“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The “as if” game will increase the suggestions’ worth by dissipating habitual areas of thought that combat them.

[...] After reading this first page of notes about Peg G. and the paintings, I remember my old ideas … that we organize the contents of our minds along certain lines that then become habitual.

[...] As far as Ruburt’s condition has been concerned, you both have habitually thought so in terms of black and white that you added a narrow, limited area in which improvements might begin, but could only go so far.

[...] Physical activity is an excellent way of using and controlling the effect of aggressive reaction, and will prevent the buildup of aggressive emotions into unsupervised physical constructions, and also prevent the habitual piling up of such aggressions, where detrimental constructions result continually.

[...] The cross effect can be easily found in the way I habitually wrap packages with strings and in the way I specifically wrapped the package to be mailed to the Bernards, thus:

[...] The body becomes dependent upon old habitual patterns that will carry on yet for a while. [...]

[...] It is sometimes difficult for me to translate what I know about the situation into terms that you can accept jointly, because of the press of those beliefs and the accompanying habitual behavior and conditioning. [...]

(I told Jane now that had my mother received any additional energy during her 50’s, she might have expressed its benefits through the habitual mores of our society, in terms of changes rather than of probabilities, say “My life changed for the better at that point, when I made that decision.” [...]

[...] There is nothing “wrong” with your present habitual kind of consciousness, any more than there is anything wrong with speaking only one language. [...]

[...] It is true that the old interactions between an associative pattern of thought and its habitual action may be broken down, but it is also true that the inner-ordered structure has been shocked psychically and biologically.

[...] Passivity, however, should be balanced on your part by more assertive action as far as habitual reactions are concerned. [...]

[...] I merely want to remind the reader that in ordinary terms naïve realism, or some mind-brain idea very much like it, is habitually used whether we’re considering evolution within a time-oriented camouflage universe, painting a picture, or running a household. [...]

[...] Through the habitual (and perhaps unwitting) use of naïve realism, he projects his own basic creativity outside of himself or any of his parts. [...]

[...] None of these challenges, as Jane and I habitually call them, are seen as distorted expressions of the kind of creativity Seth has described many times.²¹

He will not have to worry about serious physical illness, nor will you, Joseph; as a sideline, often physical illness of a serious nature, or habitual bad health, can often be taken as an indication that the individual involved is in the maelstrom, the center, of his reincarnational cycle upon your plane. [...]

[...] Your whole physical situation will be geared to it, and your neurological structure will follow the habitual pattern. [...]

[...] The intellect could not follow them, so the distinctions are not basic: They are the result of beliefs and habitual usage. [...]

[...] You did not, habitually, display your emotions to your husband. [...]

[...] These effects change the actual molecular structure of the cells, for better or worse, and because of the laws of attraction, habitual patterns will operate. [...]

[...] Otherwise you will be too afraid to abandon even briefly the habitual, organized view of the world that is your own.