“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Much of the muscular tension and rigidity is caused by such constant mental tension. [...]

[...] I thought this might be a convenient way of diverting her thoughts, rather than depending on purely mental efforts; at times she might feel particularly like concentrating upon inner images, etc.)

[...] 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.

One of the greatest detriments to mental and physical well-being is the unfortunate belief that any unfavorable situation is bound to get worse instead of better. [...] 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.

We will not concentrate upon these, but we will indeed discuss them, so that each person can understand the relationship between poor beliefs and poor health, for through understanding these connections the individual can re-experience the great mental variety that is possible. [...]

[...] Those blueprints exist mentally as ideals. [...]

[...] Instead, mental beliefs about the body’s performance have changed, and increased physical speed resulted. [...]

[...] This does not mean that the intellect is any less, but that it uses its abilities to help you form physical civilizations that are the reflections of mental, spiritual, and biological inner civilizations. [...]

Do the exercises in my book, The Nature of Personal Reality, to discover what conditions of a mental nature, or of psychological origin, are causing you distress. [...]

[...] With most mental aberrations, you are dealing with people whose private symbols are so heavily thrust over prime sense data that even those data sometimes become almost invisible. [...]

[...] Let us take a hypothetical individual — one who is convinced he has a healthy body, and is proud of mental stability. [...]

[...] Their reality is the result of the most precise balancing of forces so that certain mental events appear quite real, and others are peripheral. [...]

[...] You also have the mental equivalent, however, of the FM’s lock-in mechanism. On your part this is the result of training, so that if your thoughts or experience stray too far this mental gadget brings them back into line. [...]

[...] For example, you might mentally hear sounds, while knowing they have no physical origin. [...] When it does, recognize it as your home station, and mentally let yourself drift further away from it. [...]

[...] Instead, the trick is to view the contents of the world in different fashions, to free your physical senses from the restraints that your mental conventions have placed upon them.

[...] Indeed, often they can only add to your mental clutter, turning into “static” — so you must learn first of all what a clear focus is.

Before you go to sleep, tell yourself that you will mentally take a dream snapshot⁷ of the most significant dream of the night. [...] You mentally take this into the dream state. You will use the camera at the point of your clearest perceptions, snap your picture, and — mentally again — take it back with you so that it will be the first mental picture that you see when you awaken.

Now this is a mental camera we are using. [...] With our dream camera, however, the conditions themselves are mental. [...]

[...] If you are working mentally with a particular snapshot, then note the other items in the picture. [...]

[...] Jane’s own abilities, for instance, raise questions about certain biological attributes as well as mental ones; in large part our society still doesn’t want to contend with such challenges at this time.

[...] I saw her remarks as correlating with my primary question for this evening, since Seth has told us that her feelings of distress at such times result from her mental attitudes as much, or more than, physical circumstances.

[...] In a curious fashion, such letting go of effort might well result in an increased abundance of creativity, for example, but the mental and psychological set allows an individual to become more aware of the basic motivations of the personality, that show themselves quite clearly through the impulses, and through desires—particularly when they are not overlain by layers of “I must,” “I should,” or “I must do this or that.” [...]

The letting-go of effort should be also a mental and psychological stance applied not only to Ruburt’s physical dilemma, but to his—and your—relationships with the subjective and objective worlds. [...]

[...] When you are awake for periods of time during those hours, very refreshing conditions exist mentally and physically. [...]

[...] The fact is that sexual expression is, again, an important element in the entire range of human experience, encouraging mental and physical health and vitality.

In actuality, the combination of a philosophical stress upon discipline, physical and mental, with the belief in the sinful self, often brings about the most unfortunate human dilemmas. [...]

[...] While you are in this reality there is no division between the mental, the spiritual, and the physical. [...]

[...] They are as much a part of nature as feelings are, but if you set up an arbitrary division — considering thoughts mental as distinguished from the physical — then your body may give a truer reflection of your being than your thoughts do.

When you consider ideas as mental and apart from nature, then you feel separated from nature itself. [...]

[...] I am telling you that your own thoughts and mental actions appear to the inhabitants of other systems like the stars and planets within your own; and those inhabitants do not perceive what lies within and behind the stars in their own heavens. [...] They will only perceive the shape and form that your own mental acts—thoughts and dreams—take within their own system.

[...] You, yourselves, through your own mental actions, create realities of which you are unaware, and you give birth to more than physical children.

Two: All objects have their origin basically in mental action. Mental action is directed psychic energy.

Eight: The only barriers within inner reality are mental barriers, or psychic barriers.

Your mental processes are formed and developed as a result of this conditioning. [...]

In closed mental environments such expression is vigorously denied, and the very foundations of selfhood are attacked. I will use my own definition of a cult here, saying that a cult exists whenever a group forms a closed, emotionally charged mental environment in which the foundations of individuality are systematically and purposefully undermined.

[...] She repeated it as best she could: “....a closed, emotionally charged mental environment, in which the characteristics of individuality were purposefully undermined.” [...]

[...] Her concern and understanding also have a mental quality, as your own deepest feelings in those regards are expressed through art or writing indirectly, rather than through direct contact with others.

Your mental world is full of ideas and feelings that surge toward actualization. [...]

[...] They are spiritual, mental, emotional and biological beliefs that are innately present in the birth of each creature. [...]

All of those attitudes provide the strength and mental health that promotes their physical growth and development. [...]

[...] We hope to show how most natural health-promoting beliefs can be applied to all mental, physical, or emotional illnesses or difficulties. [...]

[...] I am taking it for granted that you understand that I am referring to the ‘mental attitude’ of animals and of the body consciousness, for they do possess their own mental attributes—psychological colorations—and above all, emotional ‘states.’”

[...] Telepathy, “molecular mentality,” and cellular consciousness are deeply involved in all of this.

The mental attitude, the deep and true mental attitude, of everyone involved, should be altered if possible to one that is more hopeful. [...]

A mental change therefore of those within her immediate environment is necessary.

If these instructions concerning a beneficial change in mental environment are not taken, then indeed no other advice or medicine will be of help. [...]

[...] Physical and mental work would be easier, and the body itself would gain steady periods of refreshment and rest. [...] For other reasons having to do with the chemical reactions during the dream state, bodily health would be improved; and this particular schedule would also be of help in schizophrenia, and generally aid persons with problems of depression, or those with mental instability.

[...] The entire system, physical, mental, and psychic, would benefit.

[...] A greater equalization, both physical and mental, would result.

[...] Small amounts of food much more frequently taken would be much more beneficial than your present practice in physical, mental, and psychic terms.

(9:19.) Remember that cells have consciousness, so while I say these leanings are biologically entwined, they are also mental properties. [...] Particularly on the part of children, it allows them to express forms and shapes that they see mentally first of all. [...]

When children draw objects they are successfully, then, turning the shapes of the exterior world into their personal mental experiences—possessing them mentally, so to speak, through physically rendering the forms. [...]

In highly complicated cellular structures like yourselves (pause), with your unique mental properties, you end up with a vital inborn sense of shape and form. [...]

[...] The point is that the images the artists were trying to portray were initially mental and emotional ones, and the paintings were supposed to represent not only themselves but the great drama of divine and human interrelationship, and the tension between the two. [...]

[...] But in your fear of negative thoughts you often attempt to deny all normal aggressiveness, and at the first glimpse of it bring up your mental antibodies prepared for action. [...] (Intently:) You mentally shout in such situations that you do not feel what you feel.

As an accumulation would occur in the flesh, so the same thing might happen in your mental experience. Physically you could end up with a very serious condition; and mentally and emotionally such a clamping down on natural forces can result in “diseased” idea structures that are isolated from other more healthy concepts. [...]

[...] As the body creates antibodies¹ to regulate itself, so you will set up mental and emotional “antibodies,” certain thoughts that are “good,” to protect you from the fantasies or ideas that you consider bad.

[...] Because you consider aggression synonymous with violence, you may not understand that aggressive — forceful, active, mental or spoken — commands for peace could save your life in such a case; yet they could.

(2:54.) You may therefore be trying out many different kinds of experiences, sometimes endowing yourself with super attributes and strength, relying upon the body’s powers above all other considerations, while at the same time in another life you use and develop unusual mental abilities, enjoying the triumphs of creative thought, while largely ignoring the body’s agility and strength.

I do not mean to imply that you necessarily deal with opposite kinds of behaviors, for there are endless variances — each unique — as consciousness expresses itself through physical sensation, and attempts to explore all of the possible realms of emotional, spiritual, biological, and mental existence.

[...] This does not mean that those adverse situations can be changed overnight in usual terms (though ideally that is also possible), but that the sense of control over one’s life encourages all of the mental and physical healing properties.