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Now. Remaining symptoms can be broken by intense concentration in other areas.

When you concentrate on a symptom you reinforce it. Ruburt should know this. I am not suggesting that you pretend the symptom does not exist, but that you quite deliberately give yourself constructive suggestion, and turn your attention immediately away quickly to other matters.

In all cases emphasis on suggestions must be upon health and vitality. To concentrate upon a hand for example to see whether or not a suggestion has taken hold, is hardly beneficial. Ruburt is now at the stage where he has freed considerable energy, and this must now be utilized in constructive activity, and not to reinforce symptoms.

Concentration should be upon his love of work, and enjoyment and simple pleasures. For now it is best that he not specifically give suggestions to any particular portion of the body, since he tends lately to concentrate upon that portion in a disadvantageous manner.

Concentration must be taken away from the symptoms. Periods of peaceful quiet are excellent. Periods of fearful quiet such as those of last weekend must not be indulged in. The moods may be recognized of course, but their destructive nature must also be recognized, and concentration then directed to other stimuli.

When he does not believe his muscles will work, he will not put full strength upon them, for example, and physically weakens the muscle. He must work upon his attitude. He must concentrate in other areas. Music can be extremely beneficial. Dancing can be of great therapeutic benefit. Not, however, when he concentrates upon his symptoms.

He uses his fingers well when he types, and he uses considerable pressure. His concentration is focused on a more intense stimuli. He forgets his symptoms to a large degree. He forgets them to a large degree at nursery school and remembers them incidentally afterward.