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The body even lovingly seeks to follow its own nature, and is lovingly directed to do so. [...] The body is never in a state of status quo. [...]

[...] On other occasions portions of his body will move with nearly normal speed—another sign of the body’s intent.

The entire body, as I mentioned, is becoming more responsive, and the flesh more supple. [...] The entire head area is, again, vitally connected with all portions of the body. [...]

Taking that for granted, however, the body is an entire organism, and in many cases, at least, the treatment of individual symptoms merely masks the body’s greater integrity.

[...] As each cell of your body has its position within your corporeal space and boundaries, so each self within the entity is aware of its own “time” and dimension of activity. The body is a temporal structure. The cells, however, while a part of this body, are not aware of the entire dimension in which your consciousness dwells. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Because the body exists in space and time, the organs have specific purposes. They help keep the body alive and they must stay “in place.” [...] As the smallest cell within your body participates to its degree in your daily experience, so does the soul to an immeasurably greater extent share in the events of the entity.

To some extent, we have discussed your body and its composition of cells (in the 632nd session in Chapter Seven, for instance). [...]

In still other terms and at different levels this lapse occurs — this moment of reflection extends itself — as the self leaps clear of physical form (even as the cell at one time deserts the body).

[...] He treated his body like a tyrant treats his people, and the body strenuously objected. But the body does not hold a grudge, and so it has begun to respond to Ruburt’s new attitude—and the new attitude allows him to allow the body’s expression.

(9:33) I have said—too often—that the body was not diseased, and it is not. [...] Forget what you have heard, again, about what the body can and cannot do, or what must happen before such and such a performance appears, for the body itself exults in creative unpredictability, and given the chance loves to perform.

(At times Jane wakes me up at night; she’s very nearly crying in discomfort, yet now we understand that those feelings represent her muscles wanting to be used; so far, though, we haven’t managed to get ourselves out of bed at such times, which usually develop perhaps an hour before the alarm is to ring; these bouts, then, happen after she’s usually slept for several hours, and the body wants action. I do think Jane has signaled to the body that it’s time for changes to be made, which marks a learning point for her.

[...] This shows the body can do it. [...] Seth said that when the body began to recover, it would be an overall development. [...]

[...] He had no great faith in the body because he saw how his mother’s behaved, without any knowledge of the reasons. The body was not strong, therefore. [...] He trusted his mind, so the idea of retreating from the body into the mind was quite logical to him when this began. [...]

A good number of his depressions were body depressions. The body was de-pressed, pressed down, and this of course affected the psychic state. He hides his body in his dress. [...]

The idea that being is its own justification is important here: The rights and privileges of the body cannot be long ignored, though Ruburt’s body has withstood very much. You should be thankful under the circumstances that the condition was not worse, for the body’s own resiliency fought back, and provided some balance out of its own sanity.

At the same time he gave less and less nourishment to the body, denied it exercise until it began to wither from disuse. He goes inward then with great applied focus, but held the body in such tight reins that he denied it both energy and attention.

A flexible body suddenly in the position of Ruburt’s would protest, and it is a sign of his progress that he now feels that protest. [...] The discomfort itself, accepted, triggers those body responses that will and are righting the situation. [...]

Now Ruburt mentally cut down upon the discomfort of his symptoms, so that the body did not feel its own discomfort strongly enough to trigger healing processes to the degree necessary. [...] The body is a self-healing mechanism. [...]

Ruburt’s particular soreness will be quite transitory—at one stage only, occurring in fact at the first instances of freedom with any given portion of the body. His beliefs are such now that the body’s mobilization processes are vastly accelerated.

[...] The quick actions involved in both laughing and crying also quicken circulation, and actually dislodge body “poisons”—natural toxins or elements that have served good purposes biologically, and are harmful only if they are then retained.

As mentioned earlier, all through your lifetime, portions of that body die, and the body that you have now does not contain one particle of physical matter that “it” had, say ten years ago. Your body is completely different now, then, than it was ten years ago. The body that you had ten years ago, my dear readers, is dead. [...]

[...] Those who are living in your system of reality perform these activities in an “out-of-body” experience while the physical body sleeps. They are familiar with the projection of consciousness, with the sensations involved, and they help orient those who will not be returning to the physical body.

[...] You are alive now, a consciousness knowing itself, sparkling with cognition amid a debris of dead and dying cells; alive while the atoms and molecules of your body die and are reborn. [...] So you are to some extent now alive in the midst of the death of yourself — alive despite, and yet because of, the multitudinous deaths and rebirths that occur within your body in physical terms.

[...] Since your bodies and your entire physical universe are composed of atoms and molecules, then I am telling you that the entire structure exists in the same manner. [...]

[...] In the meantime the body is improving. [...] All he needs to know, however, and he is nearly there, is that the body is not restrained by past beliefs. [...]

[...] Just previous to this Seth devoted over three pages to an out-of-body experience Jane had last night. [...]

[...] He became frightened that even though he changed beliefs and intentions, that he had gone too far, so that the body could not right itself—that despite desires for freedom, the legs simply could not straighten.

The body can indeed right itself. [...]

According to the intensity of the projection and to the systems visited, the body may become more or less rigid when consciousness returns to it. [...] Momentarily, the body uses less sugar. [...] It also aids in connecting the consciousness to the body.

When you feel your consciousness withdrawing, the first step is this: Forget the physical body or what you are to do with it. [...] If the projection is a success, you will instantly lose contact with the body using this method. [...]

Once you are out of the body, then you are dealing with a different kind of reality, but the experience is as valid as any other. [...] The molecular structure of the projecting self is of a different nature than that of the physical body. [...]

Without moving my physical body and with my physical eyes closed, I reached over and checked my dream book, finding that the page was blank. [...] (When I got out of bed here, I believe that I was in my dream body, without realizing it.)

[...] Your planet has a body as much as you have. [...] You are inside the body of the earth in those terms. As cells within your body influence it, so does your body affect the larger body of the earth. [...]

[...] Your body dwells in the earth as you dwell in your body. [...] The smallest atom has its own kind of built-in integrity, upon which all of its organizations and alterations are based, so generally there is a gestalt kind of permanence within the body of the earth.

(11:20.) As your body is in a state of constant flux and chemical interaction, so is the atmosphere, which reflects on another level all of the psychic, chemical, and electromagnetic properties that exist within the body.

There are many hints and signs picked up by the body itself — alterations in air pressure, magnetic orientation in terms of balance, minute electrical differentiations of which the skin itself is aware. On that level the body is often prepared for natural calamities before they occur. [...]

[...] Your mainly accepted normal consciousness is within the matter of your body, and through it — the body — you view your world. There is nothing to prevent you from viewing your body from a standpoint outside of it, except that you have been taught that consciousness is imprisoned within the flesh.

Now: Give us a moment … Body is also pattern. [...] The form is etched in space and time, and yet the pattern itself exists outside of that framework also — the body is a projection, therefore, into the three-dimensional field.

While inhabited by the usual human consciousness, the living body operates as an intense focus point. [...] There are levels of interaction then simply between all bodies, electromagnetically and biologically. [...]

[...] The main identity continues to exist, even as the consciousnesses of millions of cells still exist that at one time were part of the body.

Because you cannot see the inside workings of the body, you concentrate upon other improvements, and if they are not of a grand-enough nature, it is easy to become discouraged. The body does not follow your logical thought, however. [...] The body, however, in its own wisdom brings about overall adjustments that then become specifically apparent, and these are often minute—but vital.

[...] The body now sees to it that it moves. [...] This may be momentarily disturbing simply because he wants to sleep through—but the body is roused on purpose. [...]

He cannot see into his body. [...]

[...] It is not noticeable as it could be because they are, the legs, still in a process of change that involves the entire body. [...]

[...] They are connected electromagnetically to the atomic structure of the present body. [...] Often you can call up a past strength of a previous body, to help compensate for a present weakness. The body does not only carry memory biologically of its own past condition in this life therefore, but indelibly with it, even physically, are the memories of the other bodies that the personality has formed in previous reincarnations.

The anima and the animus are closely connected with these interior body images. These body images are highly charged psychically, and also appear in the dream state. They operate as compensations and reminders to prevent you from over-identifying yourself with your present physical body.

Each inner self, adopting a new body, imposes upon it and upon its entire genetic makeup, memory of the past physical forms in which it has been involved. [...] The physical pattern of the present body, therefore, is a genetic memory of the self’s past physical forms, and of their strengths and weaknesses. [...]

[...] When you are ill, in the dream state you often have experiences in which you seem to be someone else with an entirely healthy body. [...] An “older” reincarnational body has come to your aid, from which you draw strength through the memory of its health.

Consciousness within the body knows that its existence is within the body’s context, and apart from it at the same time. In ordinary life during the day consciousness often takes a recess, so to speak — it daydreams, or otherwise experiences itself as somewhat apart from the body’s reality. At night, in sleep, the self’s consciousness takes longer, freer recesses from physical reality, and does this as spontaneously as the body itself walks. [...]

Your body knows how to walk. [...] The body knows how to heal itself, how to use its nourishment, how to replace its tissues, yet in your terms the body itself has no access to the kind of information the mind possesses. [...]

For that matter, an athlete may have a great zest for motion and an impatience with reading, caring not what within the body makes it move as long as its performance is superb — while an invalid with great book knowledge about all of the body’s parts is quite unable to physically perform in a normal manner.

[...] They are implied in your own spontaneous behavior — that is, in the wondrous activity of your bodies and minds.

[...] However, after leaving the physical body, you will immediately find yourself in another. This is the same kind of form in which you travel in out-of-body projections, and again let me remind my readers that each of them leaves the body for some time each night during sleep.

[...] This body is yours instantly, but it is not the only form that you will have. [...] It is interwound with your physical body now, but you do not perceive it. Following death, it will be the only body you are aware of for some time.

[...] They project ill conditions upon the new body as they did upon the old one. They are given various kinds of treatment of a psychic nature, and told that the condition of that body is being brought about by the nature of their own beliefs.

When consciousness leaves the body and is away for some time then the connection is, of course, broken. In out-of-body states the connection still holds. [...]

On the other hand those strides were highly important, for the body did right itself to an important degree, and through all of the difficulty the body has tried to right itself. The idea of responsiveness is vital, and its importance to Ruburt, now that he has attached it to body motion, is extremely significant.

[...] Despite negative beliefs, false starts, or disappointments, Ruburt’s body has always tried to improve itself. [...] And despite your joint negativism, and your joint distrust of improvements, and your joint insistence upon ignoring any improvements noted by Ruburt as ludicrously insignificant in the face of what was needed—in spite of all of that, the body has kept up its own struggle.

[...] He “hit upon” the word “responsive” in relationship to his body. He decided that above all he now wanted his body to be responsive.

[...] In the body’s reality, for example, today’s improvements are quite momentous—but your joint attitudes in the past put the body’s efforts down.

This obviously does not mean that the time of the body’s death would not come. It does mean that the seasons of the body would be understood as following those of the mind, ever-changing and flowing, with conditions coming and going but always maintaining the splendid unity within the body’s form. [...] Generally speaking, and ideally, the body would wear out gradually while still showing far greater endurance than it does now.

If its built-in instincts are left alone the body is basically self-regulating. [...] The body itself cannot understand these blocked messages, and cries out to express its own corporeal knowledge of the moment as it experiences it. [...]

[...] On individual terms, your own body and mind become the battleground, as does the physical body of the earth in mass terms. [...]

[...] The bleeding is beneficial and the body knows when to stop it. If the flow continued it would be wrong or detrimental in your terms, but the body would not think the blood was bad because it continued its course of action. [...]

The suggestions on trusting the body must be continued, for the body’s healing process now follows those beliefs. Before he was hampered by the initial beliefs, now nearly dissolved, that caused the disbelief in the body. Those body beliefs are now in the process of changing. [...]

The vitamins do serve to help in the extra work being done by the body, of repair, although without the change in beliefs they would not be effective. The body is using what it gets now efficiently, then. [...]

As long as he trusts the body’s improvement, he is better off to concentrate upon his poetry, Aspects, and other areas of his life, and to enjoy increasing physical activity. The body can repair itself now quite well if he lets it go its way. [...]

I have some words to say first of all about the body’s condition and method of healing operation. [...]

For that matter, the body is naturally well-equipped to handle “projection of consciousness,” or out-of-body travel, whatever you prefer to call it. Your biological makeup includes mechanisms that allow a certain portion of your consciousness to leave your body and return. [...] The body is equipped to perceive many other kinds of experiences that are not officially recognized as native to human experience. [...]

[...] The body naturally heals itself, for example. [...] In actuality, however, most of you believe — and experience — a far different picture, in which the body must be protected at all costs from a natural leaning toward disease and poor health. [...]

Using an analogy again, the brain is quite capable of operating on innumerable “frequencies,” each presenting its own picture of reality to the individual, each playing upon the physical senses in a certain manner, organizing available data in its own specialized way, and each dealing somewhat differently with the body itself and with the contents of the mind.

[...] Quite literally, however, when you are dreaming you are tuning in to different frequencies and biologically your body responds to those on many levels.

(10:17.) The entire body biology is often not considered, and the particular individual body is often ignored, so that you have mass-produced potions, produced generally for “the body,” and certainly not tailored for any individual body. [...]

[...] And yet the body knows that all-in-all, ideally, it does not make sense to inflict even a minute infection or illness upon the body, to introduce foreign elements that have not naturally been accepted by the body in its own context. [...]

(She told me it was hard to describe, but she has a different sensation of weight in her body, as though she’s relating better to the floor. [...] It appears this evening that those suggestions are still operating—or Jane has simply learned from them, and her body is responding accordingly.)

[...] There are, as I told you, literally endless ways of relating to the body and to the world; each one will work—at least enough so that the system seems to hold.

This is simply the body’s way of ridding itself of mineral deposits that were once needed by the body, but are no longer needed. [...]

[...] “It must mean that the body is absorbing nourishment much better, if it’s got minerals to get rid of, instead of being short of them.” [...] It certainly meant the body’s mechanisms were improving. [...]

(Then for the first time after supper, after I’d read the prayer with Jane and was getting ready to leave, she said she felt that her body wanted to move some more. [...] I said that was an excellent sign, for it showed the body was starting to move out of its safe schedule of doing movements at just one time of the day. [...]

(3:54.Jane lifted her left leg again, then her upper body—both moving in rhythm with each other. [...]