“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The medical profession unwittingly promotes the idea of illness above health, and in its devotion to uncovering disease it often completely forgets the entire concept of the body’s natural defenses and vitality. [...]

A chronically ill existence, for example, might also be a measure of discipline, enabling you to use deeper abilities that you ignored in a life of good health. [...]

In many cases of health problems, energy is actually being applied to block the body’s normal healing processes. [...]

[...] They are like a reward food, while many of the health-food foods come somewhat closer—somewhat closer (much louder)—to a kind of punishment syndrome, though I do not want to stress the point. [...]

[...] I didn’t think she wished to be 26 years old again, but I also didn’t know what the move might do for us now—that is, as far as helping restore her health went. [...]

[...] The feeling of ease and release is a magic quality here—for health can come as naturally and easily.

[...] Generally speaking, this automatic mechanism that adjusts the whole health structure works very well when the personality is in the dream state.

[...] They can improve our health or help deepen a mood of depression. [...]

[...] Psychoanalysts use dreams to delve into subconscious motivations, but few people know how to utilize dreams creatively: to improve health, gain inspiration, restore vitality, solve problems, and enrich family relationships.

[...] He has never tried to bully me into giving up the habit, merely saying that it didn’t help my overall health or development).

[...] It may then indeed seem to the individual himself or herself that the health crisis is being thrust upon them, unwanted, despite their own wishes or intents. [...]

[...] Ruburt was not taught to love himself as a child, and thought of his talents as a way of justifying his existence — an existence of somewhat suspicious nature, he felt, since his mother told him often that he was responsible for her own poor health.

[...] The other negative suggestions involving health, given during the entire afternoon and evening, contributed. [...]

(Yesterday marked the beginning of Jane’s third week home from the hospital, and lately I’ve been trying to gently encourage her to begin a series of private sessions in an effort to learn what we can about the whole hospital-health-establishment belief system, and our part in it through and with the Seth material. [...]

[...] Your natural health and creativity and motion will be expressed at all levels of your experience. [...]

[...] Once more, you will not be sick if you think you are well — but there may be other ideas that make you believe in the necessity for poor health.

(10:43.) Give us a moment… Most people interpret the realities of their lives, their triumphs and failures, their health or illness, their fortune or misfortune, then, in the light of a mythical reality that is not understood as such. [...]

It is much easier for me to deal with other people’s illnesses and health nuisances, than it is to deal with Ruburt’s. He asks me a question and then slams the ego gates down, refusing to hear the answer. [...]

He will not have to worry about serious physical illness, nor will you, Joseph; as a sideline, often physical illness of a serious nature, or habitual bad health, can often be taken as an indication that the individual involved is in the maelstrom, the center, of his reincarnational cycle upon your plane. [...]

In all instances of ill health, the psychic inner forces are being misdirected. [...]

[...] The connections between the emotional climate and physical health have never been clearly understood, because emotions were not known to have such electrical reality. [...]

All of these matters, you see, and many more, from the considerations of health and the formation of destructive ulcers and tumors, to the construction of any simple physical object, to the construction of an apparition—all of these are in one way or another connected with inner focus and concentration.

(See the brief references to the therapy of value fulfillment in the opening notes for Session 862, with its Note 1. Today I’d mentioned to Jane how I remembered Seth’s saying — perhaps a couple of years ago — that still untouched in his material is the whole question of the body consciousness, and its role in health and many other fields. [...]