“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] They represent strong inclinations toward certain bodily or mental activity, certain biological preferences. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) It represents your physical reference point, your bodily framework. [...]

[...] Since the thymus is very important in the necessary process of maintaining bodily resistance to disease, these particular mice have little resistance. [...]

[...] All philosophies that stress the idea of the body’s impurity or degradation should also be seen as detrimental to bodily and spiritual integrity. [...]

[...] By labeling a group of symptoms you add to their idea of permanence, and give a name to certain aspects of bodily activity, distinguishing them from other activities and therefore giving them rather dangerous focus. They are seen as apart from other bodily activities and gain prominence.

[...] While physical consciousness is sifted through the bodily apparatus, you are usually unaware of noncorporeal kinds because of that process. [...]

The brain with its bodily connections must deal with the time lapses that sensual perception always imply. [...]

[...] These notes don’t really do justice to the extent of her bodily changes, improvements, that she’s been undergoing. [...]

[...] Your suggestion about elimination was a great help, for this automatically means that the body is exercised more in walking, and that bodily wastes are eliminated much more readily, hastening recovery. [...]

[...] At still other levels of reality, activities that you now consciously claim as your own have — in those same terms and from another viewpoint — become unconscious, providing a psychic history from which other identities emerge, as it seems that your own identities emerge from unconscious bodily activity.

Your very physical life, then, implies a “source,” a life out of which the physical one emerges, dash — the implied, unspoken, unmaterialized, unsounded vitality that supplied the ingredients for the physical, bodily, molecular “alphabet.” [...]

[...] So does the bodily relaxation, however, and that steady reduction of tension is bound to show good results as he learns to trust himself further. [...]

[...] (Pause.) This is because of the projection of the entire idea of body mechanisms, per se, as opposed to inner spontaneous bodily workings. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The cell’s stability, and its reliability in the bodily environment, is dependent upon its innate properties of instant communication and instant decision, for each cell is in communication with all others and is united with all others through fields of consciousness,³ in which each entity of whatever degree plays a part.

[...] They involve intense meditation of the body, and adverse imagery that itself affects the bodily cells.² Public health announcements about high blood pressure themselves raise the blood pressure of millions of television viewers (even more emphatically).

[...] They all undermine the individual’s sense of bodily security and increase stress, while offering the body a specific, detailed disease plan. [...]

[...] Once again, negative suggestion rules in the present and is projected into the future, for the individual is told that she is at the mercy of her own bodily processes, which might go awry at any moment.

[...] When he announces to you a new bodily feeling of release, to him personally it is as if he discovered a new planet.

[...] This applies in any bodily condition, of course.

Ruburt is embarking upon a different kind of relaxation—highly important, so in that regard these times are extremely creative, and that creativity will indeed be reflected in bodily releases and what you might call body inspirations. [...]

(Today Jane has had a steady barrage of bodily sensations of incipient release and change—her most active and encouraging one so far, since we began our program on April 3, 1978. [...]

Bodily motion is obviously of itself healing in nature. [...]

The conscious mind can direct bodily activity (long pause), but the body consciousness alone can perform those activites that bring forth life and motion.

[...] His bodily feelings, and his intuitive ones, were quite correct: nervous passageways were trying to reopen. [...]

[...] His bodily impulse to move and to go to the bathroom was even stronger. [...]

[...] For other reasons having to do with the chemical reactions during the dream state, bodily health would be improved; and this particular schedule would also be of help in schizophrenia, and generally aid persons with problems of depression, or those with mental instability.

Now, many diseases are simply caused by this division of yours and this long period of bodily inactivity, and this extended focus of attention in either waking or dreaming reality. [...]

[...] She said that last night’s dream sequences were her celebration of her bodily abilities — her insistence on the excellent workings of the body. [...]

[...] Muscles and ligaments and joints loosened, but this could not be accomplished without certain bodily sensations, without certain imbalances, as the body tried to bring about another adjustment and alignment. [...]

[...] His state of mind during the day then varies, so that with his files (of poetry) today he was in a highly relaxed, creative, productive, mental level, one that served to cushion his mind from the critical reproaches he can often give himself, and therefore bodily relaxation could continue. [...]

[...] In the terms of my bodily reality, those dire imaginings, whatever they are, are not real. [...]

The same applies if a friend becomes ill—the beliefs behind it say that you are vulnerable creatures, the victims of bodily distress that operates regardless of your wishes, and each instance of another’s illness can then be seen as proof of one’s own vulnerability. [...]