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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.

Now. You realize that virility is hardly synonymous with a runny nose. You realize your masculinity. You are too aware now to allow yourself too many privileges in exchange for your symptoms, and you can therefore afford to relinquish them.

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.”

When you realize this, again, you will find the symptoms hardly necessary. Your mother basically did not share (smile) your father’s love of the out-of-doors, and you played both ends against the middle. For the symptoms also allowed you to stay indoors with her on many occasions.

There was an afternoon… I am not clear here…. You were given cod liver oil. The symptoms began that day. You should not eat salads at your parents’ home, that are mixed with oil, during the season.

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.

Yoga breathing will be of therapeutic value when you need it, but the knowledge gained in this evening’s session should go a long way toward minimizing the symptoms. (Smile.) You should avoid the color red in decorations during the season. You should take steps to realize the connection with your mother and red, so that our friend can use his red curtains at Christmas with immunity.

(Jane said she did not know I had taken cod liver oil as a child. I remember doing this, and disliking it intensely. My parents have told me often that I displayed hay fever symptoms by the age of 3 or so, so evidently the first cod liver oil episode was earlier than this, and before my conscious memory. Jane insisted I hadn’t mentioned cod liver oil to her, though I had discussed castor oil.

His appearance then reminded you of his appearance in hay fever season, and reinforced your own symptoms until they became a symbol of virility, since they were your father’s, and also a symbol of how a man could cry. You do not need such symptoms now.