Seth on the idea that “concentration reinforces the quality which is concentrated upon”, be it positive qualities or negative qualities
Quotes composed by John Blair
The Role of Concentration and Expectations
Seth’s ideas about reality and consciousness are super cool! He says that our physical world is like a mirror of our inner thoughts, beliefs, and expectations. Reality isn’t some separate thing; it’s made up of our thoughts, feelings, and intentions.
Seth’s quotes show how important concentration and expectations are for our lives. If we focus on something, it becomes more real to us. This works for both good and bad things. If we focus on negativity, it grows stronger. But if we focus on positivity and good things, we can change our lives and the world around us.
Seth’s teachings change how we think about causality. He says that our inner reality, shaped by our beliefs and thoughts, is the foundation of our outer world. This means that we have the power to change our lives by changing our thoughts and feelings. So, let’s take responsibility for our thoughts and emotions, because they have the power to create amazing things in our lives.
Prague, 2025
Seth on Concentration and Expectations
“Now I have told you time and time again, my friends, that you construct your physical universe and your private environment in line with your inner expectations, for they mirror perfectly the deepest areas of your own inner reality.”
“This is perhaps the closest I can come in handing you anything that approaches a basic truth. All of our material follows from this, and any other information contained in the material follows and flows out of this primary statement.”
“I do not speak symbolically, but quite literally.”
“When you find yourselves therefore noticing more and more the inequalities, the disasters and the shames that come within your sphere of perception, you add to their existence. This may confound what common sense may tell you. However, concentration reinforces the quality which is concentrated upon.”
“I will not go more deeply into this, for we have mentioned it often, and I address myself now to you both. When you are concentrating upon destructive elements, you lose on two points. You reinforce the destructive qualities by the very act of concentrating upon them, and you rob yourselves of the constructive qualities that you could be concentrating upon, and therefore that you could be reinforcing.”
“For an example, we will take your friend and her tumor. The tumor was formed by inner concentration. She feared a tumor so strongly that subconsciously she focused her energies in those directions. It existed in her mind long before it was physically constructed.”
“Had she concentrated upon constructive elements, upon positive and not negative qualities, not only would the tumor itself be nonexistent, but she would have constructed a positive element in its stead. A spiritual growth, for example.”
“All of these matters, you see, and many more, from the considerations of health and the formation of destructive ulcers and tumors, to the construction of any simple physical object, to the construction of an apparition—all of these are in one way or another connected with inner focus and concentration.”
You will in all cases attempt to construct as physical reality your inner conception of what reality is. Your physical environment and conditions are a mirror of your own basic conceptions of reality. If the environment changes it is because your inner conceptions have changed, and no smallest alteration is made within physical reality, that has not first been made within the inner self.
The Early Sessions: Book 6 of The Seth Material, Session 253 April 25, 1966, by Jane Roberts, © 1999 Laurel Davies-Butts.
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