1 result for (book:tes7 AND session:281 AND stemmed:him)
6/121 (5%)
Barbara
Dick
Andreano
wedding
poem
[... 28 paragraphs ...]
Your father used hay fever as a symptom of helplessness, and as a demand for the attention that he did not get, even then, from your mother. The pattern was set earlier in his childhood. He discarded the symptoms because they did not get him what he wanted. Your mother could not be bothered.
She did not comfort him as his mother had. You picked up the condition when he realized that it no longer served him. At that time you accepted it, however, along with your conception of what it was to be a male. If you had a son and did not know what you know, you would automatically so transfer it.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
You are not helping your father, for the symptoms will not revert to him. Your system will simply reorganize the energy pattern. There was another element. Your mother treated you as hers exclusively. You also adopted the symptoms as a protective measure against her. You said in effect, “I am my father’s son, down to some of his defects.”
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
Hay fever was for your father also a defense against the world, for it allowed him some isolation. You can have the necessary privacy without using this symptom to get it. The ink has a symbolic association for you personally, a healing one you see, and its presence, according to my recommendation, has the effect of a mood tonic.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
He was, or appeared to be, crying, and you saw him. A rather soundless sobbing that involved running eyes and nose. I believe this was in the afternoon, around four. I think your mother and the young boy were out—
[... 33 paragraphs ...]
(After supper on the evening of July 3,1966 Jane sat in the backyard. It was not yet dark. Also in the backyard were the girl who lives in the downstairs back apartment, Barbara, and her steady boyfriend Dick. Both are in their thirties. As they sat in lawn chairs, they asked Jane to have a drink with them. This surprised Jane, for she saw that Dick was angry with Barbara for teasing him about marriage. Also, Jane felt that being asked to share a drink with the couple was a gesture, and that when she accepted Dick was not happy about it.
[... 41 paragraphs ...]