“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Remember that your present reality is the result of years of positive and negative thought patterns. It is good that you have begun to recognize some of your own negative attitudes, for it is highly important that you do so.

Realize that each time you replace a negative thought or feeling by a positive one, this is like making a correction in a painting. Soon you will be able to do this automatically, but in the beginning conscious effort is needed.

You must be systematic until your reactions become fairly automatic. You must therefore replace negative patterns with positive ones. As you know, the negative patterns bring results. Now give us a moment.

This doesn’t mean that in the interim you allow every negative thought freedom however. Now you are beginning a most significant venture here. I want to impress upon you its importance. I want to make sure in these initial stages that you have the correct ideas. If you do not sell a painting by next week, for example, I do not want you to say “This does not work.” You have many negative patterns to conquer.

Your creative energies have always been highly beneficial and positive, and worked for you in ways you may not have known. Their energy has attracted other people to you both, and with all of your negative attitudes the overall impression others received from you, generally speaking, was of creativity.

Now you often projected negative thoughts, not being able to accept the items in the spirit in which they were given. You felt it made you inferior to accept such gifts. This is negative to begin with. You (pointing to me) wanted to feel aloof, and I tell you, superior. There is a knack in accepting and receiving. Your attitude was a rejecting one in general—that is, it was a reflection of a deeper pattern of negative thinking.

In fact, you often stated that you wanted them as studies. They felt they were laying gifts at the altar of creativity, in their own way. I want to point out however the negative pattern behind this, on your part.

Give us a moment. (Pause.) To some extent there was a bottling up of energy, in that you could not take or give freely. You projected your own negative patterns of thought upon those who gave joyfully. This does not mean you look for alms. I did not mean they gave and therefore placed themselves above you. These were quite simply offerings, and they considered them little enough.

You must still realize how practical these ideas are. You should realize it, for you can see their effect when they are used negatively. This is the way you build your life, whether you realize it or not. This is one of the main purposes of my material, that you construct your own physical reality, and that it is a replica of your ideas. For this does not apply within your system only, but beyond it.

You are mainly concerned with overall patterns of thought, replacing those that you already have, replacing negative ideas as you are aware of them. This does not take much additional time, you see. `

Concentrate on the health issue in your exercises for now. Let your thoughts flow naturally during the day. They will of their own accord touch upon various issues such as work, finances and so forth. When they do then correct any negative thoughts with positive ones.

In the normal course of a day your thoughts dwell to some degree on the issues that you have mentioned, and about which you are concerned. Now in the past such thoughts were often highly negative, and they have resulted in negative conditions. No special efforts are required, save that such thoughts are now made positive.