“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now as to your noise episode, here are some suggestions for future use in any episode where irritation is involved. Followed, these suggestions will help you answer the demands put upon you when you feel the need for certain responses. When you are annoyed, if possible state your annoyance to the person involved, reasonably, (underlined) but at the time of the annoyance. When you do not respond in this manner the annoyance builds up and you are then tempted to respond to one incident as if many were involved, because the others were not responded to adequately at the time.

In the particular case for example you should have called your neighbor while you were being annoyed. That would be a healthy and reasonable response. Had this happened in each such case the annoyance would not have continued. Even if it had, you would then be justified in taking more firm steps.

On your part also then there was a reluctance to react to annoyance in a normal natural manner, and this is why the situation built up. By not reacting you gave your neighbor the license to further activity. By reacting normally you would indeed teach her respect for the regards of others, and she would have felt your reaction quite justified.

[...] Begin with innocuous but annoying physical conditions, however, and try to work those out for yourself. [...] When you have a headache or a simple stomach upset, or if you have a chronic, annoying but not serious condition, such as trouble with your sinuses, or if you have hay fever — in those situations, remind yourself that your body does indeed have the capacity to heal itself.” [...]

[...] Do I think he’ll be annoyed—he might be—my foot feels joyful—quite a change! Do I feel that any exuberance on my part will annoy or threaten Rob? [...]

[...] That is, if an editor changed your copy you would be annoyed, but reproduction, you fear, can change the copy of a photograph or a painting if it is not done properly. [...]

[...] If you included any pictures of her, would she be annoyed? [...]

[...] He has passed over the annoying problems with beliefs and their manifestations. [...]

To him it was a direct action taken against something that annoyed him—the dust—an act of independence since he did it, and a symbolic clearing away of inner debris. [...] Yet he is sure you would consider it a vast annoying distraction, even though not as annoying as moving. [...]

[...] When he annoyed you by thrashing about in bed, this was of course what the thrashing about in bed was supposed to do—remind you of his presence there.

[...] It bothered and annoyed you, since it was a demand, and he did not believe in demands, and one that brought problems up within you.

Suffice it to say, I was not annoyed. [...]

I was not annoyed. [...]

Since we can’t concentrate fully on two things at once, you may focus your attention on the screen again or on any imaginary image—this will banish the annoying worries. [...]

The struggle; now you must not struggle, Joseph, to close out those stimuli that annoy you. [...] Those things that annoy you precisely represent the greatest challenges to your personality and abilities.

[...] It will help also at times if, when hearing various voices that have annoyed you in the past, you try to think of them in terms of images and colors. [...]

The eyes have annoyed him because the motor activity of the neck is increasing so. [...] Checking with the pendulum, when any possibly annoying events occur, is excellent.

[...] Other annoying events were occurring in our private lives. [...]

(9:43.) I felt that my work was being contaminated, and more, I was annoyed and disappointed by those readers who could apparently be so taken in by those other Seths. [...]

Now, I bid you a fond good evening—and if you will really remember what I say, and take it to heart, then your chest would not bother you when you exert yourself or worry; and if you would remind yourself during your naptime that the vitality of the universe is indeed surging through your body as you sleep, then you would rid yourself of that annoying difficulty.

I do not consider these small helpful hints of future events to be the sort of demonstration which in certain circumstances could annoy me. And any annoyance that I do feel is merely with the impatience that requests for demonstrations may hide.

[...] My eyes were bothering me some, but I typed some James this afternoon; then Frank came in at 3:30; and Margaret B. came in to visit; I was annoyed; tired of people about, etc., but tried to be pleasant; as we chatted I felt my right foot and ankle changing. [...]

[...] Doing so will prove him wrong, and break up still another annoying mental image. [...]

[...] Tell him indeed that annoyance with his own symptoms could now prevent him from helping others as well as he might, because the energy devoted to maintaining the symptoms is not being used for such constructive purposes.

He saw how the annoying hip condition vanished when he followed the outlined recommendations. [...]

[...] The less annoying arm difficulties are a result of the muscular tension caused by the foot difficulty, but these should disappear completely now within two or three days.

His mother often demanded the bedpan just before meals, and he thought this was to annoy him. He did it to annoy you, and show resentment. [...]

[...] Begin with innocuous but annoying physical conditions, however, and try to work those out for yourself. [...] When you have a headache or a simple stomach upset, or if you have a chronic, annoying but not serious condition, such as trouble with your sinuses, or if you have hay fever — in those situations, remind yourself that your body does indeed have the capacity to heal itself.

[...] Questioning on my part, and Jane’s use of the pendulum, told us these symptoms, somewhat annoying and at first puzzling, were related to the above material. [...]

(“Were we correct about his symptoms for the last couple of days?” Jane’s annoying head manifestations, said by her pendulum to be caused by the Pitre session.)