self-suggestion

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"It seems probable," says Dr. Wingfield, "that all phenomena capable of being produced by the suggestion of the hypnotiser can also be produced by self-suggestion in a self-suggestive subject."

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

I pass on to cases of the production by suggestion or self-suggestion of hyper�sthesia,—of a degree of sensory delicacy which overpasses the ordinary level, and the previous level of the subject himself.

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

You will be surprised to see how quickly this sort of self-suggestion will brace you up and put new spirit in you.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

Hypnotic agencies, according to Myers, may be simplified into suggestion and self-suggestion.

From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles

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