SESSION NINE

(“I just hope I can handle it,” Jane said again. Meaning the session. “There’s so much going on in my body at one time it’s hard to handle that too,” she laughed. She referred to the continuing series of changes — improvements — taking place all through her body. At the moment these involve definite extra mobility — and soreness and itching — in her ankles and feet, for example. Right now her arms look longer, straighter. Today she’s been “pretty well out of it,” while trying to help me get through the changes we want to make in the copy-edited Mass Events. She’s helped a great deal here, writing the initial version of certain notes, which I’ll then add to before returning the manuscript to Prentice-Hall for printing.

A brief session.

You are both finally making vital strides in understanding as a result of our last sessions in particular, and on Ruburt’s part because of the changed attitudes he has allowed, and the changed physical habits: the encouragement of motion, the expanded feeling of identity, which now includes the physical body rather than trying to exclude it.

End of session, unless you have a question.

Remember the last portion of this session, and your stomach need not bother you (I laughed) — or, more clearly, you will not need to bother your stomach, for that is the problem’s secret.¹

(9:18 P.M. “I come out, and look at my eyes,” Jane said half humorously. True, her eyes were relaxed into slits — although they gradually opened normally as we talked. “I’m glad I did that,” she said, meaning that she’d held the session, “but I really didn’t know whether I could. …”

(“I was so aware of my body today,” she commented, “that I wondered if I’d be aware of it during the session, but all I remember is drinking wine — which is the kind of thing I usually remember.”

(See the session for September 22 for our own ideas and feelings, and more of Seth’s material, on the medical/disclaimer situation with Prentice-Hall.)

NOTE: SESSION OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1980