1 result for (book:tps1 AND heading:"delet session februari 11 1971" AND stemmed:imagin)
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You spoke to Ruburt about imagination, and he must learn to use it for his benefit, through imagining himself free and well. This fear itself should be faced for what it is, and dealt with like any other fear. Ruburt considers it almost unspeakable. (The fear that he will not get well.)
[... 6 paragraphs ...]
As you were reading today, your imaginations are centered in the wrong direction. Ruburt fears that he has a condition which will persist indefinitely.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
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.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
—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.
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