“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

On other occasions you would not feel like working. You would not force yourself to work on those occasions, for your natural need for play of some kind —outings or guests—would then assert themselves. You would enjoy chores done then, for your body and mind would both be refreshed by the different activities.

(10:25.) Spontaneity knows its own order. The creative self is the most spontaneous of all. There are hidden rhythms of creativity that you do not take advantage of, and I am not speaking here to you (RFB) alone. They become overlaid with cultural habits. The suggestions I have made will help release these, and allow you to utilize them. It is rather silly to see people every Friday night on schedule unless that policy suits you. It is silly, however, in the same way to force yourself to concentrate at a time when you really yearn for activity. As it is, you often feel guilty whether you work or play, so to speak. Obviously you may not each feel the same way at the same time, but if you clearly communicate your feelings to each other, that is no problem. The material is valuable if you use it. It represents a way of handling your energy that is native to your own being, and permits creativity its easiest, most natural flow.

To some extent you do not trust your own creativity enough, but think that it is so weak that it will be destroyed or dissipated by the slightest distraction. You become so worried for it that you can overprotect it, and deny it its natural resiliency and power. When you want to work, do so, for as long as you feel like it, committed to it freely, having decided then that for that time, nothing will be allowed to interfere.

The few distractions of any vital nature then can be handled. They will be minute. When you feel like shopping or seeing people, then do so just as freely. The air will be cleared. You will have a decent policy to follow—and there is none better because it will be dictated by your own individual nature.

It means trusting yourself, following your own rhythms, riding the thrust, the aggressive and joyful thrust of your creativity full blast, so to speak. But it also means no artificial rules. It is simplistic to say that you need food to work, and yet going out into the world in such a manner does indeed become its own creative endeavor when it is clearly embarked upon. If you follow my advice, a natural balance will result. The chores will get done, but they will no longer be chores. Your guests will be enjoyed because you will see them when you naturally feel so inclined.

Naturally concentration becomes difficult. The decisions you make often seem wrong because you are trying to apply artificial decisions over initial decisions of feeling that you override. These suggestions will give you, again, a clearing. It is a policy that you have not, either of you, really tried.