“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You block your own energy many times because of old habits. If you faithfully followed through on your moods, inclinations and leanings, in, say, any given week, you would discover that you wanted to work, felt like working, and worked well for certain periods of time.

You would not go shopping or do any chores you did not absolutely need to do. Your work would be clear and unimpeded. It would dictate what decisions you made. You felt like working and so you worked. It would make little difference, and this applies to each of you, whether you worked 12 hours for three days straight, or whether you worked more regular hours. Following your inclinations, you would discover your own prime working creative rhythm.

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.

You would be working intensely when you work, and your relaxation periods would be far more refreshing. Your work would come easier. The irritations are caused by blockages. You do chores often when you feel like working, and often when there is no real necessity to do them. The few, very few, daily necessary chores are minute. On the other hand, you often work when you do not feel like it, but need other refreshment, simply because of course you have already tired yourself through the ensuing dilemmas.

(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.

(Long pause at 10:36.) Give us a moment.... Your creativity spans all of reality. In our work we answer questions that are yours together, and yet questions that arise from the hearts and minds of many people—people like the woman who called this evening.

Their need gives impetus to this work. They not only buy books for themselves and for friends, but they use the books like ladders, and if they were at the same point of development, so to speak, in the psychic field as you are, they would not need the books; and their needs, like yours, would be elsewhere.

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.

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.

This does not mean you can’t plan ahead. It means not being mechanical. There is no need either to dread the summer. On any important level it is a ridiculous way to behave—each of you—particularly in anticipation. There at least Ruburt has been somewhat more flexible, taking advantage of the lovely dawn hours when the world is still, for quiet work.

Then you do not resent the afternoon rackets, but accept neighborhood noises as the world’s activity, and it becomes—though you will not believe me—a refreshing and needed counterpoint. Otherwise you find yourselves never fully pleased with what you are doing while you are doing it, and caught up in circles of resentment. You deny yourselves, say, guests when you feel like having them, because you have already done chores that did not particularly need to be done, because you thought you should, when you felt like working.

Do not compare yourselves with people in the so-called work-a-day world. This is a gross error. Your challenges, rewards, interests and ways of life do not match. I am not suggesting that you turn your life upside down, necessarily, and work at night. On the other hand, you do have that freedom with time that others do not possess, and it is one that you overlook.