self-suggestion

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Suggestion exerted by the circumstances is about the same as what is often called "auto-suggestion" or "self-suggestion".

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

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 seems probable," says Dr. Wingfield, "that all phenomena capable of being produced by the suggestion of the hypnotiser can also be produced by self-suggestion in a self-suggestive subject."

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

The belief that his brain is ill may have induced him to give up effort of the will instead of helping along by steady self-suggestion.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

Auto-suggestion, or self-suggestion, is also extremely frequent in these experiments, as well as with writing mediums.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)