San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-07

cept Sunday when he rests, Coue has
one clinic a day for people who have
come to Nancy from distance.
From All Over World.
In addition to the French peasants
and middle class people who came from
| all over the Lorraine country, saw
Americans from New York and Connec'
ticut, Britons. Canadians, and one
couple from South Africa.
The Americans were mainly suffer
ers from neurasthenia. The French
peasants came TO be helped in their suf-
| ferings from stomach troubles, eczema.
rheumatisnf, neuritis, all kinds oil
| chronic ills.
Coue himself says that young per
sons, and especially women, are most
suspectible to his treatment.
In the clinics I attended women were
in the great majority and many OF them
were old.
Coue spots the newcomers at once
He has an excellent memory for faces
and for the illnesses of the individuals
Makes Simple Inquiry.
He came over TO me at once and l
thought" Now for it," :,
But he simply asked in his keenly,
interested way what l was suffering
| FROM. en 49, a, o.
aAb. had nerves Many of you Amer,
leans seem troubled that way. You Will
get better-and soon.
There were no other questions that
day, SO far as / was concerned. but
| was now a full-fledgcd patient at a
clinic and welcome to get all the gooG
out of it that / could.
The outstanding thing in the auto
suggestion clinics of Emile Coue Is
that there is no privacy.
When you come here to Nancy to
attend his meetings, you simply nave
to make up your mind to throw reserve
into the dust-heap.
He shuns private appointments: He
doesn't like TO treat one patient alone.
He nrefers to have them all in one
crowd where he can speak TO all OF
them at one time
There is here a point Of crowd
psychology. BY getting us all to-
gether, he makes US act and react
upon each other.
At anv rate. Coue's clinic is med
ical confessional in which We confess
our physical ills, not only, for Mon
seur COue to hear but for all the
others present to hear.
Once in a while there is an excep-
ton. If some one is suffering from
something that it would cause real
embarrassment to discuss aloud, the
patient is permitted to write down
| what is the matter with him or her
and hand the slip to COue.
Starts Work at Nine.
Nine o'clock. Prompt to the min
ute, Monsieur Coue enters for his
first clinic Of the day. He goes in a
circle around the room, asking each
of us something about our ills.
Then he bids us close our eyes and
! keep them closed until he orders US
to open them.
He assures US he will not put us
to sleep.
There is to be no attempt at
hypnotism.
He tells us that in each OF us there
| is a conscious and an unconscious
self. If we compare them, we find
that while the conscious self has a
very unreliable memory. our uncon-
scious self has n really marvellous
memory which registers, even with
out our will. the slightest events, the
most unimportant facts of our lives.
| Furthermore, il is very. credulOus
and accepts without reasoning what
it is told.
Matter Of Belief.
As our unconscious self presides
over the functioning of our organs by
means of the brain, a queer thing
happens-if it believes a certain Or
gan functions well or badly. that or
gan does really then function well or
badly.
This unconscious self not only pre-
| sides over the functions of our or
ganism but over the accomplishment
of all our actions.
This unconscious self is called
imagination and it makes us act
even in opposition to our will. In
any conflict between will and imssi-
nation, the latter always wins.
Creates An Appetite.
"Now," says Coue, "tell yourself
that all the words am now going to
pronounce will be fixed in your brain.
will be printed, engraved, encrusted
there; that they will always stay
there: and that without your wish
ing it or knowing Il, you yourself
| and your organism are going TO obey.
$50 now l say to you: Every day.
three times a day, at your usual
meal times, you will be hungry.
you. will eat with great pleasure and
| without overeating.
You will maSticate your food
| slowly so as TO transform it into n
kind of paste before you swallow it.