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self-communion
self-communion n.
Brit. 
/ˌsɛlfkəˈmjuːnɪən/
, /ˌsɛlfkəˈmjuːnɪən/U.S. /ˌsɛlfkəˈmjunjən/
conversation or communication with oneself; contemplation, reflection (esp. in solitude); = self-communing n./ˌsɛlfkəˈmjunjən/ΚΠ
1661 G. Swinnock Door of Salvation 207 Self-communion is one special help to sin-confusion, and sound conversion.
1768 C. Nicolls Serm. occasioned by Death of Rev. Mr. Doughty, 9 The duty of this self-communion..is indeed absolutely necessary.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xci. 48 His self-communion with his own high soul.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iv. 186 The impression which effaced his troubled selfcommunion was that of a mirthless mask reflecting a sunken day from the threshold of the college.
2001 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 19 May The lyrics as well as the tunes..leave on the critical listener a feeling of self-communion enabling him or her to recapture the dream state.
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