"repeat to yourself" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to encourage someone to think something or to remember something. For example: "If you find yourself doubting your ability, repeat to yourself 'I can do this!'".
Keep repeating to yourself the steps and most of all, repeat to yourself the (what I like to call) Anti-Steps (what NOT to do).
If you're ever tempted, repeat to yourself: soup and salads.
Repeat to yourself: This is a stopgap, it's not a dead-end job.
This whole mess, you repeat to yourself, is caused by democracy and moral decay.
It's the type of mantra you might repeat to yourself when you're desperate to reach that 1,000th crunch.
Repeat to yourself: Neuroscience student David Cox says that repeating information is one of the best ways to remember it, as "pathways between neurons can be strengthened over time".
That's something you should probably repeat to yourself if you ever end up watching Norbit, the film that arguably lost him the best supporting actor Oscar for that year's Dreamgirls.
A good mantra to repeat to yourself is "absorb and show": absorb the ground with your foot and then show the soles of your shoes to the person behind you by really pushing off with your toes.
Epictetus shook me from these thoughts with this simple exercise: "Starting with things of little value — a bit of spilled oil, a little stolen wine — repeat to yourself: 'For such a small price, I buy tranquillity.' " Born nearly two thousand years before Darwin and Freud, Epictetus seems to have anticipated a way out of their prisons.
If you really thought that Cantor, the No. 2 banana in a House Republican Party that is dominated by the hard right, was going to sign on to such a deal at this stage, you need to stand in a corner and repeat to yourself a hundred times: "Grover Norquist says 'No New Taxes.' " Checkpoint 3: Have you brushed up on your game theory recently?
(Repeat to yourself at least three times).
