“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

One had to do with the in quotes “problem” of artistic creativity versus womanhood, and this along with personal background brought about a distrust of the feminine organs. Not in such a manner that illness would result therein, or, say, diseased organs, but only so far as function was concerned.

When inner challenges and problems went unrecognized for some time, and became physically materialized, these were the areas chosen. The resulting symptoms then served to reinforce the initial lack of trust. A state of faith in reverse therefore operates.

He wants to be a healthy present self, not a healthy past self. A good deal of the weight problem is not a problem. You have both to some extent overexaggerated it. He can use more weight. The energy used in worrying about the condition has taken up the small leeway that would have given him weight. In the best of health he will not be a heavy person, for example.

In some cases an imbalance is deliberately chosen, as I have mentioned, for various reasons, for the sake of experience, for emphasis. Some seek and achieve wealth simply to learn the lesson that wealth alone is not the answer to life’s problems, so they are wealthy and unhappy—though they need not be wealthy and unhappy. You follow me.

Reincarnational challenges need not take a lifetime to satisfy however. Some such problems are settled in mid-life or even before, and new challenges set. You are not stuck with a situation, then, because of a previous life. You gave it to yourself in order to solve it.