“Every day, in every way, EVERYBODY is getting better and better.”
Émile Coué (1857 – 1926) was a French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion. Twenty times each morning and night, you are to repeat:
“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”
This became the basis of the modern self-help and positive thinking movement.
Mahayana Buddhism would offer a slightly different take on this. Maxims and mantras are recommended, as ways of training our minds and liberating ourselves from suffering. It is equally important to work for the liberation of everybody else. Everybody. Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, famously vowed to delay his own ultimate liberation until every single sentient being is freed from suffering.
So in addition to Coué’s mantra, we can add this:
“Every day, in every way, everybody is getting better and better.”
Don’t believe it? Then help to make it happen.
