“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now as to your noise episode, here are some suggestions for future use in any episode where irritation is involved. Followed, these suggestions will help you answer the demands put upon you when you feel the need for certain responses. When you are annoyed, if possible state your annoyance to the person involved, reasonably, (underlined) but at the time of the annoyance. When you do not respond in this manner the annoyance builds up and you are then tempted to respond to one incident as if many were involved, because the others were not responded to adequately at the time.

You understand the abundance of energy possessed by your young neighbor. You simply do not want it expended at your expense. She does not know where to draw the line for her own good. She will be quite satisfied if someone she respects helps her draw a line of adequate behavior. She expected this from both of you for some time.

When you did not firmly or adequately express your displeasure then she wavered. She was not pleased with her own behavior, yet needed support that your reprimand would have provided, and can still provide.

Now. To begin a program of reasonable adequate response, to annoying stimuli, is your best insurance against overreaction and repression.

[...] Had you told him “Never mind, when the time comes you will make it,” that would have been adequate enough. You did say, several times, “You’ll be able to make it all right”—and that was also adequate and a good response.

Had your goals previous to your psychic experiences been adequate to your natures, and sufficient to you, nothing else would have developed—nor would you have been seeking so avidly answers to the kinds of questions that then and now concern you.

[...] “I will take your hand if necessary,” for example, would have been an adequate response.

What you have then was Ruburt’s desire to have his teeth fixed, when it was obvious that he must, and his fear that he could not perform adequately at this time. [...]

I was using this sense, I believe, in the episode described in Chapter 17, experiencing a concept that could not be expressed adequately in words, when everything in the room seemed to grow to tremendous size.

Those statements should not go underground, again, but he should sympathetically address his doubts and the various points of their contentions can then be quite adequately settled—or at least resolved, reconciled. [...]

[...] The legs are entering their final stages of adequate-enough recovery, so that the walking can be far smoother and his posture erect. [...]

[...] But this time, in spite of my system of indexing each session in at least a fairly adequate fashion, several days passed before I found the passage I wanted. [...]

It seems under those conditions that only pessimism can be an adequate response, so that any private or global condition of an adverse nature, left alone, will further deteriorate. [...]

These issues can all be encountered, however, and adequately encountered once they are clearly understood. [...]

Your given situation at birth, therefore, is one in which you cannot manipulate adequately in whatever way you have chosen. [...]

[...] They were not approved of, and intellectually Ruburt silenced them, before giving them adequate voice or expression.

The feelings can be adequately handled through reason and emotion after (underlined) they are allowed expression.

First of all, diet-wise, your idea of a normal diet is quite adequate. [...]

You did not get your suggestions through adequately because in this important area you misjudged its motives, and this caused a certain panic on your part, as mentioned.

[...] All symbols are an attempt to express feelings, feelings that can never be expressed adequately through language. [...]

[...] I wanted to be sure that the material given on the Speakers, so far, adequately dealt with the methods by which they were able to contact others in both the waking and dream states. [...]

His personal subconscious, to my relief and I hope to yours, takes care of itself quite adequately through the sublimating fabrications of fantasy into creative prose and poetry, in which I am in no way involved. [...]

This would have presented a great difficulty, as indeed it does when individuals with no adequate transference system for the subconscious, attempt investigations such as these.

[...] Each individual person literally possesses far more abilities than can be adequately expressed in any given lifetime. [...]

If you do not understand this, then you will take your newspapers and other news unthinkingly, thinking that a fairly adequate picture of world events is being portrayed—a picture that only deepens the negative feelings that are behind the invisible organization of such data. [...]

[...] As long as you think that your physical information about the world, through newspapers and so forth, presents a fairly adequate, objective view of events, then all of the evidence to the contrary will literally be invisible, for you will continue to organize your view of the world in the old way. [...]

The tensing of the jaw is highly important here, and has in the past prevented adequate healthy blood circulation to the gums—also causing, with the shallow breathing, the sinus difficulty, which exerted additional pressure to the cheek and mouth areas. [...]

[...] In your range of activity you can adequately identify events, project them in time and space, only by isolating certain portions of much larger and much smaller events, and recognizing a highly specific order of events as real.

[...] The mind, which is the inner counterpart of the brain, can at times perceive the far greater dimensions of any given event through a burst of sudden intuition or comprehension that cannot be adequately described on a verbal level.

[...] If his belief in his poor health continues unchecked, the medicine will no longer serve as an adequate counter measure. [...]

[...] It also builds up your own sense of worth and power as you are reminded of adequate performance at other levels of experience.

[...] Lucky ones like Ruburt went on chomping merrily with the teeth that were kept, and with the gums between that became quite adequate for the necessary procedures.

[...] As Ruburt definitely recovers, certain muscles not adequately used in the past must regain not only agility but strength, and begin to stretch to their natural capacity. [...]