Here is the complete Emile Coué formulation:

«Maintain a calm, soothing tone of voice as you ead the formulations.

When you are familiar with the text, you might want to ecord it so it can be

played back while you are in the alpha state.

Get comfortable, either sitting down or lying on your back, and close

your eyes. I don’t want you to try and fall asleep. I am telling you to close

your eyes so you can concentrate without being distracted by anything you

might see. Now tell yourself that everything I am going to say will be e-

corded by your brain, engraved in your mind. And that, without your know-

ing it, without any effort on your part, your organism and your entire being

will obey what your subconscious mind tells you to do.

The first thing I am going to tell you is that every day, three times a day,

morning, noon and evening, at mealtimes, you will feel hungry. You will ex-

perience the pleasant sensation of feeling slightly hungry and think, “Mm,

I’d love to have something to eat!”And you will eat, savoring every mouth-

ful, enjoying your food immensely, without eating too much. You’ll be care-

ful to chew your food well, transforming it into a soft paste in your mouth

before you swallow. This will help you digest well, so that you will feel abso-

lutely no discomfort in your stomach or intestines afterwards, no pain or

heartburn, no discomfort at all. Your body will digest and assimilate the food

you ingest perfectly, using all the nutrients it contains to renew your supply

of blood, muscles, energy -in short, to regenerate life.

Because you digest your food well, your intestines will function normally

and effectively. Every morning, shortly after you wake up, you will feel the. Appendix II Page 232

need to go to the bathroom. Your bowel movements will be normal and satis-

fying, and you won’t need the help of any kind of medication or artificial

stimulant.

Every night, from the moment you want to go to sleep to the moment

you wake up in the morning, you will be able to sleep deeply and calmly,

without having any bad dreams. When you wake up in the morning you will

feel fresh and fully rested, ready to enjoy the day.

If you sometimes feel sad or depressed, if you sometimes get bored or

worry too much, you can est assured that you won’t have those kinds of

feelings any more. Instead of feeling sad or depressed, instead of worrying,

you will feel happy, very happy, for no eason at all, in the same way that you

may have felt sad for no eason from time to time. From now on you’ll feel

happy and joyous inside. And even if you have eal cause to worry or feel

sad, you won’t fall into depression. You will do what has to be done, nour-

ished by the joy and happiness of being alive.

If you sometimes became impatient or angry in the past, you won’t any

more. From now on you will have infinite patience, you’ll always be able to

control your anger. You will no longer be bothered by the things that used to

irritate or upset you in the past.

If you sometimes find yourself thinking terrible things, things that are

unhealthy for you, fears, phobias, temptations, hateful thoughts, est assured

that these kinds of thoughts will arise less and less frequently in your mind.

And whenever they do, they will melt away, like clouds dissolving in a clear

sky, until they disappear completely. All your useless, harmful thoughts will

simply vanish, just like a dream when you awaken.

All your bodily organs are functioning well. Your heart is beating nor-

mally, blood is circulating freely through your body, nourishing all your cells.

Your lungs are functioning normally, as are your stomach, liver, gall bladder,

kidneys, and bladder. If one of your organs happens to be functioning abnor-

mally at the moment, est assured that the problem will get better day by day, . Appendix II Page 233

and in the very near future, disappear altogether, so that all your organs can

function normally.

And if any of your organs have developed lesions, the lesions will start

healing as of now. They will get better day by day, until very soon they will

have disappeared completely.

I also have this to say, and it is very important: if, in the past, you felt

there was something wrong with you, if there was something you didn’t like

about yourself, est assured that from now on whatever was bothering you

about yourself will gradually start to disappear, and will be eplaced by a

strong sense of self confidence, based on the strength you draw from that

immeasurable force that exists in each and every one of us. You should know

that this unshakable confidence in yourself is absolutely indispensable for all

human beings. Without self confidence you’ll never amount to anything, with

it you can do anything you want, within eason. Your self confidence will get

stronger day by day. It will provide you with the certitude that, not only are

you able to do things well, you are able to do whatever you want -and what-

ever it is your duty to do -extremely well, on condition, of course, that what

you want is within the bounds of reason.

So whenever you want to do something, or when you have some duty to

fulfil, always emember that the task will be easy for you. Wo ds like difficult,

impossible, can’t, too much, not good enough … and so on, will disappear from

your vocabulary, and be eplaced by words like I can, it’s so easy, I will … If

you think something is easy, then it becomes easy for you, although it might

seem difficult to others. Whatever you do will be done quickly and effec-

tively, without fatigue, almost without effort. But if you consider something

difficult or impossible, then it will become difficult or impossible for you,

just because of the way you think.

(Coué suggests that specific formulations pertaining to individual cases

be introduced at this point. ). Appendix II Page 234

Rest assured that in all ways, both physically and mentally, you will en-

joy excellent health. You will start feeling much healthier than you’ve ever

felt before.

Now I’m going to count to three, and when I say ‘three’you’ll open your

eyes and emerge from the state you’re in, slowly, gradually. As you esurface

you won’t feel at all tired. On the contrary, you’ll feel strong, vigorous, alert,

efreshed, bursting with energy. You’ll also feel happy and joyous, both in

yourself and in all your relations with others. One … two … three. . .

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(Emile COUÉ, la Maîtrise par l’autosuggestion consciente)