“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You have been punishing yourself quite often in the way in which you approach the medical experience. [...] On the other hand, you feel it is “just punishment for these ears of mine that will not work.” [...]

[...] To some extent you punish him for his past attitudes by not appearing as attractively as you could. [...]

[...] I am telling you that often you use medical treatment as a further punishment of the body. [...]

One of the most disastrous ideas is the belief that illness is sent as a punishment by God.

[...] To be punished by God is often seen as preferable to being ignored by God. [...]

[...] He punished himself for not writing by making the performance very difficult. [...]

[...] He was a high-spirited child, and was taught there that he must toe the mark and do what the others did, or he would be punished.

(10:00.) If you did not toe the mark, you were punished severely, or abandoned; or your sustenance was cut off. [...]

[...] They may feel heartless, or imagine themselves to be so cold-hearted that they punish themselves literally by trying to lose their heart.

This would have operated as a self-punishment for the symptoms inflicted upon Ruburt, had they continued throughout any period of years. [...]

[...] You have the windows covered (with the plastic winter weatherproofing material) as a self-punishment. [...]

[...] But you also are endowed with free will and there is no punishment except [for] those of you who choose to punish yourselves. There is no punishment in those terms. [...]

His mother would pretend suicide just to punish him. He felt therefore that he caused your illness, that in a way you were punishing him for the frivolousness that made him suggest you leave a conventional background and your parents, and go with his father in Florida.

[...] Outright punishment—hair-pulling or cursing. [...]

[...] To punish himself he attempted to give himself his mother’s symptoms, to put the shoe on the other foot, so to speak, almost in a religiouslike atonement.

[...] But because he felt at this time unworthy, for the reasons given, then he must punish himself for its success, artistically speaking. [...]

[...] No one is punished in one life for “evil” activities in a previous one.

Peter [for his own reasons] may decide that his body is out to get him and punish him, rather than, say, the FBI. [...]

[...] In this dogma man needs to apologize for his birth, and the conditions of life are seen as a punishment set by God upon his erring creatures. [...]

[...] He is saying “I may not have to go out to work like you do, but I am punishing myself for it, so do not blame me.”

—since he is punishing himself during the week because you have to go to work. [...]

[...] They are afraid that expressions of love, or the need for dependence will only bring them scorn or punishment. [...]

The knees, incidentally, I can help him here: in Saint Vincent’s punishment took the form of having the child kneel straight upward, and doing so Ruburt’s knees often became sore. The knee symptoms were a later development in this present series of symptoms, his way of punishing himself for his previous lack of understanding. [...]

[...] Now he thinks he punishes his body for being ill by not allowing it pleasure with you in intimate relations. He is now realizing that there is nothing to punish it for.

[...] The word, justice, is a human one, always implying punishment. [...]

[...] The child feared punishment there by giving voice to any complaint. [...]

The symptoms also served to punish you for making him go to such extremes, because physically they obviously hampered the expression of that love. [...]

[...] I must be punished, or I am punishing myself for unkindnesses done to others in past lives. [...]

[...] Some believe that suffering is a punishment sent by God for past or present sins, or even omissions, while other religious schools insist that suffering is sent by God as evidence of his particular love for the individual involved: “God must love you very much, because he sent you so much suffering.” [...]