Noun : We made the suggestion that she resign. ,He speaks with a suggestion of a foreign accent.    From Dictionary.com. 

SHANOR: Hypnosis is basically self-suggestion, relaxation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: David Crosby Discusses Activism; Karen Shanor Delves Into the Brain; Rosemary Altea Shows the Power Within; T.D. Jakes Maximizes and Motivates - March 25, 2000] Reference

Far better results accrue if the patient is taught to use auto or self-suggestion for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within You is the Power] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here's How To Break The Law? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit and Music] Reference

This is a field in which self-suggestion is of definite value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Worry?] Reference

He told himself it was probably the result of self-suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn of All] Reference

"I should say that I had made a stronger self-suggestion the other way.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the World] Reference

And no less important is the self-suggestion practiced by the Freudians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

Here at last was a fixed point beyond the chance of confusion with self-suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grammar of Science (1903)] Reference

Now any good skeptic will stop at this point and say that this is simply the result of self-suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog] Reference

You will be surprised to see how quickly this sort of self-suggestion will brace you up and put new spirit in you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

Auto-suggestion, or self-suggestion, is also extremely frequent in these experiments, as well as with writing mediums.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891] Reference

Increase your self-confidence in every possible way, and you can do this to a remarkable degree by the power of self-suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

Well, there's nothing better than self-suggestion, and if you'll give it a try you'll be surprised by the results, I'm sure of it. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franklin Kane] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

Probably most medical men would treat this individual's case as one of what it is fashionable now to call by the name of "self-suggestion," or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Studies] Reference

Fearthought he defines as the "self-suggestion of inferiority"; so that one may say that these systems all operate by the suggestion of power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Studies] Reference

We may explain this as we like, yet it proves that the simple wish, the invocation, the self-suggestion is not enough to create a visionary image.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Dreams] Reference

Much unintentional self-suggestion is conveyed in one's habitual method of expressing his attitude toward annoyances, thus: "That simply drives me wild.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Worry?] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clarion] Reference

His inference is that self-suggestion of impossibility had prevented the influence upon these persons of an environment which, on the more "passive" subjects, had easily brought forth the effects they looked for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference

It has been shown that thence they may, and frequently do, exercise a baleful effect upon the whole organism, giving rise to disease symptoms, the particular type of which were determined by the victim's self-suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four-Dimensional Vistas] Reference

And perhaps as a result of self-suggestion, of his repeated assurances to Mr. Semple, to Mr. Chippering, and the directors of his ability to control the situation, Ditmar's habitual self-confidence was gradually restored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

If it is all self-suggestion, you have had thirty years of it. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the World] Reference

A lane holding a drunkard by the shoulder and endeavouring to steer him homeward, while he expounded to him in scientific tones the ill effects of alcohol on the system, and the remarkable results to be attained by steady self-suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franklin Kane] Reference

"It is very interesting to note Miss Freer's experiences, but in regard to those of others who have something to relate, it is perhaps difficult to determine how much these statements should be discounted for error of observation and self-suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alleged Haunting of B—— House] Reference

Was it self-suggestion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planète Béranger v3] Reference

You see, it is just a case of self-suggestion. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the World] Reference

When the object is to ascertain, or to effect in a general way, one of two possible events, the law of probabilities gives an equal chance to success and failure, and success does more to support than failure would do to destroy superstition, for, on its side, there are arrayed the religious instinct, sympathy and apathy, confidence and distrust, encouragement and discouragement, self-suggestion and = = perhaps strongest of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference