“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Always ask yourself “Am I reacting to this present event only, as I should, or am I reacting to this event and five others in the past to which I did not react?” Soon you will find yourself with responses in proportion to present events, and will be free from old habits.

For a while then you must closely watch your reactions by making sure that you are only reacting to a present episode. Soon automatically the system becomes adjusted to normal action, and the process becomes automatic again. It is also important to react when you feel an annoyance, rather than postpone action, whenever this is possible. Your system is cleared. When you are beginning to learn you may find yourself overreacting initially, simply because of the accumulated, unrecognized charge of past repression.

Dictation: The body reacts not so much to physical sound as to the interior sounds into which the physical sounds are translated. As mentioned (in the last two sessions), it also reacts to sounds that have no physical “counterparts.”

The atoms and molecules that compose your cells and your flesh, for instance, do not react to the physical sounds that you hear or to the light patterns that your physical eyes perceive. [...] The hormonal system must react with great rapidity, sometimes completely changing the balance of a moment earlier. [...]

By the time the organism responds the inner patterns have already reacted, and this must and always does precede any physical response to stimuli. Therefore the invisible body pattern, composed of its interior light, sound and electromagnetic properties, reacts first, and actually initiates the later physical response.

The body consciousness must react to your (underlined) interpretation of an exterior stimulus as well. The body consciousness, for example, will react quite differently to, say, two slaps of exactly the same pressure—one an energetic love slap, and the other one delivered in ridicule or anger. The physical stimulus itself, however, would be precisely the same, but the body would react to your understanding of that stimulus. [...]

[...] It reacts literally, say, in that regard, to symbols. The symbols are the realm in which interpretations are made, but the body must always react moment by moment at that level of activity, irregardless of a vast knowledge of probabilities. [...]

Now: The body consciousness reacts to exterior stimuli, of course, and to inner stimuli as well. [...]

[...] He reacts to it as he reacts to other information. [...]

[...] Quite adequate protection here can be given if he gives the daily suggestion that he will only react to constructive suggestions.

He will automatically react to such information whether or not he consciously admits that he receives it. [...]

[...] Before one group of muscles on one side would react in one way, while the other side would react in another way, so that the conflict between spontaneity and caution was objectified.

Nevertheless, you react to those background thoughts, and often they serve as a springboard for those in the front of your mind. [...]

He may, on the other hand, react to and interpret portions of the thought that are not similar. He may then react and interpret the similarity or the difference. His reaction here depends on several circumstances, including the intensity of the electrical pulsations that compose the thought, and his own inner facility in reacting to particular ranges of intensities. [...]

[...] When receiver B receives this transmitted thought, he may react and interpret that part of the thought that is similar to the original.

Also, all individuals have had familiarity with emotions, as they exist within electrical intensities, and are accustomed to reacting to them. [...]

In your terms, whether a minute or 10 minutes, or an hour or two hours were involved, you reacted ahead of time to a headline that you had not as yet physically encountered. You reacted creatively, using the precognitive story as a basis for a fictional endeavor. [...]

[...] Men may react to future events by unconsciously translating them into art, or motion pictures. They may react by unconsciously taking certain steps of a political nature that seem at the time either unreasonable, or even incomprehensible — steps whose logic appears only in hindsight.

[...] That same kind of lightning-swift organization goes on within the body itself constantly, as it deals with probable scenarios to which you may or may not end up reacting to.

[...] The physical self seems (underlined) to react to physical stimuli. Actually, of course, it is reacting to its own reality, projected outward.

[...] If, for example, a letter comes to you bearing good news, and you react to the letter with high spirits, then you should understand that the high spirits existed first, and created the materialization of the letter within the physical systems, through the multilayered and complicated reactions that bind together the physical system.

If an annoying letter arrives and you react to it negatively, the negative quality preceded the letter and caused it to materialize in your system. [...]

[...] You also affect these same events, shaping and altering them, and then reacting.

Whether or not such an activation into physical actualization occurs or not, nonphysical portions of the self will to some extent react. [...]

He is receiving larger doses of energy due to the season, and his own natural reactions to it, but he is not acting or reacting with the spontaneity that is natural to him in early springtime. [...]

[...] He should then often give himself the following suggestion: “I will only react to constructive suggestions.” [...]

When you replace this with a constructive thought, you are sending that constructive suggestion to which he will also react. [...]

I told you to tell yourself: I will only react to constructive suggestions. [...]

Your psychological life is dependent upon your ability to perceive and react to such action-events. [...]

[...] Many individuals reacting to a given event may do so by combining their energy to produce one major action-event in response.

[...] They will react in their characteristic way, and experience the thought in their own manner, which may be quite different than your own.

[...] Stress results when the body does not know how to react, and therefore cannot react smoothly. [...]

[...] You perceived this portion of the probable future in that present, reacted to it; and the probable transformation of yourselves into those images did not occur. Because the past, present and future exist simultaneously however, there is no reason why you cannot react to an event whether or not it happens to fall within the small field of reality which you usually observe and participate in.

[...] At times in fact the past can become more real than the present, and in such cases past actions are reacted to in the present. [...]

[...] Therefore, it is more than possible to react in the past to an event that has not yet occurred, to be influenced by your own future.

Now to a lesser degree, and in a different fashion, your cat (Billy) also reacted. The overall emotional coloration and vitality of all of the creatures, say, within any given arbitrary environment is highly complicated, so that there is of course a psychological climate to which you react, as there is a physical one. [...]

[...] The cellular signals were sent out, but you could have reacted to them in any given number of ways once you received them. [...]

[...] It means that the cells send out messages of exaltation and happiness as well as distress, and that you react to these in various fashions at different times, according to the conditions. [...]

[...] I reacted to her desire; just as I react negatively to someone who is highly critical. I must react to need in this respect—and it seems necessary at this point that I feel perfectly comfortable and safe before I allow Seth to take over so completely. [...]

[...] It can react swiftly and clearly. When you sense threat or danger for which the body can find no biological correlation, even as through cellular communication it scans the environment physically, then it must rely upon your assessment and react to danger conditions. The body will, therefore, react to imagined dangers to some degree, as well as to those that are biologically pertinent. [...]

[...] Through biological communication the child’s cells are made aware of its physical environment, the temperature, air pressure, weather conditions, food supplies — and the body reacts to these conditions, making some adjustments with great rapidity.

[...] A definite, biologically pertinent fear alerts the body, and allows it to react completely and naturally. [...]

[...] You will react, therefore, to all the information that you receive according to your conscious beliefs concerning the nature of reality. [...]

[...] As an example, if your conscious ideas are relatively positive you will react to telepathically received information of a similar nature, even if you do so on an unconscious level.

[...] Others will react to those according to their own ideas of reality. [...]

[...] The body must react. [...] Those are immediate sense data, and in one way or another they do react. [...]

[...] You understand that the tiger exists in a certain environment, and reacts according to his nature. [...]

At the levels with which we are concerned, the body must primarily react to present, immediate, primary existence in space and time. [...]

In the same way, however, you almost programmed yourselves to react in certain physical fashions, and for the same reasons. Our ideas are as close to fact as you can get, granting the necessary translations, and as you build your lives on those frameworks you will no longer be programmed, reacting to erroneous “facts” as if they had a basis in reality. [...]

[...] It is fashionable in some circles to believe that you react physically to telepathically received messages despite your conscious beliefs or ideas. [...] You react only to those telepathic messages that fit in with your conscious ideas about yourself and your reality (emphatically).

[...] I react with such great emotion to small things.” [...]

[...] Yet the protoplasm must conform to its environment — in this case the amoeba’s ‘body,’ which can only move as a unit when directed by the individualistic need to react to stimuli.