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 James, Henry
By self-suggestion before sleep Stevenson could secure a visual and dramatic intensity of dream-representation which furnished him with the motives for some of his most striking romances.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
To the readers of this chapter, however, there will be nothing surprising in my own inclination to include all these efforts at health under the general category of schemes of self-suggestion.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
