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(This is the last part of the 627th session. Seth called for a break for Jane at 10:30 because she had been coughing rather steadily for some time. This was an interruption of the material on Chapter Six of Seth’s book, but as long as a break had occurred I suggested Seth say something about Jane’s cold. She’d had it for perhaps six weeks—since, I thought, we had visited my mother and brother in Rochester, NY. I was puzzled that it was lingering so long.)

It begins with the sense of unworthiness mentioned often, but it led to a pattern of behavior where he began to hold his breath, so to speak, tense the muscles in self-protection. To hold the breath however as in fright.

The fact is of course that he doesn’t need any of the symptoms, but in the interrelationship of his beliefs the cold results as a method of understanding, and of bringing about certain necessary physical changes.

Now out in the cold also means that you are stiff. The antibodies produced by the cold symptoms result in a body activity that has produced some fever—but a benign one that warms him up and increases circulation.

The cold for example is also bringing in particular an increased blood flow through the head and neck area, and also to the extremities. Certain stresses have been relieved physically. Bodily the cold creates a diversionary tactic—still a stress situation, but an impermanent one that changes momentarily the hormonal output.

It represents then alterations of beliefs toward a more beneficial condition. At one other time such a situation was set up. The cold’s duration was far briefer, through very intense, but his overall condition was better then.

There is quite a bit I can say involving both of your attitudes toward those poor people not as level-headed as yourselves (louder)—your beliefs about them, but that can wait until after dictation at our next session.

It is not only that your joint ideas may conflict but that within yourselves you hold conflicting ideas regarding such situations. Such an exercise will also clear up other issues, and in areas that you do not suspect. Can I count on you both then to face the challenge, and do what I suggested?

(11:43. A note added after Jane’s death in 1984: she worked upon her most interesting autobiography, From This Rich Bed, periodically over the years, but never did finish it. I still have the manuscript.)