self-suggestion
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Fahnestock seems to have obtained by self-suggestion with healthy persons results in some ways surpassing anything since recorded.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
A dream-figure may indeed seem to conform to optical laws; but that will be the result of self-suggestion, or of organised memories, and will vary according to the dreamer's visualising power.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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 Marden, Orison Swett
Hypnotic suggestion or self-suggestion is not an agency which stands wholly alone.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
The belief that his brain is ill may have induced him to give up effort of the will instead of helping along by steady self-suggestion.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
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