self-suggestion
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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
Nor is it always necessary that the mind of the patient should be influenced by another person; self-suggestion is at times equally efficacious.
From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles
This is a faculty which can be very much aided by forethought and self-suggestion.
From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Any self-suggestion, conscious or unconscious, which places before the supraliminal intelligence visual images apparently matured elsewhere?
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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)
