self-suggestion
Britishnoun
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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)
Hypnotic agencies, according to Myers, may be simplified into suggestion and self-suggestion.
From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles
These schemes of self-suggestion, as I have termed them, constitute one of the most interesting parts of my subject, but space forbids that I should enter into a discussion of them here.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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 Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
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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