self-suggestion
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
A man may even deny the very existence of spirit, and thus by a subtle but efficacious species of self-suggestion prevent its manifestation in himself.
From Spirit and Music by H. Ernest Hunt
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Hypnotic suggestion or self-suggestion is not an agency which stands wholly alone.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
You will be surprised to see how quickly this sort of self-suggestion will brace you up and put new spirit in you.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
