self-suggestion
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Can we propose any form of self-suggestion effective for all the human race? any controlling thought on which all alike can fix that long-sought mountain-moving faith?
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Either they somehow never reach the subliminal centres which we wish to affect, or they find those centres preoccupied with some self-suggestion hostile to our behest.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Nor is it always necessary that the mind of the patient should be influenced by another person; self-suggestion is at times equally efficacious.
From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles
You were mentally tired, there was some self-suggestion for sleep.
From A Fine Fix by Dongen, H. R. van
To the readers of this chapter, however, there will be nothing surprising in my own inclination to include all these efforts at health under the general category of schemes of self-suggestion.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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