self-suggestion

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Can we propose any form of self-suggestion effective for all the human race? any controlling thought on which all alike can fix that long-sought mountain-moving faith?

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

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

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)

If such susceptibility to self-suggestion could be reached by patients generally, there might be, with no miracle at all, a removal of perhaps half the annoyance which deafness inflicts on mankind.

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

Fearthought he defines as the "self-suggestion of inferiority"; so that one may say that these systems all operate by the suggestion of power.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry