“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your camouflage and your world are created by conscious focusing and unconscious concentration. [...] By plunging into our ocean of value climate you can dive beneath your camouflage system and look up to see it, relatively foundationless, floating above you, moved, formed, and directed by the shifting illusions caused by the wind of will, and the force of subconscious concentration and demand.

Concentrating upon your own camouflage universe, you are able to distinguish only the distortive pattern, and from this pattern you deduce your ideas of cause and effect, past, present and future, and ideas of an expanding universe that floats …

[...] In that context corporeal life is an entranced one, with the focus of attention largely concentrated through the senses’ belief in the reality of their sensations. [...]

Each of you will find habitual thought patterns in your own life backed up by resulting action — conditioned behavior as it were — by which you continually reinforce negative aspects, concentrate upon them to the exclusion of conflicting data, and so bring them into experience through natural hypnosis.

[...] During that period concentrate your attention as vividly as possible upon one simple statement. [...]

[...] You will have utilized natural hypnosis in a concentrated form.

[...] In periods of concentrated focus, with all distractions cut out, the desired ideas are then implanted (in formal hypnosis). The same processes occur in normal life, however; areas of primary concentration then regulate your experience both biologically and mentally, and generate similar conditions.

[...] Few people will have simply one main area of concentration. [...] Your conscious thoughts and concentrations bring about results with which you are pleased. [...]

This intensity of conscious concentration cuts down barriers and allows the messages to go directly to the unconscious, where they are acted upon. [...]

(10:10.) Even in primitive societies, witch doctors and other natural therapists have understood that the point of power is in the present, and they have utilized natural hypnosis as a method of helping other individuals to concentrate their own energy. [...]

You concentrate with great vigor upon one idea, usually to the exclusion of others. [...] As such it also portrays the importance of belief, for using hypnosis you “force-feed” a belief to yourself, or one given to you by another — a “hypnotist”; but you concentrate all of your attention upon the idea presented.

[...] The term hypnosis merely applies to a quite normal state in which you concentrate your attention, narrowing your focus to a particular area of thought or belief.

[...] If you divert your thoughts from the negative ideas to the positive ones, then your concentration will begin to alter the balance. [...]

[...] I reminded her of what Seth had said in the deleted session for February 26, 1972 , in Marathon: “You get what you concentrate upon. [...]

(As we talked about Seth’s statement, and decided we should concentrate upon beneficial things, Jane then wanted to know how this idea fits in with the importance of not repressing negative thoughts. [...]

[...] The body would not have to express it for him, and it would have cleared the way for other compensating feelings as you encouraged him and pointed out the proper direction for concentration.

The concentration upon other areas is most important. [...]

[...] The danger is in concentrating upon the lacks, the “sore spots,” building up greater concentrations of mistrust. [...]

Past feelings of abundance from other lives can help you ignite a current love of abundance and concentration upon it. [...] Realize however that it is up to you in which areas of reality you concentrate.

So is Ruburt in all areas, except that one upon which he has concentrated negatively, and given up trust. [...]

[...] In any of these areas however concentration upon the lacks would reinforce these. [...]

He did well in other areas when you were concentrating only upon the bathroom, for he ceased worrying, concentrating upon one area where he could and did improve.

[...] Your encouragement with the bathroom issue was concentrated in that area, and hence effective. [...]

[...] Concentration on his writing in the morning helps rid him of symptoms, and so does concentration at nursery school, for his attention is otherwise centered. [...]

[...] Intense concentration to other areas, you see, will take him out of the habitual patterns.

[...] We do not want intense concentration upon the symptoms. [...]

He should imagine himself, before he sleeps, indulging joyfully in the next day’s activities, and should not concentrate on his symptoms, even if it is to wish they disappear. [...]

[...] A concentration upon your individual and combined work, your practical plans in that direction, will promote an enthusiasm that you have not felt jointly or individually in years. [...]

The symptoms therefore will be released as that energy or concentration is placed back where it belongs, into creative and practical action. [...]

A point, if you do not want a break now: Concentration must not be on Ruburt’s symptoms. [...]

[...] Improvements in Ruburt’s condition were ignored (underlined) largely by both of you, and instead concentration was upon the symptoms that still remained.

[...] I want him to concentrate, now, upon those beliefs that are working for him, to quite consciously build up the sense of his own worth by listing the uses to which he has put his abilities. [...]

For a week I want you to concentrate on Ruburt’s good points and abilities and accomplishments also when you think of him, until I get further in our book. [...]

Concentration in other areas, as you suggested, is the answer now while you made definite efforts in the moving direction. Ruburt is on the right track with his ideas today, particularly in concentrating upon the moment. [...]

[...] The concentration upon the problems in all instances contributed to them to a large degree. [...]

What you told Ruburt earlier of course does apply, but there are freedoms now of which you are unaware, so do not concentrate on the limitations, while at the same time do try to rid yourself of them by concentrating upon immediate possible freedoms.

[...] You might quite properly say that much “work” is involved, but it is of an interior, concentrated, intent and largely invisible nature. [...]

[...] Both of you there have concentrated upon impediments, and suddenly, finally, his desire led him to begin typing the book. [...]

[...] You are both coming along quite well now, but yes, you should cut Frank’s visits to every other week, for you need to concentrate now upon your own approaches. [...]

Your time concepts are particularly limiting, because they lead you into a particular focus in which you concentrate upon impediments to your desire. [...]

[...] Some loving, gentle but firm encouragement and practice on the stairs would be of help, and definitely a concentration upon achievements in any area rather than on failures.

The concentration on his work and psychic activities will help now. [...]

But the search for health should be concentrated upon—not the state of ill health at any time. When you concentrate upon the symptoms you often then forget the abilities of the inner self and the vast reservoir of help available. You close it off because you are concentrating upon the opposite direction.

[...] Very aware of those symptoms, concentrating upon them, and this worsens the condition. [...]

He can do this by concentrating on his book, getting out more. [...]

[...] Often, while you are in pain, for example, you concentrate upon that sensation alone, ignoring the feelings of ease that may be felt by other portions of the body, and unaware of the conglomeration of sounds, sights, and impressions that are also in the immediate environment. [...]

(Long pause.) While you and Ruburt embark upon a resolved path of getting to the bottom of Ruburt’s difficulties, it is highly important that Ruburt in particular increase his experience of pleasure, and his concentration upon it, so that pleasure can counter any other emotionally distressful feelings that may emerge along the way.

Again, we do not want a concentration solely upon deeply-felt fears. [...]

We will not abandon book dictation, but the concentration for now will be largely devoted to bettering Ruburt’s condition by releasing his own energies, health, and flexibility.

[...] In the more sluggish periods of waking consciousness there is a lack of concentration, a cutting off of stimuli to varying degrees, an increase in accidents, and generally a lower body tone.

[...] Concentration will be increased, problems seen more clearly, and learning capacities better utilized.

[...] But in the meantime they make the body sluggish and retard conscious concentration. [...]

(Evidently our concentration on increased sales is working. [...] Naturally we want to see much more evidence of our concentration; this should automatically come if we are indeed on the right track.

[...] Others begin early to concentrate in Framework 1, so that Framework 2 goes more and more out of focus. [...]

(At the very least, the fact that we’re even concentrating on greater sales marks a great improvement for us, a great change of attitude.)

[...] I suggested to Jane that we try an experiment: we’d start concentrating on more mail reaching us, as we are doing now on her physical condition and increased sales, and see what happens.

[...] It goes its own way, concentrated in day-to-day reality, while the inner portions of the self amass great information, perhaps, try out new organizations, and utilize the inner senses. [...]

[...] He has great powers of concentration, as indeed all mystics do, and everything in his environment becomes charged and important.

[...] To some extent that kind of activity gives his conscious mind something to concentrate upon during creative periods of incubation. [...]

[...] Ruburt began to concentrate upon them, however, and also feared that the classes might turn into more public endeavors as they became better known—one of the reasons for dropping them.

[...] In this period concentrate upon the fact that the point of power is now. [...] Use visualization or verbal thought — whatever comes most naturally to you; but for that period do not concentrate upon any lacks, just upon your desire.

All of your physical, mental and spiritual abilities are focused together, then, in the brilliant concentration of “present” experience. [...]

[...] A great many unsatisfactory conditions result because individuals become frightened at various periods in their lives, doubt themselves, and begin to concentrate upon “negative” aspects.

At one point or another the individual ceased concentrating upon what was right in certain personal areas, and began to focus upon and magnify specific “lacks.” [...]