self-suggestion

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Can we propose any form of self-suggestion effective for all the human race? any controlling thought on which all alike can fix that long-sought mountain-moving faith?

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

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

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

No recorded cases of self-suggestion, I think, are more instructive than those published by Dr. Hugh Wingfield in Proceedings S.P.R., vol. v. p.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

I passed out temporarily just as a result of self-suggestion.

From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert