Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-07

He seemed to have an idea, some
what similar to that beld by Jesus,
that IL ne could get adults to become
as little children, III their mental
habits land thus something like the
anifnalsl, he could help them into the
Kingdom of heaven on this earth,
which Is good health.
Accordingly. he taught that TO pc.
come unconscious, as the little ones
are Unconscious OF themselves, II was
necessary for sgrown-up to use
hts conscious brain.
This led him to evolve his phrase.
DAY by day, In every way, I'm get
| ting better and better" which has q
sublime sort of practically to II not
| a. freely admitted as ought to be.
Coue.s work was In the nature OF q
rebellion. to some degree, against q
certain school Of French psychologists
which taught an elaborate system Of
use 81 twill power With such emil
nent men as Dubois, Payot ana
others, Coue took issue.
He held that the imagination, IN 2
fair contest with the will, oveHcomes
| 1t every time, and that Il one Will
only actually imagine himself wei, ne
tends to become 80 mot that ne neces-
sarily would become sol.
He never taught anything more.
The huge success of mental healing,
IN All its forms, In the United States,
testifies to the practical nature OF
Coue,s theories and work. Tor MS
theories underlie all of them, though
many win not admit IL, OF course
Americans are an imaginative peo-
ple. az witness the dream OF some
seemingly hard headed man Of bust
ness. which materializes into q gigan-
tic sky-scraper in New York City---a
dream come true. piece Of magma
tive effort carried out.
TO sit in your office, at the soap
works, and dream 81 dream OF your
bars flooding the country, on sale ln
every corner grocery store ~.
then to make 1t come strue-is tnat
not as wonderful as anything Aladdin
ever did?
Imagination does the trick.
There is nothing mystic about It.
except in so far as all the processes pi
the human mind, 'of nature hersei,
are wondrous beyond compare.
The honest follower Of Emile Coue
never .skidded,' himself into believing
that he was getting well whNn he
wasn't. He simply felt, when ne re-
peated his day by day formula,
that ne was clearing the tracks. to
some extent, at least, for the healing
power of nature.
When he told himself, as Coue ad-
yocated, that his pain was going.
going going he merely asserted
Something which the mind devout-
III wished would come true. and
which the imagination declared was
possible.
Surely, Il Is better to believe. or
even to try to believe. If you viii, that
you are getting better, that your pain
and illness is going, than It Is to
sit around moping, picturing dire
things for yourself.
On the pinnacle of cominon-sense,
then. we hold that Emile Coue was
more American than most Of US Amer
leans. He was practical TO the nth
degree, yet many did not know 1t.
In a land devoted to the practical
use of Imagination he was looked
upon as q dreamer Where he should
have been seized upon as an asset to
good business, he was laughed out OF
countenance az a sort Of fancy faker.
Emile Coue, however, has now got
the best of his critics, and win stand
forever on the work he did. since he
taught solely the healing power 0f ma.
ture, known and acknowledges OF
all men.