“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Some of that understanding should flower this week, so that he grabs more fully a hold of that creative stimulus that can greatly accelerate his improvements. [...]

[...] It acts as a natural stimulus.

Some people may seem completely normal in behavior unless certain subjects are brought up in the course of a conversation, or unless some stimulus in the environment arouses them.

[...] That is, the impatience is indeed meant as an impetus, as a stimulus to further activity and motion — so he must think of that impatience as a friend, not as an adversary.

[...] The consciousness of the prey leaves its body under the impetus of a kind of stimulus unknown to you.

You each also became involved in this probability precisely to use it as a creative stimulus that would make you seek for a certain kind of understanding. [...]

[...] Thus sound, even though detected by ear, would act also as a stimulus to the body’s detection of the same sound via feeling.

The sight of our imaginary automobile, therefore, is perceived by you as a visual stimulus, because you are conditioned to perceiving it in such a fashion. [...]

The stimulus of changed physical surroundings will be of benefit. The restaurant food will also be a stimulus to his appetite, and the changing physical sights alone refreshing. [...]

[...] He gave stimulus to his mind with coffee and cigarettes, whipping it to make it go faster and faster.

[...] He was quite aware of his own fears also, but he felt that the stimulus would offset these, and that you would not add your courage to his when he was faltering. [...]

[...] He did not want to be the one to apply the stimulus. [...]

He is also intuitively sure that without the stimulus you will never develop your abilities fully. [...]

[...] In each case frequent attention to the scales serves as another negative stimulus, reinforcing the condition. [...]

[...] It is not just that thoughts influence the body, as of course they do; but each one of them represents a triggering stimulus, bringing about hormonal changes and altering the entire physical situation at any given time.

[...] Various things can spark such feelings, according to the circumstances, while at another time the same kind of stimulus may not apply at all.

[...] These lie latent, ready to be focused upon and used; any of them can be brought to the fore when a conscious thought acts as a stimulus.

[...] Where the stimulus may be extremely annoying, and humiliatingly unpleasant, certain portions of the psychological framework accept it indiscriminatingly because it is a sensation, and a vivid one. [...]

Even a quick and automatic rejection or withdrawal from such stimulus is in itself a way by which consciousness knows itself. [...]

[...] As I turned on a couple of additional lights in the living room, to see to write by, our friends in the fireplace began to sound off —adding a new sort of whistling or crying sound—and Jane made what may be a good point: light may leak past the closed damper enough that the raccoons respond to that stimulus. [...]

The fetus also understands that it can respond to a stimulus — to any stimulus it chooses — from a variety of probable futures. [...]

[...] And Ruburt had also tuned in on the same conversation, but had already begun to tense, and therefore was blocking every psychological stimulus in the hopes of blocking out the right one. [...]

[...] You sidestep many of the blocks to action when the stimulus is a good one. [...]

(10:15.) If you are to be born as a male, then the mother serves as a stimulus to activate the symbol of the anima in you, so that the pattern of your own female lives becomes a portion of your next existence. [...]

[...] That stimulus naturally led him to do the bathroom, and to plan to do the bedroom. [...]