self-suggestion
Britishnoun
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The records of spontaneous somnambulism are full of predictions made by the subject as to his own case, and accomplished, presumably by self-suggestion, but without help from clocks, at the precise minute foretold.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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 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
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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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