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[...] The activity of cells within the body also causes what you might call minute explosions of interior sound. [...] Together these all form the prototype upon which, and out of which, the physical body is formed.

[...] In times of danger your entire body must be able to move swiftly. [...] The muscles must be immediately alert, and the entire body flexible enough to respond as a whole. [...]

Dictation: The body reacts not so much to physical sound as to the interior sounds into which the physical sounds are translated. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) There is a definite connection, then, with the nature of such images and the way in which your body itself is composed.

I have often stated that the mind-body relationship is one system. The thoughts are as necessary to the whole system as the body’s cells are. [...] The organs obviously are stationary in the body, though the cells within them die and are reborn.

[...] But then she added, “I feel a source of energy just above my head — not a cone, nothing that definite, just that it’s there outside my body. [...] Not that I’m out-of-body, but….”

(9:34.) If you habitually deny the expression of any emotions, to that degree you become alienated not only from your body but from your conscious ideas. You will bury certain thoughts and put up biological armor to prevent you from physically feeling their effects upon your body. [...]

[...] Left alone, your thoughts will come and go through your belief systems just as naturally; and ideally, they will balance out, maintaining their own health and directing your body so that its innate therapies take place.

The body is a responsive organism. Your life is dependent upon that intimate relationship between body and mind. You cannot compel a body to be ideally healthy—meaning never indisposed in any way, shape or manner, freed from the slightest ill.

There is no separation between body and mind, so that the body has emotional considerations to take into consideration also. [...]

[...] This was the result of your own suggestions, for you said that Ruburt’s body would continue to relax as he slept.

[...] Some of the relaxation was not apparent, either, until Ruburt began to use his body. [...]

[...] Your body has an overall body consciousness filled with energy and vitality. It automatically rights any imbalances, but your conscious beliefs also affect this body consciousness. [...] So does every other portion of your physical body.

[...] Each of the atoms and molecules that compose your body has its own reality in sound values that you do not hear physically. Each organ of your body then has its own unique sound value too. [...]

The unharmonious sounds have become a part of that portion of the body as a result of the inner sound of your own thought-beliefs. [...] This passes through your body in somewhat the same way that some kinds of light do.

[...] If through the concentrated use of psychic energy your body is cured by such a healer, you will also simply trade those symptoms for others unless you change your initial beliefs. [...]

Do not think of the mind as a purely mental entity, and of the body as a purely physical one. Instead, think of both mind and body as continuing, interweaving processes that are mental and physical at once. Your thoughts actually are quite as physical as your body is, and your body is quite as nonphysical as it seems to you your thoughts are. [...]

It is obvious that you impress a room with your characteristics as you furnish it, but you also mark (long pause) what seems to be empty space in the same fashion — that is, you turn empty space into the living matter of your body without ever realizing that you do so. [...] I admit that some of this material quite contradicts your usual ideas, but the health of your body is intimately related not only to the state of world health, but to the physical climate as well.

[...] (Long pause.) In this book, we do want our readers to look at body and mind in a different fashion.

[...] In the same way diseases in their fashion are also often parts of larger processes whose greater purpose is the body’s overall balance and (long pause) strength.

(But with a new insight growing out of this month’s series of private sessions, I explained, I now felt that one could more directly get at the heart of one’s challenges, instead of trying to cajole the body into behaving differently—after all, the body’s condition was the result of certain ways of thinking, not the cause of the trouble. In addition, it was obvious that the body hadn’t responded to those habitual suggestions over the years, so something else was needed. [...] One might better address the fears of being the public person, for example, rather than trying to futilely patch up a body that was only faithfully following mirroring habits of deep and long standing.

(As we began to reread Monday’s session this morning, Jane said something that triggered a reaction on my part that I felt was based on material Seth gave in that session: “I tell my body every day that I trust it, that it can bear my weight when I go to the john, for example,” or words closely to that effect. Suddenly it came to me that she had it backwards—that her body didn’t need any additional trust, that it was perfectly willing to do her bidding at any time, including healing itself. What she should be stressing, I said, was that she trusted her spontaneous self—then the body would automatically react to the release of tension, to her trust in that spontaneous self. [...]

[...] The body’s relaxation is as of now uneven. Certain muscles relax for the first time in recent times, while others might momentarily contract so that balance is maintained—so the body is in a state of constant change. [...]

(Pause.) The rigidity that was a general characteristic is breaking up, you see, so that by contrast portions of his body do feel vulnerable to him—soft, unprotected—but those feelings were to a large degree covered over before. [...] They can be encountered far more directly then, and as they are the body will feel more and more able to respond more, and let go the other stops that still do operate. [...]

[...] The body posture has been the result of multitudinous small blockages. [...] In your terms, and practically speaking, they could be damaged if they were suddenly released out of order, having to bear the body’s weight.

[...] The overall needs of the body are being better met even while the symptoms are being minimized. The physical signs that he recognizes are definite indications of the body’s excellent response, and predictive of future ability. [...]

[...] Each change he notices, however minute, acts as a trigger, activating other portions of the body, which themselves must then be aroused, exercised and strengthened before they in turn begin to play a new dependable role in overall mobility.

[...] Here is question one: “When I project my consciousness out of my body, is my astral body pregnant because I am now pregnant physically? Does the astral body carry the astral counterpart of the fetus, or does the astral fetus remain in the physical body within the physical fetus?”)

(I now asked Seth: “Can you say a little bit about Sue’s first question, about the astral body of the fetus?” Jane had read Sue’s questions some time earlier, but she didn’t know I was going to ask any of the questions this evening.)

[...] The new personality, in its small astral body, does visit with other portions of the entire identity. [...]

[...] Those areas are awakening, and the new unaccustomed motions are the cause of the discomfort—a discomfort which will vanish in no time as the body continues its improvements. All of the body is being activated—and again, improvements are occurring also that have not yet showed themselves but will soon be doing so. [...]

(I’d instantly understood the import of what she was saying—that here her body had within itself all the time that fantastic ability to move. [...] But I found it ironic indeed that that capacity was there, while on conscious levels we were trying to move an inch at a time, when we could do so by leaps and bounds as far as the body’s abilities and willingness were concerned. [...]

The body itself definitely responds to such actions, and at minute levels the muscles and all parts of the body actually move as they would if the motions were physically activated. [...]

(In addition, her body looks as though it’s very gradually putting on some weight.

[...] Although my body lay sleeping beside Jane in the bedroom “behind” me, I wasn’t concerned about it. [...] But that I was out of my body, and in this very pleasant weightless state, did slowly make itself known to me. I had no memory of actually leaving my body and moving into the bathroom.

(Without success, I made several quite conscious and deliberate attempts to “get going,” and travel away from my body. [...] Then I had an idea: I would use the sound of my snoring as an impetus to send myself soaring off into other dimensions, leaving my body far behind me on the bed.

[...] The strange thing is, I enjoyed both the feeling of lying just above my physical body, and my ability to use the latter to produce sound. This implies a dual consciousness here, since I was aware of both bodies.

[...] The time sense outside the body can be quite different than the body’s. You knew that with one successful experience you would be much more free, and so you chose the best of circumstances.

Ruburt’s body is allowing itself to relax, particularly on the couch when his back is supported. [...] It is excellent therapy on the part of the body, of a fairly temporary nature. [...]

[...] Rigidity is drained from the body by such methods. [...] The body knows what it is doing (emphatically). [...]

(Long pause at 9:04.) There is no doubt that differing portions of Ruburt’s body are quite comfortable, and far more flexible, when he relaxes in such a fashion. [...]

[...] It is the means whereby body and mind refresh themselves. [...]

Ruburt’s body has been repressed. [...] The body was repressed rather than expressed. [...]

[...] The body has set up its own rhythms of recovery, since it is now sure that that is what Ruburt wants, and his attitude toward his body has greatly changed for the better.

[...] I want to stress that Ruburt’s body is responding remarkably well, and that it is not a matter of operating better in a restricted posture, but a much more significant response, in which the body is, quite simply, straightening itself out. [...]

(Jane said that yesterday and today she’s known “more profound changes” in her body than she has for many years. [...]

[...] The inner beliefs are continually strengthening the ones of freedom, and the body is responding. It is precisely here that you run up against the body beliefs. [...] Yet at the same time all motions and actions reinforce the healthy body beliefs and dissolve the old ones.

[...] He is only now beginning to trust his body, and those suggestions should by all means be continued as given. He concentrated upon proofs of the body’s “lack of dependability” in the past, and now is beginning to build up his faith in its dependability. Again, whenever he looks well tell him so, for your honest enjoyment of his person and body will now be of great value, since now he is open to that kind of appreciation. [...]

[...] The body is in the process of balancing the right and left sides, and as noted improvements on the right side are being picked up by the left. [...]

[...] The old body beliefs were adopted to serve the purposes of other beliefs about work that have now almost, but not entirely, completely dissolved. [...]

Now your closest environment, physically speaking, is your body. [...] Your body is not beautiful or ugly, healthy or deformed, swift or slow simply because this is the kind of body that was thrust upon you indiscriminately at birth. [...]

Quite literally, the “inner self” forms the body by magically transforming thoughts and emotions into physical counterparts. You grow the body. [...] Using atoms and molecules, you build your body, forming basic elements into a form that you call your own.

[...] The physical matter that composed your body a moment ago is different in important ways from the matter that forms your body in this instant.

If you perceived the constant change within your body with as much persistence as you attend to its seemingly permanent nature, then you would be amazed that you ever considered the body as one more or less constant, more or less cohesive, entity. [...]

It is not simply that some weak electrical force exists within the physical body, but that a portion of the physical body has its actual existence within a strong force field; that the whole physical body has counterparts, so to speak, within this force field, and that so far man has discovered only the comparatively weak electrical charges of one particular kind in general, that most obviously protrudes into the physical universe.

The physical body, in other words, exists as an electrical body that is not material, that has a peculiar mass but no weight, whose characteristics are apparent in terms of not varying shapes, but varying intensities and concentrations of electric force. [...] The mind, which is not physically represented in the material body, does exist electrically. [...]

Where matter would exist there, a concentration of energy forms what you could think of as a body form, body meaning mass, yet it would not be matter in your terms. [...]

[...] If you could see the body as it exists within the electric field, you would certainly not recognize it, for its shape would bear no resemblance to the physical shape as you know it. The electric counterpart to the physical body exists, then, as an identity formed by various electrical systems operating more or less as one. [...]

Nerves are stimulated so that the areas of the body become more alive and responsive to energies that can be overlooked in the face of cultural or secondary events. [...] The body is usually not fighting for its life. If secondary threats are concentrated upon, however, the body dares not relax. The reflexology greatly awakens the body, and is beginning to dissolve the physical armor.

There is an intent, of course, to awaken the body’s responses. [...] Any portion of the body that is so improved affects each other body portion and function to a considerable degree.

Body communication is astounding—that is, the instant body communication is astounding—the instant acknowledgement in the far reaches of the body of any stimulation. [...]

Concentration upon natural data, as mentioned often of late, offers a healthy return to the body’s biological reality, and to its stance in space and time.

[...] The body knows to the most precise degree the measurements involving radiation of all kinds. At one level, then, the body itself has a picture of reality of its own, upon which your conscious reality must be based — and yet the body’s terms of recognition or knowledge exist in terms so alien to your conscious ones as to be incomprehensible. [...]

Now: On a physical level your body reacts to information about the environment with which you are not consciously concerned. That same information is highly important to the body’s integrity, however, and therefore to your own mental stance.

[...] Your body is aware of the fact of its death at birth, and of its birth at its death, for all of its possibilities for action take place in the area between. [...]

(Pause at 9:40.) It is not quite that simple, however, for you live in the midst of multitudinous small deaths and births all of the time, that are registered by the body and the psyche. [...]

The sense of sight, mostly concentrated in your eyes, remains fixed in a permanent position in your physical body. Without moving away from the body, the eyes see something that may be far in the distance. In the same manner, the ears hear sounds that are distant from the body. In fact, the ears ordinarily hear sounds from outside the body more readily than sounds inside the body itself. Since the ears are connected to the body and part of it, it would be logical for an open-minded observer to suppose that the ears would be well attuned to the inner sounds to a high degree. [...]

The inner senses, then, deliver data from the inner world of reality to the body. The outer senses deliver data from the outside world of camouflage to the body. However, the inner senses are aware of the body’s own physical data at all times while the outer senses are concerned with the body mainly in its relationship to camouflage environment.

[...] These inner senses, therefore, are capable of seeing within the body, though the physical eyes cannot. As the senses of sight, sound and smell appear to reach outward, bringing data to the body from an outside observable camouflage pattern, so the inside senses seem to extend far inward, bringing inner reality data to the body. [...]

The ears can be trained to some degree into a sound-awareness pertaining to the body itself. [...] But, as a rule, the ears neither listen to nor hear the inner sounds of the body.

The body obviously must react in your official present; hence the brain neatly keeps its physical time sequences with spaced neural responses. The entire package of physical reality is dependent upon the senses’ data being timed — synchronized — giving the body an opportunity for precise action. [...] Events from past, present, and future can be safely experienced, as can events that would be termed probable from your usual viewpoint, since the body, again, is not required to act upon them.

There are also what I will call body dreams. [...] There is always constant communication between all portions of the body, but when the conscious mind is diverted that activity often increases. Cellular consciousness at its own level then forms a body dream. [...]

[...] First of all, your memories, feelings, and emotions, while connected to the body and while leaving traces, are separate.

[...] In this case the film would be the body tissue, the brain’s tissue. [...]

[...] Here is question 1: When I project while I am pregnant, is my astral body pregnant; i.e., does the astral body carry the astral counterpart of the fetus, or does the astral fetus remain in my physical body, within the physical fetus? [...]

[...] The body is quite ready to comply now, and he is mentally ready. [...]

[...] He knows better now than to tell his body what to do. [...]

[...] His body is ready to be released, even areas such as the elbows, and dispersion has taken place here. [...]