self-suggestion
Example Sentences
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By self-suggestion before sleep Stevenson could secure a visual and dramatic intensity of dream-representation which furnished him with the motives for some of his most striking romances.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Auto-suggestion, or self-suggestion, is also extremely frequent in these experiments, as well as with writing mediums.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
We know no better with self-suggestion than with suggestion from outside why it is that one man succeeds where others fail, or why a man who succeeds once fails in his next attempt.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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)
I passed out temporarily just as a result of self-suggestion.
From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert
