“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Its “nouns” become what they signify. Its declensions are multidimensional. Its verbs and nouns can become interchangeable. In a way (underlined), the psyche is its own language. “At any given time,” all of its tenses are present tense. In other words, it has multitudinous tenses, all in the present, or it has multitudinous present tenses. Within it no “word” dies or becomes archaic. This language is experience. Psychically, then, you can and you cannot say that there is a source. The very fact that you question: “Is there a God, or a Source?” shows that you misunderstand the issues.

[...] The leg felt better, less tense than it had yesterday. [...]

[...] It had been painful for her to be turned, and I’d tried to relieve some of her tenseness by massaging her neck muscles and back. [...]

In the same way that he has lately caught himself tensing his jaw, so has he tensed his neck and shoulder muscles for some time. [...]

Pleasant relaxation is the key, as opposed to a retreating, drugged-like mood, or an overly tense, overly conscious worry, as to the degree of his improvement. [...]

[...] Her whole leg was tense; I could feel the tension in all the tendons and muscles. [...]

Ruburt has been so used to constricted motion that the sensation of new motion sometimes startles him enough to cause tenseness in the area involved. [...]

[...] The effort of the new motion showed in her hip and thigh and belly, tensing all of those muscles. [...]

[...] Her belly was tense with the effort. [...]

[...] I felt her right leg; the whole thing was tense and hard, from close to the groin on down. [...] I said I supposed the leg was tense so as to serve as a sort of splint for the broken bone near the knee. [...]

[...] He tenses, for example. [...]

[...] defenses include agility, responsiveness, strength, dependability, good health—and instead I undermined those and set up artificial rigidities; did realize impossible as it sounds that Seth was right—constant anxiety and tenseness caused the whole thing; and DID resolve to let it all go.

When he began clamping down on physical spontaneity, tensing of the head, neck and jaw areas was involved, leading to a sinus condition. [...]

It begins with the sense of unworthiness mentioned often, but it led to a pattern of behavior where he began to hold his breath, so to speak, tense the muscles in self-protection. [...]

The tooth symptom is a result of those feelings, and of tensing the mouth and jaw. [...]

[...] As Seth remarked in a recent session, the relaxed muscle is able to do far more than the tense one, or words to that effect.

[...] When you are tense you impede mental, psychic, and artistic spontaneity, when you relax you are open to intuitive events.

[...] When the body becomes too tense reactions are exaggerated in certain fashions, bringing forth dejection or depression. [...]

[...] If you want to relax and you are tense, it is often simpler to bypass the issue, and tell yourself instead to imagine a peaceful scene, in which case you will relax without ordering your muscles to do so. [...]

What you have now is a residue in the body of conflict representing mental conflict, when at the same time the muscles are being given signals to let go completely, and also signals to tense, signals of control. [...]

One evening dancing, he tried consciously too hard, so that he tensed the muscles as he was trying to use them, and there was a physical result then. [...]

[...] Such thoughts automatically tense the muscles. [...]

[...] The tensing of the jaw was one of the original physical initiations of the difficulty.

[...] Remind him to relax when you notice his body is tense, for often he does not recognize the tenseness.

In Ruburt’s particular case, tense states of mind have been primarily responsible for his physical difficulty. [...]

Because he has not built up the good trust of his body, however, any new discomfort, regardless of origin, alarms him—an alarm that causes him to tense his muscles, withhold his weight, become hesitant—actions that of course themselves bring about stress, and prolong what should be a fairly minor adjustment. [...]

[...] Once, when I’d been massaging her, she’d started to talk about the high temperature, but I’d been distracted by the tense way she was holding her body and had cut her off. [...]

[...] He will get tense from blocking me if we continue along these lines.

[...] Indeed she was tensing, she knew.)