Tony Gaschler - EL-Method

Another advantage of emotional autosuggestion is that its theoretic principles are easily understood and applied. The effective principle of emotional autosuggestion is the following sentence:

VIVID AND GRAPHICAL IMAGES AND IDEAS CAUSE PHYSICAL EFFECTS!

A simple example: Try to imagine as vividly and graphically that you are holding a cut open half of a lemon. Now imagine just as vividly and graphically that you are slowing raising the hand holding the lemon up to your mouth. Now you open your mouth - imagine it as vividly and graphically as you can - and bite into the juicy half of the sour lemon dripping juice onto your chin. Just imagine all of this as if it were really happening! What is the physical reaction? You have probably noticed that your mouth is watering just as in the case of biting into a real lemon. True?

This was a very simple autosuggestion attempt. The vivid and graphical idea of biting into a lemon triggers an increased production of the salivary gland, which is a real and actual physical effect.

There is a wide variety of such autosuggestion tests. Here are some brief examples: The vivid and graphic imagination that the right arm is getting heavy triggers an expansion of the arteries. These are then filled with more blood and the arm is actually heavier. The vivid and graphic imagination that a hand is inserted into a bucket of ice water lowers the surface temperature of the affected hand somewhat. This can be proven with a highly sensitive thermometer. Imagining as vividly and graphically as possible to have just eaten a very fatty piece of meat followed by a sampling of the gastric juices determines that these juices now have the composition required to digest fatty meat. If this were followed by vividly and graphically imagining having eaten some sweet dessert, the gastric juices would have a quite different composition, namely the one needed to digest the sweet treat. Vividly and graphically imaging a rather frightening situation for an extended time results in an increased level of sugar in the blood as well as in the tested urine. All vivid and graphical ideas, imaginations, and emotions trigger a corresponding physical effect.

This is the expanded principle of emotional autosuggestion:

VIVID AND GRAPHICAL IMAGES AND EMOTIONS CAUSE PHYSICAL EFFECTS, WHICH EXACTLY CORRESPOND WITH THE RESPECTIVE IMAGES AND EMOTIONS!

But enough theory, let’s get into the practical aspect of the EL Method. The principle of emotional autosuggestion is only convincing if EXPERIENCED.

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A single experience can be more illustrative than a thousand words. That is why we now want to describe a simple and easily successful experiment, which will show you exactly how vivid and graphical imaging can become physically realized. This experiment is the classic pendulum experiment by Chevreul. Chevreul himself used this experiment at the beginning of the last century and today it is still the best and easiest way to illustrate how vivid and graphic images can trigger real and experienced physical effects.

You need a pendulum and a pendulum chart (see paragraph “Download the useful tools”) for this experiment. A pendulum is quickly fashioned using any string cut to a length of approx. 15 to 16 inches. Attach something heavy to one end, e.g., a ring, a small key, or a small fishing weight. Fig. 1 on the rear of the pendulum charts shows the finished pendulum. The material of the string and the weight is completely unimportant. Once you have finished the pendulum, place the print pendulum chart on a table and sit at the table as shown in Fig. 2. And now it is time for this rather interesting and convincing experiment.

Now hold the pendulum over the bull’s eye in the center of the chart and try to hold the pendulum completely still. You might have to use your right hand to stabilize the pendulum until it does not move anymore. Once the pendulum is at rest, remove the hand so that the pendulum hangs freely. Now relax your entire body, especially both arms, and look at the pendulum) the weight attached to the end of the string). The next step consists of vividly and graphically imagining that the pendulum begins a circular motion in the direction of the arrows (clockwise). The more strongly you use your imagination to envision the pendulum swinging the faster the pendulum will actually begin to swing in the imagined direction. Try to think of nothing else during this experiment than the pendulum; envision how it swings ever more lively and ever faster; imagine how the circles of the pendulum become wider and wider. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will notice that the pendulum actually starts to move clockwise, just as you vividly imagined it would. As soon as you notice the first movements of the pendulum, increase your efforts and imagine even harder how the pendulum swings in ever-larger circles. Soon, the pendulum will follow your lively imagination and its circles over the chart will widen. As soon as the pendulum swings in a circle of about 1 inch, the experiment has been successful and you can put down the pendulum.

Pendulum experiments are especially successful of you observe the following points:

1.Keep your body and arms relaxed, do not tighten up.

2.Hold the pendulum passively and without any voluntary movement on your part between thumb and index finger.

3.Deactivate any conscious effort to move your hand and JUST IMAGINE AS VIVIDLY AND AS GRAPHICALLY how the pendulum circles over the chart.

4.Although you should try to imagine the pendulum’s movement as vividly and wit as much gusto as possible do not strain, become tense, or start clenching your other hand.

5.The imagined movement of the pendulum should be prelived by you in your mind so that these movements become as real in your imagination as if they are already occurring.

Please do not be surprised or frightened if you are among the easily influenced individuals and your pendulum reacts rather rapidly or swings in very large circles. This experiment does not call upon any supernatural or sidereal powers, no magic, no unknown rays or emissions. This experiment deals with nothing more than what you will now get to know in detail.

The effect of a pendulum winging as vividly imagined has been known for a long time. Old tales tell of some secret or magical powers or rays and beams being emitted from another star that make this "miracle" possible. Today, the cause for the pendulum movement is well known. This experiment is nothing more than an illustration of the effects of autosuggestion. By vividly imagining that the pendulum is winging in a circle, very small and unperceivable movements are triggered in the arm muscles via the nervous system. These involuntary muscle movements of the arms start the pendulum swinging in the direction imagined. It is thus possible to let the pendulum swing in other directions as well. By vividly imagining it, the pendulum can swing counterclockwise, or from right to left or top to bottom, whichever way you desire. The pendulum will always follow the "instruction" issued by your vivid imagination.