self-suggestion
Britishnoun
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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)
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)
Stigmatisation.—The production of blisters or other cutaneous changes on the hands, feet, or elsewhere, by suggestion or self-suggestion.
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
No recorded cases of self-suggestion, I think, are more instructive than those published by Dr. Hugh Wingfield in Proceedings S.P.R., vol. v. p.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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