self-suggestion
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A man may even deny the very existence of spirit, and thus by a subtle but efficacious species of self-suggestion prevent its manifestation in himself.
From Spirit and Music by Hunt, H. Ernest
Dr Hugh Wingfield stated to the Society for Psychical Research that the case of one of his patients proved that hallucinations could be produced by self-suggestion.
From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles
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 Marden, Orison Swett
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)
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)
