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Self-suggestion

noun

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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... 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

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... 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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Words linked to "Self-suggestion" : self-improvement, self-reformation