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self-suggestion

NOUN
suggestion
Synonyms
STRONGEST
indication notion suspicion thought
STRONG
allusion association autosuggestion breath clue connotation cue inkling innuendo insinuation intimation overtone reminder shade signification smack symbol symbolism symbolization symbology telltale tinge trace undertone vein whisper wind
WEAK
soupçon
Antonyms
STRONG
information
WEAK
declaration demand order telling

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Auto-suggestion, or self-suggestion, is also extremely frequent in these experiments, as well as with writing mediums.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

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)

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)

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)

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)