“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You were particularly frightened during vacation because of the inactivity. Old fears were aroused that you have never faced consciously. You never faced them honestly. You are terrified of inactivity, for many reasons: bodily inactivity, mental inactivity, some of this based upon fear of your mother’s disease. You must go, go, go, to prove that you can do so, and any threat to your mobility is not only strongly felt but negatively exaggerated.

You have been concentrating emotionally, and at a certain level, upon failure. Now you translate activity into many areas. You have been frightened of your mother’s disease, and you have also translated a fear of inactivity into other than physical realms.

To protect yourself from her disease you had to move quickly physically. You also had to move quickly in the area of work. You were sensitized because of your mother’s problem to fear inactivity. Any threat to your motion or advance, even in the business area, becomes highly charged for this reason. Earlier you felt that you could strike out. There was plenty of time. Then you became frightened after the age of 35, and you began to soften up your blows. (Jane gestured widely, with a fist.) You began to hold back, become more cautious, and then slowly began to entertain thoughts of the possibility of failure.

You do not want to accept the basic fear of immobility and lack of motion. You are too afraid of the fear itself. You recognize it but you do not know what to do about it, and this frightens you further. You act this out subconsciously then, hampering the free motion of the joints, which then become stiffened through the inactivity. The stiffness then convinces you that the joints are indeed at fault; this adds to the problem, which then gives more fuel to the basic fear.

[...] In any case it is much more bracing and efficient to have the physical body active rather than inactive for, say, eight to ten hours.

Now, many diseases are simply caused by this division of yours and this long period of bodily inactivity, and this extended focus of attention in either waking or dreaming reality. [...]

[...] But again, the efficiency of sleep is lessened and disadvantages set in after six to eight hours of physical inactivity.

[...] Excess nervous energy takes over, and rouses the muscles to activity, because the body knows it has been inactive for too long and otherwise severe muscular cramps would result.

[...] The healthiest body contains within it many so-called deadly viruses in what you may call (underlined) an inactive form — inactive from your viewpoint, in that they are not causing disease. [...]

(It appears that the payments will be for 100% of the bill, rather than 80% — but here again I’m waiting to see, suspended in a kind of cocoon of inaction or non-reaction …

[...] More and more the more inactive right leg and foot show signs of wanting to join in the daily dance of motion. [...]

[...] I thought it was from its recent moving, after such a long period of inactivity. [...]

[...] Jane continues to improve in her walking—she’s up to 12 times daily, with the aid of her typing table—so we seemed to have retreated from the prospect of her becoming so inactive that she stopped getting on her feet. [...]

[...] These — and I am putting it as simply as possible — take turns being active or inactive within the body, in accordance with the body’s overall condition. [...]

[...] Their scale of life varies considerably, and some can be inactive for centuries, and revive. [...]

[...] It is an inactive area, comparatively speaking. [...]

[...] It was inactive, in that it was operating, but nowhere near a good efficiency level, again, as far as locomotion was concerned.

[...] (Pause.) Now in many ways you and other people close your eyes to such probabilities when they do present themselves, so that fears overall predominate, while any desirable characteristics or benefits of whatever quality largely remain unexplored and inactive. [...]

[...] Many of you have allowed your normal waking consciousness to become blurred — inactive, relatively speaking, so that you are only half aware of the life that you have. [...]

[...] Then sometimes without warning the frightened, inactive portion of the personality will take over the normal abilities of consciousness — acting depressed, taciturn, and communicating very poorly with others.

In your time the periods of high conscious activity would run approximately for three days, followed by a day and a half to four days of inactivity, according to the circumstances. [...]

Viruses serve many purposes, as I have said before.¹ The body contains all kinds of viruses, including those considered deadly, but those are usually not only harmless, or inactive, but beneficial to the body’s overall balance.

In any case the “troublesome” material remained (long pause), relatively inactive more or less—unless and until certain situations arose, unless and until his curiosity and ability led him to actively challenge those ideas while also in a situation where the natural fear of abandonment might be implied or suggested. [...]

[...] They represent uncluttered areas, but also open channels, inactive in themselves but passively waiting. [...]

[...] No portion of the universe is inactive or passive, regardless of its seeming organization or its seeming lack of organization. [...]

[...] (with amusement), or useless time, enforced inactivity. [...]

Separate portions of your mind can contain such chambers of inactive material. [...]