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[...] You reinforce the destructive qualities by the very act of concentrating upon them, and you rob yourselves of the constructive qualities that you could be concentrating upon, and therefore that you could be reinforcing.

[...] However, concentration reinforces the quality which is concentrated upon.

The ego and the outer senses reinforce the belief in a closed system, and therefore close it. The inner senses, when the physical body is relaxed, will carry you through the imaginary boundaries, but a conscious focus upon the boundaries to be passed through will tend to reinforce them. [...]

[...] To say “I am weightless,” as Ruburt does, simply reinforces the idea of bulk, and should be discarded. [...]

[...] Any improvement in Ruburt’s condition is significant, and should be reinforced.

[...] In terms of behavior, neither of you reinforce positive behavior in terms of any improvement. [...]

[...] Absolutes must be avoided, however, and you start from Ruburt’s present position, reinforcing through approval—not disapproval—those improvements as they happen.

[...] The chapter deals with the negative effects and aspects of inoculations, and certainly reinforces Seth’s own material in Mass Events on the harmful effects of many inoculations. [...]

[...] Such a situation increased Ruburt’s sense of not being safe, of course, and yet also reinforced feelings of independence, for he did not have to feel as dependent upon Marie as he might otherwise. [...]

The old attitude kept reinforcing the idea of self-disapproval, accusation, period. [...]

[...] Beliefs are thoughts reinforced by imagination and emotion concerning the nature of your reality.

[...] You want to change it so you do not reinforce it. [...]

[...] To tell yourself over and over that you are tired, however, reinforces the condition.

These will reinforce the family group when the child most needs protection. [...]

[...] They are given to you through example, verbal communication, and constant telepathic reinforcement. [...]

[...] If your mother reinforced this belief telepathically and verbally through dire pictures of the potential danger involved in street crossing, however, then you would also carry within you that emotional fear, and perhaps entertain imaginative considerations of possible accident.

[...] He must reinforce his faith in the process as he does.

[...] The actual physical suggestions I am giving—the walk and exercises—are necessary reinforcements. [...]

[...] He’s known many places on earth, and many loves as man and as woman, but I’ll bet that even now his experiences are still new, and that he reinforces Jane’s living feelings for each one of us. [...]

I want to thank so many for their help and reinforcement that it’s unbelievable. [...]

(9:25.) The beliefs of both of you find justification in physical life, and only reinforce themselves. [...]

[...] You will choose from your previous experience all of those events that reinforce your conscious beliefs, and so ignore those that do not; the latter may even seem to be nonexistent.

[...] From what seems to be the past you draw only those memories that reinforce your condition, and you project those into the future. [...]

[...] Presently you can reinforce each other’s lack of confidence. [...]

[...] The return to the natural moment can be used quite effectively, but not if you constantly reinforce your lacks of confidence.

[...] In the past you have reinforced each other’s beliefs in an unsafe universe. [...]

[...] Your ideas of quality are reinforced and sensed in the books even while they are not physically apparent. [...]

[...] His life constantly reinforces this concept, and while he is peripherally aware that some people are “nicer” than others, his main intimate experience allows him to see the best in others and in himself. [...]

[...] You reinforce them constantly through the normal inner talking in which you all indulge.

[...] You are hypnotizing yourself quite effectively and so reinforcing the situation. [...]

[...] His own native resiliency and your combined psychic reinforcement protected him. [...] With his illness he was not able to reinforce the cat’s condition by his own psychic creativity.

[...] The antibiotics serve as a physical reinforcement, you see, since the condition now appears in physical terms.

The cat needs all the reinforcements you can give it now. [...]

[...] Such actions simply bring to a sense level your inner intentions, and serve to reinforce them through the physical actions involved.

[...] Ruburt should brush his animals; all of this for its symbolic meaning, but symbolism reinforced on the sense data level.

[...] He was constantly told to slow down, to use discipline, and this reinforced the fear that what he was, was fearful, powerful, evil, and best hidden.

[...] Let me here reinforce that validity. Let me reinforce my 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.

Without carrying the idea too far, I designed the notes and appendixes so that to some extent they reinforce each other, as the sessions themselves do. [...]

[...] Many people liked that letter (they still do) — and some wrote back in response to it! Because of this, Jane and I suggest that Seth’s earlier letter be read in conjunction with the one below, for as Jane says, the two complement and reinforce each other. [...]

[...] On one level the Psycho-Cybernetics is important also, for it reminds him on the simplest of terms that he can perform better, and reinforces a trust in himself.

Now: you use words and their suggestive elements to reinforce and communicate your own purposes, beliefs, and intents. [...]

[...] You have helped reinforce that suggestion, for reasons that should now be obvious.

[...] See how you use suggestion naturally to reinforce and encourage your creative activities, and how you use it otherwise. [...]

[...] Against that image of course he feels inadequate, and of course such an image would make him lose faith in himself to some degree; so it is very important that you realize how well you have both done in many areas of activity, and that you reinforce each other in those directions. [...]

[...] His faith is growing, and both of you can help reinforce it. [...]

[...] You believed them, and you did not examine them, except when you brought to the surface of your mind arguments that reinforced them. [...]

[...] This is affecting you, releasing your own creative energies, for his holding back in the past reinforced your own tendencies in that direction. [...]