“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are different than animals, but in this case the same issues are involved. You must have a basic approval of yourself. This is information not only for you two, of course, but for others—but you must trust your basic being, with its characteristics and abilities. You have them for a reason in all of their unique combinations. You should also avoid labels, for these can stereotype your perception of yourself.

You have disapproved of yourself, thinking yourself not spontaneous, and so your belief has often hampered your natural spontaneity, so that you struggled for notes because you thought you must; that was the kind of person you thought you were.

Disapproval of that kind prevents you from perceiving your own abilities, and limits of course your appreciation of yourself. To some extent your acts become ritualized, as those of our tribesmen mentioned earlier.

Since disapproval will never bring abundance or pleasure, it gradually cuts down on your options, until there is little about yourself you approve of. Again, I am speaking generally as well as specifically.