"Quite literally, you live in the body of your beliefs. You perceive through the body of your beliefs. Your beliefs can increase your vision or diminish it. They can increase of diminish your hearing, or any sense function.
"If, for example, you believe that after a certain time of life hearing will fade, then so it will. You will begin to use the faculty less and less, unconsciously transfer your attention to the other senses to compensate, and rely less and less upon your ears until the functions themselves do atrophy. Period.
"Functions in this particular regard are habits. You simply forget how to hear properly, following your belief. All of the minute manipulations necessary to hearing are unconsciouly repressed. The actual physical deterioration then does indeed follow. The deterioration however does not occur first, but after."
- Seth
(channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Nature of Personal Reality
"If, for example, you believe that after a certain time of life hearing will fade, then so it will. You will begin to use the faculty less and less, unconsciously transfer your attention to the other senses to compensate, and rely less and less upon your ears until the functions themselves do atrophy. Period.
"Functions in this particular regard are habits. You simply forget how to hear properly, following your belief. All of the minute manipulations necessary to hearing are unconsciouly repressed. The actual physical deterioration then does indeed follow. The deterioration however does not occur first, but after."
- Seth
(channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Nature of Personal Reality