“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] That is, he took on the symptoms because he believed that physical restraint was the best way to insure his concentration. [...]

[...] Concentration should not be on “work,” but on aspects, poetry, his ideas. [...]

[...] He concentrated upon proofs of the body’s “lack of dependability” in the past, and now is beginning to build up his faith in its dependability. [...]

[...] Now undue concentration upon shoes is not a help. [...]

I mention these because again they would go by the wayside, lost in the concentration upon the physical problem. [...]

One additional note: have him plunge now into his new book—and stop concentrating on the problem of the symptoms. [...]

Such a change of focus demands a concentration in one area to the exclusion, as a rule, of other areas. [...] You react to both environments whenever you are concentrated within them. [...]

[...] You have experience in concentration in regard to your paintings, but Ruburt has not been used to concentrating in that manner. [...]

[...] You draw to yourself in this existence and in all others those qualities upon which you concentrate your attention. [...]

Now: If you expand your sense of love, of health, and existence, then you are drawn in this life and in others toward those qualities; again, because they are those upon which you concentrate. [...]

[...] Remember what you concentrate upon, and we will leave it at that. [...]

[...] Any encounter with such phenomena will then include a bringing-into-focus of elements that are usually not concentrated upon. [...]

[...] You find it much easier to concentrate, to attend. [...]

[...] If you understand this you can gain immeasurably, for as you move your focus away from your organized reality, other portions of it upon which you have not concentrated will come into view.

(Jane often doodles while concentrating on difficult material.)

[...] Only not concentrating on the problems brings in the needed extra material to solve them. [...]

[...] It came in that circular fashion, like a concentrated minisession but it’s hard to write out for that reason too, so I only have a few highpoints.

[...] Your lack of success lately with psychological time has been to a large measure caused by too great a conscious concentration upon the task. [...]

[...] Concentrate upon the goal rather than the means of attaining it, and you will attain it.

The only other times there is any such difficulty also involve responsibility when he concentrates upon his responsibility to hold the sessions—that is, when he focuses upon need, function, or utility as separate from other issues involved. [...]

[...] When you are concentrating upon responsibility, however, then each lapse becomes a lapse from responsible action, and complicates the inner spontaneous rhythm that to a large degree is automatically maintained. [...]

The dream book should be concentrated upon, and the other ideas he has in mind worked up. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The concentration upon the dream book, along with other writing ideas and the classes, will insure the rapid recovery. [...]

If a desire for health leads to an emphasis upon symptoms to be overcome, you would be better off to avoid all thoughts of health or illness, and concentrate in another direction such as work. [...]

[...] If I were you, I would concentrate upon the easy use of my abilities rather than my bite.

[...] Ruburt should concentrate upon his ideas and creativity. I have said this so often, and yet I repeat: concentration upon a problem magnifies it.

(11:15.)It is extremely important that he not concentrate upon the problem—underline 10 times. [...]

Again, the concentration must not be on the problem.

[...] It does not mean at all that you should concentrate upon the problems people write you about. [...]

[...] He will have his finger in too many pies, while a fanatic concentrates unduly on one.

[...] I added that we simply have to banish all negative thinking, and concentrate upon creative ends—we have no room or need for anything else. [...]

[...] My idea in it, that we should forget the concentration on health problems for a while, was one that she’d had herself this morning, she told me, in surprise. [...]

(Jane missed last week’s session because nighttimes found her so relaxed from her own healing processes that she couldn’t concentrate enough. [...]