The use of particular suggestions outlined in this chapter is of minor importance compared with that of thegeneral formulaDay by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better. The more deeply Cou pursueshis investigations, the more fully he becomes convinced that all else is secondary to this. It is not difficult tomake a guess as to why this should be. In the general formula the attention is fully absorbed by the idea ofbetterment. The mind is directed away from all that hinders and impedes and fixed on a positive goal. Informulating particular suggestions, however, we are always skating on the thin ice round our faults andailments, always touching on subjects which have the most painful associations. So that our ideas have not thesame creative positiveness. However that may be, it is a matter of experience that the general formula is thebasis of the whole method, and