Part IThe purpose of this part of the monograph is to discuss the hypnotic responseand to present two methods for achieving it. Part IIThe purpose of this part of the monograph is to outline an extremely effectiveprocedure for obtaining self-control through the use of tape recordingswhich you can easily make yourself. This part of the monograph contains a new idea; for although the ideaof giving commands to oneself directly without the formal use of hypnosisgoes back at least to Coue (c. 1920), and no doubt much farther, a carefulsearch of the literature seems to indicate that the idea of programming (bymeans of the repeated use of a recording) the subconscious mind to responddirectly to arbitrary commands from the conscious mind is original with theauthor and consistent with the conclusions of other researchers. His methodhelps a person realize his or her potential in what appears to be an innateability.