Term
Suggestion
Passing on a thought or attitude in such a way that a person accepts it without reasoning. For Murphy, suggestion can come both from other people and from yourself.
The Miracles of Your Mind, Joseph Murphy
Explained in
- The Miracles of Your Mind, Joseph Murphy
- The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Joseph Murphy
Words and expectations influencing a person’s state. Murphy says suggestion works when the person accepts it.
- Hypnosis. Suggestion. Telepathy, Vladimir Bekhterev
In Bekhterev's definition, the transfer of ideas, feelings and states from one person to another, bypassing the criticism and attention of the one who receives them. A concept of the early twentieth century.