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(10:13.) Now, Ruburt’s body is trying to right itself. When he lies down, it is trying to straighten out. Nerve patterns are being reactivated, circulation patterns reinforced, muscles contracting and expanding in their own exercises, right now, in a concentrated, rather intensified bodily commotion. (Pause.) You are used to thinking of any bodily commotion as disruptive, and put it in the worst possible light, because your backgrounds have given you little experience in such situations—you, Ruburt, or anyone else, largely in your culture.

(These overall bodily changes have been going on for over a month now, and she realizes that they are positive things; I told her this evening that her arms are definitely straighter, for instance. And this afternoon, “off and on for almost an hour,” her eyesight improved remarkably as she sat working at her desk: “The type began getting bigger and bigger and bigger.” She’s missed walking with her typing table often lately, yet her walking from her chair to the couch has been much improved —steadier and better balanced, although she’s still bent way over. I suggested tonight’s session be about her. “He’ll just say the same things,” she said. Nevertheless....

[...] All of these processes, and the increased overall bodily activity, do increase Ruburt’s temperature at times. [...] The sweating is also the result of increased bodily activity.

[...] Jane has also been experiencing many other bodily changes, so that as a whole she’s felt rather besieged, and far from comfortable.

[...] All of this adds up to a good amount of bodily commotion, I admit.

There is no natural reason for children to feel a sense of shame concerning any bodily part. [...] Each child should be told that his body, or her body, is a precious private possession, however, so that it is easy to build up a desirable feeling of bodily privacy, without any hint of shame or guilt.

[...] If parents believe that the body is somehow an inferior vehicle for the spirit, or if they simply view the body as unreliable or weak and vulnerable, then children will at an early age begin to consider good health as a rarity, and learn to take depression, poor spirits, and bodily aches and pains to be a natural, normal condition of life.

Medically much can be done in your framework to alter bodily parts. [...] Such cases can occur, among other reasons, because of relationships between or among bodily parts that in your terms do not have a physical status.

[...] They affect bodily behavior, however, and bodily experience, and are far more important to health in basic terms.

[...] Not that we wanted or needed conscious control—but why didn’t we have the conscious visual knowledge of the workings of our various bodily parts, be they heart, liver, or whatnot?

It was obvious in the bathroom that his legs, which had been stable for several days, and showing improvements, were now trembling and insecure, but he interpreted that bodily message with self-disapproval, at the end of the hallway he had to sit down. You interpreted his situation precisely as he did, and for the same reasons, so of course there was no answer for this manufactured crisis, except that he ignore these bodily messages and act in spite of them.

[...] He went to the bathroom, and as he did he knew at once that his bodily situation had changed. [...]

[...] The other bodily messages were as valid, and there was no need to take it for granted, as both of you did, that some element in Ruburt’s personality was rebelliously and purposefully sabotaging you at that time.

(10:13.) Now: Ruburt’s condition is as I gave it last time, and it is highly important that you both keep this in mind: The bodily commotion is most beneficial. [...]

[...] Other species have a hand in this also, however, and in one way or another all of you direct the activity of the physical body of the world in much the same way that you [each] direct your own bodily behavior.

[...] Not only the cells, but the atoms and molecules that compose them contained a positive intent to cooperate in a bodily formation, to fulfill themselves, and they were then predisposed not only toward survival, but with an idealization leading toward the best possible development and maturity.

The mother could not consciously control the bodily processes that lead to birth. [...]

[...] It is not simply that past, forgotten, unconsciously perceived events will be put together in a new way and organized under a new heading, but that in that past (now not perceivable), the entire bodily response to seemingly past events will change.

The psychic structure of consciousness that organizes that bodily gestalt is, however, not dependent upon it, and so the you that you experience is only a portion of this greater identity.

During certain stages in sleep states you short-circuit the neurological structures, and perceive experiences of a multidimensional nature that you then attempt to translate, as best you can, into stimuli that can be physically assimilated — hence you often convert these into symbolic images that can be understood, and to some extent reacted to, by your bodily structure.

(Long pause.) Ruburt is joyfully understanding the miracle of normal physical bodily motion. Again, the session itself does indeed physically rearrange, reorganize, so that the bodily and mental contents are filled with soothing healing messages and potions.

[...] You cannot divide, say, mental and physical health, nor can you divide a person’s philosophy from his bodily condition.

[...] How could their thoughts allow them to bring about their [bodily deaths]? [...]

everywhere in all of my bodily parts.

(“And I got hot too, after that,” Jane said, referring to her forehead reaction, This made me think that the warmth she felt was a sign of bodily healing, such as Seth had said recently was associated with warmth.

[...] Their bodily processes slowed. [...]

[...] Nerve patterns are being reactivated, circulation patterns reinforced, muscles contracting and expanding in their own exercises, right now, in a concentrated, rather intensified bodily commotion. You are used to thinking of any bodily commotion as disruptive, and put it in the worst possible light because your backgrounds have given you little experience in such situations—you, Ruburt, or anyone else—largely in your culture.

We realize that all of those bodily changes are positive things. [...]

This can indeed be experienced as an irritation, but it is a beneficial irritation—the renewed activity of bodily business. A turning up of bodily activity. [...]

[...] Again, bodily efforts are as magical, as creative, certainly, as the writing of a book or a poem (intently) — but Ruburt in the past trusted his creative abilities as if they were something he had to guard from his physical self.

(8:59.) You both believed it was quite possible to have clairvoyant dreams, out-of-body experiences, creative adventures in the arts — but to some extent both of you doubted that the same power or energy could be directed effectively in the physical realm, so-called, of bodily health, or situations of the nitty-gritty (with emphatic amusement). [...]

[...] I do suggest the pillow pounding, for it encourages the expression of normally aggressive feelings through bodily release, rather than repression through bodily tension.

Now many beliefs that are unfortunate, in your terms, are worked out through creativity at other levels, so that dreams, intuitions, and mental processes work together with bodily expression toward a resolution. [...]

By going along with feelings you unify your emotional, mental and bodily state. [...]

Fear, faced and felt with its bodily sensations and the thoughts that go along with it, will automatically bring about its own state of resolution. [...]

[...] These represent opposing beliefs that regulate your emotions, your bodily condition and your physical experience. [...]

(Then at 9:04 Jane discovered a sudden freedom in bodily motion: She could reach across her chest with her left arm, toward her right side, at the same time that she turned to the right from the hips—a movement I hadn’t seen her execute in years.... [...]

It was natural enough for a while that Ruburt be quite aware of bodily sensation when he tried to “give up all effort,” but he is beginning now to sense the body’s pattern of activity, its relaxation, its stretching periods, and so forth. One important point: he gobbles experience, emphasizes it, studies it—and that quality also means that his bodily sensations are treated in the same manner. [...]

In a fashion, as I have said before, you are highly uneducated about the activity of your own bodies, and taught to suspect your own bodily sensations. [...]

(Pause.) In ways really difficult to describe, your bodily processes, and what you think of as, say, cultural or national events, are highly connected and a part of each other. [...]