self-suggestion

NOUN

suggestion

Synonyms

STRONGEST

indication notion suspicion thought

STRONG

allusion association autosuggestion breath clue connotation cue inkling innuendo insinuation intimation overtone reminder shade signification smack symbol symbolism symbolization symbology telltale tinge trace undertone vein whisper wind

WEAK

soupçon

Antonyms

STRONG

information

WEAK

declaration demand order telling

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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

Somewhat similarly I believe some persons can secure a cheap substitute for genius on stage or platform, evoking by suggestion or self-suggestion a helpful subliminal uprush.

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

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)

Hypnotic agencies, according to Myers, may be simplified into suggestion and self-suggestion.

From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles

Fahnestock seems to have obtained by self-suggestion with healthy persons results in some ways surpassing anything since recorded.

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

self-suggestion

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