Meanings
plural powers of suggestion
- countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe idea or theory in which one individual guides the thoughts and behavior of another through a suggestion or a proposal.
The power of suggestion does not accomplish everything; no more does surgery or medicine or any other agent.
1910, Charles Reynolds Brown, Faith and Health, page 1862 more examples
In some persons the power of suggestion is naturally strong. They unconsciously use it to good effect. This explains why some men are better politicians than others. Also why some men are "natural born salesmen".
1913, Fernando, Swiss hypnotist, Practical Psychology, A Practical Work on Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mental Healing, Auto-suggestion and Allied Phenoma with a Special Practical Course in Suggestive Therapeutics, Magnetic Healing, Personal Magnetism, page 14Intuitively he perceived the existence and the nature of the subjective mind, and in connection with it the tremendous powers of suggestion.
1917, Ralph Waldo Trine, The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit, page 140
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