self-suggestion
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
I pass on to cases of the production by suggestion or self-suggestion of hyper�sthesia,—of a degree of sensory delicacy which overpasses the ordinary level, and the previous level of the subject himself.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
By self-suggestion before sleep Stevenson could secure a visual and dramatic intensity of dream-representation which furnished him with the motives for some of his most striking romances.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
If such susceptibility to self-suggestion could be reached by patients generally, there might be, with no miracle at all, a removal of perhaps half the annoyance which deafness inflicts on mankind.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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)
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