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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.
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(When Jane’s symptoms were intensified following the exceptionally relaxed state of Monday night. No matter what improvements may have taken place, as Seth states, during such times it is very difficult to be aware of anything but the present.)
Now. There will be more improvements as you look for them and notice them. This is as important as any information I have given you.
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It is extremely vital that you look at him for signs of improvement, and that this takes your interest. (Long pause.)
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