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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.

He did very well with his class, not only by holding our session (see the last session, Jane’s first without my presence), but by releasing and vocalizing his deep inner convictions. This helped his students immeasurably. He was helped, for part of himself was another student, listening.

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.

This does not mean he is expected to pretend they do not exist, but he is to give a minimum amount of attention to them. They will completely dissolve that much quicker. What he is doing now is correct. (Pause.) An inner trust is developing. He must avoid being overly concerned on a conscious level.

Maltz is quite correct, in that an overly conscious (underlined) attempt is harmful. There has been improvement in his attitude since Wednesday’s session (385th, December 6), and with you I recommend that he reread it several times a week for a while.

The success exercises are also teaching him how to focus his energy without strong conscious deliberation. Often he tries too hard to relax. Now give us a moment here. (Pause.)

The man who threw in his burden ahead of time was your father. (Smile.) He did this years ago in effect, hence you passed him by, while recognizing his gesture and deciding against it. The packs represented abilities as well as burdens, you see. He was afraid of his abilities and his burdens. He could not go along with them on his back. He was afraid they would drown him. He leaped into life, denying himself the use of his abilities because of the responsibilities they entailed, hence the separation.

You saw that she still carried, as Jane, the abilities and responsibilities while in the middle of the stream. Had the dream not ended you would have made your way across to him, in time (smile), to help him up when he fell—this symbolic of his difficulties in the past year. The others were individuals that you have known.

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.

Housework is in the same category usually. (Pause.) The exercises you see should have a joyful, gamelike atmosphere, or a nonchalance. He makes them a combat zone: his will versus his symptoms, and this defeats his purpose.

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.

Again, massage on your part will help. In this case pleasure on his part supersedes the purpose, and therefore reinforces it. He enjoys your touch, regardless, and therefore allows himself to relax. This is of paramount importance right now.

Pleasant thoughts and images will help as he falls asleep. The suggestion that he has pleasant dreams will benefit. We want the condition completely healed, and for this joyful relaxation is definitely prescribed.

In the same way that he has lately caught himself tensing his jaw, so has he tensed his neck and shoulder muscles for some time. We want him to be able to recognize tension in the shoulders, as he can now, but could not earlier, recognize the tension in the jaw.

I will at least counteract some of the muscular tension and dissipate it. The activity itself will encourage him. Fifteen minutes at the least. Some exercises where he can see his own progress. These not to be picked up and dropped, but continued. They need not be the same.

He need not decide, now, whether these be yoga or other exercises. He can do one one day and one another if he chooses— but fifteen minutes minimum of any kind of exercising activity.