“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As I told you in our last session, the original beliefs behind the symptoms have largely vanished. Some are still coming to light. The body condition reflects subsidiary beliefs about the body that he mobilized for the other purposes that now no longer operate.

The hardest part, however, is over, for the sensation of freedom has been physically introduced through the arm into the system—and that message echoes throughout the system. Ruburt no longer believes he needs the symptoms. The condition therefore is beginning to fade. It will not take anything like the same amount of time to vanish as it did to establish itself. There will be sudden improvements on the physical level, as with the arm, but before that occurred there were changes in beliefs. There will be other almost unnoticed improvements that will not show until they “suddenly appear” as a major breakthrough—and these have already begun.

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.

The body’s weight was kept down for the same reasons, because he felt according to those old beliefs, that the body’s sustenance and substance in physical reality was not important in regard to his work. These ideas are also vanishing now. The body with weight and substance might be unmanageable, filled with too much energy, and therefore want the physical activity he thought he must deny it for his work. It is not a matter of what he ate, but chemically what he did with the nourishment.