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You have the fear of the symptoms themselves, and this applies to both of you. The symptoms are still being projected into the future, and often (underlined) by you both. Consciously and unconsciously signs are passed and given to the effect that symptoms are persisting now and will continue to do so.

(“So what should you do?”

(As in the last session, I was getting irritated, since all of this is emotionally loaded material of course. I was on the point of asking Seth what one should do when one confronted a fearful result even if one had constructed that result, etc.)

You have not helped him believe it either. You are creating the reality. You must believe in his health. He must. He can learn to do this first of all by ceasing to project an image of himself as ill into the future. (Long pause.)

He can do this by employing the exercises that you mentioned, that will show him a daily improvement that will help break the negative image and prevent further negative projections. He can do this by the daily walk. All of these help break the negative projections, and are already proof physically of inside willingness that is then physically materialized for him to see—in terms of physical performance that he can judge.

He can do this as I mentioned earlier by reminding himself of the otherwise healthy state of his body, and being thankful for it, by expecting (underlined) four time’s improvement, and looking for it, and not expecting the symptoms to remain as they are.

He can do this by concentrating on his book, getting out more. Now these sound like very simple procedures, but they are the ones that work. He had some difficulty because of the childhood experience of seeing his mother ill for so long. (Long pause.)

Give us time. There are other reasons however why you fell into the same trap, and I will try to get them for you. You are doing the same thing with his symptoms that he does with them, that so annoy you: prolonging them in time in your imagination, and you have less reason to do so.

—regardless of what you think of them. Your thoughts and imaginations do cause your activities. Your negative attitudes also help continue the symptoms, as do his. The physical facts of going down the stairs sideways existed first in imagination, and were materialized. You need not deny the physical fact, but if you understand what causes physical facts then you change the direction of your imagination, thought and expectations in order that the following future facts will not be like the ones that so displeased you.

I do indeed.

(“Well, I’ll tell you something: That’s going to take some doing.”)

(“What do you mean?”)

(As usual, listening to Seth’s long list of negative items, I couldn’t help wondering why Jane didn’t appreciate the import of such actions at least intuitively, and do something about them.)

—but you made some leeway with Ruburt in your last remarks (which I’ve forgotten as I type this) and I would like him to examine his normal habits in the light of what I said about his table and arrangements. Do you follow me?

Do you have any questions?