self-suggestion
Britishnoun
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Can we propose any form of self-suggestion effective for all the human race? any controlling thought on which all alike can fix that long-sought mountain-moving faith?
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Fearthought he defines as the "self-suggestion of inferiority"; so that one may say that these systems all operate by the suggestion of power.
From Memories and Studies by James, Henry
Auto-suggestion, or self-suggestion, is also extremely frequent in these experiments, as well as with writing mediums.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
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 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)
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