“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The physical body can only react in the present moment. Worrying about future events, or dwelling upon past unfavorable situations, only confuses the body’s mechanisms, and undermines their precise activity in the present moment.

(4:20.) I am not saying that anyone should pretend that unfavorable circumstances do not sometimes exist, or that they may not be encountered in the past, present, or future. It is also true, however, that advantageous events occur with a far greater frequency than do negative ones — otherwise the world that you know simply would not exist. It would have disappeared in the throes of destruction or calamity.

Again, sometime later we will discuss those conditions that can undermine such fine creativity. In the meantime, however, live each day as fully and joyfully as possible. Imagine the best possible results of any plans or projects. Above all, do not concentrate upon past unfavorable events, or imagined future ones.

You both did fairly well in handling unfavorable moods. [...]

[...] The young man (see the 816th session proper) was really comparing his life and the earth unfavorably with an idealized imagined world, to which he could never return. [...]

The idea of the sinful self will not be predominant in our own book, but we certainly will delve into the many unfavorable concepts that are held by the various religions — concepts that certainly make many people feel that the self is indeed sinful rather than blessed.

I found you in certain physical circumstances, some of which were psychically unfavorable, but before a mutual trust was developed I could hardly make any such suggestions. [...]

Usually the dream state is considered from a negative standpoint, and compared unfavorably with waking reality. [...]

He compares himself unfavorably with what seem to him to be more spiritual psychics. [...]

In any area, an attempt to alter an unfavorable circumstance will always find you, at one stage, flying in the face of all physical evidence to the contrary. [...]

[...] If that moment has distracting, unfavorable aspects, then resolutely bring into your mind whatever images delight or please you at the moment. [...]

[...] When you rail against an unfavorable environment, or a situation or condition, basically — and underline the following phrase — you are not acting independently, but almost blindly reacting. [...]

[...] She said she was “more unfavorably disposed toward the reading than favorably disposed toward it.” [...]

The right leg is immediately before his vision, however — it is highly visible, so that he often compares its position unfavorably with that of the other leg. [...]

[...] If you both understood all I have said about the point of power, you would not compare the present physical situation with what is desired, and set the present situation in an unfavorable light, but as a progressive series of stepping stones toward the desired state.

[...] (Pause.) If you are mentioned in an unfavorable light by people who are fanatics in one way or another, then it shows that you are (underlined) making inroads, and that our books are (underlined) being read enough by the followers of a particular doctrine to make the leaders of such doctrines uneasy.

One of the greatest detriments to mental and physical well-being is the unfortunate belief that any unfavorable situation is bound to get worse instead of better. [...]

The book will explain how personal reality is formed, with great stress laid upon the ways of changing unfavorable aspects of individual experience.

[...] This of course applies in the area of “Unknown,” as well as in situations in which either of you compare yourselves unfavorably with, say, your neighbors’ physical activity. [...]

When you hassle your abilities, when you compare what you think of as your drive unfavorably with what you think of as the superior drive of others, you are denying the integrity of your own natural individuality, and robbing your abilities of your own blessings. [...]

[...] And, also, you would have compared his present condition unfavorably with the desired end, simply involving yourselves in contradictions.

[...] However, I certainly cannot let possible unfavorable reactions on your part govern what material I give you.