encouragement

[1]	heartening , reassuring , reassurance , buoying up , stimulating , stimulation , stimulus , animating , animation , supporting , support , promoting , promotion , inspiring , inspiration , cheering , urging , spur , spurring , exhorting , exhortation , prodding , urging , innervation , inciting , incitement
[2]	boost , stimulus , help , aid , support , (Colloq) pep talk