self-suggestion
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It is sufficient to point out that in order to make self-suggestion operative, no strong belief or enthusiasm, such as those schemes imply, is really necessary.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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
Hyperboulia.—Increased power over the organism,—resembling the power which we call will when it is exercised over the voluntary muscles,—which is seen in the bodily changes effected by 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
Suggestion exerted by the circumstances is about the same as what is often called "auto-suggestion" or "self-suggestion".
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
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