“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The woman is picking up and reacting to the negative thoughts of those who believe recovery is impossible.

[...] (Long pause.) As an immediate step all effort should be made to remove negative suggestions, as these are building up about her. [...]

[...] It is most essential that negative suggestions be drained away from her, and replaced by positive suggestions (long pause), and a massive effort to do so is required.

[...] All those surrounding the woman absolutely must refrain from attitudes of hopelessness and negative suggestions, either implied or spoken. [...]

[...] A belief in powerlessness in any area sets up its possibility in others — it operates as negative suggestion.”

[...] Usually, however, a pattern of unsuccessful diets occurs, operating then as a series of negative suggestions. [...]

[...] In each case frequent attention to the scales serves as another negative stimulus, reinforcing the condition. [...]

[...] The therapy seldom has long-reaching effects because from then on any gained weight is even more negatively charged.

[...] You are so negatively oriented that you automatically think your secrets must be negative ones, you see, and you think of them in negative terms where they are not negative. [...] They are not negative. [...]

[...] as if only anger were involved or negative feelings. But all of you, when you think of feelings in that context, you think of negative feelings that are being repressed. [...]

[...] If you are mad at somebody, admit it to yourself instead of hitting them and without the physical contact, that will release the negative feeling you have toward that person?”)

(Long pause.) Those creative elements of personality must then to some extent or another finally communicate with the “Sinful Self” directly—sympathetically embrace that self (pause) as the part of personality that first accepted cultural and religious beliefs with all of their negative and positive influences. [...] Those negative beliefs then no longer seem so frightening. [...]

[...] Yesterday evening we checked to see if Jane would have any negative reactions. [...]

(Her material this afternoon concerned “the reconciliation of the Sinful Self and its transformation into the innocent self that it was before it was undermined —indoctrinated—with negative beliefs.” [...]

[...] The belief system may in fact be negatively attuned while still providing that overall value. [...]

[...] Remembering a few small but potent suggestions will of course be of greatest benefit—particularly to offset any negative hospital suggestions, which do of course exist. On the other hand, in such cases remember that often a doctor’s or a nurse’s negative suggestions or fears, voiced, simply give voice to the individual’s own fears. [...]

[...] Cummins’s opinion had been largely negated by Dr. K., especially after Dr. K’s friend from Ithaca, the rheumatologist Dr. Sobel had examined Jane at Dr. K’s request early in Jane’s hospital stay. He’d evidently given Dr. K a very negative report on Jane. [...]

(Long pause.) I am speaking primarily to Ruburt in this particular sentence, but to some extent this applies to both of you, particularly involving the projecting of negative beliefs into the future. [...]

[...] In this particular case built-up negative attitudes of years’ standing set up negative patterns that prevented the most creative parts of the self from using their natural potential.

He has overemphasized limitations in the past, of all kinds, and this has led him to deny many of his own positive characteristics—this concentration upon the negative. [...]

[...] The negative patterns, many of them, came from conscious deductions made about the nature of reality. [...]

[...] Now the reversal of the negative trend has already taken place, so openings are available. [...]

[...] The particular negative words spoken or thought are but indications of this break of impetus. The break occurs first, and it is for this reason that what you call negative suggestions therefore are acted upon.

The negative suggestions therefore are symptoms of an inner block of energy and impetus. [...] It goes without saying that these which you call negative suggestions are in themselves actions. [...]

What you call a negative suggestion is never acted upon unless the inner block of energies has already occurred. [...]

We will have much to say concerning impediments; and impediments, incidentally, are what you call negative suggestions. [...]

[...] You were not afraid as much of negative emotions, briefly, because in your family your father found safety in negative emotions. [...]

[...] You, now, did for some time get into the habit of nonsmiling, which led Ruburt to further reinforce his own negative ideas of what you are thinking. [...]

Whenever you begin to interact, often the negative emotions show first. [...]

[...] You are afraid then not of the negative emotional release—which meant, to the degree mentioned, safety—but of the joyful loving emotions. [...]

[...] You are each concentrating on negatives when you ignore the freedom that does exist, and denying yourselves pleasures that could help enlarge that freedom. [...]

[...] You still allow your imagination to follow your negative beliefs, thus you (me, RFB) are often unable to encourage Ruburt actively, as he is often unable to encourage himself.

[...] If you each structure that experience ahead of time, however, and see it focused entirely on and through negative beliefs, then it simply becomes another hassle.

[...] You would each do it a great service if you would simply leave it alone, stop negative projections upon it, if you cannot manage to send it positive help through being willing to change your beliefs about it.

[...] I want him to then stress, this week, all of his good points, and as much as possible to ignore for that amount of time the negative ones.

[...] This will automatically help replace some of the negative beliefs concerning unworthiness, and is an effective way of avoiding pitfalls.

(I am not sure that Seth’s statement on page 150 constitutes a distortion, when he mentions that a communication between our universe and the universe of negative matter is possible. In the 63rd session, again, he deals with the two companion universes to ours, calling them a beforeimage and an afterimage, and lumping them under the general terms of negative or antimatter. In the 63rd session Seth states that our universe and the two universes comprising the universe of negative matter can never meet. [...]

[...] There was also therefore from the beginning here a negative field, and as they weaved matter in and out of this psychic beginning meshwork, they formed both the world of matter and of negative matter.

It will be found in some important respects that the dream universe, which began even then, has somewhat the same relationships to the physical universe, but on a psychic level, that the physical universe has to the universe of negative matter. [...]

[...] I had intended, and still will, involve us in a discussion of the parallel development of the physical universe, the world of negative matter, and the dream world. [...]

Her own attitude is highly negative. [...]

[...] She is also projecting the negative picture into the future. [...]

[...] But she must avoid the mire of negative expectation.

[...] His imagination can be given full rein, except that when he find himself using it negatively, he uses it as strongly in the opposite direction instead.

You remind him not to project negatively into the future. [...]

[...] When he counted upon you finally to help him get up in the morning, this automatically relieved him of the responsibility for enough time so that the negative charges connected could subside, and a new habit began to show itself.

[...] These are not negative states on their own, any more than twilight is less natural than dawn. [...] Your overall beliefs, however, can be so exaggerated in a negative manner that finally some people accept as valid the most negative picture of the world.

These will be caused by your beliefs and your feelings, but they will not be necessarily negative at all, but a demonstration of the body’s responsiveness. [...]

[...] A concentration upon negative thoughts and feelings to the exclusion of all else, will depress the mind and body as surely as any drugs.

[...] Those who consistently choose negative patterns program themselves in those areas, gradually alter the chemical balances within the body. [...]

The times that Ruburt managed rather considerable improvements even in the face of strong negative beliefs, were times when he managed to convince himself against all objective evidence that there was nothing wrong with him physically but habitual stiffness. That belief minimized the seeming impediments, allowed greater physical freedom that in its turn by contrast began to lessen the preliminary negative beliefs. [...]

[...] You are, Joseph, now, able to see many of Ruburt’s negative concepts, but you are blind still to many of your own. [...]

[...] He has gone ahead despite, in this case, your negative interpretation, and seen himself under certain conditions traveling in a trailer, writing, granted, but in front of strangers in a bathing suit or shorts, and he does not want to look like a bony witch. [...]

He felt that in your world and interpretation his ideas were Pollyanna, but I tell you that is practical creativity—and it can wipe out many negative beliefs, more in a moment than you can realize.

[...] (When I said I didn’t know how to write down what she was telling me, Jane said:)Just put: the minus numbers represent negative charges, and mark the activity of ions’ negative flow. [...]

[...] (Then she added: ) This is to make that clearer; talking about negative and positive values, and on the negative side the value descends in direct proportion to the order of ascension on the positive side.

(For some reason Jane then told me I didn’t have to put this down, but I did so anyway: ) The order of the integers on the negative side descends in direct proportion to the order of ascension of integers on the positive side. [...]

If you consider the positive and negative numbers like a spectrum, then, the spectrum shifts. [...]

[...] The exercises themselves then help combat negative suggestions on both of your parts, for you are reassured by any progress. [...]

[...] A heavy-handed application of suggestion should be avoided—and look carefully for negative suggestions that may be implied on either of your parts. [...]

The exaggeration of negative influences was brought about because of the repression. [...]

[...] And negative images, deeply repressed, of her sitting on the edge of the bed, trying to get up. [...]

“You should tell yourself frequently, ‘I will only react to constructive suggestions,’ for this gives you some protection against your own negative thoughts and those of others. A negative thought if not erased will almost certainly result in a negative condition: a momentary despondency, a headache, according to the intensity of the thought.

[...] Each of us has our own defenses against negative suggestions, and we should trust in our own immunity. People react to negative suggestions only when their own frame of mind is negative. [...]

“There are obviously ways in which you mold your own conditions, protect yourself from your own negative suggestions and those of others. You must learn to erase a negative thought or picture by replacing it with its opposite.

[...] We played a sort of game: I liked her, but I wasn’t going to be besieged by a barrage of negative thoughts and pessimism for an hour, no matter how wittily presented—and she knew it. [...]

[...] Many who make a practice of “denying” negative suggestions from others, asserting positive affirmations instead, actually do so because they are so fully convinced that the power of negative beliefs is stronger than that of beneficial ones.

Each of you will find habitual thought patterns in your own life backed up by resulting action — conditioned behavior as it were — by which you continually reinforce negative aspects, concentrate upon them to the exclusion of conflicting data, and so bring them into experience through natural hypnosis.

It is not true, however, that positive and negative feelings and beliefs “take” there with equal vitality. [...]

Practically speaking, now, negative beliefs often finally catch up with an individual, leading to various diseases. [...]

Negative beliefs have to be inserted there with great repetitiveness before you meet their physical results. [...]

[...] The simple change of dish routine shows you how a change of attitude can break a negative pattern overnight. [...]