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While the rest argued pro and con and the air was filled with phrases, — "psychic phenomena," "self-hypnotism," "residuum of unexplained truth," and "spiritism," — she was reviving mentally the girlhood pictures she had conjured of this soldier-father she had never seen.
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Messing never met with Einstein again, but learned from Freud the art of concentration and self-hypnotism.
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Ex-member Joe Kellett, who related the same indoctrination process as Krieger, said leaders of the movement are able to recruit new members because the teachings and practice are essentially forms of hypnotism and self-hypnotism.
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When I was playing I used a self-hypnotism technique taught to me by our strength coach Lou Reicke.
Keep It Simple Terry Bradshaw 2002
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When I was playing I used a self-hypnotism technique taught to me by our strength coach Lou Reicke.
Keep It Simple Terry Bradshaw 2002
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When I was playing I used a self-hypnotism technique taught to me by our strength coach Lou Reicke.
Keep It Simple Terry Bradshaw 2002
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He had heard Tau speak often enough about self-hypnotism under such conditions, but this was the first time the meaning of it had been clear.
Voodoo Planet Andre Norton 1958
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The matter of self-hypnotism we shall consider in another chapter.
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If self-hypnotism is possible (and it is true that a person can deliberately hypnotize himself when he wishes to till he has become accustomed to it and is expert in it, so to speak), it does away at a stroke with the claims of all professional hypnotists and magnetic healers that they have any peculiar power in themselves which they exert over their fellows.
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Perhaps the most wonderful example of self-hypnotism which we have in history is that of the mystic Swedenborg, who saw, such strange things in his visions, and at last came to believe in them as real.
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