Emil Kueh, French psychologist: method of conscious self-hypnosis, positive psychotherapy

Thousands of people know about positive thinking, self-hypnosis and affirmations, hundreds use, dozens of 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 the lack of patience.

Psychologists define the problem of modern man as a dependence on the presence of a teacher who must guide and observe him until he achieves success in his goal. Taking responsibility for their lives in general or for career growth, health and personal relationships, many people shift to doctors, psychoanalysts or bosses, although modern psychological techniques allow everything to be achieved independently, for free and without much effort. The only requirement that must be met is the regularity of actions when working on changing thinking.

Great Pharmacist

Emile Qué was not the first to use autosuggestion to achieve his goals, but he did not immediately come to the conclusion that by influencing consciousness and the unconscious, it is possible to radically change the subjective reality.

Emil wanted to become a doctor very much, but, being the son of poor parents, he could enter the university only in the specialty of "pharmacist". Having received a diploma in 1876, he opened his pharmacy in Paris and gradually became clientele.

To attract visitors and fight with competitors, Emil Kue began to assure them at every 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 wishes and the state of health of his clients. Having discovered that his confidence in the effectiveness of the preparations he made is passed on to people, and their recovery occurs much faster, he began consciously to influence their consciousness.

A case is known which Emile Quay later cited as an example in his book. He gave the client a bottle of distilled water, assuring her that this drug - the most effective in her disease of all existing. What was his surprise when she came in a few days and thanked for such an effective remedy, so quickly brought her recovery?

After this incident, the pharmacist decided to study psychology, especially everything related to imagination, the unconscious and the subconscious. Soon he closes his pharmacy practice and moves to live in Nancy, where he founded a psychotherapy clinic. Thanks to this move, Kue's method of conscious self-hypnosis, which subsequently became famous for the whole world, was born. Today, this French psychologist knows very few, although his research has formed the basis of many methods of treating diseases with the help of positive thinking.

Clinic of a former pharmacist

At the beginning of the 20th century, many rich and not very people began to turn to the clinic that Emile Kue founded. Conscious auto-suggestion is a method that the former pharmacist of his patients developed and taught. And despite the fact that most doctors of that time sharply criticized his method and called charlatanism, even they could not help but admit that the clients of the self-taught doctor were recovering one by one.

Kue called his clinic a school of self-control, based on positive psychotherapy. Even as a pharmacist, he noticed that clients who were skeptical and did not believe that drugs could help them, really continued to hurt.

The same patients who believed in his words that tomorrow they will certainly become easier, really felt better. So the French psychologist came to the conclusion that the basis of a person's recovery lies in his imagination, supported by faith in the result.

What did Kue offer his patients?

• First , he, together with them, explored their thoughts in the sphere of life that they wanted to change. As a rule, he managed to point out to the client the relationship between his negative thinking and the reality in which he lived.
• Secondly , Kue helped patients to make new arrangements that rebuilt their consciousness. Individual psychotherapy, which 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 - generosity.
• Thirdly , Emile Quay was the first to suggest a method of control over thoughts, thanks to which many people were able to qualitatively change their lives.

Thus, this great man at the dawn of the development of psychotherapy developed techniques based on work with the subconscious and the unconscious.

Faith as a healing power

Kue paid much attention to such a little-studied, but the most powerful phenomenon of the human psyche, like faith. The miracles of healing with its help can be read in biblical parables, and one could also see them in real life.

In the history of mankind there are many examples when people gained health by touching a religious relic or visiting holy places. By the definition of scientists, faith is an immutable 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 picture of the world is formed in the person's mind, based on his thoughts and ideas about the surrounding reality.

One of the most striking examples of faith, which was documented by witnesses, was the case of those shipwrecked. Several people were in a boat in the middle of the ocean without water and food. If they could still do without the latter for a while, the death from dehydration would overtake them in a couple of days.

Since, except for God, they had no one to rely on, they surrendered to the will of the waves, and themselves knelt along the sides of the boat and began to pray to the Creator that the water around her from the sea would become fresh. The desire to live and the faith were so great that, after a while, not only the structure of the water changed, but even its color.

When a week later they were finally found, rescuers were surprised that they found everyone alive and healthy. The liquid surrounding the boat was taken for examination, and it turned out that this is pure spring water.

Kue's psychological methods were based on the same principle. People with the help of autosuggestion recorded in the subconscious new information, which later became for them an indisputable truth and a picture of their world. It does not matter at all whether it was true at the beginning of the work or not.

Emile Kue's method

Patients of his clinic, a former pharmacist, offered 3 times a day to conduct the following procedures:

• Relax completely the body and mind, taking for this a comfortable sitting or lying position;
• 20 times in a calm and monotonous voice to pronounce the key phrase.

In these simple actions are the famous psychological techniques of Kue, who returned many people not only health, but also the meaning of life.

In fact, inside of 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 is untrue, and for the subconscious the thought expressed even in jest is the truth. That's why many people can not achieve results - they are "led" to the skepticism of consciousness and just stop acting because they do not understand the processes that occur in their brains.

When a person calmly and distinctly pronounces the necessary installation aloud, he thereby does not give consciousness to the right to vote, directing what was said directly to the destination. If conditions do not allow you to speak out loud, you can do it silently, but moving your lips. It helps a person to stay in a state of awareness.

The best time to perform this procedure is immediately after waking up or before going to bed, when all the information comes directly to the subconscious.

The nuances of the Kuet method

Some people are surprised why new installations should be spoken calmly and, as it were, even detached, rather than connecting positive emotions to this process. In fact, the latter play a big role in the technique of visualization, which operates at a conscious level. To create unnecessary stress and waste energy when working with the subconscious is inappropriate, since it "does not take it".

Kue's psychological methods at the beginning of the 20th century were revolutionary, but after his death in 1926 and because of the numerous tragic events in subsequent years of his work either were forgotten, or criticized, or considered unscientific. They were remembered much later, when in psychiatry began to develop techniques of auto-suggestion. That's when Emil Kue was re-discovered. The author's books were again published and translated into many languages, and they became available to the general public.

"I" conscious and unconscious

The individual psychotherapy that Kue conducted with his patients consisted of several stages:

• First, he taught people to fully focus on the action being performed, whether it is relaxing the muscles or straining some of them. He considered it important that his clients could manage their body.
• Secondly, Kue explained to them the difference between the "I" that they used to perceive as their personality, and the one that actually controls their life.
• Thirdly, the doctor made with the patients simple for the perception of the phrase about the sphere of life in which they wanted to make changes, and worked with them, teaching the technique of conscious auto-suggestion.

One of the most important tasks that Kue set for himself was a psychological consultation devoted to the separation of the conscious and unconscious self. For many people, the very existence of the second was shocking.

The author of the technique himself explained that the unconscious is the imagination that gathers all the information from the outside world, even the most insignificant, and then on its basis makes up its own opinion of it. This includes also the data of the thinking processes of the person himself. For example, if a person has hit his or her side, and he decided that this is a sick liver, the unconscious will rework this information, and the more often a person thinks of an imaginary illness, the faster it will form.

Fortunately, this process is reversible. As you can inspire yourself with any disease, it is also easy to get rid of it, giving the unconscious new data on the state of health.

Self-expression

That patients could feel the influence of the secret "I" on their actions and life in general, and also learned not to obey him blindly, but to manage it, most of the time in the process of learning Emil Kue devoted to this. Autosuggestion is a procedure that requires full concentration on the action, but applied once in any sphere 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 have seen 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, Kue asked the man to give the body a setting, as if his legs were "screwed" to the floor, and wherever he leaned, they would remain immobile. When he began to pronounce this installation in a calm and monotonous voice, and then leaned forward or backward, his feet really remained in place.

The next stage was to instill the necessary information and information 2-3 times a day to the unconscious and simply observe the changes taking place in the body or life.

Positive thinking

Translation of thoughts from negative to positive Kue perceived as an additional source for achieving the goal. Positive psychotherapy was conducted with each patient, so important was the quality of thinking. At the dawn of the 20th century, most doctors perceived this as another sign of quackery, because they believed that a person's good mood could not be cured.

Kue also understood this, but he was sure that positive thoughts contributed to the acceleration of all qualitative changes in the sphere in which work was carried out.

Meditation relaxation

Another important condition for obtaining the result is a relaxed state. The absence 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, there is a consistent relaxation of each part of the body with the help of mental settings and relaxing music, which, in turn, affects the brain waves, soothing them.

Kue's work in modern psychotherapy

Today, Kue's psychological methods are at the heart of most of the techniques devoted to working with the subconscious and positive thinking. For example, they were actively used by psychiatrist Vladimir Levy in their auto-training. In his works "The art of being yourself" and "Taming of fear," he applied Kue's behavioral therapy , expanding and adapting it to the thinking of modern man.

Any psychological consultation with a specialist today is built on the basis of working with the unconscious self of the person responsible for all of his actions and everyday habits. So did Kue in his time.