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remind them simply that I advise them to make an autosuggestion with the conviction that they will obtain the result they want.
Question.—How is one to explain to oneself and to explain to others that the repetition of the same words: "I am going to sleep… It is going away…" etc., has the power to produce the effect, and above all so powerful an effect that it is a certain one?
Answer.—The repetition of the same words forces one to think them, and when we think them they become true for us and transform themselves into reality.
Question.—How is one to keep inwardly the mastery of oneself?
Answer.—To be master of oneself it is enough to think that one is so, and in order to think it, one should often repeat it without making any effort.
Question.—And outwardly, how is one to keep one's liberty?
Answer.—Self mastery applies just as much physically as mentally.
Question (Affirmation).—It is impossible to escape trouble or sadness, if we do not do as we should, it would not be just, and autosuggestion, cannot… and ought not to prevent just suffering.
M. Coué (very seriously and affirmatively).—Certainly and assuredly it ought not to be so, but it is so often… at any rate for a time.
Question.—Why did that patient who has been entirely cured, continually have those terrible attacks?
Answer.—He expected his attacks, he feared them… and so he provoked them; if this gentleman gets well into his mind the idea that he will have no more attacks, he will not have any; if he thinks that he will have them, he will indeed do so.
Question.—In what does your method differ from others.
Answer.—The difference in my method is: that it is
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