“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Tell yourself several times a day that you can deal with whatever problems you have. Do not keep thinking of the job situation so that you are hammering yourself over the head with it constantly. Whenever you find yourself projecting failure in any sense into the future, even into tomorrow, stop yourself, remind yourself that your thoughts form reality.

(To John:) You do not feel free to move. Symbolically you do not feel that you have freedom of motion, and you are expressing this through the body mechanism. You did indeed shake yourself up when you decided to put your smoking aside, but this was simply because you felt subconsciously a loss. The smoking to some extent had been used by you as a method of giving yourself comfort, a way of giving yourself pleasure.

Now. In your spare moments, see yourself in your mind’s eye easily performing normal physical pursuits as you did before. Remember the feelings that you had, but see this in your mind’s eye as present. Do not compare your present state with your state before you were ill. See yourself in your mind as clearly as possible square dancing, and enjoying yourself.

You must use mental images of mobility and action. At the same time tell yourself often that you are free to move. Do not command yourself to move, or demand it. Simply remind yourself that you are the one who has been projecting these ideas onto your joints and you can remove the ideas. (Pause.) Give us a moment.

As lovers can see the “ideal” in their beloved, and yet be well aware of certain inadequacies, certain deviations from the ideal, so can you, loving yourself, realize that what you think of as imperfections are instead gropings toward more complete becoming. You cannot love yourself and hate the emotions that flow through you at the same time; because while you are not your emotions, you identify with them so often that in hating them you hate yourself.

In the first place you must understand that in your own uniqueness it is futile to compare yourself to others, for in so doing you try to emulate qualities that are theirs, and to that extent deny your own miraculous being and vision. Once you begin comparing yourself to others there is no end to it. [...] Do not deride yourself because you have not reached some great ideal, but start to use those talents that you have to the best of your ability, knowing that in them lies your own individual fulfillment.

(10:01.) Any help that you give to others will come through the creative utilization of your own characteristics and no one else’s. Do not get upset with yourself when you find yourself dwelling on negative issues in your life. Instead, constructively ask yourself why you are doing so. [...]

[...] Being yourself and trusting in your own integrity, you will automatically help others. [...] I trust myself and my integrity,” if at the same time you are afraid of your own emotions and become upset whenever you catch yourself in what you think of as a negative frame of mind.

Now you are “around yourself” all of the time. You are ever becoming yourself. In a manner of speaking you are “composed” of those patterns of yourself that are everywhere coming together. You cannot help but be yourself. [...] You cannot help but be yourself, then.

(Long pause at 10:47.) When you ask: “Who am I?” you are trying to read yourself as if you were a simple sentence already written. Instead, you write yourself as you go along. [...] You are in the midst of speaking yourself. The speaking, which is your life, seems to happen by itself, since you are not aware of keeping yourself alive. [...]

[...] It seems to you that you know yourself, but that you take the existence of your psyche on faith. At best, it often seems that you are all that you know of your psyche, and you will complain that you do not know yourself to begin with. When you say: “I want to find myself,” you usually take it for granted that there is a completed, done, finished version of yourself that you have mislaid somewhere. [...]

When you ask: “What is my psyche, or my soul, or who am I?” you are seeking of course for your own meaning as apart from what you already know about yourself. In that context, God is as known and as unknown as you are to yourself. [...]

You do not approve of yourself because you think you should be making money “on your own.” You do not approve of yourself because you think you should be a better artist, or a better writer—but in any case, you do not let yourself appreciate the self that you are. [...]

Now: You would be better off saying to yourself: “Everyone has their foibles. [...] That attitude would be better than disapproving of yourself because of the difficulty. [...]

[...] You disapprove of yourself because you feel poorly—and because you do not approve of the basic feelings that are behind the difficulty. [...]

When you realize this, then you disapprove of yourself for not being wise enough to understand. [...]

After you have managed to feel yourself above your body in your astral form, you again tell yourself to see the image of the same past self. [...] When you have succeeded, then still feeling yourself in the astral form, tell yourself that you will next see the image of the life before last: the image of the person you were, then repeat the other steps.

Then, will yourself to return to your own astral image, then to your physical body. From here repeat to yourself what you have learned, and whatever data you have received, reminding yourself that this is also a part of your identity. [...]

[...] There are ways of finding what I will call this center of yourself. [...] I will give you more reincarnational data on your own lives; as you travel to the center of yourself however you will feel (underlined) and know your own pasts as directly as the circumstances permit.

The whole exercise, or any part of it, must only be done in order to avail yourself of wisdom, so that you can use your own abilities to help yourself and others.

You judge yourself far too harshly however. [...] It is only when you feel you yourself must give up yourself on demand—you are not able to let yourself go. [...]

[...] You have it in your mind that you must be spontaneous, that you must let yourself go, and as you also know, spontaneity is not achieved in that manner. [...] You have always given of yourself—in many areas you have always been spontaneous. [...] There is a connection here between you when you know so much about hypnosis (“and yet not successful in going into it yourself”—I lost these words—and am paraphrasing Seth here).

You would be better off if you told yourself you didn’t care if you ever had an orgasm in your life. And if you could tell yourself that, and honestly, you would have no trouble in having an orgasm.

When you honestly let yourself become aware of the slightest touch between your husband and yourself and honestly admit it and enjoy it, you are a step ahead.

[...] Imagine yourself playing at your painting with the spontaneous feeling a child has. [...] Express yourself spontaneously with it, and let yourself go with it without telling yourself beforehand what you expect of it. [...]

Then allow yourself greater freedom. Now the intellect can be used and should be used beautifully to help you in your search but not when you use it as a shield to protect yourself against true reality. [...] Do not judge yourself against the performance of anyone else in this class. You are yourself, you have your own background to contend with and so when I tell you you are progressing I mean that wholeheartedly. [...]

(To Dennis.) You can discover the reason for yourself as Ruburt earlier told you, and it is your own self-training that is involved here. [...] You must learn to find out the answer for yourself from yourself for this sets up communication between various layers of the self, and this is highly important for your own development. [...]

[...] If you would express yourself more often as you did in your paper, either through poetry or prose or painting, you would feel great release. You would also learn things about yourself, and you would recognize the strength of your own individuality and not feel as though you had to go running hunted through the grasses, all kinds of grasses. [...]

To understand yourself and what you are, you can learn to experience yourself directly apart from your beliefs about yourself. [...] Try to sense within yourself the deep feeling-tones that I mentioned earlier (in the 613th session in Chapter One). [...]

Then let yourself experience. [...] Free yourself from concepts, and experience the being of yourself and the motion of your own vitality. [...]

[...] The exercise will put you in touch with yourself. It will return you to yourself. Whenever you are nervous or upset, take a few moments to sense this feeling-tone within you, and you will find yourself centered in your own being, secure.

Within you is the ability to change your ideas about reality and about yourself, to create a personal living experience that is fulfilling to yourself and others. I would like you to write down your beliefs about yourself as you become aware of them. [...]

[...] Imagine yourself as a small figure on the line, for example. Imagine a road and yourself upon it. Now I will want you shortly to imagine other such lines or roads, so pick an image for yourself, that you can use. See yourself clearly on this line or road or path. You may use a floor if you prefer, but see yourself upon it, for this will represent A-I.

[...] Go up this step again and notice the changes in the feel of yourself and of your consciousness. [...] Step up this one, noticing again any change in the feel of yourself or in your consciousness. [...]

And now imagine a step above A-I. Not adjacent or parallel, but above, and feel yourself step up upon it. [...]

[...] For now, however, simply acquaint yourself with the feeling of A-I as a threshold of activity, as a doorway into other kinds of perception and consciousness. [...]

[...] Stop seeing yourself as helpless. Stop reminding yourself of how bitter your present experience is. Stop telling yourself that you are powerless and that there is nothing you can do to change your mood. [...] Each time you find yourself thinking, how can I bear this; instead you say, many people have many more severe problems than I.

[...] If you were expressing yourself fully on certain issues you would not have a cold, and if you were using all of the insights that you should have gathered in class, you would not have a cold. [...] You do not learn something about yourself that you should know and so when the cough is gone, when the issue comes up again, you get a different ailment and so you find a different remedy. [...] But if you want to get at the real knowledge of yourself and at the real reason for symptoms, then there are ways of doing so and I have given them to you. [...]

[...] Now, these are truths that you do not face and fiction you do not tell yourself. You must learn to accept yourself and your situation as it is. [...] When you learn to create a positive reality for yourself then you will be able to help someone else create one. [...]

[...] Now, it does no good to take ten minutes a day and give yourself good suggestions and say, “I am brave, I am strong, I am healthy and young and rich” and spend the rest of the time saying to yourself, “I am poor, I am getting old, I feel sore, or it is a cruddy world.” [...]

[...] Now, you can even catch yourself if you are alert enough doing this by the feeling that you have. In a conversation—now listen to me—In a conversation that you now decide sounds boring when you enter it, you can catch yourself thinking: “This is boring. [...] You thought that way first, before the condition, And whenever unpleasantness arose, you would make a series of decisions to shut out the sound until these decisions, one upon the other, finally “conditioned” you; you conditioned yourself not to hear. The problem is that after awhile, you see, you conditioned yourself so well that you no longer control the process that you began. [...]

[...] Also, you use monologs, and set up a barrier of sound to protect yourself from other people. [...] You have used it to protect yourself, either erecting sound yourself to protect you from communications coming from without, or, when this fails, by refusing—refusing to hear. You must, therefore, ask yourself where this charged attitude toward sound originated, and why you use it in such a way. [...]

[...] Observe yourself—in conversation. I do not mean to watch yourself so closely that you cannot think, but observe your own reactions and your thoughts. Honestly ask yourself in situations: “Do I want to hear? [...]

[...] You have added to it the fact that you will not indulge yourself in joy, or in joyful pursuits, Unless you can rationalize to yourself by saying: “I am doing this for someone else,” and that is the only reason you let yourself work with the necklaces that you made. [...]

It is self-defeating, therefore, to blame yourself for mistakes, so-called, simply because in the light of your present development they are seen as less-developed acts than those to which you now aspire. Whenever you catch yourself disapproving of yourself for past mistakes, read these passages. Do not check on yourself all the time. [...]

[...] They may add to your understanding of yourself and others. They may be applied beneficially in entirely different areas of your life—so stop disapproving of yourself, of your “mistakes.” [...]

Do not undervalue or overvalue yourself. [...]

[...] Within yourself you will find more than despair, Carl. Let yourself be flooded with inner realizations that are within you. They are your bridge, not only to yourself but to your wife. [...]

[...] You also find yourself in the position where you believe you should be the entire support of your family, and where you know you have both been taking the easy way out, and you hate yourself for it.

[...] You accept your own attitudes toward yourself at their face value. [...] You think of yourself as someone who tries to deal directly with the world through experience.

(To Sue:) Now you have been projecting your fears about yourself outward, so that all of your husband’s remarks were interpreted in that light. [...]

[...] He did not ask you to question yourself. He did not ask you to look into yourself, and to discover those reasons why you had put up with that situation for so many years. He did not ask you to discover what needs within you were being satisfied in your marriage, anymore, my dear friend, than you asked yourself why you brought the tape to class this evening. [...]

[...] This portion of yourself, despite all your problems, keeps you alive as a physical organism. [...] If that portion of yourself can make all the scientific and biological deductions necessary to maintain your physical organism, then indeed it has the abilities to solve these other problems. When you fully realize this, and you can if you remind yourself of it often enough, you can draw upon this knowledge to solve your problems. [...]

[...] It means that you use your strengths however; it means not only that you refuse to be a doormat, but that you accept yourself as a worthy personality, willing to give and to take, willing even to be used at times as you use, but not willing to be a doormat. [...] But you must know yourself to do this, and you must be willing to look into yourself. [...]

[...] You are endowing yourself with what you imagine to be feminine qualities. [...] So you are allowing yourself to behave in what you imagine to be a subservient, feminine behavior. [...]

[...] Instead, immediately change your imaginative image of yourself. [...] You must refuse, and absolutely refuse, to accept any more excuses from this superficial portion of yourself. You must imagine that within yourself—for this is the truth—there is a stronger and more powerful self, a larger self. [...]

Whenever you seek from others the answers to problems, then you take it for granted that within yourself there is no greater strength. And each time you accept answers from others you reinforce the attitude that you do not have the knowledge within yourself to find the answers. [...]

[...] However, you are at present imprisoned within this false conception of yourself—and within this prison, you do not think of others except as they are related to yourself. [...]

[...] Seth added:) When you do that, you see, when you relate all others to yourself initially, when you are imprisoned within yourself to that degree, then you are also imprisoned by others because you project your own reality into them where it does not belong. [...]

[...] But again, coming here once a week may help you find yourself... [...] but you will only find yourself when you journey inward. [...] You will know that the ability is within yourself and you have used it—then you may hit me over the head with your crutches and I will laugh!

You must dissociate yourself from the person that you know. [...] Then imagine yourself stepping apart from yourself in whatever way you choose. [...]

[...] The answers are within yourself then as the answers are within yourself now.

[...] and you will surprise yourself. [...]

You must dissociate yourself from the person that you know. [...] Then imagine yourself stepping apart from yourself in whatever way you choose. [...]

But again, coming here once a week may help you find yourself—it may point you in the right direction—but you will only find yourself when you journey inward. [...]

[...] The answers are within yourself then as the answers are within yourself now. [...]

[...] I hoped for more from you—and you will surprise yourself. [...]

You must face yourself now. You cannot afford to play overlong—to hide yourself in trivia—to become so busy that you cannot hear the truth that shouts within you. I know what the transition is like and I tell you it is pleasant—but your responsibilities will still exist, and you will ask yourself how you have fulfilled them. You must know yourself if you would help others. [...]

[...] There are decisions to make, but you are uncertain and disinclined to face yourself fully to reach a decision. [...]

[...] You must ask yourself where I came from and what my presence has to do with you. [...]

[...] When you ask another to tell you the direction of your life, then to some extent you keep from yourself the realization that you yourself possess it. [...]

[...] Trust no one who leads you away from the reality of yourself. [...] There is nothing within yourself to fear.

[...] If you use the methods given in this book, you should know yourself far more intimately than you did before, and be better equipped to handle your personal reality. [...]

[...] You will love yourself and have no difficulty in loving your neighbor. [...]

[...] For fifteen minutes a day agree to suspend critical judgment, and following the Maltz method imagine yourself vividly in the position you would like to be. The rest of the time consciously make an effort to control your attitude when you find yourself thinking in terms of want or poverty. [...]

[...] Whenever you catch yourself in the old worries, remind yourself of this session, and immediately substitute one of the minute and simple exercises I have provided. [...]

Now do not short change yourself. [...] You have projected those thoughts directing to yourself that which means most to you. [...]

[...] The point is, if you see yourself as financially independent and of abundant means, this will come to pass and regardless of your parents. [...] Burdens will drop from your shoulders when you begin to see yourself unburdened.