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[...] To a degree, however, that suggestion worked for millions of people. [...] The suggestion was far from a bit of fluff, however, for it could serve — and it did — as a framework about which new beliefs could rally.

There is an enchanting suggestion, solemnly repeated many times, particularly after the turn of the century: “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”¹

We often have in your society the opposite suggestion, however, given quite regularly: “Every day, in every way, I am growing worse, and so is the world.” [...]

[...] Wars are basically examples of mass suicide — embarked upon, however, with all of the battle’s paraphernalia, carried out through mass suggestion, and through the nation’s greatest resources, by men who are convinced that the universe is unsafe, that the self cannot be trusted, and that strangers are always hostile. [...]

(In the 232nd session for February 9,1966 Seth suggested that a portion of a session a month be devoted to our psychic and physical circumstances. He agreed with my suggestion that we try the first session after the first of each month. [...]

I suggest your break.

I suggest a very brief break, and we shall continue.

[...] A connection with a light or a round bright object that suggests light.

(Seth proceeded to suggest several things Peggy might do; if she followed the suggestions the trouble should disappear. She should give herself suggestions before sleep that she not sleep on her left side, but her right side instead. [...] Peggy said she didn’t think she slept on her left side; Seth said she did after going to sleep, and that suggestion would prevent this. [...]

[...] I told him the lighting was flattering, but Bill insisted there was a different quality in the work, and that he did not believe it was due solely to suggestion.

[...] He told her to use suggestion that her circulation in the afflicted areas be more than adequate until the condition subsided; she should do this frequently during the day. [...]

[...] Peggy agreed to try the routine suggested, and will report on results.

[...] Somewhat earlier his energies were so depleted that it would have been more difficult for him to do this in a rather sweeping manner, and this is what I suggest.

[...] I cannot stress the importance of the suggestions I am giving this evening. [...]

[...] Intelligent use of the imagination, focused use as suggested in psycho-cybernetics and other such methods, provide excellent training. [...]

[...] The suggestions I gave to Ruburt this evening are most important. [...]

[...] The girls’ behavior points out the importance of suggestion as it operates in a negative way. Most suggestions are relatively invisible. They are the result of body language, smiles or frowns, muscular attitudes—but you live surrounded by a psychological environment of suggestion. [...]

[...] He gives himself however the same kind of suggestion often, when perhaps it is not so obvious, and you also act in the same manner. [...]

[...] I want the hot towels on the knees however continued, and all of the suggestions given already. [...]

I have some suggestions however. [...] I suggest that he use this during your prayer periods. [...]

Now as to your noise episode, here are some suggestions for future use in any episode where irritation is involved. Followed, these suggestions will help you answer the demands put upon you when you feel the need for certain responses. [...]

The suggestions I have given you here can be of great practical use to you personally. [...]

[...] The material led me to suggest some alternatives to our present routine and attitudes; Jane said the suggestions, which were only speculative at this stage, frightened her, but I did not intend this of course. [...]

[...] I suggest however that you take a break—or I will give you the information in our next session as you prefer.

[...] Through association in periods of depression a connection can be built up—a habitual pattern in which bad weather suggests depression and vice-versa.

[...] Take a poor day, a dark day for example, a poor habitual reaction, a handful of negative suggestions, and some symptoms, and it does not add up to much.

You should not insist, however, or demand, that a given suggestion take root—for then you might be disappointed if it did not, rather than realize that perhaps it was not time for that particular suggestion to work. Simply allow that mental flexibility, overall suggestions for motion and healing are of course excellent, since they leave it up to the body to do the inner work involved. [...]

[...] That’s the best way to use suggestion, I said: keep the goal in mind and let the unconscious mind see to those healing details necessary to get one where one wants to go.

[...] I said I hoped Seth would go into my question of yesterday, about not wanting my own suggestions for Jane’s improvement to come into conflict with her body’s own innate and spontaneous order of healing itself. [...]

Now: you cannot really go wrong with your suggestions at this stage of the game, as long as you allow the body’s wisdom freedom, so that it automatically lets its own order predominate. [...]

You yourselves, through following your impulses, changed your suggestions, and this was because the flow of experience directed you so that you followed the changes in Ruburt’s psyche. You are as good as anyone else (#1 of 11 suggestions): a simple enough statement, yet behind it there are other issues. Ruburt needs the free time, meaning relaxed time, in which to allow the body’s continued healing, and your new suggestions tuned into all of the reasons behind the slowness of progress, as it seems to you. [...]

(A few days ago I wrote out a “new manifesto” of beliefs for Jane and me, to replace the suggestions she’s been using in the morning after breakfast. [...]

The suggestions you are using now, however, are in concert with the current stage, and that means that if the two of you can stop worrying long enough you will be met again by some vastly reassuring new walking attempts.

Your new suggestions, however, are more potent than you realize, for you geared them yourselves to specifically cover those issues that have still bothered Ruburt, and also added to your own concern.

[...] Because we did it in a Creative Writing class without making any suggestions as to what we would meet, or rather than probable selves or anything, I’m going to suggest tonight that we do it with that in mind. [...]

[...] I suggest that you close your eyes then. [...]

[...] And that this particular journey of consciousness, we are leaving ourselves completely open to experience to whatever happens without making any demands or suggestions. [...]

[...] The very self-suggestions that will enable you to recall dreams will also change their nature to some extent. [...] If you do not want to wake up after each dream of the evening, then the suggestion should always include ‘I will recall the first three dreams … or the first five dreams, or whatever.’

Third, we were involved in vigorous subjective activity as we began to experiment with Seth’s psy-time regularly and to follow his suggestions concerning dream investigation, recall and utilization. [...]

[...] Seth has always emphasized that all true knowledge must be directly experienced; therefore, I will include throughout this book his instructions and suggestions for dream recall, investigation and manipulation.

[...] Before you fall to sleep at night, give yourself this suggestion: “I can remember my dreams and write them down in the morning.”

[...] It is good, however, to suggest that “your definition of important people” read the books, to suggest that the books fall into the proper hands, in those terms.

(Jane said her eyes were feeling much better, although “full of moisture,” and that the copying work she did on James, following Seth’s suggestions in the last session, went well. [...]

Suggestions such as I have given you are meaningless if any improvement is faced by an attitude that says “Such a minute improvement is meaningless,” or “This has happened before, and gone nowhere”—and so I wanted those attitudes completely routed out. [...]

You can be quite happily surprised, not only by your changes of attitude, but by the quickness with which such suggestions are used and utilized.

[...] Writing in his journal daily with his notations of present programs always represents a conscious intent that serves a beneficial natural hypnotic suggestion of accomplishment. [...]

Alone then it is a positive suggestion. [...]

[...] You can prepare questions or problems, suggesting that they be solved for you in the sleep state. You can suggest that you will speak with distant friends, or convey important messages that you cannot convey verbally, perhaps. [...]

[...] Suggestions given during this time are highly effective. [...]

[...] If you have particular conscious goals and if you are reasonably certain that they are beneficial ones, then you can suggest dreams in which they occur, for the dreams themselves will hasten their physical reality.

[...] The symbols may then be used as methods of suggestion that will be tailored for you personally. [...]

Almost everyone in this society is acquainted with the old suggestion, “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” ² Now that is an excellent suggestion, given by the conscious self to other portions of your being. The results of such a suggestion would also follow your conscious beliefs, however.

[...] (See the 618th session in Chapter Three.) If to you this means, “I give great attention to seeing that my children brush their teeth, eat enough, and perform properly,” then you will interpret the “better and better” suggestion in that light.

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.

[...] I suggested the use of suggestion through the framework of hypnosis simply because such techniques can be like mental vitamin pills. [...]

If you keep Framework 2 in mind, much of these stages can be vastly minimized, and the work with hypnosis that I suggested gives you such a method of inserting data, here, that accelerates motion in Framework 2, and greatly cuts down the time and effort involved in Framework 1. Of course, (with wry amusement) if you each are convinced that the venture was important-enough in your lives, and would get the results, you would have clamored to begin such experiments.

[...] Jane and I haven’t done anything about the hypnosis suggestions, obviously; we need our recorder repaired. [...]

[...] Negative suggestions however can also keep them going. I suggest that Ruburt concentrate as much as possible on his work, even in his psycho-cybernetics exercises.

[...] And Ruburt most likely would have reacted to the suggestion.

[...] (Long pause.) I do not suggest that he has any work done at this time. [...]

[...] “Well, I don’t want to use negative suggestion, or ask this the wrong way; but I was wondering what Jane’s symptoms would be called medically.”)

Your pendulum work, your determination, and the sessions have aroused Ruburt’s determination to act physically, rather than to retreat, and your suggestions concerning safety are important. [...]

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.

[...] His body is resilient, and it is responsive, or it would not be reacting so agreeably and definitely to your new suggestions and its activities. [...]

[...] The concentration, again, on ideas, dreams, and suggestions for out-of-bodies will be quite helpful.

The suggestions are of benefit. [...] He should also read the last few of our sessions, and I have listed my suggestions this evening for his more convenient use.

[...] I suggested you do the library together again for that reason—and your dream contest is good for that reason.

I have given you the most practical suggestions that I can, and unless you have questions I bid you a fond good evening.

[...] [No results in yet of blood tests taken a week ago at St. Joe’s. Tests sent to Rochester.] Jane got more and more depressed and scared as Dr. K. talked, I could see it, in spite of suggestions we’d agreed on before her visit. [...] It seems that we may have to just get away from doctors and their suggestions as much as possible. [...] Now Jane burst into tears on the waterbed: “I wish we’d tried harder with our own suggestions and ideas....” [...]

Last night, at Rob’s suggestion, I looked over my notebook of sinful-self stuff with related material, hoping of course that it might trigger some important impetus or clue that would give me insight into my own position. [...]

[...] I told myself I’d react only to constructive suggestions, but I soon felt knocked down by her interpretation of events. [...]

[...] So Dr. Kardon’s visit was behind Robby’s suggestion that I look at my own sinful-self material, and I intuitively felt that the time was probably right. [...]