self-suggestion
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You were mentally tired, there was some self-suggestion for sleep.
From A Fine Fix by H. R. van Dongen
Stigmatisation.—The production of blisters or other cutaneous changes on the hands, feet, or elsewhere, by suggestion or self-suggestion.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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 Orison Swett Marden
"It seems probable," says Dr. Wingfield, "that all phenomena capable of being produced by the suggestion of the hypnotiser can also be produced by self-suggestion in a self-suggestive subject."
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Yet, important though these and similar experiments in self-suggestion may be, they do not solve our problem as to the ultimate origin and distribution of the faculty thus displayed.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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