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Now he is used to dealing with words, and you with images. That does not mean that all inner perceptions will be restricted to these particular channels. They will carry a strong weight, however.

His success practice is coming along exceptionally well, much better than the relaxation exercises. These have a strong therapeutic effect also, and will increase the benefits of all else that he has learned.

Another point here on Ruburt. The relaxation exercises will help short-circuit his tendency toward overreaction. Maltz’s telephone episode should be imagined by him in place of all unpleasant stimulus. Let him—again and again I say this— focus toward his work and classes, and pleasant daily activities, and away from symptoms.

Your dream was a psychological drama. (See my dream notebook for December 6, 1967.) The water did represent the streak of life. (Pause.) The rocks represented in the past a desire for aloofness. Not only did they lead back to the water, but all other routes along them that you followed were perilous. The water, despite all, was safer than the rocks.

Instead, you tried aloofness but kept intact and with you your abilities and responsibilities. You saw that the course could not be pursued, for all the roads led to involvement with the water. (Pause.) You still did not want to enter in however. It was Ruburt who drew you emotionally into participation.

Exercises so far have been too intensely entered into. He was so intent upon performing all given, either exercise or posture, that he became discouraged and pessimistic. The dancing, you see, he considers pleasurable. Its exercise function is secondary. He forgets himself, uses his body, and at least creates the climate in which muscular relaxation can occur.

He did this even in the mental exercises I suggested. I now recommend all endeavors that combine enjoyment and exercise, where the exercise at least to his mind is incidental, or at least secondary.

Your possibilities will be clearly shown, in the various works you can produce. You will choose among them. Some paintings will automatically negate others. If you do some, you will progress along certain lines rather than others. The various lines however all represent full use of your abilities, merely pointing out various lines of focus that you may choose.

(See my dream book for Friday, December 8, 1967, for a sketch of the first vision I had that involved sculpture. The seeing of sculpture is most unusual for me, since I have never done any; though feeling all along that I was quite capable.