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Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion/How to Practice Conscious Autosuggestion

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Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
by Emile Coué, translated by unknown translator
How to Practice Conscious Autosuggestion
4709123Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion — How to Practice Conscious Autosuggestionunknown translatorÉmile Coué de La Châtaigneraie
HOW TO PRACTICE CONSCIOUS AUTOSUGGESTION

Every morning before getting up and every evening as soon as you are in bed, shut your eyes, and repeat twenty times in succession, moving your lips (this is indispensable), and counting mechanically on a long string with twenty knots, the following phrase: "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better". Do not think of anything particular, as the words "in every way" apply to everything.

Make this autosuggestion with confidence, with faith, with the certainty of obtaining what you want. The greater the conviction, the greater and the more rapid will be the results obtained.

Further, every time in the course of the day or night that you feel any distress physical or mental, immediately affirm to yourself that you will not consciously contribute to it, and that you are going to make it disappear; then isolate yourself as much as possible, shut your eyes, and passing your hand over your forehead, if it is something mental, or over the part which is painful, if it is something physical, repeat extremely quickly, moving your lips, the words: "It is going, it is going—", etc., etc., as long as it may be necessary. With a little practice the physical or mental distress will have vanished in 20 to 25 seconds. Begin again whenever it is necessary. Avoid carefully any effort in practising autosuggestion.

Emile Coué