“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He had tried to dissociate himself from unpleasantness because he was surrounded by so much. [...]

[...] One worry then would automatically be associated with a pile of other buried worries, and an ordinary unpleasant stimuli could evoke the whole works. [...]

[...] He never wanted you to equate him with your mother (I laughed here), and felt that a display of unpleasant emotions would only get your scorn.

This latest adventure should bring all of this out in the open, while also training Ruburt to concentrate upon pleasant rather than unpleasant stimuli. [...]

[...] You will be replenished and renewed as your thoughts motivate joyful body sensations and physical events, or you will be depressed as you bring into your awareness unpleasant past body happenings.

[...] But constant unpleasant thoughts put the body into a state of turmoil that is “unrealistic,” and, in turn, force it to reactivate such old patterns.

[...] To the both of you, unconsciously, an emotional encounter means an encounter with unpleasant emotions. [...]

As repressions built up then emotional encounters did seem to be unpleasant, for only when one of you became thoroughly uncomfortable and desperate did you really open emotionally to the other. [...]

[...] On an inner level it meant, however, progressing slowly—probing the abilities, learning his way, while having a constant touch with the body, unpleasant or not, that would keep him physically oriented.

[...] Somehow the person learns to circumnavigate the unpleasant situation, or the conditions change because of other people involved — and presto: the disease itself vanishes.

[...] “It means you’re expressing them, even if they are unpleasant. [...]

[...] The lives and events of all those involved with his trip—the neighbors, the children, and so forth—all of those issues were arranged in Framework 2, so that while the events seemed most unpleasant, they were highly beneficial.

[...] If he never learned of the plane crash, and did not have faith in the beneficial nature of events, then he might simply remember the entire affair as highly unpleasant, stupid, and even think that it was another example that he could do nothing right.

[...] This can be literal or symbolic, as an unpleasant event could be seen to loom ahead.

(“A looming shape… literal or symbolic… as an unpleasant event could be seen to loom ahead.” [...]

Ruburt usually has a variety of bodily sensations, often simultaneously: some pleasant and relaxing, while others may be unpleasant. [...]

That is because of the concentration upon the problem, the concentration upon the unpleasant sensations, rather than any pleasant ones, and also because you have indeed determined to settle the problem, and opened up so many issues at once. [...]

In other words, you see the outline of unpleasant events, ignore them as much as possible, and imagine how in the future they will be dispersed in the larger colored picture that you have created. [...]

[...] And of course the unpleasantness that adds to his physical disomfort. [...]

[...] Don’t believe personality understood experience was unpleasant; or for that matter that such terms had any particular meaning for it. [...]

At the same time, you could not enjoy such enforced idleness—far be it from that—so the period was highly unpleasant. [...]

[...] They are not even unpleasant states on their own. [...]

“For one thing, while pain is unpleasant, it is also a method of familiarizing the self against the edges of quickened consciousness. [...] Even when the stimulus may be humiliatingly unpleasant, certain portions of the psychological structure accept it indiscriminately because it is a sensation, and a vivid one.”

[...] I am not saying that unpleasant stimuli will not be felt as unpleasant and reacted against in less self-conscious organisms. [...]

For one thing, while pain is unpleasant, it is also a method of familiarizing the self against the edges of quickened consciousness. Any hightened sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, has a stimulating effect upon consciousness to some degree. [...] Even when the stimulus may be extremely annoying or humiliatingly unpleasant, certain portions of the psychological framework accept it undiscriminatingly because it is a vivid sensation. [...]

[...] But how could the first, unpleasant portion be therapeutic? [...]

They feel themselves couched in an overall feeling of security and safety, even in the face of an unpleasant environment or situation. [...]

A note regarding your astronauts and their latest excursion: new developments involving the ionosphere have been made during this trip, and to your scientists unpleasant ones, since they do not conform to previous theories.

[...] It was not meant to be unpleasant. [...]

(3:21.) At that level even illness is regarded simply as a part of life’s experience, however unpleasant it might be. [...]

[...] The organization of life around such a medical pattern in quite unpleasant, to say the least, and so that concentration must be broken as soon as possible. [...]