self-suggestion

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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

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)

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)

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)

Somewhat similarly I believe some persons can secure a cheap substitute for genius on stage or platform, evoking by suggestion or self-suggestion a helpful subliminal uprush.

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