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The symptoms are now like guards that he sets about his behavior. The spontaneous self is being given more and more freedom, yet under a cautious eye, and with the symptoms in the background, again just in case.

It is a habit of cautiousness, that is translated of course into muscular cautiousness. Remind him, for the 100th time, that he can trust his inner self implicitly, and does not need to set up guards against its spontaneity, for spontaneity is his life, and the source of his creativity; and underline that sentence.

Feelings of spontaneity therefore automatically release the body mechanisms when they are allowed expression. When this occurs and he sees himself for example running, to some extent this makes the mental image of a nonrunning self less vivid. The body and mind are so connected that the mind remembers, say, muscular spontaneity as the muscles remember mental spontaneity. And the will, now, can be used to initiate a series of actions that will be spontaneous; and the motions now, the physical motions, in turn set up mental images of spontaneity that become self-generating. Do you follow me?

One reason, you see, that I suggest the running is that any running at all prevents him from projecting into the future a nonrunning self. Once he runs he can improve on the running, but he can no longer consider himself someone incapable of running. This is extremely important from both a mental and physical standpoint.

Now he has been improving, but now we will work at this from both angles. Earlier we could not have done so. A sense of play must accompany this however. We do not want for example a desperate attempt to run, which is self-defeating. The same applies to what I said about getting up and down from the floor. And these should not be overdone.

Give us a moment. Tell him that the inner self has its own system of checks and balances. He does not need to reinforce it with physical symptoms now. He does not need to fear he will be carried away through spontaneity. Age and experience provide checks and balances of their own that he did not have earlier.