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Ruburt’s insights this afternoon were largely correct. Tell him that he does not need the symptoms as a set of checks and balances. This is extremely important. Behind the attitude is still the feeling that he needs to whip himself on in certain areas, and check himself in others. That spontaneously, left alone without such checks and balances, he will go to the extremes.

The symptoms have been kept therefore in case they are needed. A method of discipline that he no longer needs.

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.

I mention these because again they would go by the wayside, lost in the concentration upon the physical problem. (Quietly:) A fear of retaining the symptoms could result in maintaining them longer. This is very important. Anything that is done to minimize that fear is highly important, beneficial, and significant.

We simply want to remind him again of translating the idea of motion into physical motion. These are merely techniques to help along particular lines. Now, basically, spontaneously he is sympathetic and understanding. The feeling of contempt he had for the sick or crippled has long vanished. Tell him indeed that annoyance with his own symptoms could now prevent him from helping others as well as he might, because the energy devoted to maintaining the symptoms is not being used for such constructive purposes.

Now. In all of his endeavors Ruburt should adopt a more playful attitude. Even to imagining throwing the symptoms out the window.

He is at a point where they are ready to break up entirely. I want to see that he takes advantage of this. The mental patterns are beginning to break up, and I want to be sure that this is translated into physical behavior, completely. The spring and the recent good news are having an effect, and the knowledge he gained this afternoon has given him a conscious understanding that he did not have before; and this will automatically minimize the symptoms, in a way that is not at once apparent.

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.

One additional note: have him plunge now into his new book—and stop concentrating on the problem of the symptoms. With his energy in the book he will have less time and energy to think of them.