self-suggestion

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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

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

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

This is a faculty which can be very much aided by forethought and self-suggestion.

From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Yet, important though these and similar experiments in self-suggestion may be, they do not solve our problem as to the ultimate origin and distribution of the faculty thus displayed.

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