self-suggestion
Britishnoun
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Any self-suggestion, conscious or unconscious, which places before the supraliminal intelligence visual images apparently matured elsewhere?
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
It is a dream of the hypnotic stratum;—an incoherent self-suggestion starting from and affecting a region below the reach of conscious will.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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 Hunt, H. Ernest
Before every trip, with self-hypnosis and self-suggestion, I erase my own memories—a sort of artificial amnesia—so that the Lhari can't find out any more than I want them to find out.
From The Colors of Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
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)
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