“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You could not afford to identify too completely with such bodies until you learned how to survive within them, so in the dream state (pause) the true processes of life began as these new bodies and earth-tuned consciousnesses saw themselves mentally exercising all portions of the body. [...]

[...] For the sketching will exercise the eyes, and the air is a help, increasing appetite, and allowing the body to become more responsive to changing conditions.

[...] Your suggestion about elimination was a great help, for this automatically means that the body is exercised more in walking, and that bodily wastes are eliminated much more readily, hastening recovery. [...]

[...] That exercise is a part of this session.

[...] Your little exercise this evening is an excellent example of reassurance, reinforcement, and practical learning. [...]

[...] I want him to continue with my book, and when he reaches the portions on point of power and natural hypnosis I will give him instructions so that both of you together spend five minutes a day at each exercise. [...]

[...] She continues and extends her walking each day, her exercises, etc.

[...] Jane probably described Volume 1 as simply as possible, however, when she said: “Volume 1 provides the general background and information upon which the exercises and methods in Volume 2 depend.” [...]

This present book, Volume 2, goes on from there as Seth creates an intriguing thematic framework, and then invites us to “play along,” to join in and to discover the unknown reality for ourselves through a series of exercises geared to illuminate the inner structures upon which our exterior ones depend.

[...] It’s a contradictory attitude, of course, since these private sessions are an effort to learn something about our hassles—not a self-congratulatory exercise.

The squatting exercise was difficult for two reasons—one having to do with beliefs, and the second to do with the soreness about the joints. [...]

(Following a discussion of everyone’s experience for the week and a mobility of consciousness exercise.)

Ruburt’s work with the contents of the mind, for example, is barely started, and I will include his exercises in my book (amused)—while giving him full credit, of course. [...]

I will deal with some such exercises later on in the book. [...]

“Sunday, June 8, 1980: As I went about the day, showering, doing my hair, reading the paper, doing my exercises and so forth, I kept getting stuff from Seth on … the next chapter of his book, I think to be called ‘Master Events and Overlays.’ There can be overlays of one civilization onto another, so that a ‘real’ civilization in one sphere of existence can appear as myth in another…. [...]

[...] He should finish my book, then begin it again, this time following the exercises as he needs them. [...]

[...] But the real realizations will come as the exercises and their personal comprehension merge with what is written in my book.

[...] Some additional arm exercise, for example, will also help, for the muscles simply then demand more food.

It seemed to me that once medical science got hold of you it wanted to justify its existence, to exercise its wonders for those fortunate or unfortunate enough to be considered “proper candidates” for its full ministrations.

[...] In his particular case, as mentioned, the knees and legs are allowed far greater exercise than before, while the body is in a more or less normal position.

The relaxation exercises that he spoke of are good, if they are done in a playful manner. [...]