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The symptoms are being reduced, and are vanishing in reverse order. So to speak, the last ones vanishing first you see. I am mentioning this in line with an article you both read on memory.

Once physical symptoms actually appear within this system however, they are to some extent accepted as any other established pattern, at least by a portion of the personality. In some cases physical symptoms can actually make up a somewhat independent supersonality structure. This is the case with many chronically-ill individuals. The destructive tendencies are collected about a particularly emotionally-charged group of reactions, and cut off from the dominant personality.

I am not denying at all that physical changes do occur, for this is all the more the pity. But the basic causes must be uncovered, and in some such cases, in many in fact, these causes lie to a large degree in faulty or inadequate memory functions. I am simply using Ruburt’s minor symptoms as a springboard here. They are now being erased, the latest ones the first to go.

This would imply short-term memory you see, but this is not the case, for it is intensity and not duration that makes the difference. Once the symptoms become physical however, then they follow physical patterns, and it takes the physical system some time to heal usually, (underlined). In terms of intensity alone, both the foot and the hip symptoms were highly charged, representing of course degrees of immobility and withdrawal—learned, you see, from the mother: a memory reaction adopted without conscious thought.

At the very latest however, with these recommendations faithfully followed, all symptoms should leave the foot at the end of a two-week period, completely. The hip symptom is gone for good, if the recommendations are followed. The less annoying arm difficulties are a result of the muscular tension caused by the foot difficulty, but these should disappear completely now within two or three days.

Once symptoms are accepted they can return, for the memory pattern is never completely erased, but only bypassed. For various reasons having to do with past-life experiences, writing has become a structure within which the personality best operates. Psychic development has been welded onto this. As long as he faithfully and consistently follows these lines he will operate at maximum levels. When he falters he lets himself in for difficulties.