I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

People reading too much fall in the habit of writing only those things that they have learnt subconsciously than writing anything original.

The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one.

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.