autosuggestion

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I'm sure he absorbed chemistry by autosuggestion, because certainly he was walking in his sleep when he left home washed, properly dressed, fed and equipped with lunch.

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The reappearance of these hairs after the grafting operation certainly cannot be ascribed to autosuggestion, to which certain critics have ascribed other phenomena that follow the greffes testiculaires.

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But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion.

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The undertaker thereupon makes D�sir� sick through autosuggestion, and rapidly pushes him to the brink of the de luxe funeral, only to drop dead himself.

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"Sleep on it" still remains the best counsel for those in perplexity, but they should preface their slumbers by the positive autosuggestion that on waking they will find the difficulty resolved.

From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Coué, Emile