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He has overemphasized limitations in the past, of all kinds, and this has led him to deny many of his own positive characteristics—this concentration upon the negative. Now some of this he picked up from you, and then exaggerated. Much of this attitude in passing now.

I suggest however that you continue your own prayer periods, as you have been doing them. Ruburt during his period should imagine feelings of exuberance, energy, and inspiration, general feelings of release and freedom. Let him play a game with himself however as to how long he can honestly forget (underlined) his symptoms in daily activity. Do not give them extra energy through concentration.

They have indeed. Now give me a moment, (pause), and a long moment. (Pause.) Concentration should not be upon feeling well enough in the morning to do something he wants to do. It should be upon the thing he wants to do, and away from the physical condition. When he feels his full enthusiasm bubbling up in his work he will not need to give himself suggestions that he will feel well in the morning.

Give us a moment. (Pause.) This will drastically reduce his concentration on symptoms. (Long pause.) He can imagine health as a means also of showing others, of setting an example.

It does indeed; and it continues along all lines available to it. If it is cut off in one area it will find another. Now the reversal of the negative trend has already taken place, so openings are available. But both of you are overanxious, and even you concentrate too much upon what seems to be the enormity of the difficulty, or Ruburt’s present predicament.

It is exactly what you must avoid, and what you tell Ruburt he must avoid, for it does reinforce the present condition. You both have a tendency to concentrate upon remaining symptoms, or intensified ones, and to give little attention to the improvements. It is as if the improvements did not exist, and they do.

That is an important sentence. You are both concentrating on the remaining symptoms, and the improvements escape you. You do not give energy to them, nor look for them. You look for the remaining symptoms. You do not add reality, physical reality then, to improvements as they first show—you do not nurse them expectantly as you would a seed. You concentrate on the part of the plant that is not doing as well.

You have told him not to concentrate upon his symptoms, and yet you also have a tendency to do so. There is nothing that can work against your desires more. This leads to a sense of desperation, and undermines your confidence.