Wake Up And Live Dorothea Brande by Unknown

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Chapter 7 - Warnings and Qualifications

Before going further, it may be well to issue a few statements as to what this system does not include.

The advice is not to hypnotize yourself into success. This is important to understand, for many people, and with some reason, dread and fear anything that is based on hypnotism, even in the form of selfsuggestion. The work of the Nancy school, with which Coue made us all familiar, is full of excellent hints for self-management, and Charles Baudouin's book, Suggestion and Autosuggestion, can be read to great advantage by many who do not follow him with full agreement; and there are several small handbooks on Coue's system which are worth studying. But it is not for nothing that the fad which was once so widespread has faded away. In spite of all warnings, too many of those who attempted self cure ended by reinforcing the troubles they set out to banish. No, although a sentence from a chapter on hypnotism was helpful in discovering our formula, the connection of this procedure with hypnotism ends there. You are advised to use, first, a minimum of will—just enough to decide to try a new process. Then, as in the Nancy school, the imagination takes over until your mind is clear, cool, and "pleasant" in tone; not confused, diverted, troubled or foggy.

The difference lies just here: in intensive autosuggestion there is a serious danger that the mind will get as out of touch with reality in the other direction as it was in its day dreaming or depression; that it will become, as the French say, exaltee, a word for which we have no exact and satisfactory equivalent. But "extravagantly elated" is about what exaltee implies, a state of mental intoxication as dangerous as it is temporarily delightful. You cannot live on those peaks; and if you could, you would, again, find yourself unable to act effectively in the world of reality. Without such action you are as far from success, as deep in self delusion, as ever.

Confident, steady, freely flowing action is what we need. Then safe delight begins. The mind, cleared of its doubts, begins to expand and enjoy its own activity; the rewards of satisfactory action begin to show themselves. An elation which has nothing to do with delusion or hypnotism naturally follows, and has no later reaction to nullify it.

Second, the advice is not to make "affirmations" such as "I cannot fail," "I am successful in all I do," and so on. This procedure, which is helpful with many, has too much in common with auto-hypnotism for those who do not thoroughly understand the principle on which they are working as they follow it. There is much to admire in the philosophy behind those religions which use "affirmations"; that there is an ultimate Unity behind the duality or diversity of the world seems an inescapable conclusion. Nevertheless, we are "conditioned" (as both Behaviorists and philosophers say) by the flesh, by personality, by the concrete

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