Suggestion and Autosuggestion - Charles Baudouin [ebook]

A Famous and Classic work on Suggestion and Autosuggestion

A Psychological and Pedagogical Study
Based upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School.

By Charles Baudouin (Professor at the Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute and Occasional Professor at the University of Geneva)

Author of

"Culture de la Force Morale"
"Symbolisme et Psychanalyse" etc., etc.

Dedicated with grateful acknowledgments to EMILE COUE the steadfast Worker and Pioneer.


In cases where, in former days, it was considered necessary to make a great effort to fix the attention, as in learning by heart and in other mental work, we now realize that better results can often be obtained by suggestion than by effort. We have seen how the subconscious can solve a problem during sleep. Let us profit by this observation.

Practical experience will convince us that, by concentrating the mind on a question, we shall to a great extent spare ourselves, the effort which would otherwise have been requisite. We shall initiate subconscious activities, and the work will then go on spontaneously within us.

Artists are aware, by implication at least, that their inspirations come from the subconscious, and to evoke them they encourage conditions of outcropping. But they are apt to leave to hap and hazard the choice of the means by which these states are to be induced. Often they ascribe to the means, an importance which in reality belongs only to the resultant state a state which might have been brought about by very different means. Hence the fetichism often displayed by artists for tobacco, alcohol, narcotics and intoxicants of all kinds, debauchery. But the desirable thing is not the alcohol, the tobacco, or the debauchery in itself; the real object of their quest is the outcropping of the subconscious which attends the intoxication. Some artists discover this, instinctively or by chance, and are thus enabled to find inspiration without the use of methods that entail physical ruin. These are the greatest of their tribe. The utilization of natural sleep, after a period of mental concentration, is peculiarly fruitful.

Charles Baudouin



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