“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You did not rise above the fear that the symptom itself, a part from everything else, gave you. You were in a panic, thinking of the importance of your hand to your work. You feared so strongly that the symptom could stop you, even from painting, that the fear itself became a detriment for positive suggestion. When your imagination operated freely and not directed concerning the symptom, then it ran in those directions. The very charge behind the fear propelled it.

You recognize that feeling. You must not be propelled to give your suggestions by fear of what will happen, or might happen, or could happen otherwise. In your suggestions tell yourself in whatever way you choose that your hand can be steady under any and all conditions.

Do not specifically relate the behavior of the hand with your artistic self or artistic abilities in your suggestions, but in a general manner to the natural health of your being and easy flow of your ideas outward.

The difficulties with the hand were not meant to threaten your artistic self. You feared they were. They were meant, in some instances, to protect your artistic self, if you recall our last session. Therefore the fear was a conscious one, and basically unwarranted. The unconscious was not (underlined) threatening your artistic self. You were afraid that it was, or that unwittingly the symptoms would bring this about.

The unconscious was trying to protect your artistic self. If you wanted to stay home and paint all day badly enough, then it would hamper your hand motions at work. Do you follow that or should I elaborate?