“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] While these attributes are expressed in the body, they also exist in the mind, and there are some cumbersome mental beliefs that may severely impede mental and physical well-being.

[...] All of those beliefs impede mental and physical health, erode the individual’s sense of joy and natural safety, and force the individual to feel like an unfortunate victim of exterior events that seem to happen despite his own will or intent.

[...] An impeding action such as an illness is quite literally accepted by the personality structure, and once this occurs, a conflict develops. [...]

“Now all of this is basic knowledge if you would understand why the personality accepts even an impeding action such as illness despite the ego’s resistence to pain.”

“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. [...]

“Illness could not be called an impeding action unless it persisted long after its purpose was served. [...]

[...] The fear that the artistic self was being threatened led to a certain panic that impeded the flow of information you were trying to suggest to the unconscious.

[...] An overconcern (underlined) about the mechanics of publication, or the necessity of publication, or the wheres and hows of publication, or a sense of responsibility about the work, can indeed cause difficulty, but the basic creative expression—which has been impeded in the past by fears—should still be encouraged. [...]

The fear of relaxation is still there, so that mentally and physically it still impedes progress. [...]

[...] Worrying impedes your reception of Framework 2 activity.

[...] Ruburt’s fairly guarded attitude toward the working men to some extent impeded the relaxation necessary, so that the condition overall improved in the schedule I gave, without the ensuing eye improvement I mentioned. [...]

[...] It is that one area where each of you believed you had no power to change events, and that belief could impede your progress, at least, even when both of you want a change.

[...] The cry of symptoms, however, is meant to bring about a new condition, to trigger healing aspects, so drugs can often impede the healing process.

[...] There, you are not impeded by the past.

If your beliefs in Framework 1 make you assign great power to the past, then you impede your progress. [...]

[...] You think you are saying, I am too intellectual to operate in this particular area—my intellect impedes my progress. Your intellect does not impede your progress, your attitude towards your intellect does. [...]

[...] It is simply felt to be an experience, a discovery, that went so far and no further — but the events in no way impede the vitality and strength of the inner consciousness so involved.

Such structuring impedes your progress to a large degree, and prevents improvements that could occur. [...]

[...] A strong impeding belief is the one that the body could not any longer perform no matter what he did, and this largely was the result of a concentration upon negative aspects.

[...] The reason can promote your good health or actually impede it.

[...] The free flow of your emotions will always lead you back to your conscious beliefs if you do not impede them.

[...] That belief alone can lead you to deny quite natural dimensions of human experience, and to impede the flow of emotions that could otherwise cleanse both your body and your mind. [...]

Your trip (Sunday, April 13; we drove to Cortland, NY) was beneficial, but it was impeded by negative thoughts of Ruburt’s, and also to some degree by the fact that you pointed out his symptoms without reminding him that the inner self could and would minimize them. [...]

[...] It is basic patterns of thought that help you or impede you, psychological colorations of thought that form the general overall pattern of your physical reality. [...]

Through this belief he viewed all of his experience, correlating it; he encouraged those impulses that furthered it, and impeded those that did not. [...]

If you consider yourself primarily physical then you may, in line with your beliefs, impede your spiritual or emotional aspects. [...]

[...] The barriers to the energy have been let down, the action no longer impeded. [...]

[...] It is impossible for the ego to block off specific connections with the whole personality, therefore any barriers effectively impede whole blocks of active and necessary vitality. [...]

[...] The idea is to clear the mind as much as possible from beliefs that impede the fine, smooth workings of the life force, and to actively encourage those beliefs and attitudes that promote health and the development of all aspects of healing experience.

[...] Not to use the ability in the face of sudden or spontaneous impressions can, under certain conditions, impede your progress. [...]

[...] Even if some birds do fall or die, this in no way impedes or undermines the faith of the others.