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He saw how the annoying hip condition vanished when he followed the outlined recommendations. This is not because I made the recommendations. It is because I knew the conditions that his own system demanded.

Illness in many ways is a learned response, and it follows patterns set up in the system having to do with memory banks, though we shall find a better word here.

Habitual illness will follow the lines of learned response and memory. Definite molecular substructures are formed biologically in response to inner electrical charges. The inner electrical charges are not a part of the physical system as such, you see. But they act within the physical structure, forming then definite changes in the RNA patterns.

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.

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.

Now each personality has set up conditions for itself, under which it can operate at its best. When these are upset various difficulties show themselves, until the conditions are met again, or until a new system of adequate conditions are settled upon. In Ruburt’s case the conditions mentioned earlier, in our last sessions, operate to his best advantage. Every effort should be made to maintain them, for they will bring about the highest conditions of maturity possible for his personality structure.