self-suggestion

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I passed out temporarily just as a result of self-suggestion.

From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert

Suggestion exerted by the circumstances is about the same as what is often called "auto-suggestion" or "self-suggestion".

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

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)

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)

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)