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(It will be recalled that in the 185th session Seth gave me some tips on how to help my hay fever through suggestion upon retiring at night. It has been a rough season and I was very uncomfortable over the Labor Day weekend. I had been using suggestion at various times through the day; trying Seth’s method, I noticed an amazing improvement at once. I slept well the night of the 6th, and sneezed but five times the whole following day. The improvement has maintained itself, and soon now the season will be over. I can truthfully say the change in my condition has been magical. I am on a much-reduced dosage of my prescription antihistamine. I have learned I can do without it, but taking the drug removes the last of the lingering traces. For some reason, the suggestions given before falling off to sleep are very potent.
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He has forgotten the daily joy that comes through simple observation of the day. I here suggest most strongly that until the following Monday at the earliest, he does not work at his writing or his records, that he does not consciously brood over them, and that he divert himself by changing the focus of his conscious awareness.
Surely this is not too bitter a pill. It may require effort but relaxation is necessary, or the period of transition will be needlessly prolonged. He can do what he likes: putter in his apartment, visit friends, paint, read, walk. It would be preferable if he did change his environment during this period, physically, by walking outdoors or visiting.
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