self-suggestion
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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)
Fahnestock seems to have obtained by self-suggestion with healthy persons results in some ways surpassing anything since recorded.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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
Hyperboulia.—Increased power over the organism,—resembling the power which we call will when it is exercised over the voluntary muscles,—which is seen in the bodily changes effected by self-suggestion.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
These schemes of self-suggestion, as I have termed them, constitute one of the most interesting parts of my subject, but space forbids that I should enter into a discussion of them here.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
