self-suggestion
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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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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 Willson, Beckles
I pass on to cases of the production by suggestion or self-suggestion of hyper�sthesia,—of a degree of sensory delicacy which overpasses the ordinary level, and the previous level of the subject himself.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
It is sufficient to point out that in order to make self-suggestion operative, no strong belief or enthusiasm, such as those schemes imply, is really necessary.
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)
