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self-suggestion

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noun

  1. another term for autosuggestion

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Fahnestock seems to have obtained by self-suggestion with healthy persons results in some ways surpassing anything since recorded.

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It yet remains doubtful how far close proximity really operates in aid of telepathy, or how far its advantage is a mere effect of self-suggestion—on the part either of agent or percipient.

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Suggestion exerted by the circumstances is about the same as what is often called "auto-suggestion" or "self-suggestion".

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I passed out temporarily just as a result of self-suggestion.

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You were mentally tired, there was some self-suggestion for sleep.

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