“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(When I gave Jane a cigarette after turning her on her back for the afternoon, she had another instance of reverting to an old, automatic habit. [...]

The impulse was always present, but earlier it was buried beneath the conglomeration of negative mental and physical habits. Those habits are indeed dissolving. [...]

[...] You are both highly reluctant to change your mental habits, much less your physical ones. [...]

Physically there is nothing wrong with Ruburt’s body, except constantly applied tension, partially caused by negative habits of thought.

[...] Practically this is of great importance for it will help break the repressive habit on the one hand, and help end blockages that have been holding back positive and healthy charges of activity. [...]

So in the beginning particularly you may be the one to take the initiative at times, for he may be reluctant, you see—a symptom of the habit. [...]

[...] I also said I wanted to go over the past sessions with her today, because I was concerned that we’d get out of the habit of reviewing them so as to keep them in mind. [...]

[...] For reasons that I will get to, and to some extent have told you, you got into the habit of inhibiting joy, and being a stranger to gaiety.

[...] The personality will try to develop its abilities further in a freer, more mature fashion, but the old habits will hold the personality back. [...]

Most of this is out in the open, but you did not understand the connections that existed between your ideas about the dryer and food and frames, and how they applied to your mental and physical habits. [...]

You are both quite in the habit of asking what is wrong—not only in terms of Ruburt’s difficulties, but generally speaking. [...]

[...] At the same time I swore off baking soda, which is an old habit with me, in favor of Maalox, which I found in the cupboard. [...]

(10:06.) You fall into the habit of accepting the disapproval as fact, instead of realizing that it represents a feeling you have at any given time that may or may not be justified. [...]

[...] Doors of all kinds will open when you take away that restraining mental habit. [...]

[...] Yet overall I hadn’t been able to break the tooth-worry habit, while knowing I should.

Other factors enter in, simply of habit.

[...] Ruburt’s faith and habits allowed the initial impulse its freedom, and that impulse, expressed, carried within it the means of its own fulfillment, and the book unfolded. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) I do not want you to blame yourselves for the following, but I do want to point out that in the past, when Ruburt began to show improvements of a significant nature, you fell back into old habits. [...]

Keep your regular work habits intact. I know I need not tell you this, far be it from me when I know your habits so well. [...]

[...] Your personalities, work habits and goals are well set and secure enough not to be threatened in such a manner. [...]

(Along in here I had the intention of laying my notes aside, yet the habit was so strong that I continued writing rather automatically. [...]

Apropos Ruburt’s mention of the negative suggestions given this morning—remember, as I have said before, that the doctors and nurses are also the victims of such habits and behavior. [...]

[...] Because our mental habits automatically block out such material, we only recognize one series of neurological happenings — it takes time for the message to leap the nerve endings [the synapses]. [...]

[...] I have the awful suspicion that if we had enough shuttle craft, and there was a habitable planet within range, that we’d move key members of the species there, start over and try to leave all of our troubles behind, instead of trying to solve them.” [...]

[...] Those habits were there, again, before the sessions began, and they have their basis in the church’s concepts of the sinful nature of the basic self. [...]

[...] For habit enters in here, as in all endeavors.

[...] You shall not get in the habit of having me tell you what will happen. [...]

[...] Nor am I speaking of an enforced cooperation — the result of “instinct” that somehow arranges the social habits of the animals; for their habits are indeed social and cooperative.

[...] Yesterday in particular, however, provides an excellent example of the way approval and self-disapproval work, and of the ways in which the habit of disapproval can cause you to misinterpret events, and then of course act accordingly.

[...] Your own improved mental habits of the week, your pendulum work and his own improvements, released energy that under those conditions sought release—and his impulse showed him in what direction.