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)
You will be surprised to see how quickly this sort of self-suggestion will brace you up and put new spirit in you.
From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett
These schemes of self-suggestion, as I have termed them, constitute one of the most interesting parts of my subject, but space forbids that I should enter into a discussion of them here.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Stigmatisation.—The production of blisters or other cutaneous changes on the hands, feet, or elsewhere, by suggestion or self-suggestion.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
No recorded cases of self-suggestion, I think, are more instructive than those published by Dr. Hugh Wingfield in Proceedings S.P.R., vol. v. p.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
