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
The belief that his brain is ill may have induced him to give up effort of the will instead of helping along by steady self-suggestion.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
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
I pass on to cases of the production by suggestion or self-suggestion of hyper�sthesia,—of a degree of sensory delicacy which overpasses the ordinary level, and the previous level of the subject himself.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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)
