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Self-suggestion   /sɛlf-səgdʒˈɛstʃən/   Listen
Self-suggestion

noun
1.
A system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s.  Synonyms: auto-suggestion, autosuggestion.






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"Self-suggestion" Quotes from Famous Books



... this. 'If prayers,' says Mr. Lecky, 'were offered up solely with a view to this benefit, they would be absolutely sterile and would speedily cease.'[33] The purely subjective view of prayer as consisting solely in 'beneficent self-suggestion' empties the term of significance. Even Frederick 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. 'It is not only ...
— Christianity and Ethics - A Handbook of Christian Ethics • Archibald B. C. Alexander

... practical little thing," he reflected. "I'll talk to her again and get her point of view." 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, ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams



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