Evening star., 1922-12-29
ny LAURA MATTHEW'S.

NANCY, France, December 14.-The
covered many years ago as a phar-
macist that many of his nPst ohsti-
nate cases were cured by Il few drops
of distilled water or brown bread
pill. This proved to Prof. Coue that
1t was the patients imagination
hich gave to the distilled water and
the brown bread pill the quality of
medicine for him:
Then, by a series of experiments, he
discovered that whenever the will and
the imagination are in conflict 1t is
always the latter that wins. The
shift OF emphasis from the will to
the Imagination is the totally new
idea which Coue contributes to the
already recognized truths of auto
suggestion.
His illustration to prove this state
ment-now almost hackneyed--is to
place H. plank six inches wide and
twenty feet long on the floor. You
are able to walk on it without any
difficulty. Place the same plank fifty
feet off the ground and you cannot
walk across it, because your lmaSl-
nation will in the meantime have en-
tered into the situation and given
you n very distinct mental image of
yourself falling to the ground. AL
though you may will to walk across
it. you will no more than start be-
fore you begin to tremble. and II you
insisted upon continuing you would
proba bly, fall. Yet carpenters. sign
painters, iron workers do that sort
Of thing because they know they can
do 1t. But the moment you conceive
your inability to do thing your fear
makes you incapable of doing it; the
more you bend your will to the exc
cution of it the more you are at the
mercy of your imagination.
Value of VIII Power.
Do not form the erroneous conclu-
sion, however. that Coue or his new
school of applied psychology under
estimates the value of will power. 1t
is only when the will power and the
| imagination are not in accord that
the imagination proves itself to be
| the first prerogative of man.
| Prof Coue's method of self healing
through the use of the sub-conscious
mind is based upon the two following
| ideas: First, that an idea or thought
is capable of becoming "a reality for
! the individual providing it is with
|. in the realm of reason) if his imagin-
alton and not the will is the greatest
| faculty of man.
We have within us two distinct in
dividualS, the conscious mind, in
which resides our will. memory and
conscious faculties of the brain. and
! the sub-cQnscious mind in which re-
sides our imagination. The domain
of the former is that of all con-
scious thought and action. The do
m m of q Ter
thought and action. The chief
task of the unconscious mind is to
take care of all Of the internal func-
tions of our body without our con-
scious order or knowledge. 1t is
through the knowledge, development
and direction of the newly discovered
power of the sub-conscious mind that
Coue method of applied psychology
has attained its marvellous results in
healing.
The chance for cure for the in
dividual depends entirely upon his
ability to put away his will power
and all the other qualities of his con-
scious mind during the period of his
treatment and completely surrender
himself to his sub-conscious self, US
ing the imagination to visualize the
desired results.
Upon entering his clinic at Nancy.
Prof. Coue speaks to each individual
regarding his health. If it is new
case he asks them for a brief history
Of their case and the diagnosis of
their physician. If 1t is the case of a
patient who has been there before, he
invariably answers the inquiry by the
cheerful reply II am getting better"
Exeteme Courage Needed.
The importance and seriousness of
disease is so ridiculed that only a
person of extreme courage can stand
out against the overwhelming current