“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:00.) I want here to stress the basic playful exercising aspects of creativity. When a child indulges in physical play, it exercises its muscles and its entire body. [...] The child does not consciously exercise his or her legs so that they will be strong, but simply joyfully follows the inner impulse to do so. [...]

[...] It is also, like physical exercise, an energizing phenomena, one that expands and extends the mental and psychic properties as surely as physical exercise develops the body’s being. [...]

[...] Despite himself, however, he was stretching the dimensions of his own consciousness, exercising his consciousness in different directions, expanding the scope of his abilities—and in so doing contributing a small masterpiece to the world. [...]

All children exercise, though relatively few end up, say, as specialists in sports, so the end result of such physical play is the future development of a healthy, strong body. [...]

Follow the exercise... [...] This is a symbolic exercise... [...]

...Exercises in recent sessions are good if not overdone. (A reference to projections.) You shouldn’t do these however until you have tried the water exercise at least 30 or 35 times.

(Seth has never suggested this water exercise to anyone else. [...]

The exercise of the self above the waters will put you in control enough so you don’t have to worry.

[...] More similar mild exercises, including getting the “satin” feeling in her right shoulder. “I’ve got that thing again where when I stop doing the exercises my eyes work better,” she said. [...] After getting her eye drops Jane did some more subdued exercises while I made notes and worked on mail. [...]

[...] Evidently numerous exercises could promote relaxation around the eyes, helping her vision. [...]

Beside at least walking around the house, Ruburt is to do five minutes of exercise a day, of his choice; but devote it to the idea of expressing freedom for his body—not absolute freedom, but to experience that feeling. [...]

[...] The actual physical suggestions I am giving—the walk and exercises—are necessary reinforcements. [...]

The yoga exercises encourage the muscles to stretch as well as relax, and so far his choice of exercises is good. [...]

[...] If (doubly underline) you can manage, it would be good for you to oversee Ruburt’s exercises—or perhaps even do some with him; again, to add to the sense of excitement and support. [...]

[...] In the same way, if he could count on you in the exercises for a while, this would relieve him of the fear that the project, begun unsuccessfully in the past, and not continued, would follow the same pattern. [...]

Your own attitude will also automatically be more constructive and hopeful as you see for yourself the resulting changes as exercises are continued. [...]

As Seth suggests, through even a five-minute exercise, in which we sit quietly and look about, we can become aware that the present is the point of power. In his exercise, we gently remind ourselves that we aren’t at the mercy of our past beliefs unless we think we are. We have the full freedom to insert new creative goals in our point-of-power exercises. [...] Periodically we repeat the exercise — but easily, without pressure, confident that we’re doing well. [...]

[...] They might do the point of power exercise,² for example. [...]

In The Nature of Personal Reality, Seth deals extensively with the point of power, its exercises and meanings and benefits. [...]

(10:35.) Ruburt has been responding to new beliefs, and his walking and exercises, beautifully. [...]

[...] Today is one of the few times she’s missed walking since she began her exercises. [...]

I would like each reader to try two exercises. [...]

[...] This exercise has another part: When you have finished the procedure just given, then change your viewpoint; see the event from the standpoint of someone else who is also involved. [...]

No one can do this exercise for you, but the subjective results can be most astonishing. [...]

For the second exercise, take a photograph of yourself and place it before you. [...]

The fact that the fearful ego was beginning to tighten explains your reaction to the exercises. The ego can build up around the inner self like a glacier, and the exercises help melt it away. [...] … You were released so quickly as a result of the exercises that you didn’t know what had happened.…

Following Seth’s suggestions, Rob began doing a few simple yoga exercises, and the night before the eighteenth session he used self-hypnosis to relax his muscles. [...] Before he began the exercises, he was very uptight, with sore muscles and a repressive body pose. [...]

[...] This is what happened after your exercises. [...] This is why I suggested the exercises at this time.

Begin the yoga exercises and follow them faithfully. [...]

(Pause at 10:01.) This exercise is a mental and biological doorway that can expand both your concepts of yourself and reality. There may be instances in which it seems that little progress is made during the exercise itself. [...] The exercise may also result in a different kind of a dream, one that is recognized within the dream state, at least, as an introduction to a probable reality. [...]

Until you have tried the exercise and become fully acquainted with it, you will not understand its effectiveness. [...] Whether or not you have any great success, the exercise will begin a neurological reorientation that will be most important if you hope to glimpse realities that are outside of your present neurologically accepted sense-reality.

An excellent preliminary exercise is the following:

Some people will have little trouble with the exercise, and others will need to exert persistence before finding any success at all. [...]

I was glad to see that Ruburt began the back exercises once more. [...]

[...] I want to point out that the back exercises, because of the quietude and training in concentration, represent excellent practices for both of you, and for Ruburt in particular. [...]

[...] Daily use of those particular back exercises, with their mental discipline, will further aid in his development, until he will find indeed that he can not only relax at will, but even when he does not have time to will relaxation, that is, relaxation will be the built-in conditioned reflex that panic used to be.

[...] The exercises and all the other measures which he has learned will stand him in good stead. [...]

[...] Muscles and mind are both exercised. [...] Some of the exercises I will suggest will put you in touch with the way events are formed.

I am going to suggest a series of exercises. [...]

The exercises will not work, however, in the way they are meant to if they are embarked upon with too serious an air or intent. [...]

[...] The exercises I will suggest have to do with games “that anybody can play,” then — with the natural joyful manipulation of the imagination that children employ.

[...] The ommm exercises, with his late understanding, relieved the body enough so that the excellent rune exercises began to work, on his mind as well as his body. [...]

[...] I was very concerned about her condition, even though she’d recently embarked on a course of exercises and changing beliefs that was evidently beginning to help her. [...]

[...] The ommm exercises help, again, because they disengage you and put you in a free drive, relieving the body momentarily at least of stress, and reacquainting it with ease. [...]

[...] The ommm exercises, or a version, should be followed by you also, Joseph. [...]

[...] Nerve patterns are being reactivated, circulation patterns reinforced, muscles contracting and expanding in their own exercises, right now, in a concentrated, rather intensified bodily commotion. [...]

[...] He can help himself by remembering what I am saying, by exercising gently at such times, and by remembering the miraculous processes within the body that are indeed supporting him. [...]

The exercises—or rather, the exercising—automatically stimulates all portions of the body, and will lead to periods of relaxation.

The arms have been exercised in new ways. [...]

[...] Ruburt is doing the point of power exercise well. [...]

He is afraid, of course, that if he “gives into” impulses other than writing for a day or so that he is lax, yet the exercise and relaxation of the body refreshes the soul and allows the intuitions their clear vision. [...]

[...] Ruburt has exercised often because separate portions of the body were ready for certain motions, while the overall balance for walking, for example, was not present, since various areas of the body were changing at different rates. There will be periods when he feels like walking often, and shortly, and they well may be followed by periods when separate portions of the body may want to be exercised, say, alone.

[...] In the past two weeks, however, in particular, there were periods when the arms and legs were both changing in their own fashions, so that Ruburt did not feel like walking, while he did feel like exercising. He had difficulty with this (left) leg, and became upset—but the back leg muscles were exercising themselves. [...]

Give us a moment … When you try these exercises, therefore, make an honest attempt to leave your conventional ideas behind you. [...] There is an exercise that will help you.

[...] I consider my own book, The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book, as a prerequisite for the exercises given here in this volume.

If you do not understand the natural grace of your being¹ then when you try some of the exercises given here you may automatically translate them into a quite limiting set of beliefs.

[...] There is no danger in the exercises I suggest. [...]

[...] The exercises which Ruburt is barely beginning will be of great help in our work, and in the development of his abilities. They are also however excellent exercises that will result in the training so advantageous at the point of transition.

(At break, Jane showed me some yoga exercises she has recently resumed. [...]

[...] The earlier resistance against exercise was quite understandable, for it was a symptom of the inner resistance.

[...] The small but vivid “dream” is an example of a mental spontaneous exercise that in its fashion is every bit as effective as a physical exercise—and such spontaneous normal motion points the way toward the body’s further physical activity. [...]

[...] She began some exercises. [...]