Today , thousands of people know about positive thinking, auto-suggestion and affirmations, use hundreds, and dozens get results. Why does this happen if information about this is available both in books and on the Internet? Most likely, this is due to the inability to use it or lack of patience.
Psychologists define the problem of a modern person as a dependence on the presence of a teacher, who must guide and observe him until he succeeds in his goal. Many people shift responsibility for their life in general or for career growth, health and personal relationships to doctors, psychoanalysts or bosses, although modern psychological techniques allow you to achieve everything yourself, for free and without much effort. The only requirement that must be fulfilled is the regularity of actions when working on changing thinking.
Great pharmacist
Emil Que was not the first to use self-hypnosis to achieve his goals, but he did not immediately come to the conclusion that by influencing the consciousness and the unconscious, one can fundamentally change the subjective reality.
Emil really wanted to become a doctor, but, being the son of poor parents, he could only enter the university as a pharmacist. Having received a diploma in 1876, he opened his own pharmacy in Paris and began to gradually grow into a clientele.
To attract visitors and fight with competitors, Emil Cue began to assure them with each sale of drugs that it was his pills and tinctures that would help them. Soon, the young pharmacist began to notice the relationship between his desire and the health status of his clients. Having discovered that his confidence in the effectiveness of the preparations made by him was passed on to people, and their recovery was much faster, he began to consciously influence their consciousness.
A case is known that Emil Qué later cited as an example in his book. He gave the client a bottle of distilled water, assuring her that this drug is the most effective of all the existing ones for her illness. What was his surprise when she came a few days later and thanked for such an effective remedy that brought her recovery so quickly!
After this incident, the pharmacist decided to study psychology, especially everything related to matters of imagination, the unconscious and the subconscious. Soon, he closes his pharmacy practice and moves to live in Nancy, where he establishes a psychotherapy clinic. Thanks to this relocation, the Quée method of conscious self-hypnosis was subsequently famous throughout the world. Today, few people know this French psychologist, although his developments formed the basis of many methods of treating diseases with the help of positive thinking.
Clinic of the former pharmacist
At the beginning of the 20th century, many rich and not so people began to turn to the clinic founded by Emil Cue. Conscious auto-suggestion is a method that a former pharmacist developed and taught to his patient. And despite the fact that most doctors of that time sharply criticized his method and called quackery, even they could not help but admit that the self-taught doctor’s clients recovered one after another.
Coue called his clinic a school of self-control based on positive psychotherapy. While still a pharmacist, he noticed that clients who were skeptical and did not believe that drugs could help them did continue to hurt.
The same patients who believed in his words that tomorrow they would certainly feel better, really felt better. So the French psychologist came to the conclusion that the basis of a person’s recovery is his imagination, backed up by faith in the result.
What did Qué offer his patients?
- Firstly , he and them explored their thoughts in that sphere of life that they wanted to change. As a rule, he was able to point out to the client the relationship of his negative thinking with the reality in which he lived.
- Secondly , Cue helped patients compose new attitudes that rebuilt their consciousness. The individual psychotherapy that he conducted with them formed the basis for future behavioral therapy, in which new lines of behavior were built in the human mind. For example, aggression was gradually translated into good nature, excitement was replaced by calmness, and greed by generosity.
- Thirdly , Emil Cue was the first to propose a method of controlling thoughts, thanks to which many people were able to qualitatively change their lives.
Thus, at the dawn of the development of psychotherapy, this great man developed techniques based on work with the subconscious and unconscious.
Faith as a healing power
Que paid much attention to such a poorly studied, but the most powerful phenomenon of the human psyche, as faith. With its help, miracles of healing can be read in biblical parables, and you could also see them in real life.
There are many examples in the history of mankind when people gained health by touching a religious relic or visiting holy places. By the definition of scientists, faith is an indisputable truth, or dogma, perceived by man as a fact that does not require proof. It is also a very strong psychological and emotional state, in which a person develops a picture of the world in his mind, which is based on his thoughts and ideas about the surrounding reality.
One vivid example of faith, which was documented by witnesses, was the case of the shipwrecked. Several people ended up in a boat in the middle of the ocean without water or food. If the latter they could still do without for a while, then death from dehydration would overtake them in a couple of days.
Since, besides God, they had no one to trust in, they surrendered to the will of the waves, and they knelt along the sides of the boat and began to pray to the Creator so that the water around her from the sea turned into fresh water. The desire to live and faith were so great that indeed after some time not only the structure of water changed, but even its color.
When they finally found them in a week, the rescuers were surprised to find everyone alive and healthy. The fluid surrounding the boat was taken for examination, and it turned out that it was pure spring water.
Coue's psychological methods were based on the same principle. People with the help of self-hypnosis recorded in the subconscious mind new information, which subsequently became for them an indisputable truth and a picture of their world. Moreover, it does not matter at all whether she was truthful at the beginning of work or not.
Emile Cue's Method
The former pharmacist suggested to the patients of his clinic 3 times a day to carry out the following procedures:
- fully relax the body and consciousness, taking for this a comfortable sitting or lying position;
- 20 times pronounce the key phrase in a calm and monotonous voice.
In these simple actions are the famous psychological techniques of the Cue, which returned to many people not only health, but also the meaning of life.
In fact, inside them lies a deep understanding by the author of how our subconscious mind works. It perceives all the information received as an indisputable truth. This consciousness grumbles that everything that a person says does not correspond to reality, and for the subconscious mind a thought expressed even as a joke is true. That is why many people cannot achieve results - they are “driven” to skepticism of consciousness and simply cease to act, because they do not understand the processes that occur in their brain.
When a person calmly and clearly pronounces aloud the necessary setting, he thereby does not give consciousness the right to vote, directing what was said directly to the destination. If the conditions do not allow you to speak out loud, then you can do it silently, but moving your lips. This helps a person stay in a state of awareness.
The best time to carry out this procedure is immediately after waking up or before bedtime, when all the information goes directly into the subconscious.
Nuances of the Coue Method
Some people wonder why new settings need to be pronounced calmly and as if even detached, rather than connecting positive emotions to this process. In fact, the latter play a large role in the visualization technique, which works on a conscious level. It is inexpedient to create excess tension and waste energy when working with the subconscious, as it “will not accept it”.
The psychological methods of Que at the beginning of the 20th century were revolutionary, but after his death in 1926 and due to numerous tragic events in the following years, his work was either forgotten, criticized, or recognized as unscientific. They were remembered much later, when psychiatry began to develop techniques for self-hypnosis. It was then that Emil Cue was “rediscovered”. The author’s books began to be published again and translated into many languages, and they became available to the general public.
"I" conscious and unconscious
Individual psychotherapy, which was carried out by Cue with his patients, consisted of several stages:
- First, he taught people to fully focus on the action being performed, whether it is muscle relaxation or the tension of some of them. He considered it important that his clients could control their body.
- Secondly, Que explained to them the difference between the "I" that they are accustomed to perceive as their personality, and the one that actually controls their life.
- Thirdly, the doctor made simple phrases with patients regarding the sphere of life in which they wanted to make changes, and worked with them, teaching the technique of conscious self-hypnosis.
One of the most significant tasks that Qué set for himself was a psychological consultation dedicated to the separation of the conscious and unconscious "I". For many people, the very existence of the second was shocking.
The author of the methodology himself explained that the unconscious is an imagination that collects all the information from the outside world, even the most insignificant, and then on its basis makes up its own opinion about it. This also includes data on the mental processes of the person himself. For example, if he was pricked in his side, and he decided that it was a sick liver, the unconscious processes this information, and the more often a person thinks about an imaginary disease, the faster it will form.
Fortunately, this process is reversible. As you can instill any disease in yourself, it is just as easy to get rid of it, giving the unconscious new data about the state of health.
Auto-suggestion
So that patients could feel the influence of the secret “I” on their actions and life in general, as well as learn not to blindly obey him, but to manage him, most of the time in the learning process, Emil Cue devoted this very thing. Self-hypnosis is a procedure that requires full focus on action, but applied once in any area of life, it can be used in any situation.
The fastest and most effective demonstration of the impact on the unconscious takes place at the level of the body. Patients who see how it reacts to commands aimed at certain parts of the body begin to feel it inside themselves and work with it directly.
For example, Cue asked a person to give the body an installation as if his legs were “screwed” to the floor, and wherever he leaned, they would remain motionless. When he began to pronounce this setting in a calm and monotonous voice, and then leaned forward or backward, his feet really remained in place.
The next step was to instill the necessary information 2-3 times a day to the unconscious and simply observe the changes in the body or life.
Positive thinking
Coue perceived the translation of thoughts from minus to plus as an additional source for achieving the goal. He carried out positive psychotherapy with each patient; he considered the quality of thinking to be such an important part of the process. At the dawn of the 20th century, most doctors perceived this as another sign of quackery, as they believed that a good mood could not be cured.
Que also understood this, but he was sure that positive thoughts contributed to the acceleration of all qualitative changes in the field in which the work was carried out.
Meditation relaxation
Another important condition for obtaining a result is a relaxed state. The lack of tension in the body creates an optimal environment for the "delivery" of new information directly to the unconscious. In the world there are many techniques dedicated to this process, but one of the best is meditation. In this case, successive relaxation of each part of the body occurs with the help of mental attitudes and relaxing music, which, in turn, affects the brain waves, calming them.
Kue's work in modern psychotherapy
Today, Coue’s psychological methods are at the core of most techniques for working with the subconscious mind and positive thinking. For example, they were actively used in their auto-training by psychiatrist Vladimir Levy. In his works “The Art of Being Myself” and “The Taming of Fear”, he applied the Cue behavioral therapy , expanding and adapting it to the thinking of modern man.
Any psychological consultation with a specialist today is based on working with the unconscious "I" of a person who is responsible for all his actions and daily habits. Qué did the same in his time.