“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This material is from the 806th session for July 30, 1977, and should be read in conjunction with the regular part of the session. What follows applies more specifically to Jane. See the reincarnation material as related to regular session for this date.

His body has become more dependable walking, as he knows. The most important thing at this point is for him to keep in as good spirits as possible—not by being Pollyannaish, but by recognizing the reality of his improvements, and by not overstressing those areas in which improvements have not yet appeared. Distractions are good, but you must use them. Ruburt learned, last evening, to use them when you had company.

The body does not begin to show such improvement with the intent not to continue. All of my suggestions should be followed—those apply to Ruburt and you. When Ruburt feels good by his standards, that is, in a good mood, relatively at peace, and in some kind of bodily ease, taking his situation into consideration, he should note that. I will help keep him from concentrating on the times when he does not feel that good. He should make an effort to forget his condition as much as possible, and so should you. This does not mean that you are ignoring reality. You are instead trying an excellent method that will help you change it.

The improvements already made are not only important in themselves, but because they are already eliciting further freedoms that will show. The point of power is in the present. Whenever possible, minimize the importance of a problem. Forget a problem and it will go away. Dumb advice, surely, or so it seems. Yet children know the truth of it. Minimize impediments in your mind and they do become minimized. Exaggerate impediments in your mind and in reality they will quickly adopt giant size.

He is not a creative writer, but a work-a-day one, whose creativity then seeks release. Personally, he has restrained his, say, flights of fancy while seeking them out in others, where they are less threatening. As a journalist he can say “Yes, these things happen, but they did not happen to me,” and therefore gain what he thinks of as critical distance.

I bid you then a fond good evening. When you are even mildly hopeful, tell the other. If you feel blue, let the other know, so that the mood does not linger, undermining what you want to do. At the same time, rally your forces, so that you creatively try to change a mood of disappointment. This will prevent both of you getting down at once.