“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Some people are only aware of — or largely aware of — impulses toward anger, because they have inhibited those natural impulses toward love that would otherwise temper what seemed to be aggressive desires. [...] Behind them you will almost always find an inhibited impulse — or many of them — that motivated you to move in some ideal direction, to seek a love or understanding so idealized in your mind that it seemed impossible to achieve. [...]

[...] In its fashion, however, this book is geared to bring about the development of such abilities, for it is not a lack of methods that inhibits such activities. [...]

[...] They need not serve automatically as inhibiting factors unless you allow them to. [...]

If done in the correct spirit, this will help free your intuitive nature, and to a large extent help wash away automatic blocks that have been inhibiting.

This was added to by the sensed power of your father’s inhibited vitality. [...]

You inhibit your own painting so that others will not feel inferior by contrast. [...]

When the work idea is carried to extremes than he is not even free in his so-called work time, because then he inhibits what he thinks of as nonwork ideas, and therefore much creativity. [...]

[...] Someone who worked had to inhibit such impulses.

[...] You personally do not think of the dream state as work time, and therefore inhibit very definite inspirations. [...]

[...] They have to do with the way Jane reacts to the world through her mystical nature —something we seldom consider, if ever; and any possible inhibiting factors in her behavior that might have been set up after the psychic business started. I found myself wondering if she wanted to be more active in the world —through tours, speaking, classes, or whatever, but that she’d inhibited such desires because she felt I wasn’t interested in them, didn’t want to spend the time on them that would be required, etc. [...]

Your own great problem, the inhibition of emotion, fits in with your own designs as well as his did. [...]

[...] Instead you are overly concerned with the stages it will go through, or must, and this is inhibiting.

He has inhibited physical aspects in terms of decorating, etc., going out— those areas, out of a sense of duty. [...]

[...] In his discussions on health, Seth has always maintained that illness is often the result of dissociated and inhibited emotions. [...] If really large areas of the self are inhibited, a secondary personality can be formed, grouped about those qualities distrusted and denied by the primary ego, and usually opposed to it. In other instances, the inhibited emotions can be projected outward into other persons, or as in the case of the York Beach images, very charged repressed energy can actually form pseudophysical images which present the personality with the physically materialized image of his fears.

[...] Talents that are accepted as good in themselves may be inhibited simply because their fulfillment might lead to success in financial terms.

[...] Your load of inhibitions will recede. [...]

[...] You will only be blanketing your feelings and inhibiting your energy and power. [...]

[...] If you think, “Aha, then from now on I will only think good thoughts — and therefore be healthy, and inhibit my ‘bad’ thoughts, or do anything at all with them but think them,” then in your own way you are doing what Augustus did. [...] So inhibiting what you consider as negative thoughts, or assuming that they are so terrible, is no answer.

[...] Considerable energy was used to inhibit these portions of his inner experience. [...]

[...] His identification with the importance of the mind, then, and his focus as a writer, allowed him to inhibit physical motion in a way you would not have done. [...]

Ruburt used his body as a symbol of the entire situation, and the symptoms as a way of maintaining privacy, and lack of distraction on both of your parts—again, inhibiting sexual freedom, spontaneous outings that threatened both of your ideas. [...]

In this framework you see yourselves as individuals and as partners in a remarkable creative endeavor that will develop your main abilities easily, and without strain and inhibition. [...]

[...] Your friends the Gallaghers inhibit their subjective natures strongly, both of them (as I was speculating about the other day). [...]

These ideas, with the last session, have to do with Ruburt’s partitioning of his spontaneity, for he also felt that you had to choose one way or the other, and that to protect your subjective freedom you had to inhibit the externally oriented spontaneity that was sanctioned by most of the society, because you could not do both. [...]

[...] For Bill does have significant psychic abilities that he inhibits for fear they will operate against his survival in the world of business.

[...] Now some feelings because they have been inhibited, come out in exaggerated form—the hatred of the bathroom or the bedroom for example.

The rooms bear the brunt of beliefs also as mentioned earlier, but the inhibited anger against the conditions and against himself, for feeling powerless to change the conditions—these bring him face to face with issues he has hidden. [...]

(“Has he been inhibiting his recovery toward walking by worrying about it?”)

[...] It is far better to express those feelings than to inhibit them.

[...] One thing that inhibited me is that I was aware, of course, of the predominantly negative context or tone of the whole idea of the list. [...]

[...] We are embarked upon a journey of expression, some of that expression will necessarily involve feelings that have been inhibited, of a stressful nature. [...]

It was important that Ruburt state his position, for example, by saying clearly that the symptoms threatened him, and that they threatened him more than any scorn, and important also that he state that the symptoms inhibited his writing. [...]

[...] The most important thing, of course, is that you have set up communication, so that Ruburt’s fears are no longer being inhibited. [...]

[...] The final period was and is to be one in which your energies are directed to your work without the outside job, for finally you began to feel that you were not doing what you should do; this itself inhibited your trust in yourself further, and therefore the development of your work.

[...] The inhibition you were enforcing upon yourself by working outside was reflected in your work inevitably, as soon as you became aware that the course no longer served its purpose. [...]

[...] Your consciousness is not inhibited, it is not blurred. [...]

[...] There is still, however, some conscious control and questioning on your part that inhibit the details that you receive so that they must be given in a certain fashion, and this is also understandable and a part of your progress. [...]

[...] Resulting inhibited energy is then released. [...]

However, when care is taken to relieve the inhibiting nature of conscious thoughts, the body organism sends up energetic emotions that act as physical impetus. [...]

When he feels that way he inhibits the feeling and does not admit it.