Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School |
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able acceptivity action affective aphonia arouse Arthur Edward Waite attention Auguste Forel auto autohypnosis autosug become Carl Spitteler cause CHAPTER child concentration condition consciousness Coué Coué's countersuggestion cure desire discase dream EMILE COUÉ emotion example exercises experiments eyes fact favours fear feel formula habit hallucination hand happens heterosuggestion hypnotic idea imagination immobilization induced sleep induced suggestion instances James Braid Jean Jacques Rousseau law of reversed less matter memory ment mental method motor movement Nancy School neurasthenia object obsession operation organic ourselves outcropping pain pass passion patient persons phase phenomena practice profound hypnosis psychoanalysis psychological pupil realize reason reflective suggestion relaxation reversed effort rôle Rousseau Institute scious sensation sentiment sitting somnolence speak spontaneous autosuggestion spontaneous suggestion subconscious suffered sugges tion suggestive treatment teleology term theory thought trouble unconscious Victor Hugo voluntary waking wish word
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Page 101 - Never mind, this will do!" and he breaks the pane. The fragments fall to the floor. Now he can breathe; again and again he fills his chest with the fresh air; the throbbing at his temples passes, and he goes back to bed. "Saved !".... Next morning, one of the items in...
Page 139 - ... suggestion must be to neutralize these noxious suggestions, to struggle against suggestions that are already in operation. Yet now, when we concentrate voluntary attention upon the good idea which we are to substitute for the bad idea, when we devote all our energies to this substitution, what will happen?
Page 101 - An asthmatic, on a holiday journey, was awakened in his hotel by a violent paroxysm of the disease. Greatly distressed for breath, he got out of bed and hunted for the matches. He had a craving for fresh air, but could not find the window. "Confound these third-rate hotels, where one gropes vainly in the dark!
Page 95 - ... it uses. He thinks his fate alien, because the copula is hidden. But the soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts ; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Page 96 - I am poor ; I can never do what others do ; I shall never be rich : I have not the ability that others have; I am a failure: luck is against me'; you are laying up so much trouble for yourself. "No matter how hard you may work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors, and make success impossible.
Page 95 - To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach East by traveling West. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure.
Page 131 - I should like to, but I cannot," 1 he may wish as much as he pleases; but the harder he tries, the less he is able. This law of reversed effort is revealed in all its simplicity to everyone who is learning to ride a bicycle. When we are at length able to wobble painfully along, should we see a big stone lying in the middle of the road, we know that all our attempts to avoid it serve only to direct our steering wheel towards the obstacle, upon which it impinges with deadly precision. Thus we seem...
Page 142 - When the will and the imagination are at war, the imagination invariably gains the day. "In the conflict between the will and the imagination, the force of the imagination is in direct ratio to the square of the will.
Page 147 - The subconscious is a storehouse of the memories that have lapsed from the ordinary consciousness, of the wishes and sentiments that have been repressed, of the impressions of a distant past. But it is far from being inert, for it contains in addition the subsoil waters which are unceasingly at work; it contains the suggestions which will well up into the open after their hidden passage.
Page 327 - ... to the periphery. It has a wide knowledge of the effect of physical agents upon man, but we still have to learn the reaction of the human mind upon physical agents. The work of modern science is a great achievement, but it is incomplete. For its completion a certain change is necessary both in outlook and method." As the philosopher Spir has well put it, "We are masters of nature externally alone, inwardly we are nature's slaves.