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(3:46 PM. “Now I’ll see if I can do some exercises,” Jane said. “So I did that for a good part of the evening—massaged first the right arm, then the left one, after they started to improve.” My first thought had been that the softening in the arms would help relieve the doubled-up fingers of her right hand. The session, then, is one of the major ones, signaling an excellent prognosis for continued improvement. I told Jane, also, that yesterday she had referred to a looser feeling inside her left elbow, a greater softness, so Seth was right: these particular improvements had been in the works, yet triggered by Jane’s suggestions.

(She showed me, then, how the flesh of her forearms has turned soft and flexible, whereas up until yesterday it had been quite rigid and wooden, and she’d had no feeling in it. Now she does, and the flesh moves beneath my fingers. Her legs used to be that way, and still are in places. The arm effects appeared after I’d left her last night; at around 7:30 she’d said to herself: “I want to have something good to show Bob tomorrow.” Congratulations, Jane.

(Jane said that until her arms started softening up, she hadn’t realized “how wooden they felt before. I’m sorry those changes aren’t as noticeable to you as they are to me. I can feel them inside.” But, I said, they were noticeable to me, if in a different way than her own awareness dictated.)

I am delighted at Ruburt’s progress. I am speaking specifically of the improvements in both arms. The flesh is becoming far more responsive and pliable. This also means that the circulation has increased, and that both muscles and joints are more mobile and able to act in a more spontaneous manner. The hardness previously represented a kind of armor, which is now being shunted (spelled) aside. This will bring greater flexibility to the hands and fingers also, and will also be reflected in other portions of the body, including the legs and hips—a most fortuitous improvement indeed. It was ready to occur. On the other hand, it was also triggered by Ruburt’s suggestions, when he playfully (musically almost) imagined himself telling you of significant improvements, without wondering what they would be.

[...] More movements of the right arm this time, and the head and neck. The arm motions were almost as though Jane was leading an orchestra. [...] I had a sense that the arm was moving almost by itself, somewhat uncoordinated, as if searching for its role with the body, or relearning for itself what it was for, what it could do. [...]

[...] She began to flex her arms. She did especially well with her head and right arm, then the feet began to move. [...]

[...] She moved her arms again.

[...] Abruptly Jane began flopping her head and rotating her left arm, holding the elbow up in the air, so vigorously that she cried out that she was getting dizzy. [...]

[...] She had good movement in her arms and shoulders, meaning that she’s preserving the freedoms in those areas. She said that generally she has felt some overall general improvements, but especially in the arms and hands.

(Then at 4:14 she began rotating her arms and hands faster than ever—the best yet—it was obvious that her elbows were loosening up even more. [...] “It looks like the legs and feet are trying to do the same things the hands and arms are doing,” I said. [...]

You are quite right: the legs do want, now, to act in coordination with the motion of the arms. [...]

[...] Arm and shoulder areas softening, and I could reach further with my left arm. [...]

[...] Saturday AM the parts of my body that had felt softer, were quite sore; knees and arms. [...]

Strength in the arms and hands has improved considerably over the months. [...] Relaxation of the muscles will help release the arms simply because of the initial mental relaxation and affirmation required before physical relaxation is acquired.

(“Why are his arms bent?”)

(“Why are his arms bent?” I thought I had spoken as loudly as usual in asking the question the first time.)

[...] The arms should now begin to release. [...]

(At 4:05 I took away her ashtray from her belly because her right arm needed the room to move. [...] Then her left arm began swinging out in a circle. Then both arms and the head went. [...]

[...] It looked liked her left arm was straightening out a bit at the elbow and it moved rapidly in a tight circle over her belly. [...]

[...] Head and shoulders moving, arms and feet. [...]

[...] Jane began another series of motions after a short rest, especially involving her right arm, wrist and hand. Then her feet began going in time with the arm. [...]

[...] Head and neck, arms and hands, legs and feet all moved in concert. [...]

[...] Side to side with the head, arms. [...]

[...] She did well when I turned her on her left side, then massaged Oil of Olay into her feet, legs, arms and hands and neck. [...]

The improvements in Ruburt’s arms are a sign of the body’s response following the arousal of hope and faith. [...]

[...] If the arms can do what they’re doing, there’s no reason why such improvements won’t show up in the legs. [...]

(Jane had been able to rotate and raise and lower her arms just as well this afternoon as she had yesterday. [...]

[...] After today’s session she also felt good, and rotated her arms speedily and raised them up higher than she had even yesterday. [...]

[...] In the last few days the discomfort has moved down into her left arm; periodically she said the arm tingles, in a sensation similar to that felt when a limb has gone to sleep. [...] Seth, without being asked, told Peggy that she had a disturbance in the area of the third to fifth vertebrae, and that this, basically, was the cause of her back and arm disturbances. [...]

(Seth told Peggy to stand up and stretch her arms over her head frequently during the day. [...] He went into some detail here, explaining that the tension caused a slowing of the blood flow in the shoulder and arm making the blood’s normally easy flow much more difficult. [...]

[...] Peggy said she may have the habit of leaning on her desk at the newspaper office with her left arm or elbow; she will check.

[...] A congestion builds up in the back and arm. [...]

[...] Her arms and hands kept moving.

[...] Half crying, she began more motions with her arms and hands. [...]

[...] I mentioned the joy Seth referred to, and Jane said she felt it, even as she cried while I helped her move her arms. [...]

[...] It was also easier doing her arms and hands and other parts of her body after I turned her. [...]

[...] Noticed however even during this, a strange and delightful and sudden release, physically with arms, legs, shoulders, neck. [...] Hands far stronger, left hand definitely has resumed—overnight?—a far more normal appearance, and both much, much stronger; arms much better, neck flexible, shoulders; even think arms have ‘let down,’ a bit. [...]

[...] The information I gave about his arms in the past was correct. It is also true, however, that his hands and arms became more aggravated in their condition precisely because he did not want to be able to hold the phone to do an hour show. [...]

[...] It came to me that this dilemma was the reason for her much worse hand and arm discomfort: She can barely hold the telephone now, and has much trouble typing. [...]

(“But it’s the same old story,” I told Jane when I asked that she have a session tonight, to deal with her hands and arms, and Seth’s remark. [...]

[...] Whatever struggles lay behind the hand and arm symptoms, for example, adopted their own protective armor, resistant to change....)

[...] I concentrated on doing something to my arms, or having someone else do it. Mentally asked for help, think I had ectoplasmic arm in mind. [...] Sally and Rose said that something was happening to my left hand, which was held out; arm resting on chair rest. [...]

[...] In here also I concentrated on a ectoplastic arm without telling anyone and Theodore again reported without any suggestion from me that he thought he noticed a change in the same arm, and once thought it was about to rise. [...]

The hardest part, however, is over, for the sensation of freedom has been physically introduced through the arm into the system—and that message echoes throughout the system. [...] There will be sudden improvements on the physical level, as with the arm, but before that occurred there were changes in beliefs. [...]

(During the past week Jane has made a spectacular improvement in the use of her right arm, with lesser but steady improvement in the left. [...]

Then since we have that established, let me tell you that it is of course no coincidence, for the right arm was the area first affected. [...]

The arm, by its sudden freedom, also serves as a model to Ruburt consciously, and also for the rest of the body to follow. [...]

[...] This time it is not a matter of doing as well as he can with bent arms and legs, but instead the work involves the correction of those difficulties to begin with. [...]

The same applies to the arms, where certain motions will seemingly be easy suddenly, while others will appear difficult. [...]

[...] Some still have to be released, and the arms are also important to balance. [...]

(At 4:20 Jane was able to move both arms and shoulders to such an extent that she had me take away her ashtray and cigarette so she had more room. The left arm especially moved very freely at the shoulder. “It certainly wants to move,” she said, rotating the whole arm and hand. [...]

[...] She began to move on the bed, twisting her hands and wrists and rotating her arms. [...]

[...] After she was on her side I used Oil of Olay to massage her feet, lower legs, arms and hands, talking to all of those portions —and new movements were apparent in all areas. [...]

[...] She moved her shoulders and arms and hands as usual—very well indeed—which shows that she’s keeping her new motions. [...] At 3:22, after a cigarette, she began to move most portions of her body in a generalized program of exercise—head off the pillow, arms, shoulders and feet, legs [to a lesser degree] and hips. [...] Then she did motions with her arms and hands that she hadn’t done before, very fast, she said it felt like she was going to shake her fingers off. [...]

[...] Her right arm began going in rapid circles, head bobbing. Then her left foot, then the left arm and the right foot moved. [...]

[...] Strong sideways motions, head and chest and arms. [...] More strong movements, most of her body rocking up and down, then back and forth—head, arms, noises. [...]

He has noticed, however, that almost immediately afterward his arms are freer, and that he has taken some of the steps there (pointing to the couch) with his weight better distributed, though he is bent way over, and so he has made good efforts to understand. [...]

Work is being done on the knees, also, so actually the initial good results are showing in the knees and feet and arms. [...]

[...] The position (emphatic) of the arms has symbolically represented the degree of resistance to spontaneity. At his worst the arms would be like this, you see, as if to hold back—

(As Seth, Jane held out her arms with them bent at about right angles.)

[...] Tell him also to shake his arms downward from both the elbow and the shoulder, and in a playful manner, as if he were a rag doll perhaps. [...]

Now the energy that I am using now is also being made available for Ruburt (louder), and now he is no longer afraid to use it joyfully, and it will straighten out his arms and release some of the crooked ideas that he has in that head of his.