“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] “How could you?—you’ve just destroyed all the confidence I’ve managed to build up in the last few days.” [...]

[...] It makes you uncertain of your abilities, erodes your self-confidence, and prevents you from appreciating your accomplishments—for you feel you must in some way disapprove of them. [...]

[...] Only your feelings and disapproval and the lack of confidence generated causes the hopelessness about Ruburt’s situation that frequently assails you both. [...]

[...] Where his writing is not concerned, and when he relates himself to the world at large, he is timid, fearful, and without the confidence that his inner knowledge of his own worth should certainly give him.

He is confident of his basic worth as an individual, as a writer, and even finally as a wife in relationship to you. [...]

The appearance of confidence, the engaging social self, is indeed a cover-up, adopted to give him time to acclimate to new circumstances of this sort. [...]

[...] It was quite beneficial that he spoke to you about the brief depression, for this helped relieve it, and your reassurances helped rouse his confidence.

[...] You have within you a readymade method of achieving desire: positive visualization, positive imagination, and confidence.

[...] This could have a tendency to undermine your confidence. [...]

Our main problem is simply Ruburt’s own confidence, or lack of it. [...]

[...] This sort of practice will be most beneficial, and though he may not think so consciously it will build his confidence.

Using such a procedure in each session will do much to eliminate Ruburt’s uneasiness and to build his confidence. [...]

[...] It should not involve pity, for this reinforces the symptoms, but should involve a confident assurance, particularly when he is fearful—an encouragement on your part, of constructive activities, a comforting but not overindulgent attitude, you see.

[...] A few such deliberate experiments, suggested before sleep, will give you the confidence you need to carry through on a waking projection. [...]

[...] I have more confidence than Ruburt has and before I begin my next book, I will let you all know. [...]

Often parents undermine their children’s confidence by endlessly repeating negatives. [...]

Children’s play is extremely important to a child’s development—and when they play children use those exquisite powers of imagination, confidence, and expectation that provide the wellspring for growth and fulfillment. [...]

[...] Let it then give you confidence in your own identity and in your own reality. [...]

A confident ego is indeed a prerequisite for psychic venturing, for it is only the confident ego which ultimately feels secure enough to give leeway to the inner self in the long run.

[...] It was good for Ruburt’s confidence to hold a session away from home, and before people who though far from strangers, are nevertheless not closely associated in daily life.

(12:30 AM.) Since you are talking to Ruburt from your outside, and telling him what to do, when you are not personally saddled in the same way that he is, then how often have you ever reassured him that he could indeed walk properly, get up easily, or joyfully tried to reinforce his confidence?

[...] He should make a definite determined effort to walk home, for his confidence will grow with the success, you see.

He should take frequent walks to build up his confidence, and to break up the patterns further.

[...] Above all, it appears to be vital that we have faith and confidence that the body knows what it’s doing, and that Jane’s healing processes continue. [...]

I do not expect you to suddenly switch all of your orientation in this situation to Framework 2—yet again I have hope (louder) of gently enticing you both to take great-enough advantage of Framework 2, so that you have more confidence and experience with its qualities.

[...] The spider has its own kind of confidence, however, and a different organization in which he operates. [...]

[...] The fact is, of course, that in the most basic manner, now, the man—the natural man—possesses that fine, keen spontaneity and inner confidence. [...]

Picasso, for example, had a supreme confidence in his ability. [...]

If he feels this is withdrawn his secure confidence is shattered and his energy dwindles. [...]

[...] His literally tremendous energy, given spontaneity through his confidence in you, is to some degree then turned over to you, and can be used in your work.

Nor will we discuss clairvoyance, except to mention that such incidences may appear frequently within the sessions as Ruburt gains confidence. Indeed, that details have appeared is evidence of increased confidence on his part.

People have not seemed to have confidence in the woman, or she does not feel that anyone is confident of her ability to cope with reality. [...]

[...] The encounter with the reporter, for example, on quite practical levels represented a shot in the arm, in that it quickly showed Ruburt that he is quite able to deal with such situations, that he handles them well, and that sense of confidence can then be used as new information to help break down old beliefs of inferiority.

[...] Any new such experiences give him not only new confidence, but allow for a give-and-take with other portions of the self, which will be quite aware of the changed status, so all of that is important.

This is needed added evidence; that helps build up your confidence—when you begin to trust yourself and your body successfully enough, trust that the power to change is in the present, and organize your feeling and thoughts under a new banner—mine being: responsive.

[...] You must start with confidence. And if you travel too quickly and too far, you will not have confidence, for in the back of your mind you will think: if I do not feel secure in physical reality, then why should I feel secure here... [...]

[...] You must start with, you see, a balance and a degree of security—you must start with confidence. And if you travel too quickly and too far, you will not have confidence. [...]