Émile Coué On Raising Children
You, Psychology, The Will Mahdi The Magician You, Psychology, The Will Mahdi The Magician

Émile Coué On Raising Children

Teach them above all that every one must set out in life with a very definite idea that he will succeed, and that, under the influence of this idea he will inevitably succeed. Not indeed, that he should quietly remain expecting events to happen, but because, impelled by this idea, he will do what is necessary to make it come true.

Read More
How Coué Cured People
The Will, You, Psychology Mahdi The Magician The Will, You, Psychology Mahdi The Magician

How Coué Cured People

Suppose our brain is a plank in which are driven nails which represent the ideas, habits, and instincts, which determine our actions. If we find that there exists in a subject a bad idea, a bad habit, a bad instinct,--as it were, a bad nail, we take another which is the good idea, habit, or instinct, place it on top of the bad one and give a tap with a hammer--in other words we make a suggestion.

Read More
Coué Discovers The Placebo Effect
You, The Will, Psychology Mahdi The Magician You, The Will, Psychology Mahdi The Magician

Coué Discovers The Placebo Effect

If a doctor who by his title alone has a suggestive influence on his patient, tells him that he can do nothing for him, and that his illness is incurable, he provokes in the mind of the latter an autosuggestion which may have the most disastrous consequences; if however he tells him that his illness is a serious one, it is true, but that with care, time, and patience, he can be cured, he sometimes and even often obtains results which will surprise him.

Read More
Overcoming The Monster
You, Blog Mahdi The Magician You, Blog Mahdi The Magician

Overcoming The Monster

In the autumn of 1962, nearly 5000 years after the story of Gilgamesh was placed in the library at Niniveh, a period encompassing almost the whole of recorded human history, a fashionable crowd converged on Leicester Square in London for the premiere of a new film.

Read More
Why We Tell Stories
You, Blog Mahdi The Magician You, Blog Mahdi The Magician

Why We Tell Stories

At any given moment, all over the world, hundreds of millions of people will be engaged in what is one of the most familiar of all forms of human activity. In one way or another they will have their attention focused on one of those strange sequences of mental images which we call a story.

Read More