taken down literally by Mme. Emile LEON, his disciple.
Do not spend your time in thinking of illness you might have, for if you have no real ones you will create artificial ones.
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When you make conscious autosuggestions, do it naturally, simply, with conviction, and above all without any effort. If unconscious and bad autosuggestions are so often realized, it is because they are made without effort.
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Be sure that you will obtain what you want, and you will obtain it, so long as it is within reason.
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To become master of oneself it is enough to think that one is becoming so… Your hands tremble, your steps falter, tell yourself that all that is going to cease, and little by little it will disappear. It is not in me but in yourself that you must have confidence, for it is in yourself alone that dwells the force which can cure you. My part simply consists in teaching you to make use of that force.
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Never discuss things you know nothing about, or you will only make yourself ridiculous.
Things which seem miraculous to you have a perfectly natural cause; if they seem extraordinary it is only be-
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