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Show 1 One of Many Amazing Cures Credited to 1 the Auto-Suggestion Methods of Doctor I I QDY OUGHT I Dr. Emile Coue, the French exponent expo-nent of "self-mastery through conscious auto-suggestion" A YEAR ago now Countess Beatty, the beautiful American wife of Earl Beatty, the First Lord of the English Admiralty, found to her dismay that her health was steadily failing. fail-ing. For several months she had been ailing, and at last she was obliged to abandon the prominent plaeo she has so long held in fashionable English society. Her family and friends were greatly distressed over her condition. They felt eure It presaged her early death or long years of chronic invalidism, and that in either case society would know her charm no more. Needless to say that Countess Beatty had received, from the very beginning of her illness, the best of medical attention. at-tention. Yet no two of the eminent specialists whom she and her devoted husband called to her aid were able to agree on the nature of the malady that had laid an apparently fatal hold on her, and none of the multifarious remedies they prescribed was of the slightest use in staying its progress. Just when she seemed a woman doomed to the grave she became interested inter-ested in the marvelous cures she heard credited to the methods of Dr. Couc the Frenchman who says "nobody ought to be ill" and who declares most diseases of body or mind can be cured or greatly alleviated by what he calls "self-mastery through conscious auto-suggestion." Against the advice of her husband and all her numerous staff of physicians she summoned what little remained of her strength and made tho journey to the quaint city of Nancy in France where Dr. Coue lives. She confided to him all her troubles and besought him to teach her how to cure herself by auto-suggestion. Within a few weeks after seeking Dr. Coue's advice and beginning to repeat his magic formula, "Day by day, in every way, Fm getting better and better," bet-ter," she was back in England a well woman I So Cnjiftely had auto-suggestion put to rout her ills that with the opening open-ing of the last London social season she was able to resume her old-time place of prominence as one of the most tireless tire-less of guests and hostesses. And since her trip to Nancy there has not been the slightest indication of any recurrence of the ills that left her a pale, weak woman, with hardly the strength to draw her breath. Countess Beatty is only one of many distinguished men and women, as well a? thousands unknown to fame, who are enthusiastic over the cures they believe Dr. Coue's methods enabled them to effect in themselves. Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, Great Britain's Foreign Minister, found his health undermined even more seriously than Countess Beatty's. He himself admitted ad-mitted that his complete withdrawal from the government and all other activities ac-tivities was only a matter of days. Then some one induced him to make the trip to Nancy and acquaint himself at fast hand with Dr. Coue's methods of self-help. After a stay of ton days in France he confounded hi3 political enemies and delighted hi.sfriends by returning re-turning to his desk in the Foreign Office a well man again, full of his old-time vigor. Just what the secret is which Dr. Coue imparts to the believers in his theories and which seems to enable so many of them to cure themselves is all explained -in a book by C. Harry Brooks, recently pjr. , $i y -n 2 ; .... 1 $E ; " : r ' I 5 " ,. .,,ii.,....r.,r. ,i ,. - - - ---n --v,ii-. ttrf - i. Some of Dr. Coue's enthusiastic disciple3 think his methods offer the nearest approach man has yet made to the mythical "Fountain of Youth" shown in this painting by Henry Caro-Delvaille published in this country by Dodd, .Mead & Co. It is entitled "The Practice Prac-tice of Auto-Suggestion by the Method of Emile Coue." Mr. Brocks is an Englishman, one of the first from his country to become interested in-terested in the work of Dr. Coue and to go to Nancy to observe it at first hand. He became a warm friend of the doctor's and won the lattcr's admiration for the way he grasped the essentials of auto-suggestion and the clearness with which he explains them in his book. "The instructions Mr. Brooks gives," says Dr. Couc, "are amply sufficient to enable any one to practice auto-suggestion for himself or herself, without pecking the help of any other person. It is a method which every one should follow the sick to obtain healing, the healthy to prevent the coming of disease in the future. By its practice we can insure for ourselves, all our lives long, an excellent state of health, both of the mind and body." The keynote to Dr. Coue's system of treating mental and physical ills is found in the idea that every individual possesses two minds one known as tho conscious and the other as the unconscious uncon-scious or subconscious mind. The unconscious mind, according to Dr. Coue, is literally the humble and obedient servant of the conscious mind It is tho boss actively in charge of the body's internal economy. Its activities are what keep our vital organs functioning function-ing as they should and the spark of life burning. It sees to it that the processes of digestion go on, that the food we eat is properly assimilated, and that th-body's th-body's waste matter is duly eliminated. When the thought arises in the conscious con-scious mind that extra efforts toward tho repair of Borne deficiency, either mental or physical, aro required, wc should, according to Dr. Coue, give audible expression to this thought in the form of a direct suggestion to the unconscious mind. Then the unconscious uncon-scious mind, faithful and efficient servant serv-ant that it is, will instantly get on tho job and carry out the instructions of its conscious master. Dr. Coue lays the greatest insistence on the frequent audible expression of the suggestion you wish to be followed out by your unconscious mind. It may, he thinks, very well be phrased like this: "Day by day, in every way, I'm getting get-ting better and bptter." Although the doctor attaches no religious re-ligious significance to his methods and the numerous surprising cures he claims for them, he permits his pupils to give the formula a religious turn if they so desire by phrasing it like this: "Day by day, in every way, by the help of God, I'm getting better and better." Dr. Coue does not insist on the exact ex-act words given here any similar version ver-sion of the same idea will have an equally equal-ly beneficial effect if persisted in with the proper degree of faith. Birj, as Mr. Brooks points out, the formula as phrased by the doctor is "easy to say, and it possesses a rudimentary rhythm, which exerts a lulling effect on the mind and so aids in calling up the unconscious un-conscious " How can the repetition of these words make you mentally and physically better? bet-ter? By begetting confidence in the conscious mind, Dr. Coue maintains, so . that what it repeats will be accepted at its face value by your unconscious mind. "Take a piece of string," says Mr. Brooks, "and tie in it twenty knot". By this means you can count with a minimum mini-mum of expenditure of attention, as a devout Catholic counts his prayers on a rosary. The number twenty has no intrinsic virtue; it is merely adopted as a suitable round number. "On getting into bed close your eyes, relax your muscles and take up a comfortable com-fortable posture. These are no more than the ordinary preliminaries of slumber. slum-ber. Now repeat twenty times, counting by means of the knots, the general s formula already given. "The words should be uttered aloud; that is, loud enough t- f be audible to i your own ears In this way tl ' idea is reini- ; by the move- . s2 ments of lips and tongue and by the auditory im- V pre?:-ions c o n - V'- -I . ' veyed through the ear. Say it v?.', ' simply, without effort, like a child absently murmuring a nursery rhyme. i.-Thus i.-Thus you avoid an appeal to tho critical faculties of the conscious which would lessen the outcronmnp-. "When you have got used to this exr ercise and can say it quite 'unselfconsciously,' 'unselfcon-sciously,' begin to let your voice riso or fall it does not matter which on the phrase 'in every way.' This is perhaps per-haps the most important part of the formula, and is thus given a gentlo emphasis. But at first do not attempt this accentuation; it will only needlessly needless-ly complicate and, by requiring more conscious attention, may introduce effort. ef-fort. "Do not try to think of what you are saying. On the contrary, let the mind wander whither it will; if it rests on the formula, all the better, if it strays elsewhere do not recall it. As long as your repetition does not come to a full stop, your mind wandering will be less disturbing than would be the effort to recall your thoughts. I S v" ... r 3 ; . -A Countess Bsalty, whose Wc wu of and who believes she cured W" auto-suggestioa . : - I r to lift his a. in J' above the level of his .' ' , . , jk" shoulder for ten years. Dr. Coue and some of the invalids and cr;pples who ate flocking to ms home in Nancy, France, to learn how to make themselves well "On waking in the morning, before you rise, repeat the formula m exactly the same manner. Its regular repetition is the foundation stone of the Nancy method and should never be neglected. Say it with faith. When you have said it your conscious part of the process is completed. Leave the Unconscious to do its work undisturbed." A considerable portion of Mr. Brooks' interesting volume is devoted to a description de-scription of things he saw with his own eyes in the garden behind Dr. Coue's home in Nancy where large numbers of it. louo maue nun close his eyes and repeat over and over again: "It is passing; it is passing." After half a minute of this the doctor said: "Now think well that you can lift your arm." "I can," said the man with conviction. convic-tion. And sure enough, he lifted it high above his head and held it there triumphantly tri-umphantly for all the other patients to see. "My friend," observed Dr. Couc quietly, quiet-ly, "you are cured. Prove it by hitting me on the shoulder." Thereupon the blows began to fall in regular sequence and with sledge hammer forco until the doctor winced and cried: "Enough! Now you can go back to your anvil." Another frail, middle-aged man who, on his first visit to the clinic was unable to stagger ur. I Mi 4 - m m m 1 of psychology." Dr. Coue, who is n0K vears old, 'r-W tist. Growing disss'-TM ,ned through bTncM in qui re 3d, and auto-smWR It 13 an intere'Wf jm fact that Dr. Couc ! H '" ruri 73m -The d( :tor arid .. . and I r.er ward an hour 'ad M ail rsf tent of fifteen or |