self-suggestion
Britishnoun
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"It seems probable," says Dr. Wingfield, "that all phenomena capable of being produced by the suggestion of the hypnotiser can also be produced by self-suggestion in a self-suggestive subject."
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)
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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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)
Hypnotic suggestion or self-suggestion is not an agency which stands wholly alone.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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