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Auto-suggestion   /ˈɔtoʊ-səgdʒˈɛstʃən/   Listen
Auto-suggestion

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






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"Auto-suggestion" Quotes from Famous Books



... had softly closed the door he composed himself, for he was in fact considerably exhausted. Remembering a conversation at the club with a celebrated psycho-analyst about the possibilities of auto-suggestion, he strove to empty his mind and then to repeat to himself very rapidly in a low murmur: "You will sleep, you will sleep, you will sleep, you will sleep," innumerable times. But the incantation would not work, probably because he could not keep his mind empty. The mysterious receptacle ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett



Words linked to "Auto-suggestion" :   self-reformation, self-improvement



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