Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-15

NEW YORK CITY, July 10.-Are you
N i'll? Nonsense You imagine it.
Health is simply a matter of belief
II you will gently, but firmly correct your
misguided imagination by putting it through
a regular course of discipline, you will soon
discover that really there is nothing at all the
matter with you.
At least, so say the opponents of the new
acknowledgements method, which is now
proving popular in Europe. It is known by
the old, familiar term of auto-suggestion and
also by the new term, Coueism, after Emile
Coue, a French psychotherapist, of Nancy,
who has lately gained renown for his sensa-
tional cures. Here are the directions.
Every morning before you are fully awake,
and every night just as you are on the verge
or sleep, close your eyes and murmur 20
times in succession the following rhythmic
and reassuring sentence: "Day by day-in
every way-I am getting better and better -
That is all there is to it-no medicine, no
exertion of any kind, and no doctors bills.
No wonder, then, that the new method is
popular. The idea seems to be that the
human imagination is a silly, impressionable
thing, incredibly susceptible to suggestion,
but nevertheless capable of welding pow
erful influence over the body. Against it's
uncanny, primitive strength, the reasoning
faculties of the brain are apparently help
less Careful reasoning may assure you, for
instance, that your head is congested and
the mucous membranes of your nostrils are
1nflamed as result of a cold contracted
while sitting in a draught yesterday, but if
you are able to convince your imagination
that you haven't cold and never could have
taken cold from sitting in a draught, all the
annoying symptoms are likely to disappear
In order to do this, however, it is necessary
to meeo your imagination on it's own child
ish level with complete simplicity.
'Let the Interrogation be made with
confidence, with faith" continue the direc-
lions. "The greater the CONVICTION, the more
rapid and certain will be the results.
ut is we'll to be provided with piece of
string with 20 knots tied in it so, that the
counting can be mechanical" In other
words, the conscious part Of your brain must
not be suddenly aroused to action by a sud-
den quandary as to whether you have said
the sentence Is or only IA times.
In addition to the large doses of optimism
forced upon the ina Tination every morning
and night it is necessary to keep it str lily
in hand at all other times. Whenever physi-
cal or moral suffer-. is expe- fenced, say the
directions, affirm Instantly to yourself that
you will not cons ciously encourage its exist
ence and that you will make it disappear.
Then, II possible, ose your eyes and isolate
yourself in thought, pass your hands lightly
over the seat of the pain, or on the forehead
if the !ffering be n ,nta and say as quick
ly as possib-e-It'5 going!'-as long as the
suffering remains. These e. -rcises must be
made without effort
suggestion will cure all complaints, however
malignant, but says it has been known to
cure a wide variety of ailments ranging
from insomnia to paralysis. One Of these re-
markable cures recently took lace before
large assembly Of spectators when QUE
was the hor ored guest of the Institute Of
Auto-Suggestion, CT London, which has it's
off 5 in Grosvenor Gardens. A woman pa
tient paralyzed in one leg, was brought in a
carriage and carried to the office Of Profess
sor Coue. AS she came in the door in the
arms Of attendants he stepped toward her
and said:
''Why do you not walk? I am certain, alb
solutely certain, that you can walk. Try it,
Madam, and see if I am not right
The woman was lowered gently to the
floor; she made tremendous effort, ex-
erting all her will power, and while the
Onlookers held their breath she walked
After taking a few steps she sat down, then
rose and walked again. "Gracious," she
exclaimed, this ma is a god.
But Professor Coue modestly denies the
allegation. He declares that he is merely a
professor of optimism, and that the patients
themselves are their own miracle-workers
"The explanation is very simple" he says
"There are two beings in us, the conscious
unconscious one who rules our imagination
WE'LL there is an antagonism between these
two forces, and it is always imagination
which prevails.
If you place a plank 10 yards long and
8 inches wide on the floor YOU will easily