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Now earlier he would have been so terrified that the image would not have become conscious. Instead it can now serve as an excellent learning point, and for both of you. The identification of self with symptoms alone is very dangerous. Always distorted, the symptoms themselves are a representation of certain distortions. They are not representations of the entire self, and should never be considered so.

Many of these are perfectly normal fears. He felt it beneath him intellectually to speak of them to you, and felt that you would have no use for him, that you would think he was a cowering, spineless child rather than the independent brave spirit that he tried so hard to be for himself and you.

On the other hand feelings create the physical state. Accumulated feelings of like nature will be expressed often, but not always, in repetitive fashion. It would be possible to go through Ruburt’s body and pinpoint the physical materialization of certain feelings as they are represented in a symptom.

It would also be possible however to go through his body and pinpoint the particular energizing feelings and ideas responsible for the excellent functioning of the other body areas. Retracing is a noticeable effect, not understood, highly distorted, in the explanations you have been given, representing an echoing effect that occurs whenever the individual involved touches upon those thought and feeling areas that brought about the difficulty.

They are minimal if the individual is progressing at a psychic level. Many individuals however, relying upon the physical therapy alone, set up negative associations. Say for example that a deeply repressed fear brought about the squeezing of nerves in the area of the lower spinal cord. Without the knowledge that you have, then any sensations in the area of those nerves could then through association activate the original fear, which would in turn aggravate the condition.

As the chiropractor made repeated adjustments, gradually the effect would lessen. Initially however it could be quite strong, and the chiropractor would call it a retracing action. Certain pains through association can (underlined) send an individual backward to the original fear or situation that first caused it.