Limiting beliefs

“The quality of life is intensely important, and is to a large extent dependent upon a sense of well-being and self-confidence.  While these attributes are expressed in the body, they also exist in the mind, and there are some cumbersome mental beliefs that may severely impede mental and physical well-being. …

“One of the greatest detriments to mental and physical well-being is the unfortunate belief that any unfavorable situation is bound to get worse instead of better.  That concept holds that any illness will worsen, any war will lead to destruction, that any and all known dangers will be encountered, and basically that the end result of mankind’s existence is extinction.  All of those beliefs impede mental and physical health, erode the individual’s sense of joy and natural safety, and force the individual to feel like an unfortunate victim of exterior events that seem to happen despite his own will or intent.

“The ideas I have just mentioned are all prominent in your society, and now and then they return to darken your senses of joy and expectation.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 9, 1984)

Exuberance, vitality and joy

“Exuberance and a sense of vitality are always present to some degree or another. …

“Exuberance and joy, however, basically have nothing to do with time or age. They may be expressed as vividly and beautifully at the age of 80 as at the age of 8.  For whole segments of the population, however, it seems as if joy and health are fleeting attributes expressed briefly in childhood, and then lost forever.

“There are innumerable ways of reclaiming joy in living, however, and in so doing physical health may be reclaimed by those who have found it lacking in their experience.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 9, 1984)

The body consciousness is spontaneous

“The main characteristic of bodily consciousness is its spontaneity.  This allows it to work at an incredibly swift rate that could not be handled by the topmost conscious portions of the mind. Its operation is due to an almost instantaneous kind of consciousness, in which what is known is known, with no distance between, say, the knower and the known.

“The act of seeing, and all of the body’s senses, are dependent upon this inner spontaneity.”

(The Way Toward Health, Session January 7, 1984)

The Body Always Seeks Health and Fulfillment

It’s amazing how much our thoughts (ego mind) get in the way of living in a state of grace … individually and collectively!  It’s equally amazing that we don’t always know what is good for us!!! 

“With free will, however, it is not possible for the body consciousness to be given full and clear dominion, for that would deny large areas of choices, and cut off facets of learning.  The main direction and portent, however, of the body consciousness on its own is always toward health, expression, and fulfillment.

“The molecules, and even the smaller aspects of the body act and react, communicate, cooperate with each other, and share each other’s knowledge, so that one particle of the body knows what is happening in all other parts. Thus, the amazing organization usually works in a smooth, natural fashion.  Many body events that you think of in your society as negative – certain viruses, for example – are instead meant as self-corrective devices, even as fever actually promotes health rather than impedes it.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 7, 1984)

Natural Exuberance

As I read stuff like this Seth quote it floors me how great a discrepancy there often is between the state of exuberance in the body and its cells … and our thoughts about the body and the world in general.  It seems to me that mind-body integration really is about the mind enjoying that spontaneous, highly creative state of exuberance that exists in every part of our body and in everything around us ... right down to the smallest sub-atomic particle.  That is living in a true state of grace.

Be exuberant!

“The body consciousness, on its own, is filled with exuberance, vitality, and creativity.

“Each most microscopic portion of the body is conscious, strives toward its own goals of development, and is in communication with all other parts of the body.

“The body consciousness is indeed independent.  To a large degree its own defense mechanisms protect it from the mind’s negative beliefs – at least to a large extent.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 7, 1984)

Trust your natural rhythms

Today’s Seth is important and often difficult due to all the cultural imprinting, social pressures and type “A” conditioned processes to be always “doing” at the expense of “being”!

“… trust the great power of the universe that forms [your] own image, to trust [your] spontaneity, and [your] body’s natural urges toward relaxation, motion, and creativity, as these show themselves in their own rhythms.”

(The Magical Approach: Seth Speaks About The Art Of Creative Living, Session Seventeen)

The Earth is Eternal - Just Like Us

“There are as many frontiers as there ever were, and there is no catastrophe that will annihilate consciousness, or put an end to earthly life. When you think in terms of earth’s destruction, or the ending of the world, you are thinking of course of a continuum of time, and of beginnings and endings.  From your viewpoint in space and time, it seems that planets have come and gone, stars collapsed, and when you look outward into space it appears that you look backward into time.  There are great pulsations, however, in existence – pulsations that have nothing to do with time as you understand it, but with intensities.

“In the deepest of terms, the world always was and always will be.  It changes its patterns of activity, it comes and goes, but it is always itself in its comings and goings.”

(The Magical Approach: Seth Speaks About The Art Of Creative Living, Session Seventeen)