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These feelings will also be accompanied by sensations of warmth however, and so should be accepted and recognized as new signs of mobility and action. He can begin to try to feel greater strength now in the right arm, and all improvements on the right side are being picked up by the left.

Now that is changing. The changing entails adjustments at all body levels, so there are in-between periods, so to speak, physically in your terms, as all portions of the body react to any given improvement.

In that system he saw you nearly ten years older than he, and in those terms unsatisfied; so he must work all the harder against time, and cut out everything else. In that system, as he developed it, there was no time for leisurely meals, showers, shopping trips or mundane enjoyments—only the work was important. Only it would survive. The day in which it was produced would vanish and be nothing—only the work would survive as a monument. The trivialities and moods, the feelings of morning and twilight would be extinguished—so he thought as you told him, and so against many of his natural instincts he tried to obey.

So the day became nothing more than a framework in which he must work, and in which all relationships had little value except as they were interpreted through work. He became pursued by time, so that in his world there literally was no time for anything else.

Now: all of Ruburt’s presently-past beliefs added up to his physical condition—his beliefs in the nature of time, work, the body, his particular nature—they all tied in together perfectly.

Each person’s personal reality has the same kind of unity. There is nothing that does not fit into the picture. There were achievements and joys along the way, and these should not be forgotten or minimized. They were all the result of beliefs also. Ruburt believed that they were only achieved by neglecting the body. He realizes now that the body’s reality is the framework through which all must come in this life, and that limiting its vitality will eventually end up limiting all experience and all “work.”

Give us a moment.... He should finish my book, then begin it again, this time following the exercises as he needs them. As mentioned, I will have you both do the point of power. Beer in any quantity should now be avoided. It is all right on your night out. These are aids only.

Cottage cheese is excellent. Now bacon for him is good. In moderation that particular kind of fat is good as a lubricant. All greens.

That is all for this evening. The suggestions given last week, plus the badminton or pillow-beating to be continued, and the squatting.