“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As to the balanced diet, I will say this: you are not eating evenly. [...] There should be a daily balance of nutrients.

A balanced daily consumption of protein and carbohydrates, of meats and vegetables. [...]

[...] You are not giving your body a steady daily balance of nutrients. [...]

(Humorously:) I would prefer the balance of nap time and psychological time altered somewhat. [...]

Now there are some people who consider overall balance a prerogative, and you will usually find them in decent health, with average concerns, and you will not find them taking risks. [...] But the subconscious knows that the quality of life for that individual involves such exhilaration, and such a person literally chooses that rather than, for example, what someone else might consider a well-balanced long life.

[...] They do not usually concentrate with the same intensity in all areas of their lives, so there is seldom what you might think of as any ideal balance. [...]

That “well-balanced life” might well be considered a slow death to our risk seeker, and no moral judgment can be placed on such behavior.

For the present Ruburt’s ego will exert balancing resistance, like an anchor perhaps, or a weight. However the inner self has also tasted new freedom, so there will be a brief jolting while the relationships and forces work themselves out to achieve a new, integrated balance.

Again, we are involved with the necessity for a delicate balance between spontaneity and discipline. [...]

[...] The phrase, “I will progress safely”, is an excellent one to use, since it allows for continuation and progress balanced by safety.

There are always new things to be learned as new levels are reached, new controls to be mastered, new balances to be maintained, new disciplines that must be adopted; and initially this does involve a natural, added exertion of energy and increased activity, before the whole self learns to deal with the new level, and is comfortable in its manipulations.

The body’s chemical balance is changed. [...]

The condition should last only long enough to alter those balances. [...]

All of these influences have a part in the formation of the physical individual, and his existence is dependent upon a balance being maintained. [...] The systems lose complementary balance, but on the whole the systems operate together most efficiently.

All of these systems are intimately connected and delicately balanced, and an alteration in one sets up an alteration in each of the others. [...]

Viruses serve many purposes, as I have said before.¹ The body contains all kinds of viruses, including those considered deadly, but those are usually not only harmless, or inactive, but beneficial to the body’s overall balance.

[...] As solid as it seems to you, there are constant chemical reactions between it and the world, electromagnetic adjustments, alterations of balance, changes of relationships—alterations that occur between the body and its relationship with every other physical event, from the position of the planets and moon and the sun, to the position of the smallest grain of sand, to the tiniest microbe in anyone’s intestine (intently).

“When your own personalities are more or less in balance, you have no trouble at all in looking out for these creatures, and actually reinforcing their own existence with residues of your creative and sympathetic powers. [...]

[...] A balance. A balanced arrangement.” [...] All of the geometrical figures on the back of the object are balanced—the circular postmark, the small triangle and square just above and to the right of the postmark, and the rectangle of the postage stamp.

[...] An equality, a balance. A balanced arrangement.

Your feelings always change the chemical balance of your body and alter its hormonal output, but the danger comes only when you refuse to face the contents of your conscious mind. [...]

[...] Any of the conditions mentioned puts you out of touch with your inner sense of balance. [...]

Simultaneously all of these inhibited reactions seek release, for the manifestation of aggressive feelings sets up natural balances within the body itself, as well as serving as a communication system with others. [...]

[...] They are meant to elicit reactions from others and to arrive at new points of understanding, a balance of rights. [...]

When an upset of balance scatters his energy then it escapes, or can, into those pitfalls. [...]

The struggle between the ego and intuitional self follows here as I have told you, but with the correct use of energy these elements are balanced.

[...] A lack of balance here between various drives. [...]

[...] At times the table tipped up on two legs, then would poise there, seemingly balanced by itself. [...]

[...] It described circles, balanced on one leg at a time, then two, in a regular rhythm. [...]

[...] The body maintains its equilibrium by reacting against gravity, by coming in contact with other bodies, by changing its own sensations, by glorifying in the balance between balance and off-balance.

[...] His personality pattern is not quiet, nor aloof, but given to spontaneous inner motion that maintains its own individualistic balance. [...]

And in using, it will build up innate systems of checks and balances that will be natural for your own personalities, and effective. [...]

[...] He does not have to bend over more at certain stages to maintain balance, as has been suggested, and he has followed those suggestions except for the back. [...]

The improvement will be overall, so that balance is maintained.

[...] And yet we wanted a balance also, and so you stand as a man who intuitively recognized the value of inner information and the importance of the material, even though you were unacquainted with such ideas.

[...] The balance of the session is deleted from the record. [...]

[...] It was apparent that her control with this new method was somewhat unsure; she paused often while speaking, and appeared to have to make quite an effort to maintain just the right balance between being herself while allowing Seth to hover just below, or within her range of consciousness, so that she could pass along his data. [...]

[...] Jane said she could very easily have gone into a deep trance, and had to work to keep everything in balance—herself, Seth, etc. [...]

[...] On the other hand it was part of his method, a way of intensifying focus, increasing perception in a small area while also insuring safety, so that inner excursions would be balanced by a constant worrisome body that would urge him to return.

[...] Ruburt does not need the extravagances of today’s statement, though it is a stepping stone, but he must now realize the importance of a balanced life. [...]

[...] To operate adequately in your highly specific field (pause), an almost infinite amount of information must be instantly assimilated, probabilities calculated, and certain balances maintained of which you are not even aware.

A system of checks and balances exists, however, so that in certain dreams you are made aware of these blueprints. [...]

[...] (Smile.) There are emotional components, sometimes at balance, often not at balance, in any personality as you think of personality. When the two of you live together you have many more elements to integrate: new balances. [...]

Sometime we will have a group of sessions or a chapter in a book dealing with the emotional levels of these two people (indicates RFB and Jane) and the relationship with psychic activity, the balances that are maintained and changed.

[...] Passivity, however, should be balanced on your part by more assertive action as far as habitual reactions are concerned. [...]

[...] It is concerned with the entity’s innate working knowledge of the basic vitality of the universe, without which no manipulations of vitality would be possible—as, for example, you could not stand up straight without first having an innate sense of balance.