self-suggestion

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Hypnotic suggestion or self-suggestion is not an agency which stands wholly alone.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

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)

You will be surprised to see how quickly this sort of self-suggestion will brace you up and put new spirit in you.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

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)

A man may even deny the very existence of spirit, and thus by a subtle but efficacious species of self-suggestion prevent its manifestation in himself.

From Spirit and Music by Hunt, H. Ernest