self-suggestion
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Can we propose any form of self-suggestion effective for all the human race? any controlling thought on which all alike can fix that long-sought mountain-moving faith?
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
"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)
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
If such susceptibility to self-suggestion could be reached by patients generally, there might be, with no miracle at all, a removal of perhaps half the annoyance which deafness inflicts on mankind.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Either they somehow never reach the subliminal centres which we wish to affect, or they find those centres preoccupied with some self-suggestion hostile to our behest.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
