“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

What the body cannot stand today is the stress thrown upon it by the imagined stress or problems that it might be asked to face tomorrow, or next week, or 20 years from now. Then, you are not allowing it to act in the present. You are seeking from future probabilities unpleasant—or perhaps the most unpleasant—circumstances, and actually demanding that the body handle that stimuli now (all intently).

(10:58.) Break is over. Remarks. You are quite capable of dealing with your life’s events, and with handling daily stress. It acts as a natural stimulus.

Again, significances are important. If one unpleasant event today automatically causes you to think of 20 more that might happen in the future and you dwell upon those, then you hopelessly confuse your body. It finds in the present no justification in fact for such interpretations, while your thoughts act as if those situations were presently before you, to be confronted. Stress results when the body does not know how to react, and therefore cannot react smoothly.

You are doing well, and I will devote some time to Ruburt—but we will get back to the book once a week. For (louder) when we do not, that in itself causes stress.

We will not stress particular diseases in this book, and mention symptoms only to identify the cases associated with such conditions. It is actually far more important that we stress the symptoms of health and those methods, beliefs, and healings that promote them.

[...] All philosophies that stress the idea of the body’s impurity or degradation should also be seen as detrimental to bodily and spiritual integrity. [...]

Now there is a difference between the normal action of such stress hormones in healthy periods as opposed to times of abnormal exaggerated stress. [...] Too much normal adrenaline, for example, places the body in abnormal stress that itself triggers, finally, more adrenaline, but the quality of overproduced adrenaline has a different effect. [...]

[...] With this comes a lessening of tension, muscular tension, in all areas, and also the initiation of certain hormones produced in times of normal healthy stress, that help combat imbalances.

[...] They are less easily handled, however, under drugged conditions, since the consciousness does not have the full agility to depend upon in periods of stress — unusual stress. [...]

[...] They are more apt to happen in adolescence, though I do want to stress that we are speaking of extraordinary cases.

[...] Your religions stress sin. Your medical profession stresses disease. Your orderly sciences stress the chaotic and accidental theories of creation. Your psychologies stress men as victims of their backgrounds. [...]

I may for a while stress the ways in which individually, and as a civilization, you have undermined your own feelings of safety; yet I will also give you methods to reinforce those necessary feelings of biological integrity and spiritual comprehension that can vastly increase your spiritual and physical existence.

[...] It builds up strong stresses, therefore, so that on many occasions a specific disease or threat situation is “manufactured” to rid the body of a tension grown too strong to bear.

[...] They all undermine the individual’s sense of bodily security and increase stress, while offering the body a specific, detailed disease plan. [...]

So as your beliefs change there will be alterations in your experience and behavior, and points of stress, creative stress, while you are learning. [...]

(Seth’s clever, somewhat humorous stresses in the above paragraph were intended to make certain points to me personally while he continued work on his book. [...]

[...] In the meantime there was stress, but it was creative.

[...] So there is a period of stress in between beliefs, so to speak, while you dispense with one set and are learning to use another.

In actuality, the combination of a philosophical stress upon discipline, physical and mental, with the belief in the sinful self, often brings about the most unfortunate human dilemmas. [...]

[...] Again, here you find that discipline, rather than free will, is stressed, so that the opportunity for choices is drastically reduced. [...]

[...] Seth stressed that if Marian could learn to channel her energies outward, perhaps in helping underprivileged children, the subconscious need to be wanted would be satisfied and the tumor would shrink by itself.

[...] Since Marian is a deeply religious person also, Seth tied his ideas on positive thinking and suggestion in with the religious theme, stressing the positive use of faith. [...]

[...] The last time she was a female she was childless; Seth stressed quite often that this subconscious memory had much to do with her strong desire for children in this life.)

In the nighttime or early morning there is no distraction from the outside so at that level you lessen the stress, and Ruburt is freer. As long as you are working with primary beliefs this can be an excellent method of accelerating advances while reducing stress.

[...] Such a situation automatically provides no distractions and a resulting lack of stress. [...]

[...] He is also relieved that you do not see him immediately, and this alone lessons the stress, for he is afraid that his condition bleakens your morning.

[...] The method is important in that it is one alternate way, represents a conscious effort at solving the problem in a different way, and provides less stress while the preliminary beliefs are worked on. [...]

(9:02.) Man, then, has sometimes stressed the power of the imagination and let its great dramatic light illuminate the physical events about him, so that they were largely seen through its cast. [...] Inner events are stressed over exterior ones. [...]

Now on the question of “mental disorders,” it is highly important that individual integrity be stressed, rather than the blanket definitions that are usually accorded to any group of symptoms. [...]

[...] For some time Western civilization stressed a distorted version of intellectual reasoning, for example, and so the current stress about other portions of the self serves a purpose.

[...] You may follow one of the schools of Buddhism in which great stress is laid upon the denial of the body, discipline of the flesh, and the avoidance of desire. [...]

[...] Many such Eastern schools also stress — as do numerous spiritualistic schools — the importance of the “unconscious levels of the self,” and teach you to mistrust the conscious mind.

[...] He did not have to walk straighter or faster—the getting there, or the destination, regardless of the method, was stressed.

(11:11.) You are correct, stressing the inner spontaneity, however. [...]

[...] Certain stresses have been relieved physically. Bodily the cold creates a diversionary tactic—still a stress situation, but an impermanent one that changes momentarily the hormonal output.

[...] This time the body’s overall condition, using the method adopted, required a longer period of such stress-transformation, and so the cold condition has been of longer duration.

I am mentioning this only to stress the fact that self-delight and self-approval (long pause) are natural characteristics — characteristics that actually make your entire physical world, and world of experience, possible.

[...] We will have more to say about this later in the book, but for now I want to stress the importance of self-approval in connection with exuberance, health, and well-being.

[...] I don’t want the extra stress. [...]

[...] I stressed the fact that her turning was indeed excellent news, and meant that she was on her way to even better things. [...]

(I stressed once again that I didn’t want the insurance business to interfere with her recovery, which is why I’d voiced such strong approval of her turning herself this morning. [...]

You might add very briefly to that material, one or two suggestions following what you have—that stress expression: “Do I feel safe to express physical vitality?” Or questions as to whether or not Ruburt and his “subconscious” feel safe enough to progress, generally speaking, into an area of psychic, creative, and physical expression.

[...] I want to stress that Ruburt’s body is responding remarkably well, and that it is not a matter of operating better in a restricted posture, but a much more significant response, in which the body is, quite simply, straightening itself out. [...]

[...] He stressed that he wanted Jane to have good legal protection, and a say in quality control. [...]

(Which, of course, is just why I hadn’t stressed such things for some time. [...]

The stress need not be on the physical or nonphysical. [...]

[...] Ruburt did put himself through what he considered a necessary period of stress and training. [...]

The official line of consciousness does stress its own philosophies. No television picture is showing you the silent afternoons spent by an artist who will be called great tomorrow, or stresses the vitality of life that is responsible for the existence of the television sets to begin with. [...]

[...] Such communications, however, in the overall have great potential, for even unwillingly they stress the unity of the planet—and consciousness itself strains to solve problems on a different basis than before. [...]

(The sessions also stressed her fears of being attacked by the world if she used her abilities. [...]

(The session for February 5 even stressed that the same energy that healed her right leg could also straighten it. [...]

[...] Today’s episode was the first in a long while, triggered I believe by stress, yet it didn’t last long. [...]

[...] He may even refer to those feelings of distrust as a dear frightened part of himself, and then, again, address that part of the self sympathetically — telling it why it need no longer be frightened, and vocally and emotionally stressing the fact that the frightened portion of the self no longer needs defenses, but can now allow itself free and natural expression.