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

ain this way you VIII easily u
gcst your food and SO viii feel no dlS
comfort or pain of any kind in your
stomach or intcstines.
"You will as 0 consequence assimi,
late your food and your body WIN
make use of it TO manufacture blood:
muscle, force, energy. In a Woru
life.
"Your body will throw off the
waste material without medicines OF
any kind. Every night you will en-
ioy deep, tranquil slumber, without
nightmares and you will wake up
feeling cheerful and ready for your
days duties.
times sad. or worry. or look at the
black side of things, from hence
forth you will stop it and, instead,
Won are going to be cheerful
"You will no longer be inpatient or
i'll tempered. -,
"You will be patient, you will al,
WAYS be master of yourself and
things which formerly annoyed or
worried you will do so no longer.
~ now add that your organs arc
functioning well. Your heart beats
normally and your blood circulates
as it should. Your stomach, mites
tines. lungs, liver, kidneys and blad-
der are all functioning properly.
70. Need Of Self-Confidence.
"If up to the present time you
have lacked confidence in yourself,
this distrust will disappear and give
place to confidence, based on TINS
force of incalculable power which Is
in each one of us.
This self-confidence is absolutely
necessary. When you wish to do
some reasonable thing or when you
have to perform a duty. think always
that it is easy. Make the words
difficult impossible I cannot, dis
appear from your vocabulary.
Say to yourself instead, 1T is
easy and / can By considering a
thing easy, it becomes so for you, all
though it might seem the reverse
for others. You will do it quickly
and well and without fatigue, be-
cause you have done it without
effort"
A Soothing Voice.
Coue said all this and a good deal
more in a monotonous but soothing
voice. 1t Graded us all into drowsi-
ness from which we emerged only
| when he counted, "0ne-two-
three" and told us how to open our
eyes. Then he once more took up
his discourse, enlarging upon the
necessity of our repeating his IA
nous formula: ..-.
"Tous les jours, a tous points de
vue, je vais mieux en- mieux."
Which in English goes:
Every day. in every way, am
getting better and better"
Monsieur Coue said that covered
everything. Therefore he did not
have TO ask us all our symptoms.
But the formula was more inclusive
| than that. 1t covered the physical,
, the mental and the moral side Of
| things.
One more mechanical formula.
When we had pain, We should pass
our hand rapidly over the aching
part, repeating quickly and for a
| large number of times the French
words: Ca passe"-"it is going
away" And we would autosuggest
the pain away.
And how are we feeling today"
1t is Monsieur Emile COue address
ing the writer at the auto suggestion
leaders home in Nancy. 1t is my
second clinic. III, remembers that
am there because / am supposed TO be
suffering from a nervous breakdown.
Coue doesn't know / am merely sup
posed to be suffering from, NERVES"
And acting up to my part, i am dead
sore because so little attention has been
paid to me.
Cant see much Improvement" I
mutter. 81 don't sleep at night. My
appetite is bad and / don't digest my
food. l.
my dear chap" interrupts Coue,
why catalog I'll your Ills? If you
go on at that rate, searching your
self in that way, every day you will
discover more pains and more symp-
toms. Try to get Yourself into the
frame of mind expressed by the for
mula, every day, in every way, am
getting better and better
Isn't that a form of self-hypno-
| tism?" ! ask, peevishly.
Coue smiles. ~Call it what you want.
But don't be too analytical. Don't in
| tellectualize too much over the thing.
All / ask you to do is to give the
principle sporting chance. See whether
it will not do what | claim.
"YOu are bound TO know something
of the powers Of auto suggestion. You
are familiar with the old story OF four
or five people at various intervals tell
ing a person how pale he looks. how
badly he looks, until the mai finally
goes home really III.
"If by suggestion TOu can suggest