self-suggestion

There was nothing that I could resolve as distinct against background and that could not be reduced to my own mental function or self-suggestion.

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SHANOR: Hypnosis is basically self-suggestion, relaxation.

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Before every trip, with self-hypnosis and self-suggestion, I erase my own memories -- a sort of artificial amnesia -- so that the Lhari can't find out any more than I want them to find out.

The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

A man may even deny the very existence of spirit, and thus by a subtle but efficacious species of self-suggestion prevent its manifestation in himself.

Spirit and Music H. Ernest Hunt

Meyers, who lays so much stress upon the importance of self-suggestion in other aspects of experience, admits that prayer is something more than a subjective {218} phenomenon.

Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Archibald B. C. Alexander

Far better results accrue if the patient is taught to use auto or self-suggestion for himself.

Within You is the Power Henry Thomas Hamblin

Yourself with Psychiatry_, states the following: "A whole new world of self-confidence and positive living is open to every person, young and old, through hypnosis, self-hypnosis and self-suggestion or auto-hypnosis."

A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis Melvin Powers

Here at last was a fixed point beyond the chance of confusion with self-suggestion.

The Grammar of Science (1903) 1918

And no less important is the self-suggestion practiced by the Freudians.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

And then he wondered, rather amusedly, how much of this self-suggestion arose from a desire for information, and how much was inspired by a memory of her haunting, hungry eyes.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914