“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Ruburt’s natural person is highly spontaneous, creative, imaginative, with an excellent intellect, natural habits of working with a spontaneous rhythm—a rhythm that follows its own internal, logical and intuitive order. [...]

[...] It should not be forgotten, however, that such evidence gives a composite picture—not only of patterns of perception, but of habits of perception.

[...] (Pause.) For another thing, this allows a breakup of certain mental and physical habits—a gentle shock to the mental and physical systems that allows for beneficial change. [...]

Always ask yourself “Am I reacting to this present event only, as I should, or am I reacting to this event and five others in the past to which I did not react?” Soon you will find yourself with responses in proportion to present events, and will be free from old habits.

Now these are hardly your habits alone. [...]

When you were ill and did not have sexual relations often, he feared that his desires then could even lead him to physical unfaithfulness, and so on all counts the habit of repression and of physical repression also built up. [...]

[...] The habit of thinking, again, is the point here—Ruburt’s pattern of thinking.

Certain less-than-perfect muscular habits had been set up, therefore, to maintain balance. [...]

[...] There are people in any organization who are in the habit of sloppy work. [...]

As far as the book is concerned, change your habits of thought, EASIER SAID THAN DONE, and yet quite possible. [...]

[...] To sleep all day and work all night is hardly the answer; it is simply the inversion of your present habits. [...]

(10:39.) Some cases of strong neurotic behavior result from your present sleeping habits. [...]

The same applies to your eating habits. [...]

[...] I know I determined to get money and through my work—so we could work—(while seeing to it that I could drop jobs); and started the anxieties and body habits which then... [...]

[...] I’ve also developed the habit of repeating Seth’s quote from my own body, as he gave it in the deleted session for April 18: “You worry too much. [...]

[...] Do not equate turmoil with excitement and peace with turmoil for these are also conventional habits of thought that do not necessarily apply. Traveling can be external, but you can travel around the world and go nowhere and you can sit in your chair and travel beyond the universe, so do not be taken in by conventional habits of thought regardless of which conventions the patterns follow. [...]

[...] It is perhaps difficult for you to realize that these are written and verbalized categories that in no real manner tell you anything about the actual experience of other creatures — but only note habits, tendencies, and separations of the most exterior nature.

[...] You must look with your intuitions and creative instincts at the creatures about you, seeing them not as other species with certain habits, not as inferior properties of the earth, to be dissected, but as living examples of the nature of the universe, in constant being and transformation.

[...] During this entire period, I developed a way of retreating from the world — habits of thought and action. [...]

[...] He feels duty-bound to find out what is wrong, and that is how the habit so took hold. [...]

—so change your habits. [...]

That is a habit, one of the areas where the symptoms can be counted upon for an excuse. [...]

He is indeed too careful of his motions out of habit and fear of the consequences. [...]

[...] He has thought of returning to his habit of sitting on the floor. [...]

[...] To look backward for the source of current problems can lead you into the habit of seeking only negative episodes from your past, and prevent you from experiencing it as a source of pleasure, accomplishment, or success (very intently).

[...] If so, you are already prepared to change your current beliefs and mode of action, and simply use the occurrences or habits of the past as a stimulus or motivation. [...]

[...] Now if you willfully change some of those habits then you are also getting the message across. [...]

Releasing the habit of repression will itself allow the body to relax, and be released. [...]

Now, because it seemed to you for so long that you could not move freely in your own life, that you did not paint full time, you got in the habit of automatically viewing all change as negative. [...]

Without going into reincarnational information just now: from this life Ruburt got into the habit of not physically expressing emotion. [...]

[...] When he finds himself negatively imagining a situation, he must immediately realize this as a negative habit pattern. [...]

They might have seemed like even brilliant (amused) theoretical statements, my own pronouncements, but little by little you accepted them intellectually while still being emotionally bound through habit, so that indeed, as Ruburt wrote, you almost became programmed, your questions about reality based upon the erroneous facts of Darwinism, Freudianism, or religion. [...]

Later, with certain issues that arose between you, fairly well understood now, I think, he felt his womanly qualities a threat to you both, and the habit of mistrust became manifested in a suspension of monthly periods. [...]

Now certain habits should automatically drop away if the game is played correctly. [...]

If the “as if” game is played correctly the dressing habits will change automatically, again without stress. [...]

[...] You will drop habits of self-disapproval. [...]

[...] They might very well be felt and understood emotionally, however, or intuitively, once you cease habits of disapproval and constant intellectual questioning about such seemingly hidden motives for your actions. [...]