self-suggestion
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No recorded cases of self-suggestion, I think, are more instructive than those published by Dr. Hugh Wingfield in Proceedings S.P.R., vol. v. p.
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
Nor is it always necessary that the mind of the patient should be influenced by another person; self-suggestion is at times equally efficacious.
From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles
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
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)