“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

These directions are not forced upon action by any laws. They are merely the resultant patterns with which energy expresses itself. You are only familiar as a rule with this impetus, or these directions, in rather shallow manners, for the ego prefers not to perceive them. These motions are merely the flow which action takes. What you term negative suggestions are usually impeding actions, or directions of action which impede the main directive inner flow. They operate then in much the same manner as crosscurrents, setting up blockages, and impeding main energies by dividing them in several diverse directions.

The inner self here, through intuitive insight, can usually recognize whether an action is an impeding or a constructive one for the purposes of the personality involved. Even an action which appears blatantly as an impeding action, may temporarily serve as a constructive one. It may then turn into an impeding action.

An illness, as an impeding action for example, may nevertheless be a constructive action at any given time, in that it may prevent action within the personality from following more destructive actions. When this destructive possibility has passed however, an illness that is still maintained would therefore become a definite impeding action; for any seemingly impeding action cannot be judged alone, but in the context of other action elements of which any given personality is involved.

You can indeed to a large measure train yourself to react to constructive rather than impeding suggestions. This merely means that you will, or may to some extent, choose the direction in which action within you will move. This also implies that some part of the personality does the choosing, and is capable of distinguishing a constructive suggestion from an impeding one. And here it is necessary that we discuss more thoroughly the nature or characteristics of constructive suggestions versus impeding ones, for one may turn into the other.

The longer the impeding action is accepted as a part of the self, the more serious the problem. The impeding action or illness however is not a part of the basic personality structure, or action gestalt, which is composed of action patterns formed since birth. Compared to this truly astounding structure, that is the result of the memory of every atom and molecule, this impeding action is relatively unimportant, and when correct methods are used, it can be dislodged without too much difficulty.

This situation can be serious in varying degrees, according to the impetus and intensity of the original propelling cause behind the impeding action. If the impetus is a powerful one, then the impeding action will be of more serious nature, blocking up large reserves of energy for its own purposes. [...]

The peculiar nature of the impeding action or illness has much to do with its persistence. The whole focus of the personality can shift from constructive areas to a concentration of main energies in the area of the impeding action or illness. [...]

I will at various times use as an example your friend’s ulcer, simply because the ulcer represents an excellent example of an impeding action or illness. It must therefore be clearly understood that an impeding illness is a creation of the personality itself. [...]

[...] When the ego, therefore, becomes too overbearing it attempts to impede the flow of action. It cannot so impede action directly, for the very act of forming such impediments involves action. [...]

[...] They are impeding actions.

Many, many occasions arise when action could be so impeded, and is not.

We find it most frequently that the ego impedes action by refusals. [...]

Such a rejection is definitely an impeding action. [...] The fault is that the ego has refused to accept the action from the subconscious, therefore impeding the natural flow of energy. [...]

[...] It can be considered as an impeding action in the same manner that an illness can be considered, but its overall value, or detrimental effects must be judged, again, as with an illness, on the overall service or disservice which it performs for the whole personality.

[...] The impeding action, then, would have a survival value.

In some cases of course the secondary personality would be a severely impeding one, stealing away the main energies. [...]

[...] Many of the impediments that I have mentioned impede progress not only after death, but during your own physical existence. [...] This kind of sexual identification, however, also impedes personality development during physical life.

Others must be divested of many impeding ideas and symbols, as explained earlier. [...]

[...] However, if a person kills himself, believing that the act will annihilate his consciousness forever, then this false idea may severely impede his progress, for it will be further intensified by guilt.

[...] It must be seen by the personality that an impeding action is a hardship on the whole structure and that this particular part of the self is not basic to the original personality. The longer the impeding action is accepted, the more serious the problem.

Illnesses can be seen as impeding actions representing actual blockages of energy, action turned into channels that are not to the best interests of the personality. [...]

A certain portion of the energy practically available to the personality is spent in the maintenance of this impeding action or illness. [...]

[...] If the impetus is powerful, then the impeding action will be of more serious nature, blocking huge reserves of energy for its own purposes. [...]

[...] Many body events that you think of in your society as negative — certain viruses, for example — are instead meant as self-corrective devices, even as fever actually promotes health rather than impedes it.

[...] In fact, when she’s lying down, her left foot impedes the motion of her right foot and leg. [...]

[...] For it is possible for your ideas to cause chemical reactions that impede your body’s ability to accept nourishment. [...]

[...] Its expression may be impeded at any time, but the unique energy of each individual is not drained away because of age alone.

[...] If anything impedes this natural smoothness and coordination (pause), then all aspects of expression are in one way or another impeded. [...]

People must be instinsically free, or they will begin to impede their own expression. [...]

[...] See the 151st session for material on dreams, moment points and time, the 162nd for dreams and the electrical field, the 164th for dreams and impeding actions.

[...] We spoke in a fairly recent session of illnesses as impeding actions.

When this solution fails the impeding action will then materialize as a physical illness, or as an undesirable psychological condition. [...]

Any impeding subconscious ideas are bypassed. [...]

[...] Once they were meant to promote your psychological understanding, but now they can only impede your progress; and you are also slightly resentful at Ruburt, feeling that he is somewhat responsible, by still maintaining his symptoms, for your own.

[...] This is also connected to your work in that he was afraid that his quite natural emotions would frighten you, and therefore impede your work.

[...] Ruburt’s overall condition has to some extent impeded us, (pause) and because of a distrust of his own abilities he will sometimes doubt my legitimacy. Such doubts then impeding his progress and limiting what help I have to offer. [...]

[...] His impatience and panic did impede his judgment, causing him to send it out too early, and for this he blamed you.

[...] Such people will impede their own motions and progress. [...]

Other people may actually impede those portions of the body given to mobility, so that they limp, or tighten their muscles, or otherwise tamper with their bodies so that the end result is one that requires a cautious, hesitating approach to motion. [...]

[...] You cannot do it for him, but you can help or impede his progress.

[...] Such beliefs clutter up your conscious mind with negative suggestions that can only frighten the exterior ego and impede the great strength and vitality that is your heritage from lending you the fullest possible strength and support.

Without going more deeply into the reasons for such beliefs until later, let me discuss several of the ways in which they impede general well-being. [...]

[...] Those ideas impede creativity.

[...] When you are tense you impede mental, psychic, and artistic spontaneity, when you relax you are open to intuitive events.

[...] Contact lenses impede that responsiveness, to a greater extent than glasses. They impede the liveliness of the eyes over a period of time; the eyes’ responsiveness is connected with the ears’ responsiveness, and with balance.

(9:49.) Many cults of one kind or another, and many fanatics, seek to divide you from your natural impulses, to impede their expression. [...]

[...] Having denied his impulses, believing them wrong, and having impeded his expression of his own power to affect others, he might, for example, “hear the voice of God.” [...]