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autosuggestion

[ aw-toh-suhg-jes-chuhn, -suh- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Psychology.

suggestion arising from oneself, as the repetition of verbal messages as a means of changing behavior.

autosuggestion

/ ˌɔːtəʊsəˈdʒɛstʃən /

a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs

First recorded in 1885–90; auto- ¹ + suggestion

It is at this point that the ordinary book on autosuggestion breaks down—so far as any practical usefulness is concerned.

By autosuggestion the stronger minds produce ideas which when set afloat pass by suggestion from mind to mind.

Autosuggestion is an instrument which you have to learn how to use just as you would for any other instrument.

It may have been autosuggestion, induced by the child's great need of him, but whatever it was was vaguely soothing.

Suggestion, or rather Autosuggestion, is quite a new subject, and yet at the same time it is as old as the world.

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