A Survey of the "Séances" at M. Coué's
What I told you is quite true; it was enough to think that you had no more pain for the pain to disappear; do not think then that it may come back or it will come back…
(A woman, sotto voice, "What patience he has! What a wonderfully painstaking man!")
All that we think becomes true for us. We must not then allow ourselves to think wrongly.
Think "my trouble is going away," just as you think you cannot open your hands.
The more you say: "I will not," the more surely the contrary comes about. You must say: "It's going away," and think it. Close your hand and think properly: "Now I cannot open it." Try! (she cannot), you see that your will is not much good to you.
Observation.—This is the essential point of the method. In order to make autosuggestions, you must eliminate the will completely and only address yourself to the imagination, so as to avoid a conflict between them in which the will would be vanquished.
To become stronger as one becomes older seems paradoxical, but it is true.
For diabetes: "Continue to use therapeutic treatments; I am quite willing to make suggestions to you, but I cannot promise to cure you.
Observation.—I have seen diabetes completely cured several times, and what is still more extraordinary, the albumen diminish and even disappear from the urine of certain patients.
This obsession must be a real nightmare. The people you used to detest are becoming your friends, you like them and they like you.
Ah, but to will and to desire is not the same thing.
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