self-suggestion

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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)

Increase your self-confidence in every possible way, and you can do this to a remarkable degree by the power of self-suggestion.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

You were mentally tired, there was some self-suggestion for sleep.

From A Fine Fix by Dongen, H. R. van

Any self-suggestion, conscious or unconscious, which places before the supraliminal intelligence visual images apparently matured elsewhere?

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