vern
Link, who, though disclaiming responsibility for some of the views
expressed here, has made many extremely valuable suggestions.

C. H. B.

MALVERN LINK,
21 _February_, 1922.

FOREWORD

The materials for this little book were collected by Mr. Brooks during
a visit he paid me in the summer of 1921. He was, I think, the first
Englishman to come to Nancy with the express purpose of studying my
method of conscious autosuggestion. In the course of daily visits
extending over some weeks, by attending my consultations, and by
private conversations with myself, he obtained a full mastery of the
method, and we threshed out a good deal of the theory on which it rests.

The results of this study are contained in the following pages. Mr.
Brooks has skilfully seized on the essentials and put them forward in a
manner that seems to me both simple and clear. The instructions given
are amply sufficient to enable anyone to practise autosuggestion for
him or herself, without seeking the help of any other person.

It is a method which everyone 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 the body.

E. COUE.

NANCY.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

FOREWORD

I

COUE'S NANCY PRACTICE

CHAPTER

I THE CLINIC OF EMILE COUE
II A FEW OF COUE'S CURES
III THE CHILDREN'S CLINIC

II

THE NATURE OF AUTOSUGGESTION

IV THOUGHT IS A FORCE
V THOUGHT AND THE WILL

III

THE PRACTICE OF AUTOSUGGESTION

VI GENERAL RULES
VII THE GENERAL FORMULA
VIII PARTICULAR SUGGESTIONS
IX HOW TO DEAL WITH PAIN
X AUTOSUGGESTION AND THE CHILD
XI CONCLUSION

I

COUE'S NANCY PRACTICE

CHAPTER I

THE CLINIC OF EMILE COUE

The clinic of Emile Coue, where Induced Autosuggestion is applied to
the treatment of disease, is situated in a pleasant garden attached to
his house at the quiet end of the rue Jeanne d'Arc in Nancy. It was
here that I visited him in the early summer of 1921, and had the
pleasure for the first time of witnessing one of his consultations.

We entered the garden from his house a little before nine o'clock. In
one corner was a brick building of two stories, with its windows thrown
wide to let in the air and sunshine--this was the clinic; a few yards
away was a smaller one-s