“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“The reason why some lose-weight groups succeed in their therapy, at least momentarily, is that belief in the worth of the self is stressed. Unfortunately, weight is attacked as ‘bad’ or ‘evil’; symbolic moral judgments enter the act. The therapy seldom has long-reaching effects because from then on any gained weight is even more negatively charged.

(Jane and I discussed the above data at breakfast the morning after the session. This led me to read her my notes on Seth’s delivery from 11:25 to 11:47, concerning beliefs in relation to body weight. Then after lunch Jane spontaneously wrote the material beginning in the next paragraph; she regards this data as supplementing Seth’s own information on weight. “I didn’t hear any voice while I was doing this,” she said later. “I felt these ideas being inserted, but I did the writing.” The work is close to the way Seth would present it; it probably stems from her efforts last night, we think, to see what she could do with “book work” on her own:

(“Diets do serve momentarily as outer signs that you are in control, and can seize the initiative; and as such they can be important. Usually, however, a pattern of unsuccessful diets occurs, operating then as a series of negative suggestions. The resistance is the result of conflicts in beliefs. You think you are overweight and accept this as reality. Steps to lose weight do not make sense in the face of that belief. They are ‘unrealistic’ or even impossible.

[...] The emotional attitudes are: weight is bad. Whenever you speak of weight yourself it is with that connotation. [...] The good word does not have the word weight in it. [...] It is the word weight, now, that is loaded—forgive my pun.

[...] I now said I’d rather learn something about why Jane wasn’t putting on weight, rather than get something on Sumari, for instance. [...]

The beloved monster lost weight, looked neglected, lost his luster, became listless unless forced into activity, looked older. [...]

Now Ruburt’s weight is a part of the whole picture. [...]

[...] 1: Jane’s weight, which I’d realized recently, had dropped without my noticing it. Seth’s recent remark, that she was beginning to gain weight again, had alerted me to it, although I’d noticed in recent weeks that Jane was much too thin—when I helped her put on a shirt, take a bath, etc. [...]

As far as the weight issue is concerned. [...] Worry and anxiety have often kept Ruburt’s weight down. [...]

[...] And while he can indeed use more weight, your cultural idea of proper weight is somewhat exaggerated. [...]

I told you that he was beginning to gain weight, and so he is. [...]

[...] The so-sought-after weight gain can be expected shortly also. [...] The body has been holding its own, weight-wise, as I told you.

Nevertheless there is a lag, now nearly over here, however, before the organism recoups its losses and then begins to rebuild and gain weight. [...]

The weight gain, incidentally, should begin when the bathroom painting is completed. [...]

(This afternoon I told Jane I’d like some data on two questions: her weight, and her walking, neither of which had improved. [...]

All of this is connected with the walking as well as with the weight.

[...] The suggestions will help him gain weight if they are used. [...]

[...] Some weight gain can be expected shortly. [...] After the short period and slight gain in weight, the weight will then normally return.

[...] He is at this point in a better position than someone with an overweight problem, in that the joints do not have much weight bearing upon them, or fat to smother their mobility.

Your eating arrangement (in Apartment 5) occurred and in its way helped to stop the loss of weight. [...] He was ashamed to be seen in it, and yet it serves a beneficial purpose, for his own love of his body will automatically cause it to gain weight. [...] Yet the continuing cover-up physically denies the needed feedback that would be quite automatic as he looks into a mirror for example and knows well he needs to gain more weight.

(Before the session I read Jane two questions that I asked Seth to consider: 1. Why is she still losing weight? [...]

[...] The same applies to the karate body image, its significance escaping both of you largely, where Ruburt was seeing himself with a body image combining power, agility, and weight.

Number one also shows your own attitudes, for he is not continuing to lose weight. [...]

[...] I wanted to tell you that symbolically, you (Brad) are winning, you are making adjustments, in more than weight. For the weight was indeed symbolic. [...] The inner adjustments came first and the loss of weight later. The loss of weight is a physical materialization of the inner change. [...]

[...] You have tried to do this through weight. [...]

[...] These feelings have been buried in your psyche, and they are no more legitimate than are the feelings concerning your weight that we have dealt with. [...]

[...] The tie-up between the past existence and the present one will affect you the same way in this case as it did in the case of your weight. [...]

His weight has stopped dropping, and he is now beginning to gain weight. [...]

[...] He is now assimilating nourishment well enough so that the body can heal itself, and gain some weight besides. [...]

[...] A good deal of the weight problem is not a problem. [...] He can use more weight. The energy used in worrying about the condition has taken up the small leeway that would have given him weight. [...]

When advance is seen in these other areas, the weight gain will be automatic. In seeing himself in his “as if” game, the healthy image should include ordinary weight, but without stress upon it.

[...] Suggestion as you know adjusts weight, and heals the body as thoroughly as it can be used in the opposite way.

[...] This will automatically allow him to gain weight faster, for much of the energy taken in goes out through these worries.

[...] It is not good for you to lose so much weight, and many of your symptoms are directly connected with various deficiencies brought about through your diet. [...]

[...] 138 to 140 is the lowest you should go as far as your weight is concerned. [...]

[...] You must listen to its voice and return to your normal weight.

The eye symptoms are connected with the weight deficiencies. [...]

He learned something important, working with his attitudes this weekend in the bathroom, when he realized that he held back his weight when he put his feet on the floor. [...]

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. [...]

Birds of curved dimensions
Have their neighborhood
Limited by ceiling’s
Weight of bone and blood.

In the matter of weight also there was first a point where weight process was reversed, where the weight was held steady before a gain could be made. [...]

[...] In Psy-Time this results in a peculiar “elephantiasis” feeling: I feel as if I am expanding and yet getting lighter and lighter in weight. [...]

[...] These electromagnetic changes form their own kind of pattern, which has mass but no weight, or weight so slight as to be indistinguishable.

[...] There is a ratio between the mass, which is usually considerable, and the weight, which is barely noticeable. [...]

The electromagnetic reality within the human organism has considerable mass, but the entire physical weight amounts to 3 to 6 ounces at the very most. [...]

They are getting used to his weight, now, hence the feeling of soreness. [...]

He has been used to putting his full weight on that right leg, so he is more aware of the sensations. [...]

[...] They will gradually loosen and take his weight. [...]

[...] She still isn’t eating enough to prevent weight loss. [...]

(She ate an excellent lunch, and I believe continues to gain weight, if a bit at a time. [...]

[...] Jane was quite pleased because I said it looked at though she was starting to put on a little weight. [...]