Émile Coué

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Émile Coué

Émile Coué (born February 26, 1857 in Troyes , † July 2, 1926 in Nancy ) was a French pharmacist and author as well as the founder of modern, conscious autosuggestion .

Life

Coué came from a humble background. Nevertheless, he was able to do an apprenticeship as a pharmacist and finally took over the pharmacy in 1882. On August 30, 1884, he married Lucie Lemoine, the daughter of the plant breeder Victor Lemoine from Nancy. In 1885 he began to study psychology . Coué studied the work on hypnosis by Ambroise Liébault and Hippolyte Bernheim ( School of Nancy or Nancyer School of Hypnosis ). As a pharmacist, he got the impression that a positive comment when customers picked up their medicine increased the effect. After further study, he began to put his views to practical use in suggestion .

"By uncovering internal processes, he succeeded in formulating laws that make autosuggestion easy to teach and thus enable the tremendous dissemination of the beneficial teaching."

Through his work, Coué split the Nancy School and became the founder of the New Nancy School . From 1912 until the 1920s, Coué traveled through major European cities and the USA and filled the halls with lectures on his method. It was important to him to strengthen the healing powers of people and to teach as many as possible how to help themselves. This was actually his new approach. His wife accompanied him on his travels and supported Coué as much as she could. She wrote parts of his books and his biography for him. Numerous coué companies sprang up all over the world.

La maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion

Coué described his teaching in the book Self-Mastery through Conscious Autosuggestion . This was based on two basic ideas:

  1. Every thought within us strives to become real.
  2. Not our will , but our imagination , the ability to make ourselves believe something, is the most important quality in us.

Coué told his patients clearly: "I have no healing powers, only you!"

According to Coué, great success can be achieved with the simple exercise of speaking half aloud to yourself about 20 times a day after waking up and before going to sleep (so that the sentence about the sense of hearing is anchored in the unconscious ):

“I feel better and better every day in every respect!” ( Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux! )

It doesn't matter whether you believe in it or not and what you consciously think about it, as long as your lips form the sentence loud enough so that it can work back through your ears. A knotted cord or something similar is helpful for counting. Coué recommended speaking the sentence as childlike and effortlessly as possible, slowly and monotonously in the manner of a litany or a mantra , without trying too hard the will.

In the case of acute pain or discomfort, whether of a physical or mental nature, Coué advised placing your hand on the affected area or forehead and repeating as quickly as possible: “It will pass; it will pass, etc. ”until the symptoms subside. The self-treatment should be repeated if necessary, with regular use the success will set in faster and faster and the symptoms appear less and less until they finally disappeared completely.

Coué emphasized that he was not a miracle healer . He was merely the first modern scientist and physician to see through the primacy of the imagination over the will and recognized that in the majority of all ailments the psychological component is superimposed on the somatic and often persists after the physical illness has healed. Furthermore, since all life processes are controlled by the unconscious, the effect of the unconscious in the direction of healing could be influenced by conscious autosuggestion . Coué also expressed it with the following words: "Every idea that has been sufficiently impressed strives to be realized and is realized as long as it is not opposed by any laws of nature."

At the age of 69 years he died of pneumonia (pneumonia).

Publications

  • Autosuggestion. The power of influencing yourself through positive thinking. One way to heal yourself. AT Verlag, Aarau and Munich 2012, 3rd edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-03800-682-4 .
  • Autosuggestion. Oesch, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-0350-1507-2 (contains the works Self-mastery through conscious autosuggestion and What I say ).
  • Mental training and autosuggestion. Oesch, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-8583-3533-9 .
  • Self-mastery through conscious auto-suggestion. Schwabe, Basel 1997, ISBN 3-7965-0635-6 .
  • What I say. Extract from my lectures. Schwabe, Basel 1996, ISBN 3-7965-0609-7 .

See also

literature

  • Alfred Brauchle: The autosuggestion (self-influencing). The pharmacist Emile Coué. In: the same: history of naturopathy in life pictures. 2nd, expanded edition of Große Naturärzte. Reclam, Stuttgart 1951, pp. 361-368.
  • Wolf-Rainer Krause: Coué, Émile. In: Gerhard Stumm et al. (Ed.): Personal dictionary of psychotherapy. Springer, Vienna / New York 2005, ISBN 3-211-83818-X .
  • Franz Josef Neffe: Coué - Who wrote something about him. Annotated bibliography of autosuggestion. Self-published, Pfaffenhofen 1995, ISBN 3-925419-17-9 .
  • Coué's legacy. In: Reclams Universum 42.2 (1926), p. 1172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Lambert : Autosuggestive disease control . Schwabe, Basel and Stuttgart 1965, p. 136.
  2. ^ Emile Coué: Autosuggestion. AT Verlag, Aarau and Munich 2012, 3rd edition 2018, p. 115.
  3. ↑ Emile Coué: Mental Training and Autosuggestion. Oesch Verlag, Zurich 1998, p. 94.
personal data
SURNAME Coué, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pharmacist, founder of modern, conscious autosuggestion
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Troyes
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1926
Place of death Nancy