“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There is little to say. The doing is being done. His decisions are becoming physically actualized, and finally progress in the knees is apparent. He has passed over the annoying problems with beliefs and their manifestations. The recovery is accelerating, and will in ways that you can easily perceive. There will shortly be no reason for your overconcern and resulting symptoms, for the prognosis will be so certain that your own fear also will disappear.

I am not talking about a natural and healthy interest in the purity of foodstuffs, but of a worrisome overconcern. [...]

[...] But when you become overconcerned, consciously, then you hamper good results. [...]

You are overextending your energies by an overconcern. [...]

[...] Its overconcern arose as the result of the suggestions given over the years. [...]

[...] The question in such instances is the reason for such a person’s overconcern and alarm in the first place—why the intense interest in such possible catastrophes, or in crime or whatever?—and the answer lies in an examination of the person’s feelings and beliefs about the nature of existence itself.

You might have, for example, poor eyesight while you are concentrating upon trying to heal yourself of something else—a broken leg: your eyes might be healed in a displacement effect, while the healing of your leg or whatever might be put off immediately because it is blocked by your own overconcern. [...]

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If you are overconcerned with helping others, then you must first of all begin to question whether or not your creative material, still forming, will serve that purpose, and if not, or if there is a question, you give birth to hesitations and doubts that—again—subvert art’s free flow. [...]

[...] Worrying, future projections of unpleasant conditions, concern over a public image, or whatever, even overconcern about his work itself—these cause strain and tension. [...]

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[...] An overconcern (underlined) about the mechanics of publication, or the necessity of publication, or the wheres and hows of publication, or a sense of responsibility about the work, can indeed cause difficulty, but the basic creative expression—which has been impeded in the past by fears—should still be encouraged. [...]

[...] Overall suggestions do of course give excellent leeway, so that the pressure can be taken off any specific areas of overconcern. [...]

Whenever you become anxious, overconcerned, you can almost always refresh yourself—I mean both of you—or anyone—by a return of attention to the events immediately present in the natural world.

[...] He needs to turn away from an overconcern with life’s more ‘“weighty problems,” to lose the feeling that it is up to him to solve those problems for himself and you and for the world. [...]

As for Ruburt, he became overconcerned about work because of the contracts (for Mass Events and God of Jane, which we have yet to sign with Prentice-Hall), and the foreign hassles. [...]

Overconcern however is negative. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You become overconcerned with the egotistical situations, and hamper the inner self.

[...] He needs to turn away from an overconcern with life’s more ‘weighty problems,’ to lose the feeling that it is up to him to solve those problems for himself and you and for the world.