a forest, which, overshadowed by their
neighbours, are stunted for lack of air and sunshine. By means of
autosuggestion we can supply them with the power needed for growth and
bring them to fruition in our conscious lives. However old, however
infirm, however selfish, weak or vicious we may be, autosuggestion will
do something for us. It gives us a new means of culture and discipline
by which the "accents immature," the "purposes unsure" can be nursed
into strength, and the evil impulses attacked at the root. It is
essentially an individual practice, an individual attitude of mind.
Only a narrow view would split it up into categories, debating its
application to this thing or to that. It touches our being in its
wholeness. Below the fussy perturbed little ego, with its local
habitation, its name, its habits and views and oddities is an ocean of
power, as serene as the depths below the troubled surface of the sea.
Whatever is of you comes eventually thence, however perverted by the
prism of self-consciousness. Autosuggestion is a channel by which the
tranquil powers of this ultimate being are raised to the level of our
life here and now.

What prospects does autosuggestion open to us in the future?

It teaches us that the burdens of life are, at least in large measure,
of our own creating. We reproduce in ourselves and in our
circumstances the thoughts of our minds. It goes further. It offers
us a means by which we can change these thoughts when they are evil and
foster them when they are good, so producing a corresponding betterment
in our individual life. But the process does not end with the
individual. The thoughts of society are realised in social conditions,
the thoughts of humanity in world conditions. What would be the
attitude towards our social and international problems of a generation
nurtured from infancy in the knowledge and practice of autosuggestion?
If fear and disease were banned from the individual life, could they
persist in the life of the nation? If each person found happiness in
his own heart would the illusory greed for possession survive? The
acceptance of autosuggestion entails a change of attitude, a
revaluation of life. If we stand with our faces westward we see
nothing but clouds and darkness, yet by a simple turn of the head we
bring the wide panorama of the sunrise into view.

That Coue's discoveries may profoundly affect our educational methods
is beyond question. Hith