“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

These statements of mine are general, for each individual will have his or her own way of reinforcing beliefs. If you think you are ill, most likely past-life information will show that you committed crimes for which you are now doing penance. In whatever framework you choose, you will always find proper reinforcement for your belief.

You are structuring your earlier life through the dissatisfactions of the present, and therefore reinforcing your problems.

(Pause at 9:21.) Those given to such practices — constant examination of the past in order to discover what is wrong in the present — too often miss the point. Instead, they constantly reinforce the negative experience from which they are trying to escape. Their initial problems were caused precisely as a result of the same kind of thinking. A great many unsatisfactory conditions result because individuals become frightened at various periods in their lives, doubt themselves, and begin to concentrate upon “negative” aspects.

The question, “What is wrong with me?” will only lead you to create further limitations, and to reinforce those that you do have, through exaggerating such activities in the present and projecting them into the future.

[...] In those areas where you have not been effectively successful, you often seem faced with evidence to the contrary—and that evidence can appear to be quite concrete, because it is of course reinforced daily.

[...] That is also a fact, and you constantly reinforce that fact whenever you have difficulty with puzzles—so that difficulty is most usually turned into an enjoyable challenge, with resulting triumph.

[...] You have, however, reinforced the difficulty through accepting it as a fact, and then treating it, of course, as a fact that must be dealt with on its own terms. [...]

[...] You must stop reinforcing the negative suggestion, and instead when you leave your desk tell yourself that when you return you will pick up your work where you left off easily and naturally.

“When your own personalities are more or less in balance, you have no trouble at all in looking out for these creatures, and actually reinforcing their own existence with residues of your creative and sympathetic powers. In times of psychological stress or crisis, quite unwittingly you withhold this strong reinforcement.

[...] In the case of the first cat, you were able to reinforce its strength and maintain its health for quite a while, and then you needed your energies for yourselves. The second cat barely enjoyed such reinforcement at all, and quickly succumbed.

[...] They have their own, it is true, but unknowingly you reinforce their energy and health.

[...] I would like to make clear, of course, that animals certainly do have energy to maintain their own health, but this is strongly reinforced as a rule by the vitality of human beings to whom the animals are emotionally attached. [...]

[...] A family can constantly reinforce its joy (louder), gaiety, and spontaneity by concentrating on ideas of vitality, strength and creativity; or it can let half of its energy slip away (deeper) by reinforcing resentments, angers and thoughts of doubt and failure.

[...] From all the unconscious telepathic and clairvoyant data available, however, you will be aware of this particular grouping, and it will only serve to reinforce your idea that existence is above all perilous.

Either way the ideas of reality are reinforced both consciously and unconsciously, not only within the family but among all those with whom the family comes in contact.

Your sense data, again, will most definitely reinforce your ideas. [...]

When you concentrate on a symptom you reinforce it. [...]

[...] Ruburt is now at the stage where he has freed considerable energy, and this must now be utilized in constructive activity, and not to reinforce symptoms.

Again do not ignore them, but do not let your comments act as a negative suggestion that already might reinforce those that he has inadvertently given himself. [...]

[...] It should not involve pity, for this reinforces the symptoms, but should involve a confident assurance, particularly when he is fearful—an encouragement on your part, of constructive activities, a comforting but not overindulgent attitude, you see.

[...] I have reinforced this with the pendulum today; I used suggestion at once after the session last night. [...] I plan to reinforce the new suggestions daily for some time with the pendulum and without—but I already feel that a change has taken place.

[...] I’ll see if I can reinforce her beliefs in that area.

Any time the two of you enjoy yourselves physically in lovemaking you are reinforcing and reviving whole groups of healthy beliefs on many levels vital to each of you. [...] Your lovemaking joyfully reinforces both of your healthy aspected body images.

This reinforces older healthier beliefs in the body’s efficiency, that were discarded before any symptoms appeared. [...]

[...] You are each reinforcing them now. [...]

(12:30 AM.) Since you are talking to Ruburt from your outside, and telling him what to do, when you are not personally saddled in the same way that he is, then how often have you ever reassured him that he could indeed walk properly, get up easily, or joyfully tried to reinforce his confidence?

When your own personalities are more or less in balance, you have no trouble at all looking out for these creatures and actually reinforcing their existence with residues of your creative and sympathetic powers. In times of psychological stress — or in periods of crises — quite unwittingly you often withhold this strong reinforcement. [...]

[...] In the case of the first cat, you were able to reinforce its strength and maintain its health for some time. [...] The second cat barely enjoyed such reinforcement at all and quickly succumbed. [...]

[...] They have their own, it is true, but, unknowingly, you reinforce their energy and health.

[...] I would like to make it clear that animals do have energy to maintain their own health, but this is reinforced as a rule by the vitality of the human beings to whom they may be emotionally attached. [...]

[...] In so doing he reinforces a sense of power over both inner habits and the physical environment.

Your own behavior with him has been excellent, and highly reinforcing. [...]

[...] He is beginning to realize it, but that should be reinforced in the suggestions given. [...]

[...] Your little exercise this evening is an excellent example of reassurance, reinforcement, and practical learning. [...]

[...] Let me here reinforce that validity. Let me reinforce faith in your innate ability to find joyful acquiescence, and to rise above any problems that you have.

If I presume to solve problems for you, then I deny you your own power, and further reinforce any feelings of powerlessness that you have. I know that you can grow tired, however, and that sometimes a gift of energy can be quite a boost; so, again, with this letter I send my joyful recognition of your existence—and energy that you can use to reinforce your own vitality and strength.

[...] My purpose is to reinforce your own strength, for ultimately the magic of your being is well-equipped (?) to help you find fulfillment, understanding, exuberance, and peace.

[...] Your remarks about his telephone behavior often reinforce his feelings that he could not say “no” without the symptoms to back him up.

(Pause.) People with like ideas reinforce each other’s beliefs. [...]

[...] See how you reinforce each other’s beliefs. [...]

If the belief means to you that love for children is best expressed in those terms, if you feel that there is something embarrassing about expressing affection directly, then the “better and better” suggestion may only reinforce that belief.

When your own personalities are more or less in balance you have no trouble at all in looking out for these creatures, and actually reinforcing their own existence with residues of your creative and sympathetic powers. In times of psychological stress or crisis, quite unwittingly you withhold this strong reinforcement.

[...] In the case of the first cat, you were able to reinforce its strength and maintain its health for quite a while, and then you needed your energies for yourselves. The second cat barely enjoyed such reinforcement at all, and quickly succumbed.

[...] They have their own, it is true, but unknowingly you reinforce their energy and health.

[...] I would like to make clear, of course, that animals certainly do have energy to maintain their own health, but this is strongly reinforced as a rule by the vitality of human beings to whom the animals are emotionally attached. [...]

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.

[...] Spending a longer period of time simply reinforces the idea of problems involved.

Children then apply their imaginations more vividly, and even utilize all of their senses at certain times, to follow or reinforce those pictures that imagination paints. [...]

In so doing, they then apply their imaginations in structured ways that serve to reinforce the prime reality-framework. [...]

[...] They reinforce themselves through imagination; and at the risk of repeating myself, because this is so important: Imagination and feeling follow your beliefs. [...]

[...] Because your imagination follows your beliefs, you can find yourself in a vicious circle in which you constantly paint pictures in your mind that reinforce “negative” aspects in your life.

[...] Imagination and emotion will then automatically come into play to reinforce the new beliefs.

[...] By such attitudes as these just mentioned you put clamps upon your inner self, purposely hamper your experience, and reinforce beliefs in the negative aspects of your being.

[...] Such exercises state and reinforce your intent, reinforce it through physical action, and the relaxation will set you free in your psychic endeavors, bringing your nightly dreams into clearer focus, because you are setting up consciously a better relationship between your mind and your body.

[...] To Margaret he had pneumonia, because she organizes reality in a certain fashion, and by slightly exaggerating certain data, she then uses it to reinforce certain beliefs. [...]

[...] The newspaper world is, then, highly distorted, organized in such a manner that its data reinforce negative beliefs, and constantly give evidence only of negative patterns. [...]

[...] I suggest that you listen to Ruburt as he gives his morning and evening suggestions—therefore you reinforce them—and that will be of help.

I am making myself known simply to reinforce those conditions in which healing is quickened. Those conditions are always present—yet even the briefest of sessions reinforces those aspects that quicken healing. [...]

[...] The resulting symptoms then served to reinforce the initial lack of trust. [...]

[...] As already discussed, the exterior situation then serves to reinforce the inner data, and it seems to fly in the face of all reason, to deny exterior symptoms. [...]

[...] In any of these areas however concentration upon the lacks would reinforce these. [...]

[...] It is important that you try to play this with him, or know what he is doing, simply because you reinforce each other so strongly. [...]