“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Very simply, delta brain waves are connected with dreamless sleep, theta with creativity and dreams, alpha with a relaxed alertness and changing consciousness; beta — the fastest — with concentration, and with an intense focus upon all of the challenges [and anxieties and stresses, many would say] faced in the ordinary daily world.

[...] The concentration, again, on ideas, dreams, and suggestions for out-of-bodies will be quite helpful.

[...] Instead you must concentrate upon what you want and do not be so worried about where I am, just listen to what I have to say for now. You can learn to concentrate upon what you want and draw that to yourself and you can learn and without too much difficulty, to completely restructure the health habits of your family. [...]

(On the spur of the moment I began to concentrate on having Seth tell me more about this man. [...]

(I did mention to Jane at break that I was concentrating on a question. [...]

[...] They will concentrate upon all of the dangers present in society in their own country, or in other portions of the world, until their own frightened overall concern for safety seems to be a quite natural, rational response to conditions over which they have no control.

It is a good idea for now not to concentrate upon that leg, or what it must do eventually in order for walking to take place. [...]

[...] This does not mean that he should concentrate upon them, of course. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Such objects may be moved without the help of any survival personality however, by the concentrated focus of psychic energy on the part of one or several individuals.

[...] There is no need for you to concentrate so avidly and exclusively upon the physical paths. [...]

He is growing to new understanding, and he will, as my book progresses, make sure he does not concentrate upon what still needs to be done, but upon his successes and his recent physical improvements.

You can often get carried away by a television drama, so that for a moment you forget that it is “not real,” and in your concentration upon it you can momentarily ignore the greater reality about you.

[...] But as Jane has said, things are “calmer” psychically when we’re by ourselves: In trance or out, she can concentrate upon the work at hand, free of the presence of a third individual — one who is bound to radiate his or her own psychic characteristics. [...]

[...] You might realize that the flowers you pick are not the same flowers that you picked last year at the same spot, but the very nature of your focus would cause you to concentrate upon those differences only when you were forced to. [...]

Then there are quite necessary resting periods in between, in which theoretically (underlined) the matters would be best dropped from conscious concentration. [...]

[...] Yet the time needed can be prolonged if it is concentrated upon. [...]

[...] Jane told me she really felt a focus of concentrated power emanating through her hands; even when they did not touch the table, the table obeyed.)

[...] It is a field of concentrated action when you consider it in this light — a powerhouse of probabilities or probable actions, seeking to be expressed; a grouping of nonphysical consciousnesses that nevertheless knows itself as an identity. [...]

[...] Actually the two merge, of course, for your Framework 1 existence is immersed in Framework 2. Again, your body itself is constantly replenished in Framework 1 because of its simultaneous reality in Framework 2. Framework 2 is ever exteriorizing itself, appearing in your experience as Framework 1. You concentrate so thoroughly upon exterior reality, however, that you often ignore the quite apparent deeper sources of your own physical existence. [...]

[...] That is why the concentration upon the moment, upon his writing, upon, say, meals, immediately helps to take his mind off of his body. [...]

The sense of sight, mostly concentrated in your eyes, remains fixed in a permanent position in your physical body. [...]

[...] And breathing, for example, can be magnified to an almost frightening degree when one concentrates upon listening to his own breath. [...]

[...] It needs encouragement, not demands—but above all, let him concentrate upon expression rather than repression. [...]

Put into practice the last session, particularly with Ruburt playing with his ideas, instead of concentrating upon his work. [...]