Vision Kills The Will

About a month ago my father recommended a book to me written by Émile Coué (1857- 1926) a French psychologist and pharmacist. He developed also his own method the Coué Method or also named Couéism. The book is called “Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion” and as it only has roughly 160 pages, I therefore, sat one afternoon down and read it immediately. It was definitely worth it! As it helped me to collect some new insights I would love to share some of the most important thoughts and obviously the main message of it.

What Is Autosuggestion?

The best way to explain is to split the expression and to have first a look at the meaning of suggestion. Suggestion in psychology means the process of somebody presenting you an idea or vision and resulting in you accepting this. It’s not about persuading others or imposing views. It’s more about letting your feelings, thoughts and emotions guide by another person. The most common way how psychologist practice suggestion on their patient is by hypnotizing them. This two-step process by first putting the patient into “trance” and then “suggesting” is known to be a very fast and effective way to change the behaviour of people often concerning fears and phobias. Hypnotherapy sounds scary but if done correctly and by a person you trust, it is able to change the subconscious in a way that you alter your attitude towards something or also gain more self-esteem.

And now, we’ll come to the first part of the word — auto. This is a common prefix used also in different…