self-suggestion

The records of spontaneous somnambulism are full of predictions made by the subject as to his own case, and accomplished, presumably by self-suggestion, but without help from clocks, at the precise minute foretold.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

But forethought, self-suggestion, and the bringing the mind to dwell continuously on a subject are absolutely within the reach of all who have any strength of mind whatever, without any aid.

From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Charles Godfrey Leland

Nor is it always necessary that the mind of the patient should be influenced by another person; self-suggestion is at times equally efficacious.

From Occultism and Common-Sense by Beckles Willson

Yet, important though these and similar experiments in self-suggestion may be, they do not solve our problem as to the ultimate origin and distribution of the faculty thus displayed.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers