world began. "Sleep, baby, sleep.
Angels are watching o'er thee,"--what is this but a particular
suggestion? How does a wise mother proceed when her little one falls
and grazes its hand? She says something of this kind: "Let me kiss it
and then it will be well." She kisses it, and with her assurance that
the pain has gone the child runs happily back to its play. This is
only a charming variation of the method of the caress.

CHAPTER XI

CONCLUSION

Induced Autosuggestion is not a substitute for medical practice. It
will not make us live for ever, neither will it free us completely from
the common ills of life. What it may do in the future, when all its
implications have been realised, all its resources exploited, we cannot
say. There is no doubt that a generation brought up by its canons
would differ profoundly from the disease-ridden population of to-day.
But our immediate interest is with the present.

The adult of to-day carries in his Unconscious a memory clogged with a
mass of adverse suggestions which have been accumulating since
childhood. The first task of Induced Autosuggestion will be to clear
away this mass of mental lumber. Not until this has been accomplished
can the real man appear and the creative powers of autosuggestion begin
to manifest themselves.

By the use of this method each one of us should be able to look forward
to a life in which disease is a diminishing factor. But how great a
part it will play depends upon the conditions we start from and the
regularity and correctness of our practice. Should disease befall us
we possess within a potent means of expelling it, but this does not
invalidate the complementary method of destroying it from without.
Autosuggestion and the usual medical practice should go hand in hand,
each supplementing the other. If you are ill, call in your doctor as
before, but enlist the resources of Induced Autosuggestion to reinforce
and extend his treatment.

In this connection it must be insisted on that autosuggestion should be
utilised for every ailment, whatever its nature, and whether its
inroads be grave or slight. Every disease is either strengthened or
weakened by the action of the mind. We cannot take up an attitude of
neutrality. Either we must aid the disease to destroy us by allowing
our minds to dwell on it, or we must oppose it and destroy it by a
stream of healthful dynamic thought. Too frequently we spontaneously
adopt the form