not believe his eyes. This woman who never got
up till midday, who never left the fire-side, whom the doctors had
given up, now goes out at 10 a.m. even in the greatest cold. Other
friends are anxiously waiting to read your pamphlet.

L. C. (Paris).
17 _December_, 1921.

"I am very much interested in your method, and since your lecture I
have, every night and morning, repeated your little phrase. I used to
have to take a pill every night, but now my constipation is cured and
the pills are no longer necessary. My wife is also much better in
every way. We've both got the bit of string with twenty knots."

H. (a London doctor).
7 _January_, 1922.

"Your method is doing me more good every day. I don't know how to
thank you for the happiness I now experience. I shall never give up
repeating the little phrase."

E. B. Guievain (Belgium).
23 _November_, 1921.

"I have followed your principles for several months and freed myself
from a terrible state of neurasthenia which was the despair of my three
doctors."

G. (Angouleme).
23 _January_, 1922.

"My friend Miss C. completely cured herself of a rheumatic shoulder and
knee in a very short time, and then proceeded to turn her attention to
her eyesight.

She had worn spectacles for 30 years and her left eye was much more
short-sighted than her right. When she began she could only read
(without her glasses and with her left eye) when the book was almost
touching her face. In six weeks she had extended the limit of vision
so that she saw as far with the left as formerly with the right.
Meanwhile the right had improved equally. She measured the distances
every week, and when she was here a few days ago she told me she had in
three days gained 4 centimetres with her left and 6 centimetres with
her right eye. She had done this on her own."

G. (London).
5 _January_, 1922.

[1] Since this time (July, 1921), the clinic has been in some respects
reorganized and Mlle. Kauffmant is now pursuing her work independently.

II

THE NATURE OF AUTOSUGGESTION

CHAPTER IV

THOUGHT IS A FORCE

Autosuggestion is not a pseudo-religion like Christian Science or "New
Thought." It is a scientific method based on the discoveries of
psychology. The traditional psychology was regarded by the layman, not
without some cause, as a dull and seemingly useless classification of
our conscious faculties. But within the past twenty-five