self-suggestion
Britishnoun
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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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
We know no better with self-suggestion than with suggestion from outside why it is that one man succeeds where others fail, or why a man who succeeds once fails in his next attempt.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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 H. Ernest Hunt
Hypnotic suggestion or self-suggestion is not an agency which stands wholly alone.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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