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The ego’s desire for health and the organism’s impetus toward health, are constant balances, and are always present. [...]

[...] Only a certain kind of personality could find balance between spontaneity and discipline. [...]

Quite unwittingly because of your own nature, you tilted the balance for a while. [...]

[...] My thought at the moment is that more expression on Jane’s part will free the conscientious-self to perform its own balanced role, and to actually retreat in doing so. [...]

(My thinking at this time is that when we allow ourselves expression freely—painful as it may be at times—and live in ways that are in keeping with our natures and abilities, we will achieve that necessary and vital balance that automatically results in creative work, health, whatever material success we require, etc.

(I asked Jane if she thought the sessions served as a balance to those sinful-self, very restrictive ideas — that when she gave up on the sessions that other self was free to exert its power and beliefs. [...]

I would like to preface my remarks by mentioning that you are both in excellent psychic and physical condition at this point, and at your best level of achievement, indeed maintaining a balance that neither of you had been able to achieve earlier.

[...] However, I wanted him to make the adjustments necessary to maintain balance and outward cordiality with the director, to aid his own understanding, and so that his resignation, which I hopefully foresaw, would be relatively painless.

[...] In the years between there was some considerable improvement in balance. [...]

[...] Old guilts held regularly in normal balance concerning his mother then leapt upward. [...]

[...] The body could not, standing, stretch that fully all together and maintain balance, because part of the newly stretched muscles are not as yet that strong, where other portions that he has used are.

[...] He could consciously move his shoulder blades in the back for the first time this evening, and the arms are very important in bodily balance. [...]

[...] The inner senses provide the whole personality with balance, and enable it to keep in contact with its vitality source.

[...] It takes a peculiar set of abilities and interests for such work to be even partially successful or even accepted by the personalities involved; and for many personalities it would be difficult to maintain discipline and balance, while allowing for the necessary freedom that is necessarily involved. [...]

[...] These personality requirements are not easy to find; plus the fact that they had to be well balanced and intelligent, at least for my purposes. [...]

[...] It’s not so easy to move her arms, though—the litter is very narrow and she has to watch her balance. [...]

(See the 612th session for the balance of the material obtained this evening. [...]

[...] That entire muscular group has been trying to improve itself of late, and at such times Ruburt does feel disoriented with changes in head pressure, balance, depth perception. [...]

There is a relaxation going on, and a loosening between the hips and the legs, that causes other large muscles to hold back to maintain balance temporarily, to move more slowly to compensate for the unaccustomed looseness of other portions. [...]

[...] The two of you together then add to the entire psychological structure, and keep the delivery of the material in an excellent overall balance.

This balance is to a large extent responsible for the fact that the material reaches so many people, and your own joint characteristics in that regard are more obvious to your readers than to yourselves. [...]

[...] If you believe, for example, that all good must be balanced by evil, then you bind yourself into a system of reality that is highly limiting, and that contains within it the seeds of great torment.

[...] There must be balance. [...]

[...] If you divert your thoughts from the negative ideas to the positive ones, then your concentration will begin to alter the balance. [...]

[...] For like a man walking a tightrope in his sleep, sudden awareness of such a feat could be disastrous, for the delicate balance necessary is not dependent upon egotistical awareness; and such awareness, without warning, could be highly detrimental.

[...] There are delicate balances here, you see, so that while I sometimes fool with you in a joking manner, oftentimes the energy simply is not as finely controlled as I would like.

[...] The visual impression is of an object or representation on two balancing sides of the object, as for example here and here, you see…

[...] The first concerned a card shape, rectangular, with balancing designs on each end of it while held horizontally. [...]

[...] Once you have accepted your feelings then refuse to let the balance of your mind be upset by such disturbances even though you recognize them. [...]

[...] And while your ill will, and the ill will of each of you, carries some charge, it is not nearly strong enough to upset the balance of a personality who is determined to accept their own feelings and live their own lives. [...]

[...] Yet all in all, almost, they operate as systems of creative checks and balances.

(With a smile, eyes wide:) Take your break and check your balance.

[...] Many of you are not ready to meet those kinds of data … for a certain kind of finesse is required — a balance that you are learning. [...]

[...] I’d just read aloud portions of the 721st session when one longtime student, whom I’ll call Florence, commented that there “has to be a balance between each of us and our counterparts.” [...]

All of which reminds me that to many viewers the “portraits” I paint are balanced equally between the masculine and feminine, regardless of whether the subject in any one of them is male or female. [...]

In many respects the physical body itself aids in these transformations, through chemical interactions, changes in delicate electromagnetic balances, temperature variations, and through other methods that will be discussed shortly.

This required manipulations most difficult for any personality, and a constant system of checks and balances. [...]