“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your society teaches that it is almost virtuous to worry. I would not go so far as to say that it is immoral to worry, but worry is a biological impediment. It increases the concentration upon whatever problem is involved, for one thing, and it has a self-hypnotizing effect. Not to worry in your society can seem quite impractical indeed. Yet a refusal to worry as such will often show remarkable results by freeing the creative mechanisms, relaxing the body, and therefore allowing solutions and resolutions to occur naturally. Worrying impedes your reception of Framework 2 activity.

I want Ruburt in particular to take one day at a time. I want him to do the best he can in that day, to refuse to worry about anything. That takes a firm decision. Instead of Star Trek’s “I will not kill today,” have him substitute “I will not worry today.” This is to be followed with a focus toward relaxation. Simply keep relaxation in mind.

[...] If you worry about the world, you can somehow perhaps save it—or so many people think. If you don’t worry about the world, you are considered unfeeling, and it certainly seems ridiculous to imagine that the world can somehow take care of itself, and even remedy whatever damage it seems man has done to it.

You are used to thinking, however, that worry is an acceptable method of showing concern for private or public affairs. The best thing you can do for yourself, or your loved ones, or the world, is to stop worrying, and hence release all of the negative thoughts therein generated.

[...] Neither of you do yourselves service by worrying about Ruburt’s condition, worrying that it might worsen in the future, or in your old ages, or by stressing its negative aspects. [...]

(11:33 PM.) Ruburt has been worried about the sale of Oversoul Seven, and also waiting for the paperback—afraid that after all the book might be late in its printing.

[...] The worry about Seven however was important, and the call today of benefit (to Prentice-Hall)—as the production of this book (The “Unknown” Reality) will be.

[...] He thinks of it still to some degree as his book, rather than mine, and was worried that it would not do as well.

[...] I might add that I don’t think I for one believe any longer that worrying is the answer to very much, as Seth says Jane and I still believe, nor do I think that fear is going to act as a stimulus to positive action. [...] I still worry, obviously, but have no illusions about it helping anything. [...]

[...] After lunch I had her call Ethel Waters at Prentice-Hall to tell her everything was okay, simply to get rid of the worries about the book. [...]

[...] Many others had obviously thought the typefaces chosen for Volume 2 were okay, I said, so what was I doing, worrying about something like that, wanting to tell others how to do their jobs? [...]

In the main Ruburt has really decided that worrying is a negative reaction. He is not inhibiting worry, hiding it, but trying to alter the reaction itself—a big difference. When he does find himself worried, he should feel free to speak to you, however, as your conversation about the dentist was illuminating to him. [...]

(Now I told her that re Seth’s session for me yesterday, I’d tried using his suggestions when I went to bed, and that they worked well, in that I stopped worrying about Jane. However, when I woke up a couple of hours later, with my stomach full of gas again, I actually caught myself in the process of worrying about her. [...] But I’d presented myself with a clear little demonstration that Seth had been right, and that I should tell myself that Jane was being healed, and that I didn’t have to worry. [...] I would say to myself when I found myself worrying about her: “Jane is being healed. [...]

[...] Jane said that since the session today she realized she’d been worrying about three things: 1. Getting home for Thanksgiving. [...] I said I didn’t care about the holidays, but that she shouldn’t worry about the chair bit. [...]

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. Or you may pretend that the worries themselves have images and then “see” these vanishing away.

[...] Do not concentrate on worries or daily trivia that may arise as soon as you block out physical distractions. [...]

(Pause.) Your dreams involving worries about sexuality actually represented, of course, worries about your worth as a contributing person, your sex and work being thus equated. [...] It is a physical answer in fact to the worries initiated by your friend Leonard’s difficulties, and therefore it was no coincidence that he was here today. [...]

[...] You used the incident of the optometrist’s notice to give yourself a very fine lesson, for in the back of your mind you did indeed worry and wonder that your eyes were becoming tired. [...]

[...] of course, was very upset by my chest difficulty, telling me after her nap that she was very worried, bothered of course by the fact that she’d asked me to wash windows. [...]

[...] You withdraw the account by worrying about it. [...]

[...] You would think that it was rather fruitless, now that you have changed over your accounts, to spend any time worrying about all the money in the past still in the old savings account that did not get the superlative interest that these new accounts will enjoy. [...]

So, when you change one (smiling) certain area of your lives into Framework 2’s account, you do not spend any time worrying about the relatively little interest you received before. [...]

Your personal worrying, now, is partially the result of old cultural beliefs: you worry about someone you love, and this somehow helps them, and shows them your concern even while it may make you miserable. [...] For worrying is the prolongation of fearful, negative thoughts directed against another.

[...] Your worrying about Ruburt 85% of the time does him no good and you less. [...]

[...] You cannot encourage him, saying “I know you can do it, honey, don’t worry about it, you’ll do better next time,” when you are quite firmly convinced of the opposite.

Fears and deep worries were not given physical expression. When your own communications became somewhat limited, he did not express worries to you, and brooded inwardly. [...]

[...] The emphasis you see should be on doing things, without worrying about how they will be done. [...]

[...] Do not worry if the first time our Ruburt does not perform; nor should he, but cultivate the environment in which this is normal, and he will react to the stimuli.

—about Ruburt, and though you do not remember that you worried, you caused a gaseous stomach. It will help you if before you sleep you remind yourself gently that you can indeed be free of worry during the night, and then indeed you can sleep peacefully, knowing that Ruburt is being healed even as you sleep. [...]

In the middle of the night, you sometimes begin to worry—

[...] This will also encourage him as the two of you quite freely discuss all aspects, and he will not harbor worries that he can speak frankly in the context of the conversation.

[...] Otherwise he does not voice worries, for example. [...]

[...] Instead I want you to talk about your trip, and have Ruburt get rid of some of the worries connected with it, so that the positive elements can have greater sway. [...]

Your advice, simply to stop worrying, is excellent. [...]

[...] You cannot concentrate upon worries and expect psychic baubles to fall into your lap. [...]

You have nothing to worry about in terms of possession. (He then implied that spirits that had left the earth were seldom responsible in the first place.) Worry itself will, however, induce (he may have said “duplicate” ) a state similar to the preliminary stages of possession. [...]

([Tam:] “Don’t worry, I’ll stick to bonsai!”

[...] Animals certainly do not worry about tomorrow’s weather conditions. [...] It is perfectly fine to make plans for the future, yet each individual should live day by day, without worrying (underlined) about the outcome of those plans.

[...] You can make plans for the future, but do not worry about the future. [...]

[...] Worrying about future events, or dwelling upon past unfavorable situations, only confuses the body’s mechanisms, and undermines their precise activity in the present moment.

(9:43.) Worrying begets worry, of course—and though it may not appear so, worry provides a certain kind of invented excitement that prevents you from seeking a more constructive excitement the longer it is indulged in. [...]

[...] It instantly exaggerates any dire circumstances, because it has been told that to exaggerate a problem and worrying about it is sane adult behavior. [...]

He understands the nature of death, as in their way all animals do, but he does not understand frightening pictures of imagined illnesses that do not exist in his present, or worries about death that is not as yet to be encountered. [...]

[...] Jane didn’t agree or deny that she’d been worrying. [...] I don’t want you falling into that old trap of worrying all by yourself—we just can’t have it. [...]

Your ideas about imagining Ruburt at home, without worrying about how (underlined) he got there, are excellent, as these improvements continue to show themselves, they obviously set the ground for further improvements in a more accelerated fashion. [...]

[...] Previously this round of projections had been almost automatic—that is, he did not catch himself at it, but accepted the worries as worries, without seeing that the situations might or might not occur.

[...] Your remark therefore instantly alerted him, and in spite of company coming almost immediately, and in spite of his worries generated by the projections, he did immediately use your remark in such a way that he was challenged creatively to change his approach at once.

[...] He should not feel worried about using it, or being dependent upon it. [...]

[...] But then he worried that perhaps he might not get all of the material tomorrow, so it is a matter of learning to trust yourself (with some gentle humor). [...]

[...] He simply then for a while bumped into some of the old beliefs again, worried that his impulses would not lead him to write sufficiently. [...]

With Ruburt rising in the night, sometimes you vaguely worried whether or not he could navigate properly and sometimes when you are out of the house you also wonder: is he safe alone? [...]