“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Worked well, James. 2 hours AM. MOSTLY THOUGH, THE ODDEST FEELINGS, as if my head in particular has been held in one position only though I know it hasn’t been THAT stiff; like an iron rod from my head downward so that I had to move in one fashion; all together; and my head inside... shudders, like a car trying to start; particularly something trying to drop or extend or lengthen in the right side of my neck between head and shoulders; and my sinus drain / with this, a willingness more to walk, difficult to describe; and I feel LIGHTER ON MY FEET; though I don’t weigh much when I walk I feel very heavy... and I’m doing this James thing about leaving melancholy’s castle; surely there’s a connection. I did realize yesterday that the body’s natural “God given”! defenses include agility, responsiveness, strength, dependability, good health—and instead I undermined those and set up artificial rigidities; did realize impossible as it sounds that Seth was right—constant anxiety and tenseness caused the whole thing; and DID resolve to let it all go.

Comes to me today that years ago I got scared when I thought anyhow that Rob’s parents “shit on us” when we were broke; before I hadn’t worried about money—just writing . Then, still kept symptoms to guard against distractions, etc. (and I feared ridicule). I know I determined to get money and through my work—so we could work—(while seeing to it that I could drop jobs); and started the anxieties and body habits which then... I kept. But Christ, my condition is worse than poverty; so—out it goes. I may be a slow learner but once I DO learn—I do.

That adds to anxiety, and the anxiety helps keep the position the same, and brings about a hopeless feeling in which nothing but an instant, complete healing would be trusted.

[...] The imagined threats then cut down your feelings of security, adding anxieties for which the sense perceptions can directly find no reason.

[...] Responding only to the stimuli immediately available will often alleviate the anxiety causing the stomach difficulty.

[...] Over a period of time Ruburt’s anxieties brought about a like condition, but not observable in the same fashion.

[...] Had you made greater effort to understand, both of you, the affair for one thing would have been much more pleasant, but further anxiety would not have been generated. [...]

[...] Further anxiety results.

1. Emphasize present natural prime sense data, for relaxation from anxiety.

[...] And now, I am not joking, no pieces of anxiety and guilt and doubt, but peace in which anxiety and doubt disintegrate. [...]

With your cultural training and background, however, the feeling itself further alarms you, so that you become highly anxious, and it is that anxiety itself that is the real symptom, say; it is the anxiety you should question. [...]

[...] Your fears, generated by the beliefs of your society, of course, add extra anxiety when Ruburt’s eyes look poorly, and he has trouble with his vision.

[...] On the other hand, the fear also generates anxiety, and sometimes more discomfort, as you interpret it, as a result.

[...] By using the powers of your subconscious mind correctly, you free your mind of all sense of competition and anxiety in buying and selling.)

[...] Immediately I began to feel light sensations of anxiety in my chest. [...]

[...] His state of anxiety must be lessened. [...]

[...] If you overreact to unsynchronized events, then they can invade prime data—and a state of anxiety results.

[...] Some apparitions are thought-forms sent by survival personalities out of lingering deep anxiety. [...]

It is indeed a basic anxiety and fear. [...]

[...] For both the fear and the anxiety is based simply upon a resulting distrust of his ability to handle eloquence or verbal expression.

[...] A few minutes ago she’d told me that she had to have the session in order to get rid of the anxiety-hallucination complex. [...]

First of all, the anxiety rises with its own rhythm (pause), expressing at this time the anxious patterns that lie beneath, serving both as messages of the nature of the stress, and containing also other deeper material that has, in a fashion, accumulated. [...]

[...] Very simply, delta brain waves are connected with dreamless sleep, theta with creativity and dreams, alpha with a relaxed alertness and changing consciousness; beta — the fastest — with concentration, and with an intense focus upon all of the challenges [and anxieties and stresses, many would say] faced in the ordinary daily world.

[...] Had you both trusted the body, had you believed that it did indeed improve to improve, then Ruburt would have been more aware of the new balancing sensations and positions, and would not have added anxiety on top.

His body is responding extremely well, despite the mental anxiety that both of you place upon the process. [...]

[...] For the problem already has to do with the fact that he plunges into both dilemmas and solutions, with a desperation that is born from anxiety, if not pure panic.

For in the very quiet and discipline required to follow the problem, those reactions on the part of the personality will set up actions which will of themselves solve the problem; and we will find that also there will be suggestions given, and very important suggestions, whereby a systematic effort will be made on the part of the personality to enlarge the scope of his action, in spite of the ego’s anxiety to limit them, and this itself will seem to work a miracle.

(9:29.) A man believing he has heart trouble will finally, through his own anxiety, affect the functioning of his “involuntary” system until his heart is definitely harmed if the belief goes unchecked. [...]

Too great a conscious focus upon these purposes gives a negative reaction of doubt and anxiety. [...]

People felt depersonalized beneath labels, so that they were told: “Oh, yes, you are a victim of ulcers, or anxiety attacks, or whatever,” while the very personal suffering portion of their beings was ignored. [...]

[...] Fears turn into severe anxiety, however, formless, when they are not identified and understood. [...]