“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your stomach began to bother you when you considered whether or not to use photographs. (On Sunday, when I bought an album to keep them in.) You have the idea of how the book can appear, a model that exists in your mind. Use the model, but let it be a flexible one, in which your ideals work with the material at hand, molding it. Do not exaggerate, however, so that the ideal seems to be a perfection that cannot be attained given the conditions.

The wonder about your mother’s reaction however is important here. You feel she would want the family described in its best light. Your stomach became uncomfortable as those feelings tried to make themselves known.

(“Well, with the pendulum I’d arrived at the idea that my stomach bothered me because of a conflict between painting and writing—the time I have for each. I want to do them both—it isn’t that I prefer one over the other. I received the answer that I felt guilty over the conflict: when I wanted to do one, I thought I should be working on the other.”)

(“I thought of the photo connection when I first bought the album, and told Jane what I had in mind. But I got off the track with the pendulum. I never got a clear idea of what bothered me. I didn’t ask the right questions; I knew this when my stomach kept bothering me. I finally got so confused I stopped trying to use it.”

[...] My stomach had begun bothering me quite a bit a few days ago. I’d felt much better since last June, and thought I’d learned enough since then so that I didn’t need to bother the stomach any more—but evidently I hadn’t after all.

(“Yes,” I said, for I’d felt my stomach act up pretty strongly several times while Seth had been speaking. [...]

(“Well, taxes come up this week,” Jane told me, “and every time they do your stomach starts up. [...]

[...] Her stomach was okay except for a couple of brief episodes of that strange feeling mentioned in my own DMSO notes, so we don’t know really whether or not the drug has any connection with the stomach sensations after all. [...]

Remember the last portion of this session, and your stomach need not bother you (I laughed) — or, more clearly, you will not need to bother your stomach, for that is the problem’s secret.¹

[...] As I well know, I am bothering my stomach, which is perfectly innocent in its own right. [...] My stomach has been knotting up because I’m stewing over the reactions of those in charge at Prentice-Hall to Seth’s material in Mass Events about medical matters.

(1. My stomach. [...] On June 22 the pendulum told me that my stomach bothers me not because I don’t spend enough time painting, but because I feel guilty at spending the time I do, in view of all the other work with Jane that I feel I should be doing: working on sessions, “Unknown” Reality, etc.

Your stomach bothers you at various times for different reasons. [...]

[...] Oftentimes your stomach upsets you because your love for Ruburt makes you concerned, and in most instances the stimulus is money. [...]

[...] The conflict with the stomach always involves money, however—taxes sometimes, for example—and implies a period or situation in which you think he is being taken advantage of.

[...] I told her that my stomach has been bothering me with gas lately, quite often, and that on several nights recently I’ve gotten up to take some soda. [...]

—about Ruburt, and though you do not remember that you worried, you caused a gaseous stomach. [...]

[...] When you have a headache or a simple stomach upset, or if you have a chronic, annoying but not serious condition, such as trouble with your sinuses, or if you have hay fever — in those situations, remind yourself that your body does indeed have the capacity to heal itself.” [...]

[...] At 8:15 PM my stomach bothers a bit, but the left side has subsided to vague feelings of discomfort in the groin and testicle. The stomach does appear to be the primary seat of upset in all of this, and has for some years. [...]

[...] Although I’d felt slightly better yesterday I’d been taking baking soda often for my stomach for several days, and it seemed now that the feeling of pressure, or gas, perhaps, was getting the best of me. [...]

[...] You have a nervous stomach—and (heartily) I would have one too if I were forever taking sides against myself, and not approving whatever side I happen to be on at any given time.

1. My stomach...

Forgot: during night my stomach muscles right side lower suddenly relaxed & felt fantastic—I didn’t realize they weren’t relaxed before—then left side of my groin itched & all the flesh went soft & relaxed (and sort of flabby).

(This morning while working on the tax questionnaire for the CPA who handles our affairs, I had cramps in my back and stomach. [...] I’d asked her recently if Seth could say something about my too frequent upsets with my stomach and side, anyhow. The deleted material on my stomach which I’d received on February 2, 1976 had already helped resolve my hassles about using old family photos in “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] Muscles in the stomach and the ribs themselves are involved (as Jane has noticed).

The releasing action causes the odd stomach sensations. [...]

The weekend brought new activity in that neck area, bringing discomfort, but also new releases to the shoulders and the rib portions, loosening the stomach muscles. [...]

(And speaking of secrets, I forgot to tell Jane that although I slept well last night, I took baking soda before going to bed when my stomach began to bother me a bit. I remembered Seth’s material on why the stomach acts up, and ascribed my upset last night to further worry over Jane. [...]

(Now I explained to Jane what I considered to be “a gorgeous little illustration” of how unconscious hassles can go on in the psyche quite unsuspected by the conscious mind as the cause for physical difficulties: As stated, when I woke up this afternoon my stomach hurt. [...] At once I checked with the pendulum—and got a great big yes —that was why my stomach had been acting up. [...]

[...] I woke up with my stomach bothering me, and Jane, half crying, with a continuing of the strange, intensified feelings of uncontrolled motion/extra-slow motion combined and manifested in her back and legs. [...]

[...] On two nights in bed, definite softening of very important muscles and ligaments from hips down back of legs, under knees; and also stomach muscles right side. [...]

(4:21.) They may also suffer with stomach difficulties, many being overly fond of extremely spicy foods. [...]

[...] Your stomach cannot read. What you read, however, is in one way or another translated into other terms, so that for example your stomach reacts in its way to your reading matter, as the visual information is translated into other terms. [...]

(1. More on my stomach, which though it may have eased off in its discomfort a little, still was too bothersome.

[...] Part of your stomach difficulty, and part of Ruburt’s troubles, result from poor habits.

[...] Responding only to the stimuli immediately available will often alleviate the anxiety causing the stomach difficulty.

When you have your stomach difficulties you insist, however, upon looking overboard and saying “Those waves are dangerous and threatening,” while forgetting momentarily that you are indeed quite safe aboard your craft. [...]

[...] My own insights through the pendulum tell me, for example, why Seth in that last private session said I have a “nervous stomach,” but nothing about the other hassles like, say, the side or groin. [It all seems to stem from the initial stomach difficulty.] I need to study more. [...]

[...] Something about us not taking vacations….and even not wanting to rest between mental creative projects; that Rob had his stomach troubles when he needed a rest....a vacation of some sort could have prevented that....but since we prefer to do things differently, we should frequently arrange changes in our lives....that we control....changes in the house, routine, hours....or even a week off to do the house or yard or whatever.... [...]