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He was also angry that friends arrived near midnight, since already he felt poorly. Again he said nothing and the symptoms grew all the stronger as his desire grew to tell them to leave. The night symptoms should vanish. Without intensive constructive suggestions before sleep the personality shows the status quo relationship of its condition, whatever it is. If it is poor, the sleep is poor, and the inner intuitions denied their therapeutic functions.

The stimuli that can be used to absorb some of the misdirected energy in the day is no longer available. The self shows its true face. When the intuitions are allowed freedom you see they therapeutically aid the personality in sleep and refresh it. The more energy that is used on Ruburt’s part in exciting creative ways, the more is available, you see, for therapeutic purposes. The symptoms are denied energy and cannot survive.

Even in sleep then, energy is used constructively. The mailing out of manuscripts with which he is pleased is automatically beneficial, in that energy is being directed outward. At his best he does lose himself in work, and finds himself; but the work must be to him exciting, highly creative and challenging. Work for work’s sake will not do for him.