According to Hurst, the paralysis and stiffness were due to an autosuggestion from the legs being embedded in mud.
Léri remarks that these may also be produced by autosuggestion alone.
After he came to at the time of the explosion, an autosuggestion to the effect that he had lost his power of speech and hearing occurred.
According to Babinski, Sebileau’s explanation that such matters as loss of reflexes could be explained by autosuggestion is erroneous.
According to Hurst, recollection of these childhood convulsions probably led by a process of autosuggestion to the Shell-shock convulsions.
Autosuggestion may here replace or accompany the ordinary heterosuggestion.
I find in such cases autosuggestion more liberating than heterosuggestion if the development has not gone too far.
He shows to him that the symptoms resulted merely from autosuggestion or are the after-effects of a suggestion from without or of a forgotten emotional experience of the past.
The hysteric or psychasthenicautosuggestion resists the mere will of breaking it off.
There, is no doubt that under favorable conditions, especially if the dose of morphine is not too strong, autosuggestion can bring about a similar effect.
Sometimes even this laziness itself is the result of psychical autosuggestion which can be fought by counter-suggestion.
The quack handles the diseased organ, perhaps a goiter or a leg crippled by rheumatism, with a cruel rudeness and overwhelms the suggestible mind so completely that the first autosuggestion is that of a complete change, and that means cure.
These shamans are excitable persons with epileptic tendencies, or at least over-suggestible men or women who by autosuggestion and imitation can bring themselves into ecstatic convulsions.
Of course autosuggestion can never take hypnotic character, but makes use with profit of the transition state before normal sleep.
Within certain limits, we might almost say that this increase of suggestibility for autosuggestion is the fundamental characteristic of these diseases, just as increase of suggestibility for heterosuggestions characterizes hypnotism.
Here, too, the autosuggestion may become effective by the frequency of the repetition or by the urgency of the expression or by the accompanying motor reactions.
This belief may be reënforced to strong autosuggestion which may then overcome other factors that hinder sleep.
Autosuggestion is a powerful force, but real psychotherapy is based not on the mechanical repetition of any set of words, but on a knowledge of the truth.
An autosuggestion often repeated becomes the strongest of suggestions, successfully opposing most outside ideas that would counteract it,--reason enough for seeing to it that our autosuggestions are of the healthful variety.
His story illustrates the power of an autosuggestion and the disastrous effect of attention to a physiological function.
To act by suggestion or autosuggestion is to act by impulse.
This whole field for ideals is largely influenced by suggestion from the current tastes and fashionable standards in the group, but autosuggestion is also very active in it.
By autosuggestion the stronger minds produce ideas which when set afloat pass by suggestion from mind to mind.
The explanation lies in autosuggestion or fixed ideas with the development loosely ranged under hysteria, which is the contagious form of nervous affection.
Autosuggestion was shown by actions which were, or were supposed to be, the actions proper for "possessed" people.
Autosuggestion cannot change a post into a spectre, but if you are very impressionable it will so distort your sensory impressions that common sounds seem charged with supernatural significance and every-day objects take on terrifying shapes.
To sum up, the whole process of Autosuggestion consists of two steps: (1) The acceptation of an idea.
A broken bone--the sceptic's last resource--cannot of course be treated by autosuggestion alone.
Autosuggestion is equally valuable as an aid to surgical practice.
All the ideas we are likely to make the subjects of Induced Autosuggestion are of the latter class, since they refer to health, energy, success or some goal equally dear to our hearts.
Autosuggestion should not only remove a particular form of disease, but the tendency to all disease.
But when the limb has been rightly set and the necessary mechanical precautions have been taken, autosuggestion will provide the best possible conditions for recovery.
Meanwhile," he added, "the limits of the power of autosuggestion are not yet known; final recovery is possible.
It would be a mistake, however, to embark on the practice of Induced Autosuggestion with the impression that we are going to be miraculously healed in the space of a few days.
All readers who wish to obtain a deeper insight into the theoretical basis of autosuggestion are recommended to study Professor Baudouin's fascinating work, Suggestion and Autosuggestion.
It will be seen that Induced Autosuggestion is a method by which the mind can act directly upon itself and upon the body to produce whatever improvements, in reason, we desire.
By the systematic practice of Induced Autosuggestion we can make it, not a fleeting visitant, but a regular tenant of the mind, which storms and stresses from without cannot dislodge.
Thus the distinction between Autosuggestion and Heterosuggestion is seen to be both arbitrary and superficial.
Autosuggestion is a channel by which the tranquil powers of this ultimate being are raised to the level of our life here and now.
I have no doubt that this kind of autosuggestion plays a large rôle in her mind.
They heard the arguments, but they were so fully under the autosuggestion of their first decision that they fancied that they had known all that before, and that they had discounted the arguments of their opponents in the first vote.
It may be that she needs her eyes open because the seeing of the members of the family may heighten by a kind of autosuggestion her sensitiveness for the perception of the slight signs.
One is inclined to suspect an element of autosuggestion in such a case; still, the coincidence is noteworthy.
Autosuggestion, formulated with the lips, is an order which the unconscious receives, it carries it out unknown to ourselves and above all at night, so that the evening autosuggestion is the most important.
Before facts a hundred times repeated in my presence, I was obliged to surrender to evidence, and recognize that autosuggestion always acted, though naturally in different degrees, on organic diseases.
Above all--above all, avoid harshness and brutality, for there the risk is incurred of influencing an autosuggestion of cruelty accompanied by hate.
I can say more: you have saved my life, for your method of autosuggestion has done alone what all the medicines and treatments ordered for the terrible intestinal obstruction from which I suffered for 19 days, had failed to do.
This autosuggestion must be made with confidence, with faith, with the certainty of obtaining what is desired.
After having practiced your autosuggestion for five months, I have been radically cured.
Suggestion from me, andautosuggestion from herself.
Contrary to general opinion, suggestion, or autosuggestion can bring about the cure of organic lesions.
Preliminary experiments successful; suggestion applied by me, and autosuggestion by the patient for eight days.
Amazed at the results obtained by the autosuggestion which you made known to me, I thank you with all my heart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "autosuggestion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: autosuggestion; hypnosis; hypnotism
