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Now, he realizes this much more than he did, but the mental and muscular habit of cautiousness carries over. Now this can be handled in several ways. The mental feelings have caused mental images that in turn hamper physical motion. The body is therefore affected physically, since certain portions of it are not normally used or exercised, and other portions are kept in a state of strain.

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 the same applies to getting down on the floor, and up from it. He thinks of himself as someone who cannot. Doing so will prove him wrong, and break up still another annoying mental image. At the same time—I do not mean simultaneously—in spare moments, playfully and not seriously, he should see himself performing any number of activities on the floor—from painting as he used to, to talking or reading. These are simply practical but important sideline exercises that will help break down specific detrimental images that he has. Many from the past have been completely destroyed.

This jumping off the radiator the other day, in one stroke disintegrated one such detrimental image that had impeded physical motion. Now it is true that initially the motion was made in his mind, and accepted, but the will can also be used to initiate such actions. Particularly as long as the imagination is allowed to function in the same direction.

It is true, again, that an initial corresponding inner freedom makes the motion possible, and that the motion itself already means that the mental image of new motion is replacing the old one. The physical motion is obviously the materialization of inner willingness, but you must also set up the opportunity for this to happen. Do you follow me here?

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.

He has been tensed for so long that he has been afraid to let go all at once, in his terms. Much of this had to do with his career. The contract from the dream book will work a great beneficial change. (It is in the mail but hasn’t arrived, due to the postal strike.) With his literal mind, he wants to see it in black and white.

I am not going to dictate on the book since it is too late for what I had in mind for the next installment. Do you have questions? One point: I am glad of your good news, but it was not what I had in mind.