self-suggestion

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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)

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

It is sufficient to point out that in order to make self-suggestion operative, no strong belief or enthusiasm, such as those schemes imply, is really necessary.

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)

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 Münsterberg, Hugo