self-suggestion

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Hyperboulia.—Increased power over the organism,—resembling the power which we call will when it is exercised over the voluntary muscles,—which is seen in the bodily changes effected by self-suggestion.

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

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)

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

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.

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