self-suggestion

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A man may even deny the very existence of spirit, and thus by a subtle but efficacious species of self-suggestion prevent its manifestation in himself.

From Spirit and Music by Hunt, H. Ernest

A dream-figure may indeed seem to conform to optical laws; but that will be the result of self-suggestion, or of organised memories, and will vary according to the dreamer's visualising power.

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

Before every trip, with self-hypnosis and self-suggestion, I erase my own memories—a sort of artificial amnesia—so that the Lhari can't find out any more than I want them to find out.

From The Colors of Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

By self-suggestion before sleep Stevenson could secure a visual and dramatic intensity of dream-representation which furnished him with the motives for some of his most striking romances.

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