"Your conscious thinking largely determines your emotions......"

[Sena]

This is a quote from The Nature of Personal Reality:
"Your beliefs generate emotion. It is somewhat fashionable to place feelings above conscious thoughts, the idea being that emotions are more basic and natural than conscious reasoning is. The two actually go together but your conscious thinking largely determines your emotions,and not the other way around. Your beliefs generate the appropriate emotion that is implied."

http://tinyurl.com/glhd56f

The significance of this section of the book is that it actually presents the principles of the cognitive therapy of depression. This therapy was developed by Aaron Beck in the 60's, but he only published his book on the subject in 1979:
Beck, Aaron T.; Rush, A. John; Shaw, Brian F.; Emery, Gary. (1979). Cognitive Therapy of Depression.
The Nature of Personal Reality was published in 1974, and it seems very unlikely that Jane Roberts would have got to know of cognitive therapy at that time. Seth explains in this chapter that if one can change one's beliefs, one can also change one's emotions. This is really the basic principle of the cognitive therapy of depression.

[Deb]

The Nature of Personal Reality was published in 1974, and it seems very unlikely that Jane Roberts would have got to know of cognitive therapy at that time.

I'm glad you brought that up, because there have been times when I've wondered if some of the things said were influenced by Jane's knowledge of psychology through reading, or news-worthy current events regarding the latest theories in psychology, physics, etc. The concept that our beliefs are the filter through which we interpret events, which in turn cause an emotional response, makes so much sense. Joe Dispenza (sorry to mention him again) and Bruce Lipton do a very good job of explaining that to the layperson. How we perceive and interpret events (this is good, this is bad) has to be based on our beliefs—beliefs that may not even be "our own" considering a lot of them were programmed into us as small children.