“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now—now you are on the correct issue. It was an accomplishment because you started from scratch, so to speak. Consciously the whole affair annoyed you no end. You saw it as a grumpy old machine, with its best days finished. But you put to excellent use the advice which I gave you, concerning the importance of psychological reactions.

Now you can do, that is any individual can do, and does, the same with the physical body. If his reactions cause a generalized overall poor condition, this is much more difficult to treat. But if this energy can be put into a specific form, one pimple, one pain, one ulcer, at least the problem is recognized, localized, and can be treated with somewhat less difficulty.

This still leaves you free from ordinary reactions with them, need not close you off from conversation, and yet gives you an immunity from their negative attitudes. In such a manner you can indeed help them while remaining free yourself.

I want to make this clear, for it should help you both to understand your reactions, and to change them accordingly. Some of your most basic feelings toward the automobile grew as a result of the early trip to California, when for days on end as a child you heard your parents bickering. They were uncertain of what they would find, pessimistic, and they blamed each other for having left at all.

You are doing very well, much better than you think, generally speaking. Reactions which you would have accepted as natural in the past, you now accept as being unfavorable, as they are. But the recognition, you see, causes you at times to think you are not making progress when indeed you are. You expect more of yourself now, and you are getting more.

These small episodes of late would have snowed you under in the past, out of all proportion; such is not the case now. You have noticed, I am sure, also, that Ruburt’s reactions are of a more steady nature.

Now Ruburt grows unsure as far as Dr. Instream’s tests are concerned, when we are asked for a specific object, and this does hamper us. However this feeling will vanish as we continue, and again, it is a natural reaction on his part so he should not blame himself for it.