SELF MASTERY THROUGH CONSCIOUS
AUTOSUGGESTION
by
Emile Coué
THE CONSCIOUS SELF AND THE UNCONSCIOUS SELF.................................... 2
WILL AND IMAGINATION .......................................................................................... 3
SUGGESTION AND AUTOSUGGESTION ................................................................. 5
THE USE OF AUTOSUGGESTION.............................................................................. 6
HOW TO TEACH PATIENTS TO MAKE AUTOSUGGESTIONS .......................... 9
METHOD OF PROCEDURE IN CURATIVE SUGGESTION ................................ 11
THE SUPERIORITY OF THIS METHOD ................................................................. 14
HOW SUGGESTION WORKS..................................................................................... 15
THE USE OF SUGGESTION FOR THE CURE OF MORAL AILMENTS AND
TAINTS EITHER CONGENITAL OR ACQUIRED ................................................. 16
A FEW TYPICAL CURES ............................................................................................ 18
CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................... 21
1
Suggestion, or rather Autosuggestion, is quite a new subject, and yet at the same time it is
as old as the world.
It is new in the sense that until now it has been wrongly studied and in consequence
wrongly understood; it is old because it dates from the appearance of man on the earth. In
fact autosuggestion is an instrument that we possess at birth, and in this instrument, or
rather in this force, resides a marvelous and incalculable power, which according to
circumstances produces the best or the worst results. Knowledge of this force is useful to
each one of us, but it is peculiarly indispensable to doctors, magistrates, lawyers, and to
those engaged in the work of education.
By knowing how to practice it consciously it is possible in the first place to avoid
provoking in ot