“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am not speaking here of the guests that you had (Fuller and Kautz), but of mundane distractions, perhaps, that were once feared out of all proportion, and in the future can be shunned as you wish. [...]

[...] When the situation allowed him to do so, he immediately began to pare down all activities not directly connected with his work, to shake them off, to force himself to be disciplined, to cut distractions to a minimum and thus avoid conflict, to his way of thinking.

[...] You both considered the world in many respects as distracting, stupid, its people beneath your notice, and your work the only thing of importance. [...]

[...] To relax meant to let down the guard, and distractions in. [...]

[...] Do not concentrate on worries or daily trivia that may arise as soon as you block out physical distractions. [...]

(The session began late this evening because of my own distractions with painting; I worked late, and needed a short rest. [...]

[...] The ego prefers to consider itself the captain at the helm, so to speak, since it is the ego who most directly deals with the sometimes tumultuous seas of physical reality, and it does not want to be distracted from this task.

Because of the personal material given in late sessions, Ruburt has the habit of worrying—protecting the idea of time and ability as described, so that in one day he will worry about what distractions may arise the next day, and this puts him on guard. [...]

On another level the man represents various distractions of a negative kind; a refusal to be held back by any more commerce with him.

[...] One was to avoid distractions, as you know—distractions often being things he would otherwise like to do.

[...] The outside distractions from the street, for the first time it seems, are keeping Ruburt at a level of consciousness which is not quite adequate for my delivery of the discussion that I had in mind.

It may be significant that such distractions did not bother him until he read that they were supposed to. [...]

[...] Working home meant working home, so he shut down impulses that might make him become distracted ,or want to go out when others were working.

[...] At the same time distractions were minimized, impulses to move away from the desk cut down, and day-dreaming, dream recall, and out-of-bodies became not business, not-work. [...]

[...] She thought the trance had been deeper than usual to cover many distractions: the weather and new rain, traffic noise, a party going on downstairs, etc.

(The room was hot so the air cooler was turned on, Adding to the possible distractions. [...]

[...] Your income will go up considerably, but you must learn to cut out distractions. [...]

Now let us look at yesterday (Sunday) morning, and for background remember the bodybuilders, who purposefully shut out all annoying distractions. [...]

[...] The bodybuilder does not think he is inhibiting his expression if he chooses to focus on his bodybuilding to the exclusion of distractions that may be quite real but detrimental to his purpose. [...]

[...] Suggestions given then, good ones, to a mind already distracted by fear or worry, will do little good.

[...] Try to feel the statement in whatever way is possible — that is, do not allow distractions, but if your mind insists upon running about then channel its images in line with your declaration.

[...] They kept him writing, cut out distractions while he was learning. [...]

[...] Once, when I’d been massaging her, she’d started to talk about the high temperature, but I’d been distracted by the tense way she was holding her body and had cut her off. [...]

(Again I’m led to see that good sitters are a definite benefit; bad sitters of course would simply be those that were distracting or pulled against me, I suppose—or those who demanded too much. [...]

(Jane said she now believes her traditional pacing about has become a distraction largely; she thinks she no longer wishes to pace, except when she feels brief periods of resistance at the ego’s surrender on this point. [...] She is also not so aware of outside distractions, such as traffic passing the house, people in the hall outside our door, etc.

[...] He does not know how to use it as yet, so it appears not as a steady but as a rambunctious and sometimes distracting quality. [...]

[...] Watching comedies on television will help — and so, in fact, will any distraction that is pleasing to the patient.