“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Part of your artistic impetus does come from this inhibited emotion, but fresh impetus is received when the emotion is allowed to go outward toward Ruburt; and through Ruburt, acting as a symbol to you, to the world at large.

[...] The questions of course add to further tension, and inhibit your mental creativity about the condition. [...]

[...] I am more concerned that you each to some degree have inhibited your subjective freedoms, and not allowed yourselves the opportunity for an even richer diet of dreams and psychic experience. [...]

He learned restraint in this direction with his mother, and all kinds of automatic muscular tensions were then learned to inhibit the expression of fear of anger. [...]

The inhibition of such emotions also interferes with the nervous system and its therapeutic devices. [...]

[...] At the same time, however, the self will not be denied its creativity, and it will most stubbornly seek out those areas of its own expression, so not working on my book will not help solve Ruburt’s difficulties, and may indeed aggravate them, simply because of the further inhibition of expression. [...]

(I didn’t have time to go into it today, but Seth’s material reminded me anew that I know my own mother had managed to make me afraid of certain areas of life—that as I grew up, then left home and had to manipulate in the world, I became quite aware that I’d acquired certain fears or inhibitions. [...]

(11:00.) You cannot inhibit such expression out of fear, without experiencing tensions. [...]

[...] The social and cultural aspects, and even the religious ones, automatically inhibit such experiences from childhood on. [...]

[...] The built-in inhibition resulted in a tied-up system of mutual controls in which the necessary thrusting-out of action became literally impossible.

[...] Once you begin to inhibit emotions, the practice spreads like a plague, until all emotion must be inhibited, lest the one thing that you fear show its face.

[...] You will learn to communicate and you will learn not to hide within the highly specific and inhibiting nature of words as you understand them. [...]

[...] I knew I’d attained this great freedom after years of being too cautious and inhibited. [...]

(Long pause at 10:20.) If you believe that you do not dream, however, you will inhibit memory of them — but you will still dream. [...]

[...] You are both beginning, barely beginning, to integrate your personalities in such a way that creativity can be put to positive use, free of negative inhibiting factors, which are always indications of conflicting inner doubts and desires. [...]

[...] He felt so at one with the land, he and his body, that “a conscious knowledge of it,” it in your terms not only would have inhibited his identification with nature, but his agility within it.

[...] It will in itself help break down any inhibiting, rigid factors in any of your work.

[...] The reason is simply that conscious knowledge of such an effect would inhibit him, regardless of his best intentions, and the energy used would block the action or effect that I was trying to deliver.

[...] I still felt we didn’t know the whole story about the eyes, as well as the other symptoms, and that Jane may have inhibited some material on those topics.

[...] By session time they were somewhat diminished, but were very inhibiting during the day, making me hesitate to do the things I’d ordinarily do without a second thought, such as drive to the post office to mail Jane’s intro for Sue’s book Conversations With Seth. [...]