lack confidence in yourself.

When I tell you that you are better, you feel better at once, don't you?

Why? Because you have faith in me. Just believe in yourself and you will obtain the same result.

Oh, Madame not so many details, I beg you! By looking out for the details you create them, and you would want a list a yard long to contain all your maladies. As a matter of fact, with you it is the mental outlook which is wrong. Well, make up your mind that it is going to get better and it will be so. It's as simple as the Gospel... .

You tell me you have attacks of nerves every week... . Well, from to-day you are going to do what I tell you and you will cease to have them... .

You have suffered from constipation for a long time? ... What does it matter how long it is? ... You say it is forty years? Yes, I heard what you said, but it is none the less true that you can be cured to-morrow; you hear, to-morrow, on condition, naturally, of your doing exactly what I tell you to do, in the way I tell you to do it... .

Ah! you have glaucoma, Madame. I cannot absolutely promise to cure you of that, for I am not sure that I can. That does not mean that you cannot be cured, for I have known it to happen in the case of a lady of Chalon-sur-Saone and another of Lorraine.

Well, Mademoiselle, as you have not had your nervous attacks since you came here, whereas you used to have them every day, you are cured. Come back sometimes all the same, so that I may keep you going along the right lines.

The feeling of oppression will disappear with the lesions which will disappear when you a.s.similate properly; that will come all in good time, but you mustn't put the cart before the horse ... it is the same with oppression as with heart trouble, it generally diminishes very quickly... .

Suggestion does not prevent you from going on with your usual treatment... . As for the blemish you have on your eye, and which is lessening almost daily, the opacity and the size are both growing less every day.

To a child (in a clear and commanding voice): "Shut your eyes, I am not going to talk to you about lesions or anything else, you would not understand; the pain in your chest is going away, and you won't want to cough any more."

_Observation.--_It is curious to notice that all those suffering from chronic bronchitis are immediately relieved and their morbid symptoms rapidly disappear... . Children, are very easy and very obedient subjects; their organism almost always obeys immediately to suggestion.

To a person who complains of fatigue: Well, so do I. There are also days when it tires me to receive people, but I receive them all the same and all day long. Do not say: _"I cannot help it." "One can always overcome oneself."_

_Observation.--_The idea of fatigue necessarily brings fatigue, and the idea that we have a duty to accomplish always gives us the necessary strength to fulfill it. The mind can and must remain master of the animal side of our nature.

The cause which prevents you from walking, whatever it is, is going to disappear little by little every day: you know the proverb: _Heaven helps those who help themselves._ Stand up two or three times a day supporting yourself on two persons, and say to yourself firmly: _My kidneys are not so weak that I cannot do it, on the contrary I can... ._

After having said: "Every day, in every respect, I am getting better and better," add: "The people who are pursuing me _cannot_ pursue me any more, they are not pursuing me... ."

What I told you is quite true; it was enough to think that you had no more pain for the pain to disappear; _do not think then that it may come back or it will come back... ._

(A woman, sotto voice, "What patience he has! What a wonderfully painstaking man!")

ALL THAT WE THINK BECOMES TRUE FOR US. WE MUST NOT THEN ALLOW OURSELVES TO THINK WRONGLY.

THINK "MY TROUBLE IS GOING AWAY," JUST AS YOU THINK YOU CANNOT OPEN YOUR HANDS.

The more you say: _"I will not,"_ the more surely the contrary comes about. You must say: _"It's going away,"_ and think it. Close your hand and think properly: "Now I cannot open it." Try! (she cannot), you see that your will is not much good to you.

_Observation.--This is the essential point of the method._ In order to make auto-suggestions, you must eliminate the _will_ completely and only address yourself to the _imagination,_ so as to avoid a conflict between them in which the will would be vanquished.

To become stronger as one becomes older seems paradoxical, but it is true.

For diabetes: Continue to use therapeutic treatments; I am quite willing to make suggestions to you, but I cannot promise to cure you.

_Observation._--I have seen diabetes completely cured several times, and what is still more extraordinary, the alb.u.men diminish and even disappear from the urine of certain patients.

This obsession must be a real nightmare. The people you used to detest are becoming your friends, you like them and they like you.

Ah, but to _will_ and to _desire_ is not the _same_ thing.

Then, after having asked them to close their eyes, M. Coue gives to his patients the little suggestive discourse which is to be found in "Self Mastery." When this is over, he again addresses himself to each one separately, saying to each a few words on his case:

To the first: "You, Monsieur, are in pain, but I tell you that, from to-day, the cause of this pain whether it is called arthritis or anything else, is going to disappear with the help of your unconscious, and the cause having disappeared, the pain will gradually become less and less, and in a short time it will be nothing but a moment."