“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Telling him that you are suddenly mad enough or angry enough to insist upon changes is obviously not the approach. He thought you were angry enough to begin with. Physical improvement, now, in that context (underlined), meant something else you were demanding, but did not expect.

He is not to be babied. I am not saying that, the emotional encouragement however is important. He felt earlier that you withheld it because you had little use for anyone who needed it, that to request it was impossible to begin with. You could not demand it.

The whole thing boils down to the fact that he thought and felt you would not help him, but demand that he use his own abilities and help himself independently of you. You held his arm once as he crossed a busy street, in, I believe, Cobbleskill, and he never forgot it. At other times you would say “Be careful,” impatiently, “Watch where you are going. Don’t you see that car,” when he simply could not turn that quickly, and was terrified. There were other occasions when you held his arm and helped him and he remembers each one.