“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane doesn’t appear to be doing too well — her body is up to something, I told her. [...]

Behind many such attitudes is the idea that the body itself is unworthy, and that starving it somehow cuts down on the appetites of the flesh. [...]

This keeps the body in a state of constant turmoil. [...]

[...] I realize that your social mores also dictate your eating habits — but four light meals a day will overall serve you very well, and give the body a more steady, regulated nourishment.

The body is willing, itself, to move—and anxious to do so. [...] By physically manipulating the body however in a given framework, Frank shows Ruburt that the body can move better. [...]

[...] The original reasons behind the condition have largely been taken care of, but he is left with physical beliefs about his body. [...] He set up a bodily behavior pattern, however, and it had to be based on body beliefs.

In the old frame of reference he had to convince himself that his body could not move well, or fast. [...] Also, he could not travel too far inward without being drawn back to the body’s discomfort. [...]

Ruburt’s body can move normally now. This does not mean that he need feel like an idiot, but that he set up a body habit for reasons that he once considered valid, and that to change it requires some conscious effort. [...]

The body is trying to tell you that you have a problem, and because you did not cope with it, and denied it mentally, it is physically materialized in symbolic body language. [...]

[...] Symbolically you do not feel that you have freedom of motion, and you are expressing this through the body mechanism. [...]

All feelings are reflected in the body. [...]

This was reflected in other portions of the body as well. [...]

[...] When people think in terms of one self, they of course identify with one body. [...] The body is at any given moment, however, a mass conglomeration of energy formed from that rich bank of probable activity. The body is not stable in the terms usually thought of. [...]

[...] When she sipped beer, she felt the cold liquid descend inside her body, but displaced to the right of her esophagus. She recited a list of opposing feelings in her own body that she was simultaneously aware of in her “bigger body”: Her right foot was very cold, her back very hot … I got her a sweater, for our living room had cooled off. [...]

[...] The inner cellular body consciousness feels itself massive, while to you cells are minute. [...] But those cells are aware of the body’s history, in your terms, and in a much more familiar fashion than you are aware of the earth’s history.

[...] All of the atoms and molecules that have composed your body since your birth, and will compose it until your death, in your terms, exist now; so even your knowledge of the body is experienced in a time form — that is, bit by bit.

[...] The exercises are important symbolically because they show he is willing to spend time with his body rather than ignoring it. [...] The body will be encouraged to free its rhythms and reestablish its natural ones. [...] Areas of the body are being manipulated and literally washed, that have been relatively untouched and denied energy in the past. [...]

[...] The yoga is good, a confrontation of Ruburt with his body, leading to a reconciliation. [...]

Imagine the colors as waves of light, not as applied (with gestures) or added onto, but as growing out of, filling the preliminary sketch as blood fills the body.

(The idea of letting the painting fill itself with color “as blood fills the body” is excellent.

(10:10.) In the Last Supper when Christ said, “This is my body, and this is my blood,” He meant to show that the spirit was within all matter, interconnected, and yet apart — that his own spirit was independent of his body, and also in his own way to hint that he should no longer be identified with his body. For he knew the dead body would not be his own.

[...] The tomb was empty because this same group carted the body away. [...] He caused the wounds to appear then upon his own body, and appeared both physically and in out-of-body states to his followers. [...]

[...] Christ then changed his mode of behavior, appearing quite often in out-of-body states to his followers. [...]

[...] If you find yourself in physical difficulties healthwise, you cannot say: “Why doesn’t my body stop me and assert its own wisdom?” because in the truest sense there is no division between your thoughts and your body. [...] Your thinking is meant to ensure your survival in those terms, as much as your body mechanism.

[...] Desire, love, intent, belief and purpose — these form the experience of your body and all the events it perceives. You cannot change one belief but it alters your body experience. [...]

[...] Love, purpose, belief, and intent — these shape your physical body and work upon it and with it even as at other levels cellular consciousness forms it.

[...] Your thoughts and your body cells are reflected one in the other.

(Then the central part of my body felt depressed down to bed level; I had the odd thought that I was more aware of the bed beneath my middle body than I was of the body itself. It was almost as though that part of the body wasn’t there. [...]

(Also at times my body felt lighter, as though it was engaging in exploratory movement.

[...] Then abruptly I felt my whole body swing headfirst to the left, then to the right, as though horizontally pivoted at the belly. [...]

Physically the body is still responding. Certain body beliefs operate. [...]

[...] You must walk in the driveway, showing your body your intent to do so, and it will respond by walking easily. [...]

[...] Show the body what you want and it will respond. [...]

[...] But I still thought it very strange for the eyes to cause problems if the body was in the process of healing itself, as Seth has so often said recently is the case. [...] I was ready to admit that the body could repair itself in ways that might be mysterious to us, but at the same time I certainly wanted additional reassurances from Seth that we were doing the right thing in going along with his information. [...]

Until the very recent past, his body in a way was overdisciplined, so that it maintained a fairly stable but rigid framework. Certain postures were allowed, certain motions, and not others, as if Ruburt operated his body as though it were a puppet, keeping it in certain ritualized motions by holding the strings too tightly.

Improvements could occur, and did, but at one time or another the portions of the body had to begin to break away from the overall blocked picture. [...] You did not want a body in the same position, simply moving faster, for example. [...]

[...] The body is not a puppet, however, so the tightened ligaments and muscles restrained the joints to some extent—all of them. [...]

[...] To that point, he had believed that his thoughts had no effect upon his body. [...]

He decided to trust his body for the first time in his life, and to trust his mind. [...]

There is the other side of the picture, for his new thoughts physically regenerated the body, or allowed it to regenerate itself. [...]

Fears, sometimes even seemingly irrational ones, can serve to rouse the body if you have been too lethargic, or have been in a rut psychologically or physically. [...] Ideally even illnesses are a part of the body’s health, representing needed adjustments, and also following the needs of the subjective person at any given time. (Long pause.) They are a part of the interplay between the body and mind, or spirit.

(Long pause, one of many, at 9:51.) Give us a moment… To some extent your society’s beliefs allow you enough freedom so that most of you trust your bodies while they are growing toward adulthood. [...] The religions do insist that man has a purpose, yet in their own confusion they often speak as if that purpose must be achieved by denying the physical body in which man has his life’s existence, or by “rising above” “gross, blunted,” earthly characteristics. [...]

[...] Your body faithfully reflects your inner psychological reality. [...] Sometimes sad or depressing thoughts provide a refreshing change of pace, leading you to periods of quiet reflection, and to a quieting of the body so that it rests.

In such instances natural healing processes occurred, for which the body is seldom given credit. Such healings do not just involve changes in the body, for example, for a physical healing can take place because of events that seem utterly disconnected.

His body is becoming more responsive, and there is no reason why the improvements cannot smoothly accelerate. An attempt to creatively divert his thoughts will help, so he gives his body time to escape his notice.

[...] The body is quickening. [...]

It is almost impossible to explain the intricate relationship between, say, the positions he adopts and their effects upon other portions of the body. [...]

His body has become more dependable walking, as he knows. [...]

[...] Now his desires and intents have set it upon a healthy, reasonable setting, and the inner processes are automatically activated to bring about the normal quickening of his body, as before his intent led to the body’s automatic slowness. [...]

[...] They were very important, for they’d leave the body free to heal itself. [...] The body finally became so desperate to free itself of that rigid Sinful-Self superhuman image that it took itself into the hospital for a month—even if it did almost die in order to get itself in there. [...]

[...] Trust the body’s rhythms as these changes occur, however. [...]

(Long pause at 8:00.) In a manner of speaking, the Sinful Self created the superhuman self-image that demanded so much, and it encased Ruburt’s body as if in concrete. [...]

[...] Has the body’s effective speed suddenly quickened? [...] Instead, mental beliefs about the body’s performance have changed, and increased physical speed resulted. The body can indeed run faster than the current record (of 3:49). [...]

Your natural athletes, for example, show through their physical expertise certain ideal body conditions. [...]

[...] Your civilizations are your splendid, creative, exterior renditions of the inner social groupings of the cells of the body, and the cooperative processes of nature that give you physical life. [...]

[...] When you have a headache or a simple stomach upset, or if you have a chronic, annoying but not serious condition, such as trouble with your sinuses, or if you have hay fever — in those situations, remind yourself that your body does indeed have the capacity to heal itself.

[...] His brother did not know that the urban renewal gentleman was in that particular restaurant where the two might meet, and until the meeting did occur nothing showed in Framework 1, though much was occurring in Framework 2. The creative potential knows exactly what changes must occur in Ruburt’s body so that he can walk normally. [...] The process of his complete recovery includes body events and other events that may seem to have no connection—events perhaps that will change an attitude here or a belief there.

All portions of Ruburt’s body are gently and almost constantly being stretched and then exercised in the best possible order. [...] The constant activity however prepares the body for normal walking, and exercises necessary portions, then stretches them further, so that while Ruburt is not walking more noticeably upright, he is indeed taller, particularly when standing; different portions are exercised when he is sitting or standing, so that each change can be counted upon for the next alteration in posture.

[...] The performance is evidence of the fact that beliefs have a far greater effect upon the body and its capacities than is anywhere seriously considered. [...]

[...] All of those people who might in any way help Ruburt change certain beliefs, for example, are notified in Framework 2, so that the most auspicious psychological events occur, triggering further body releases.

[...] The upper portion of the body and its posture is extremely important in his walking, and again in general—in general—the upper or the lower portion of the body has the greater activity in healing at a given time, while the other portion is relatively, now, at rest.

The main issue is, again, maintaining the trust in the body’s processes, and in its intent to heal, and in its ability to do so. [...] He is very seldom however in such a mood for any period, for each day now brings some definite feelings of release to his body.

[...] The most important point is to cultivate your faith in Framework 2, and for Ruburt to realize that the releasing feelings in his body signify the fact that his body is indeed releasing.

[...] That activity is carried downward through the body, gently changing the rib area, shoulders, arms and hands. [...]

[...] He has shown himself (Jane held her right arm out; in the last couple of days it has straightened out noticeably) that the body can change—that alternate realities can alter the present that you know, and that new intent can alter a life.

The body responded, and is, and will. [...]

In your terms, the ideal itself arises because of the intimate daily chores and activities of living; the sacredness of the body’s motion and all of those questions that arise between its motion and the time when it will be silent. [...]

Certain coordinates within the body itself are activated, and the body is provided with a different kind of charge, at least momentarily. [...]

Ruburt has become more aware of the body’s impetus toward action and motion. This allows the body to act in an ever-more coordinated fashion, reactivating the muscles’ memories of normal activity. [...]

[...] This automatically brings about a far better body condition. [...]

Natural hypnosis and conscious beliefs give their proper instructions to the unconscious, which then dutifully affects the body mechanism so that it responds in a manner harmonious with the beliefs. So you condition your body to react in certain fashions. [...]

[...] The literature and announcements act as strong negative suggestions, following the nature of natural hypnosis — as a conditioning process, you see, where you are looking for specific symptoms, and examining your body under the impetus of fear.

[...] In believing them, the young automatically begin the gradual conditioning of their own bodies and minds. [...]

[...] Often though, some strong suggestions of a very negative character are given, so that all foods except certain accepted ones are seen as bad for the body, and the cause of diseases. [...]