“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Many depressives concentrate almost devotedly upon the miseries of the world — the probable disasters that could bring about its end. [...]

In all such situations, it is highly important that you do not concentrate your main attention in that area of experience with which you are least satisfied. [...]

Whenever you are trying to rid yourself of a dilemma, make sure that you do not concentrate your attention upon it instead. [...]

[...] A concentration upon negative thoughts and feelings to the exclusion of all else, will depress the mind and body as surely as any drugs.

I have little to say otherwise, except that your own attitudes have changed for the better, for you took your strengths for granted, for once (re AP’s visit), and did not concentrate upon those areas that you once felt were so shameful. [...]

All of this should be kept in mind, and I tell you so that you do not concentrate upon the difficulties, and find no merit in your lives. [...]

[...] It is highly important then that you try to sense this, be thankful for it, and not concentrate upon what seems to you to be the tragedy that you did not use them fully earlier.

[...] It is not that he need concentrate on negative ideas. [...]

He had to realize his fear and his terrible dilemma in regard to Eleanor because it showed in concentrated form his own fear about his being able to succeed on his own, hence his dependence, that made him resent Eleanor. [...]

And when you sleep you are in accelerated periods of creativity and concentration, making with thoughts and images the world you know, forming from inner experience the physical story that will unfold, the events that you will encounter physically.

I expect then a concentrated effort to spontaneously accept impulses toward action and immediate performance of the act. [...]

[...] It is a sort of psychic focus, a concentration of awareness along certain lines. [...] Survival on a particular plane depends upon your concentration within it. [...]

(Over the weekend Bill and Peggy Gallagher agreed to try mutual concentration upon a single object in their home at session times. [...]

[...] Though he need not concentrate upon it then with too great an intensity, since the object itself will send out information of its own.

[...] Your dream life is continuous, only your waking ego closes out the inner stimuli and does not see it, for it must concentrate upon physical daily reality. [...]

[...] You are concentrating upon your job and upon physical security, and you are determined that you will be well cared for in your later years. [...]

[...] The two of you instead now should concentrate your efforts upon forming a generalized, comfortable center, and maintaining that. This will put the concentration of attention in constructive areas, upon warmth and mutual understanding rather than putting the burden of the relationship first on one and then on the other.

[...] He hinted at this when he told you that he was concentrating upon recovery.

[...] She was concentrating on recovery instead of on the symptoms.)

(9:30.) I do not, therefore, want you to concentrate your efforts in memorizing methods of perceiving other realities, but to realize that such insights are everywhere within your grasp. [...]

[...] The feelings should be aired, however — and then not concentrated upon.

[...] The brain’s necessary focus required more specific, less diffused and more concentrated methods of perception.

[...] Place your concentration upon those improvements, and as I have said before, then they are multiplied. [...]

(I’m sure my improved attitude resulted from the last two sessions—plus other recent ones—but I have resolved anew that I must simply concentrate upon my creative work each day, see Jane and help her as much as I can, and spare my body consciousness the needless stress of worrying about the future. [...]

[...] I mention this specifically since in the session itself I tell you that the concentration should be on work and activities, and not (underlined) on the condition you are trying to get rid of.

[...] It would be highly confusing in this analogy to experience or hear all of these at once, however, so different portions of the psyche tune in to different stations, concentrate upon them, and tune out the others for immediate practical purposes. [...]

[...] Psychically and psychologically, those other stations upon which you do not concentrate form the structure of the psyche as you understand it, from which your earthly experience springs into focus. [...]

Such journeys take you through the nature of the psyche itself, as well as to those other realities that exist as the result of the psyche’s concentration within particular frequencies.

Any normal home life is denied him; and along with the overall concentration upon the problem at hand, all other stimuli is purposely held to a minimum. [...]

[...] If you agree that violence is power then you will punish the criminal with great vindictiveness, for you will see life as a power struggle, and will concentrate upon the acts of violence about which you read. [...]