“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As I have told you often, your body reacts to your thoughts. Now, it does no good to take ten minutes a day and give yourself good suggestions and say, “I am brave, I am strong, I am healthy and young and rich” and spend the rest of the time saying to yourself, “I am poor, I am getting old, I feel sore, or it is a cruddy world.” Therefore, often you allow these thoughts to take all of your conscious attention.

You are hypnotizing yourself. You would not think of going to a hypnotist and having him tell you that you are getting sicker by the moment or the world was getting cruddier by the moment or that your arm or foot or head or toe or ear would hurt more and more with each breath that you took. You would have the man up to be hung and think such an affair an evil thing indeed, and yet you do this to yourselves often and then you say with all blind innocence, why does this come about, why am I sick or why am I sore or why am I caught in this cruddy universe and yet you do not change your own thought. You use suggestion in the same way that you read a paragraph from a book that you think you should read perhaps for five minutes, but then you allow your (words lost)to take over completely and it seems to you that you have no control.

As you all know, and this is not new, your pitiful body changes with each thought that you have and with each emotion. If you luxuriate in self-pity and feelings of chaos then you have yourselves to blame. There is no other place where you can lay the blame and it is up to you, to each of you individually, to watch the nature of your thoughts for with your thoughts you created the body that you have, the individual realities that you know. You create your little toe and your elbow and the pupil of your eye and your legs. When you allow your thoughts to run riot then your life runs riot. Now, there is no contradiction here with what I have said about spontaneity. When you have allowed negative habits, however, to take over, then somewhere you must draw the line for the negative habits knock away the discipline. The negative habits knock away even spontaneity for all thoughts of good will and health and vitality disappear beneath these thoughts that you are handing yourself every day like poison upon the spoon, whether the spoon be wooden or tarnished or silver. Now, this applies to everyone in the room to some extent or another, for there is no one that cannot stand improvement and this includes our friend Ruburt, but you do not understand yourselves or know yourselves. If you do not know your own thoughts, and if you cannot change them when you want to, you are not at the mercy of your thoughts.

Now, after my cheerful little message, I will let you all take a break. I want to make sure that you are all healthy and strong and that your eyes are good so that you can read The Seth Material.

When you have strong aggressive feelings admit them as being legitimate feelings and accept them as legitimate on their level. Do not deny them. Now, when you accept them and feel them, the very acceptance and acknowledgment gives you some relief and the feelings, to some extent, already begin to dissipate. And when you refuse to accept them, they build up and the longer you refuse to acknowledge them they continue to build up until they have an explosive charge. If normal aggressive feelings are accepted when they are felt they will not give you trouble, they will dissipate. Physical activity at the time is good. Say what is on your mind honestly. If this is done then you will not feel the need to over exaggerate as you express these feelings. Do you follow me?

There is a difference between this, you see, which is a healthy acknowledgment of feeling and an indulgence, exaggeration of feeling that dulls you to everything else. Do you see the distinction? Do not, therefore, be afraid of emotional feelings, accept them. They are healthy and spontaneous. It is only when you refuse to accept them that they build up charges so that if you have been in the habit of refusing to accept them there may be charges that have been built up. If so, in your first attempt to get along with the expression of emotion you may find some exaggeration. If so, physical activity is a good way to work this off, if only pounding the bed. Do not put your hand through walls, it is bad on the wall and bad on the hand. Even your astral knuckles may hurt.

(To Natalie.) Our keeper of the machine in the corner is doing very well and making good strides.

(To Ned.) Behind me, this fellow behind the rocker, you mark my words and guard your vitality and the love you have of life and of your wife and of your child and the new life you see beginning in him and do not let the other emotions destroy your peace of mind. Now, peace is not a dull thing. Peace does not mean a sober face and dull thoughts. Peace is truly joyful and exhilarating and it can be as good and better than any trip, so if you are going to trip, then trip through the good green grasses that grow in the sod. And trip also through your own vitality and through the bright green forests that grow in your own mind and derive your strength and peace from these.

Now, I bid you all a fond good evening and I wish you a happy vacation from classes, but I will make up for lost time and I would like to see a smile on your kisser for a change. The soul that does not smile is a dreary thing indeed.

([Brad:] “I have followed what you have said to a great extent, but right now I am letting my emotions rule me to a great extent because all the logic in the world hasn’t done me a bit of good. I want Margo back.”)

Now, after my cheerful messages for tonight, I bid you all a fond good evening.