self-suggestion
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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
You were mentally tired, there was some self-suggestion for sleep.
From A Fine Fix by Dongen, H. R. van
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)
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
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