“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

What the body cannot stand today is the stress thrown upon it by the imagined stress or problems that it might be asked to face tomorrow, or next week, or 20 years from now. Then, you are not allowing it to act in the present. You are seeking from future probabilities unpleasant—or perhaps the most unpleasant—circumstances, and actually demanding that the body handle that stimuli now (all intently).

Again, significances are important. If one unpleasant event today automatically causes you to think of 20 more that might happen in the future and you dwell upon those, then you hopelessly confuse your body. It finds in the present no justification in fact for such interpretations, while your thoughts act as if those situations were presently before you, to be confronted. Stress results when the body does not know how to react, and therefore cannot react smoothly.

(The session, Jane said, verged often on the unpleasant, as if Blanche had to go through her own last memories first in order to make contact, and we wondered whether a survival personality would want to do this very often. As I continued speaking, trying to help Jane get an emotional feeling of making contact without being engulfed by any strong or unpleasant emotion that Blanche might be reexperiencing, Jane began to whimper in a subdued way. [...]

[...] Her trance, Jane said, was quite different than the usual Seth trance, and a few times, particularly during the crying attempt, Jane felt she might be approaching an unpleasant experience, as has happened a few times in the past. Again, Jane felt that in making contact, Blanche had to go through the last, and so unpleasant, stages of her physical life. [...]

[...] “This is Blanche,” was one of the first things she said, after I had deliberately called her Jane for reassurance, while thinking she had probably made contact with Blanche, and was somewhat unpleasantly involved in a sickroom episode.

An unpleasant episode and a matter of money.

[...] She then tied this in with an unpleasant episode in the past where there was trouble with another sister-in-law, and this brother-in-law, and thought that the money would now make this sister-in-law sit up and wonder about her own actions in the past.)

[...] 24, as being one that could possibly see an unpleasantness arise for us. Starting our day this morning, we reminded ourselves of the date, but made no plans other than to perhaps keep a sharp eye out for situations that could possibly develop unpleasantly. [...]

[...] There was no unpleasantness. [...]

The unpleasantness for this date was avoided largely because of your own improved expectations and understanding.

[...] But also a connection with something unpleasant, so I am not sure.” [...] He did connect mirth to something unpleasant, however, and we believe this to be the correct connection. Here above, he is also unsure about the party connection, the something unpleasant data interfering.

(“Yet also a connection with an unpleasant event.” Jane said the unpleasant event was the fact that earlier two neighborhood children had been quite noisy and active running about our yard; she had wanted to go sun herself after lunch, but put off the expedition until the children had gone, by 3:00 PM. [...]

[...] Yet also a connection with an unpleasant event. [...]

For one thing, while pain is unpleasant it is also a method of familiarizing the self against the edges of quickened consciousness. Any heightened sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, has a stimulating effect upon a consciousness to some degree. [...] 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. [...]

[...] I am not here saying that unpleasant stimuli will not be felt as unpleasant, and reacted against, by less self-conscious organisms. [...]

(“A connection with a series, and with several unpleasant episodes.” [...] Jane found this quite unpleasant.

[...] First of all, an impression of an unpleasant occurrence connected with a woman in a blue dress. [...]

A connection with a series, and with several unpleasant episodes. [...]

[...] A connection with a particular event, with some unpleasant connotations.

[...] Jane and I drew a blank on “a particular event, with some unpleasant connotations” at the moment.

[...] as in February,” might be connected with the first impressions given, “a particular event, with some unpleasant connotations.”

Any unpleasantness there will be minimal, however. This knowledge alone will release him from any fears that would make a minimal unpleasantness more noticeable.

[...] When he does not do so therefore, this is a sign of acquiescence to present conditions, or being hypnotized by the unpleasant current aspects.

[...] not at all sure but the idea was that unpredictable unpleasant things could happen I suppose to “knock you off your ass.” [...]

An unpleasant circumstance occurred before or after, in which a woman was involved. [...]

(Jane herself made the possible connection that the “...unpleasant circumstance... [...]

[...] It was he and his wife who were referred to here in the unpleasant episode. [...]

If you have good vision, then you can see both pleasant scenes and unpleasant scenes. [...] There is no reason to pick out and remember the unpleasant ones. [...]

(In other words, when I tell her to live in the pleasurable aspects of a moment, I don’t mean for her to use this as a method of sweeping unpleasantness under the rug, etc.)

[...] At the end I was inside an emotion; I didn’t feel “possessed” by Barb for instance or taken over by another; but I did feel and was immersed in an emotion not my own, and a very unpleasant frightening one for which I wasn’t prepared—again, at least consciously.

(It is important to remember that as far as I know—the first part containing the valid information—was not particularly emotional—nor unpleasant—except for the “normal” mechanics of the trance it was not a display. [...]

[...] I say that I don’t want people to “expect that sort of thing when they come here” and when I think about it I do consider it as somehow unpleasant or exhibitionistic. [...]

[...] The release however then of muscles previously tight can be initially unpleasant, but this soon passes, as other groups of muscles relax gradually in response. [...]

[...] 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 first time it becomes unpleasant, you cannot, therefore, the next time say: “This time I will not hear”.

[...] It became, to you, a method of conveying unpleasant information, and therefore to be shut off whenever possible. [...]

[...] Before the session I showed her a copy of my dream for last Monday morning—one that had been so unpleasant that I’d avoided writing it down until after supper tonight. [...]

[...] They are flawed, unpleasant. [...]

[...] They were very unpleasant—frightening—and we thought that they were supposed to be therapeutic in nature, in line with Seth’s recent material. [...]

[...] There may be very unpleasant side effects. [...]

[...] I’d been concerned lest Jane become involved in an unpleasant situation that would have repercussions via symptoms —the idea of publicity, of public display, which she doesn’t want—just when we were trying to learn more about the subject as she reacted to it. [...]

(My thought of course is that gritting one’s teeth and plunging ahead with the new book in defiance of large portions of the personality may have unpleasant repercussions. [...]