“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The body is now utilizing nutriments in a constructive fashion, and does feel a greater need for food. [...] He has also done well in trusting his inclinations toward work, exercise, and relaxation, for the mind-body relationship will work as a unit. Stimulating thoughts appear when the body itself wants activity.

[...] The body tries. [...] You have only to encourage these, and to have faith in the body’s abilities and intents. [...]

[...] It is easier for a body to be healthy than ill, and in the terms of this discussion, for example, old age does not basically bring with it any particular diseases or susceptibility.

[...] It is far easier, basically speaking now, for the body to heal itself than for it not to. [...]

The mood, however, and the results that you achieved today, if sustained, draws to you from all of your experience and from the vast potential of Framework 2 those body events, healing situations, dreams, impulses, or whatever is needed to right Ruburt’s condition.

[...] They are signposts to inner portions of body and mind, deeply reassuring, and can serve to combat the negative suggestions that are often so numerous. [...] As much as possible, let Ruburt follow his body’s feelings during the night. He is still overly concerned about waking you too often, but his body often is expressing its need for motion and change. [...]

(Jane answered by telling me how she felt this morning—“discombobulated” —meaning that various parts of her body seem to move, or want to move, out of rhythm or sync with other parts—but that overall she recognizes that those are all healthy signs of the body trying to heal itself. [...]

[...] In a sense you are your own parents as you attempt to bring into physical reality an entirely new body of concepts and beliefs. [...]

Try to identify yourselves with the new season (summer), for the additional activity takes place of course within the structure of the body as well as within the structure of the earth. [...]

The stuff, the space outside of your body, is composed of the same elements, but in different proportions. There is a constant physical interchange between the structure you call your body and the space outside it; chemical interactions, basic exchanges without which life as you know it would be impossible.

[...] Physically, portions of you leave your body constantly and intermix with the elements. [...] But in other ways the adrenalin does not just stay in your body. [...]

[...] It is the body of your experience, coalesced in physical form. [...]

Consider the spectacular framework of your body just from the physical standpoint. [...]

[...] The same applies to the connection between the astral body and the physical body.

(Shortly before session time Jane told me she had the thought that dreams and astral travel, or the astral body, were somehow connected. [...]

[...] What is called the astral body is also composed of some of the same components.

[...] The astral body also has a form. [...]

[...] The physical body must be born and die. Within that experience, however, there is full freedom, and regardless of any ideas Ruburt might have had, the body can right itself in a moment—regardless of how long, in your terms, it has been in difficulty. [...]

[...] Almost each day we reread some of the late sessions doing with letting go, trust of the body and impulses, and similar concepts; they have been a great help. [...]

[...] For that matter, this of course applies to many important communication systems within the body itself, and to the constant alteration of cellular tissue and genetic material that would never be perceived through physical means.

You should understand that we have been talking about Framework 1 and Framework 2. Ruburt felt, and so did you to some extent, that it was easier to experience Framework 2’s spontaneity in the mental realm of imagination—but you each felt that the physical body was tied somewhat more rigidly to the dictums of Framework 1, to cause and effect. [...]

[...] Generalized body motions. [...]

Ruburt will be more and more familiar with easeful motions as his body tastes its growing freedom, and (musically) safety. [...]

[...] And remember again, that your body, Joseph, is being toned up and regenerated. [...]

[...] There were no marks on the chipmunk’s little body; they hadn’t tried to eat the creature. [...]

It is an excellent sign that as portions of the body are released they move spontaneously, following their own order—but they do move with remarkable ease, even while other portions of the body are slowly beginning to release themselves. [...]

[...] As I massaged her with Oil of Olay I told Jane that I’d stopped giving her body specific suggestions—say, that a hand could open up—because according to Seth’s material the body had its own order and schedule for showing improvements, and I’d become wary of giving suggestions that might conflict with that schedule. [...]

Again, the body knows the proper order, so that everything will come together in preparation for sitting, standing, and walking. [...]

[...] He thought that body and mind were two different things, that the body must be controlled for the sake of the mind, that his consciousness existed apart—in his head, say—with its own abilities, while his body had its own pursuits as apart from his own. [...]

His creative spontaneous self created the body to begin with, and all of its physical desires were precisely those that his creative abilities needed—a quickness of body and mind working together, a quick perception mentally and physically, a natural exhilaration that is supported by (underlined) the power, of his own nature.

3. Each morning in bed or after breakfast Rob to remind me to trust the physician within and the ancient wisdom of the body—those words.

6. Out-of-Body once a week.

In your sleep, however, your consciousness slips out of your body and returns to it frequently. You dream when you are out of your body, even as you dream inside it. You may therefore form dream stories about your own out-of-body travel, while your physical image rests soundly in bed. [...]

[...] You may believe that the soul “descends” into the body, and therefore that the body is lower, inferior, and a degraded version of “what you really are.” [...]

2. When I come across material that puts down the physical body, I sometimes try to counter such negative projections by turning to one of the technological accomplishments of our “degraded” species: I study photographs of minute portions of the human body, taken with a scanning electron microscope. [...]

[...] You will have a tendency to consider the body with its natural appetites wrong, and deny them, while at the same time the physical part of you will look upon your “good intents” as wrong, and infringements upon its own existence.

[...] You are changing the messages while the body is used to reacting smoothly, unquestioningly, to a certain set of beliefs.

Now: An artist produces a body of work in his lifetime. [...]

As mentioned in this book (in Chapter Four, for instance), the emerging memories will then turn on the body mechanisms, merging past and present in some kind of harmonious picture. [...]

[...] Alterations occur within the body. [...]

Some of this has to do with current mass beliefs, based on the idea of the mechanics of the body being more important than the thoughts behind the body’s working. [...] To some extent Ruburt believes it, and believes that the body must suffer if it sits for long periods, and so forth. The body is quite equipped on its own to remain flexible, and left alone will perform a variety of small motions while sitting, for example, to insure its flexibility. [...]

[...] It is easy to say that he has maligned his body, but the entire personality is body and mind and all, and the body itself has learned some comprehensions and joys also, having to do with sense appreciation, that some people never physically, now, experience. [...]

[...] When his mind was tired it would automatically signal the body to physical activity, walks, changed environment, and so forth. [...]

[...] By means of the brain the functions of the soul and intellect are connected with the body. [...]

The physical constitution of the body follows your beliefs, and so all of its sense data will faithfully mirror the beliefs that direct its activity. [...]

Even the intimate body experience alters. [...]

On such occasions your beliefs usually lose their edge, the directions you give to your body are not clear, and the world seems fuzzy. [...]

[...] There is clairvoyance within the organs of the physical body itself, because the organs of the body are not, quote, “just” matter, but energy which has composed itself into matter. [...]

Excess of chemicals within the body are drained off by the subconscious through its ability to act as a channel between fields of actuality. [...]

[...] I cannot stress too strongly the fact that in practical actuality the body exists within many fields, and it cannot be explained or understood when it is considered a product of one field only. [...]

[...] Energy may not be properly directed toward releasing from the physical field of the body excess chemicals into other fields. [...]

[...] They move toward like thoughts, and you have as a species an inner mass body of thought. [...] Each cell in your body is to some extent altered with each thought that you think. [...] Your body responds as you think it should, however, and so your conscious beliefs about reality have much to do with those probable experiences that you accept as a part of your intimate living.

[...] You train yourselves — biologically, even — to inhibit certain stimuli, yet often the body itself responds to the very stimuli that you consciously ignore. [...]

[...] Biologically, in your terms, such “brotherhood” operates instinctively in the cooperation of the body’s cells, as they function together to form the private corporal structure. [...]

[...] Your body instantly begins a cooperative venture, in which adjustments are made so that the wound begins to heal. [...]

[...] She’s experienced many physical sensations and changes in her body—and I could tell that it was responding very well to her constantly improving attitudes. [...]

[...] The changes in her body continued. [...]

Now: Ruburt’s body is reducing tensions. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s body is responding because his main affiliation—main (underlined)—is changing, so that actions necessary in the old system do not any longer apply.

[...] Many areas already activated are learning to cooperate again with other body structures. [...] Certain impulses are activated as the body realizes they have a chance for fulfillment—that is, impulses are reactivated in a certain order. [...]

[...] He then swept the kitchen, because the body wanted the motion, and so did he.

[...] If he had written instead, he thought, then he would have been denying the body impulses. [...]

[...] It seemed that once again the body’s natural defense mechanisms were being interfered with, according to Seth — but then, why were we here to begin with? [...] “I trust my body a hell of a lot more than I do that antibiotic,” Jane said. [...]

The body is indeed clearing itself out, stoking its furnaces — an idea quite foreign to the medical establishment.

[...] It is, of course, unfortunate that Ruburt is in that environment, but these are definitely indications of the body’s own healing processes. [...]

[...] Remember that the body is a natural self-healer.

[...] The body is making necessary changes, however: the chair activity keeping the knees limber enough while undue strain is not placed upon the body at this time. [...]

It was natural enough for a while that Ruburt be quite aware of bodily sensation when he tried to “give up all effort,” but he is beginning now to sense the body’s pattern of activity, its relaxation, its stretching periods, and so forth. [...] That is why the concentration upon the moment, upon his writing, upon, say, meals, immediately helps to take his mind off of his body. [...]

The body utilizes both energy and chemicals differently at night. [...]

The session should be read carefully, and the sessions given to trust of the body emphasized, now, instead of, say, the work sessions—again for now.