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Now. He was frightened to some degree of the sudden reduction of tension. This refers to Monday and Tuesday. He is used to being armed for battle. There is no battle, and that is the secret. In the past the reaction would have lasted much longer however, and considering that he had it at all, he did not succumb to anything like the same extent.

(My question had to do with the various kinds of experience sought by the inner self. I wondered, with some apparent irritation, why Jane’s inner self would permit such a detriment as the symptoms to continue for so long. Once the experience of the illness had been gained, it seemed to me, it made better sense for the inner self to terminate the particular experience and move on to others. I thought there were many more valuable kinds of experiences to be had in many kinds of healthier, more creative endeavors, instead of letting the symptoms interfere with Jane’s attempts to perform such creative endeavors.

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.

(Panic is not the right word exactly—anger would be better. I felt the episode was unnecessary. This is being typed on May 10—three days after it was held. So far Jane hasn’t said anything about what caused Tuesday’s episode.)

I cannot stress this too strongly. If you find yourselves doing this you would be better to drop any emphasis on health specifically. Do you follow me?