“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Alienation in small doses can be a stimulus for achievement, but overdone it is of no help at all. Your feelings, so brief this evening as you looked outdoors, were therapeutic, rewarding, positive. Your cells were even aware in their way of your emotion. The summer night was here, present to your senses. Had you at the same moment instead thought, for example, about Prentice-Hall in a negative way, or about any other negative event of the past or probable future, you would have responded to an event that in an important way was not immediately a part of the facts of the natural world.

You are surrounded physically by only so much to be immediately dealt with, mentally or physically. You are also surrounded by imaginative events, however, here, in the terms of our discussion. I mean events that have no immediate, present natural existence. They either existed in the past or might in the future.

(11:42.) Now Ruburt has been concentrating upon the symptoms, imagining this or that, often not responding to the moment as it is, but to imagined future events and moments filled with threat or difficulty. Three hours of free writing time are not supposed to be three hours of worry. His state of anxiety must be lessened. The eye condition would disappear, and much more quickly, if he would think of other things, and follow the instructions I have given.

If they do indeed occur in your future, then they become prime natural events of the moment. In the course of life there is of course a mixture. I am exaggerating somewhat to make an important point. If you overreact to unsynchronized events, then they can invade prime data—and a state of anxiety results.