“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. In your relationship you inhibited the expression of joyful and loving emotions first. You were not afraid as much of negative emotions, briefly, because in your family your father found safety in negative emotions. By the denial of hope and the inhibition of joyful emotions he tried to protect himself against disappointment or defeat.

Now Ruburt inhibited the negative emotions, so-called, first of all because of his own background—the fear of arguments, of hurting someone, as explained clearly in other sessions. The end result however on both of your parts was the inhibition of emotional expression in your relationship, precisely in those most important areas where it was most needed.

You avoided meaningful (underlined) emotional encounters with each other often as a result. Neither of your ideas were tempered by the ideas of the other, therefore, nor were your feelings about these life problems. The rich emotional contact and encounters that are possible between you became clogged by inhibition and fears. Because of his particular nature, these agreements on your part to avoid such issues, and the resulting lack of positive encounters, was more damaging to Ruburt.

Part of it had to do with your distrust of such emotion when it was displayed by your mother. You felt it could be smothering, for you sensed the reasons behind her smothering love for her sons. When you begin to sense you might be getting somewhere then you become suspicious instantly, inhibit the feeling in the name of realism.

[...] As a result, any show of love is to some extent inhibited unless it can legitimately find expression sexually. [...] This need not mean that they are inhibiting their sexuality. [...]

[...] When it seems to you that society is becoming licentious, in many ways it is most restrained and inhibited.

[...] They are taught to inhibit the expression of love as a weakness, and yet to perform sexually as often as possible. [...]

[...] They constantly tried to manipulate religion’s substructure in the same acceptable male ways that government leaders always use to inhibit and use the emotions.

Seven was available, for Ruburt did realize that Seven represented legitimate playful, spontaneous and creative elements that he often inhibited. [...]

[...] He is not inhibiting worry, hiding it, but trying to alter the reaction itself—a big difference. [...]

[...] You cannot inhibit the recognition of one feeling without getting into the habit of inhibiting all your feelings. If you distrust one feeling, then feeling itself becomes fearful, and you inhibit it. [...]

Now if you inhibit your feelings you can, to a large extent, even inhibit your dream experience, and this is aside from monitoring your own dream memories. [...]

[...] It is only when you inhibit or deny them that harmful charges are built up that can affect others. [...]

[...] I do not represent any restrained or any inhibited portions of Ruburt’s own being. As you all know, he is hardly the inhibited type on his own! [...]

It takes effort to inhibit your memory of your dreams. It is harder to put up that inhibiting factor than it is to simply remember them. So you no longer need to use the effort to inhibit the memory of your dream. [...]

[...] You take it for granted that unless you husband your time, and divide it, what you want done will not be done in time, and so you inhibit creative ideas by your attitude. You say, consciously: “I cannot get painting ideas now because I am working on thus and so in these hours,” and so inhibit paintings. [...]

Hypnotism will be used scientifically simply as a means of breaking down the inhibitions of the outer personality. It goes without saying that such inhibitions are necessary on your plane, and any experiments that we try will be carried on in a most disciplined fashion.

As for you, your abilities are latently of the highest quality, but you also bring up inhibiting barriers that I hope will vanish. [...] If we can, and we can, overcome his quite natural fears and inhibitions, we can all use this ability with most beneficial results. [...]

Hypnotism is important merely as a tool to release the conscious personality from the camouflage inhibitions. [...]

[...] You will do better when you focus inwardly in a receptive manner, but without any inhibiting factor. [...]

[...] All of the individual and joint inhibitions you have placed upon yourselves spring directly from those specialized versions of yourselves.

[...] The artist and the writer are not dependent upon such inhibiting factors, but instead limited by them.

You each produced despite your individual and joint efforts to inhibit other areas of your life; to protect a limited, old idea of what an artist and a writer are. [...]

You withdraw your support at that point, you find all kinds of reasons, rationalizations, and you withdraw all enthusiasm, so that you effectively inhibit his enthusiasm, so hard won. [...]

[...] You have yourself, now, inhibited some Nebene material for that reason. Ruburt has inhibited some psychic information for the same reason.

Now: Ruburt has of course inhibited physical impulses. [...]

[...] At the same time an inhibited impulse arose—to go to the bathroom—that he had ignored. [...]

[...] You cannot cut down physical freedom without inhibiting creative freedom, so to some extent Ruburt’s methods have inhibited his creativity. You cannot inhibit spontaneity in one area and not in another, but he did not get it properly through his head that spontaneity did not mean license, or that spontaneity was going to work against his work if he gave it half a chance. [...]

This is bound to inhibit creative inspiration to some degree. [...]

[...] You are used to hiding from them, and the more feelings you inhibit the more you inhibit your natural joy and spontaneity. [...]

[...] If you believe that all such thoughts are wrong you will inhibit them and feel all the more guilty — which will generate aggressiveness against yourself and further deepen your sense of unworthiness.

[...] Because he is trying to be so understanding our man inhibits the expression of many of the normal irritations that would serve as a natural system of communication between, say, his superior and himself at work, or perhaps with the members of his family at home.

Simultaneously all of these inhibited reactions seek release, for the manifestation of aggressive feelings sets up natural balances within the body itself, as well as serving as a communication system with others. [...]

[...] Many who say they believe in the power of thought are so afraid of it that they inhibit it in themselves, avoiding any that appear negative or harmful. [...]

[...] He must rediscover however his spontaneous self for these distorted and adopted and superficial ideas—underline superficial—of religious rules inhibited him.

[...] The arm symptoms still hanging on represent an inhibiting factor. [...]

[...] However your spontaneous thoughts are not nearly as destructive as he imagines, and in overinhibiting them, he also inhibits purely spontaneous, joyful thoughts. [...]

[...] He is afraid of hurting others through his thoughts, but the fear is overly inhibiting him. [...]

You inhibit the expression of feelings of love, approval, devotion, and this means that your verbal communications are largely, now, of a disapproving nature.

[...] Ruburt, however, feels that it is not safe to express disapproval—the opposite of your habit—and so he feels threatened to some extent because your verbal expressions are so often of that nature, even if they are not directed to him, and he inhibits his own expression of any disapproval he feels, or frustrations. [...]

[...] The bodybuilder does not think he is inhibiting his expression if he chooses to focus on his bodybuilding to the exclusion of distractions that may be quite real but detrimental to his purpose. [...]

[...] You will spend far too much energy inhibiting them. [...]

He grew afraid of drinking, lest his inhibitions be dropped, and he began getting impressions about other people, and telling them. [...]

[...] This also means, however, that you inhibit natural, playful creativity and sometimes what I will call high art, because you are so obsessed with your images. [...]

[...] Try to be somewhat daring in your ways together, and less cautious and inhibited. [...]

[...] If the analyst, over a period of time, should convince Augustus that his condition in the present resulted from some specific inhibited event in the past, and if the analyst was an intuitive and understanding man, then Augustus might change his beliefs enough so that some kind of “cure” was worked. [...]

The chemically inhibited tendencies would to some extent be forcefully blanketed through medication. [...]

[...] The feelings of desire therefore are symbols also of other inhibited feelings. [...]