Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-07-17

in hand at all other times. WAen
ever physical or moral su1erlhs !"
experienced, say the directions' A..
firm instantly to yourself that W.
will no. consciously 10
existence and that you Will make II
disappear. Then II Posslpie' ~
your eyes and isolate yourself !
thought. pass your hands lightly
over the seat of the pain, or on
The forehead if the suffering be
mental. and say as quickly as pos
sible-It's going'-as long as th'
suffering remains. These exercises
must be made without effort.
Professor Coue does not claim
that auto-suggestion will cure all
complaints, however malignant, but
saws it has been known to cure a
wide variety of ailments ranging
from insomnia to paralysis. One
of these remarkable cures recentiJ
took place before a large assemuls
of spectators when Coue was the
houored guest of the Institute OF
Auto-suggestion of LONDON. winch
has its offices in Grosvenor
A woman patient, paralyzed in one
leg. was brought in a carriage ana
carried to the Office of Professor
Coue. AS she came in the door IN
the arms of attendants he steppe1
StAS
toward her and said:
"Why do you not walk? l am
certain, absolutely certain. that YOU
can walk. Try it. Madam, and see
if l am not right
The woman was lowered gently to
the floor; she made a tremendous
effort, exerting 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 mar is a goo.
But Professor Coue modestly de-
MES the allegation. He declares
that he is merely a professor OF
optimism and that the patients
themselves are their own miracle
workers. -.
1.-THE explanation is very simple,
he saws. There are two beings in
us, the conscious being who is the
master of our will and the uncon-
scious one who rules our magma
ton. Well, there is an antagonism
between these two forces. and 1t /,
always imagination which prevails.
eff you place a plank 10 yards
long and 3 inches wide on the MOOR
you will easily walk along It,. I'm
| agine that this plank will be placed
ABOVE an dDySSN anu yOu "OeAA
| IL impossible to walk on this bridge
| because your imagination would
| oppose itself to your will. Yo'l
would wish to, but you would not
be able to. One always speaks Oh
educating the will, but 1t seems
more important to me to know now
| to guide u imagination
Imagination Alone Suffers
To the patients who come to his
| clinic at Nancy from all parts OF
Europe, the professor gives the fol
lowing advice:
DO not say that you are suffer
ing. 1t is not true. You imagine
that you are suffering. But in real
ity, you r not suffering. II Is
your imagination alone that suffers
Close the eyes and repeat with me,
with all the strength of the VIII:
L am better-I am better-I am
| better And presently you will see
that you are really feeling better
Believe in your health, and you Wal
be half cured"
While Professor Coue's cures
have attracted the most attention
i because of their spectacular nature
he is by no means the only promi'
nent champion of auto-suggestior
Gradually, the entire medical pro-
| feSSlOn seems TO De LIE
idea in one form or another
Opthalmologists tell us, for instance
that defective eyesight is caused BY
defective imagination; the new
school of personal hygienists de-
clare that pessimism is the creates
enemy to health, while the Freu'
dians trace all u modern com
plexes to disorders of the juvenile
Imagination. All advocate auto
suggestion as a ure.
Worry, which Is a form OF neg
alive auto-suggestion, can be cured
only by positive suggestion, the,
say. Morbid fears and doubts
about common happenings grow
immensely by a process of sugges'
ton and auto-suggestion," declares
one medical authority, until the,
tend to obsess the whole personally
For worry of this kind nothing les
than a systematic course of menta
training of some kind, aided by self
suggestion, will effect a radical cure
of course, when persons Athlete,
by the worry habit get run down
they get all the more involved II
the tangle of their doubling
thoughts"
Thus, Pollyana has received tn
unqualified endorsement Of science
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