“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Whenever you find yourself thinking of your bank account follow the exercise I have just given you. I am not suggesting that you take the time out. I am suggesting that you devote the same amount of time constructively that you are now spending destructively, and that the new exercises take the place of the old automatically followed negative exercises that you have indeed been faithfully following.

For all of your objections Ruburt has studiously taken 15 or 20 minutes a day in what he rightly believes to be practical exercises to better your financial condition. He has had enough success spasmodically to know that the exercises work.

Since you are however so strongly concerned with it these exercises will be of great benefit. I will give you a practical example here. Now Ruburt in his exercises has been imagining vividly his dream book sold, selling. While you have been imagining the dwindling accounts and pessimistically thinking that after all the book may not sell, and to be practical you cannot be sure that the outline will sell and your efforts therefore have been knocking each other out.

You must allow yourself to think naturally, and thoughts of plenty will follow. You should not ideally have to do any exercises. They are to counter the negative exercises that you are doing.

[...] Ruburt should continue with his exercises, as they are unusually beneficial for him. [...]

[...] The exercises give a daily relief, and creative refreshment. [...]

If Ruburt will begin his exercises again he will notice an immediate improvement. [...]

[...] This is an exercise, Peggy told us at break, that she does each morning. Like Jane, she works out with yoga each day, but rushes the exercises in the morning while dressing for work. [...] Seth was right here, according to Peggy, for lately she felt she had been hurrying the exercises too much. Seth told Peggy the rapid neck rolls, which are an exercise supposed to be done slowly, were actually being detrimental to her. In addition, Peggy should be careful at the end of this exercise, when she drops her head forward, supposedly in a relaxed manner. [...] Peggy agreed that she ended the exercise in this manner; and again, she had not thought to mention this to Jane previously.

(Seth told Peggy the yoga exercises were basically excellent for her if done at the proper tempo, and to keep them up. [...]

[...] All of these exercises provide training that helps you in all your other work. This particular exercise however definitely requires some success in the recognition of dream projections.

[...] You are bringing into operation, and exercising a higher faculty, and through these exercises this faculty matures.

[...] I am telling this to you because you may find that you are performing this exercise spontaneously. [...]

[...] One of these will be a mental exercise, taking no more than ten minutes, and if done properly, only three times a week, will be of great benefit in keeping joints and muscles loose and free. (Pause.) I should perhaps give you that exercise now.

The lengthening exercise to be emphasized with the arms particularly. [...] That is the end of the exercise.

[...] He should then imagine the neck revolving easily and normally three times in each direction; mentally here doing the yoga neck exercise that he recalls.

It will do good also if during the day occasionally he imagines the exercise as he goes about his chores, but he should not do this willfully, with an intent to command physical performance. [...]

If the exercise is done correctly it is literally impossible for the old idea to obtain any energy for its continuance and your attention is directed to the desired end. [...] If this is the case then the exercise should be continued until you imagine you yourself deciding upon and bringing about the destruction and replacement. [...] Such exercises will cut down the physical time involved however.

[...] The following mental exercise is most effective. [...]

The same exercise can be done while dreaming, you see.

[...] In the exercise you see the house can simply represent fear, for a basic therapeutic method, and the new house confidence.

Follow the exercise... [...] This is a symbolic exercise... [...]

...Exercises in recent sessions are good if not overdone. (A reference to projections.) You shouldn’t do these however until you have tried the water exercise at least 30 or 35 times.

(Seth has never suggested this water exercise to anyone else. [...]

The exercise of the self above the waters will put you in control enough so you don’t have to worry.

I was glad to see that Ruburt began the back exercises once more. [...]

[...] I want to point out that the back exercises, because of the quietude and training in concentration, represent excellent practices for both of you, and for Ruburt in particular. [...]

[...] Daily use of those particular back exercises, with their mental discipline, will further aid in his development, until he will find indeed that he can not only relax at will, but even when he does not have time to will relaxation, that is, relaxation will be the built-in conditioned reflex that panic used to be.

[...] The exercises and all the other measures which he has learned will stand him in good stead. [...]

[...] The exercises which Ruburt is barely beginning will be of great help in our work, and in the development of his abilities. They are also however excellent exercises that will result in the training so advantageous at the point of transition.

(At break, Jane showed me some yoga exercises she has recently resumed. [...]

[...] The earlier resistance against exercise was quite understandable, for it was a symptom of the inner resistance.

When I spoke of exercises, I meant exercises; but the purpose of the exercise is to enable you to understand others. This is not an exercise for you specifically, for you to use specifically for your own reasons; it must also wholeheartedly involve other people. You are not to use them as exercises; you are to exercise your own abilities so that you can perceive them clearly; for you do not understand their reality unless you do so.

The exercise is an exercise in understanding and perceiving the reality of other people without misrepresenting them because of your own inner distortions. The exercise is in understanding others.

[...] If not giant steps, baby steps, each such encounter being a small exercise in seeing another male individual without your image glasses on.

[...] I knew that I was probably attracting these opportunities to me because subconsciously I knew the exercises would be healthful.”)

You have been doing well with the pendulum, and the exercise has successively opened up communication with deeper layers of the self. [...] A point here involving Ruburt’s hands and his mother’s sweaters: he knew that knitting was a therapeutic measure suggested in the past to exercise his mother’s hands. [...]

[...] They are actually exercises in the spontaneous release of the intuitive portion of the self. [...]

The whole exercise, or any part of it, must only be done in order to avail yourself of wisdom, so that you can use your own abilities to help yourself and others.

[...] At any point in the exercise, for it can happen at any stage, you will suddenly feel the you of you, the center identity that runs through all the selves of which you have been part. [...]

Those who try the exercises with wrong purposes will not succeed, for they will not have the proper equation, and it is the one part that cannot be given to them. [...]

In his daily life however, as I have told him in the past, the yoga exercises should be continued. [...] They are psychic, spiritual and physical exercises that will let him handle energy more effectively, and release his abilities smoothly. [...]

With this present condition completely banished, proper attitudes and proper use of the yoga exercises will allow him to stay in excellent health. [...] The yoga exercises simply include rather painlessly, and in one package, techniques that are of greatest benefit in the maintenance of spiritual, mental and physical health.

[...] Proper attention to work and the exercises mentioned will keep the system in balance, and insure continued health.

The husband, now, should follow this exercise three times dail: He should imagine the energy and vitality of the universe filling his wife’s form with vitality and health. [...]

If possible he should touch her during this exercise, and it should be done morning, noon and evening. [...]

The simple exercise given you will immediately bring more positive aspects into the picture, then relief from secondary harmful suggestions, and harmful emotional climates. [...]

When you are sketching outdoors, as a helpful exercise I suggest the following: attach your focus of attention to one small thing. [...]

[...] The exercise itself will allow you to make the necessary transformation, where the one becomes all. [...]

In a portrait, do the same exercise as given earlier. [...]

[...] An apple can imply, through use of the exercise I have given you, the whole unseen universe, though not another object is shown in the painting itself.

[...] Through exercises you can consciously remember some dreams. Through exercises you can consciously remember some reincarnations.

If you are interested I will give you such exercises, but whether or not you remember these lives consciously is of little importance, for you have subconscious knowledge of them. [...]

[...] The isometric exercises, for now, are excellent and should be followed by both of you. The two Eastern exercises, done occasionally by Ruburt, should be adopted by you both as a matter of routine daily.

Later other such Eastern exercises should be added. [...]

[...] Therefore they apply, the dietary suggestions and the exercise suggestions, to you only.

[...] As I talk, I do yoga exercises easily and am surprised at this. [...]

[...] The yoga exercises are good but can be performed with a lighter heart, not a do-or-die attitude. [...]

[...] You, Joseph, at the least several times a week, should make an effort to embark upon more psychological time exercises, for your own abilities have also grown; but you have not realized it.

[...] If you are simply exercising, trying to use the inner senses generally, then state this mentally, also. [...]

[...] This is what happened after your exercises. [...] This is why I suggested that you begin these exercises now. The fact that the fearful ego was beginning to tighten explains your reaction to the exercises. The ego can build up around the subconscious vitality like a glacier, and these exercises melt it away. [...]

Your condition following your first exercise bout should have showed you how badly you were in need of the treatment. [...]

You are already much improved from just two exercises. [...]