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SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION
by
EMILE COUÉ
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Copyright 1922
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SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION
Suggestion, or rather Autosuggestion, is quite a new subject, and yet at the same timeit is as old as the world.
It is new in the sense that until now it has been wrongly studied and in consequencewrongly understood; it is old because it dates from the appearance of man on the earth.In fact autosuggestion is an instrument that we possess at birth, and in this instrument,or rather in this force, resides a marvelous and incalculable power, which according tocircumstances produces the best or the worst results. Knowledge of this force is usefulto each one of us, but it is peculiarly indispensable to doctors, magistrates, lawyers,and to those engaged in the work of education.
By knowing how to practise it consciously it is possible in the first place toavoid provoking in others bad autosuggestions which may have disastrous consequences, andsecondly, consciously to provoke good ones instead, thus bringing physical health to thesick, and moral health to the neurotic and the erring, the unconscious victims ofanterior autosuggestions, and to guide into the right path those who had a tendency totake the wrong one.
THE CONSCIOUS SELF AND THE UNCONSCIOUS SELF
In order to understand properly the phenomena of suggestion, or to speak morecorrectly of autosuggestion, it is necessary to know that two absolutely distinct selvesexist within us. Both are intelligent