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 Henry James
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 Hugo Münsterberg
Hypnotic suggestion or self-suggestion is not an agency which stands wholly alone.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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 Orison Swett Marden
It is a dream of the hypnotic stratum;—an incoherent self-suggestion starting from and affecting a region below the reach of conscious will.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
