The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-12-21

Perhaps my statement tnat, iupT"
IDENTIFY used. Suggestion. Is danger
Gus thing will be recalled and it be
said that II can be used for evil pur-
poses.
This is no valid objection; first. be-
cause the practice OF suggestion
would be confided only to reliable and
honest people--to the reformatory
doctors, for instance; and in the Sec
ond hand. those who seek to use sug-
gestion for evil ask no ones permits
sion.
But even admitting that It offers
some danger I should like to ask who
ever proffers the objection. to tell me
what thing We use that Is not danger
Gus?
Is It Steam? Gunpowder? Rail-
ways? Ships? Electricity? Automo-
biles? Aeroplanes?
Are the poisons not dangerous
which we doctors and chemists, use
daily In minute doses, and which
which might easily destroy the pa
tient II, in a moments carelessness,
we unfortunately made mistake IN
weighing them, out?
Autosuggestion is an instrument
which you have to learn how to use
just as you must learn now 10 use
any other instrument.
An excellent gun in inexperienced
hands gives only Disappointing re-
suits, but the more skilled the same
hands become. the more easily they
place the bullets in the target.
IF YOU formerly allowed yourself to
make bad Autosuggestions because
You did it unconsciously. now that you
know what I have Just taught you,.
Won must no longer let this happen.
I told one disciple. And If in spite
of all, YOU still do it. you must only
accuse Yourself. and say 'Mea culpa,
men maxima culpa.
The means employed by all heaters
so back to Autosuggestfon. That IS
to say that these methods. whatever
thew are-words. nominations ges-
lures, staging-all produce in the pa
tient the Autosuggestion OF recovery.
Let me quote here-for It sets forth
succ;nctly and truly what may call
the ethical surrounding Of our princi-
ple-the following paragraph from
Couture de la Force Morale" BY Z.
Baudouin."
ITO have and to inspire unalteraole
confidence, one must walk with the
assurance of perfect sincerity ana IN
order to possess this assurance ana
sincerity. one must wish for the Sood
of others more than ones own.
With pride in the method, and not
from any personal point OF view,
quote here some excerpts bearing.
think, effectively on the moral aspect
of the practice. These quotations are
designed for Good which Autosugges-
ton IS. The danger" OF its use Tor
evil Is as nothing.
From the Description Of . "Seanee."
THE town thrills at this name,
Coue) for from every rank Of society.
people come to him and everyone Is
welcomed with the same benevolence.
which already goes for good deal.
But what is extremely poignant 70,
at the end Of the seance, to see the
people who came in gloomy. bent, al.
most hostile (they we're in pain), 90
away like everybody else; uncon-
strained, cheerful. sometimes radiant
(they are no longer in pain)!
With a strong and smiling good
ness of which he has the secret, NJ.
Coue, as it were. holds the hearts Of
those who consul him in his hand:
he addresses himself In turn to the
numerous persons who come to con-
suit him, and, speaks to them in these
terms:
We'll, Madame. and what is your
truble?
20, you arc looking for too
many why's and wheretores: what
does the cause oil your pain matter
to you? You are in pain. that Is
enough, -, will teach you To
get rid OF that
"For the Good Of Humanity"
Your lecture interested us very
much. II would be desirable Tor the
GOOD of humanity, that your words
should be published in several Ian
guages, SO that they might penetrate
TO every race and country. Thus they
might reach a greater number Of un,
fortunate people who suffer from the
wrong use Of that ailpowertul land
almost divine) faculty-the most Inn
portant to man. as you affirm and
prove so luminously and judiciously-
which we call the imagination.
~ had already read many books on
the Will, and had quite an arsenal OF
formulas, thoughts. aphorisDs. etc.
Your phrases are conclusire--l do
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