self-suggestion
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But forethought, self-suggestion, and the bringing the mind to dwell continuously on a subject are absolutely within the reach of all who have any strength of mind whatever, without any aid.
From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Charles Godfrey Leland
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Nor is it always necessary that the mind of the patient should be influenced by another person; self-suggestion is at times equally efficacious.
From Occultism and Common-Sense by Beckles Willson
You were mentally tired, there was some self-suggestion for sleep.
From A Fine Fix by H. R. van Dongen
Somewhat similarly I believe some persons can secure a cheap substitute for genius on stage or platform, evoking by suggestion or self-suggestion a helpful subliminal uprush.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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