“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now let us begin.... Despite negative beliefs, false starts, or disappointments, Ruburt’s body has always tried to improve itself. The improvements were relatively isolated—kept apart from each other, not connecting overall, so that main motions could be affected. And despite your joint negativism, and your joint distrust of improvements, and your joint insistence upon ignoring any improvements noted by Ruburt as ludicrously insignificant in the face of what was needed—in spite of all of that, the body has kept up its own struggle.

As the heavy ligaments began to move, some important joints began to loosen. Many muscles, large and small, were tugged upon, and teased into motion. He felt them in various portions of his body. The same happened to the eyes muscles, however, and those are important in vision.

Now: you are at this point presently. You can choose to believe me, and to act upon what I tell you, or you can choose to ignore the implications of what I say. Ruburt made a quiet, or quietly dramatic, decision. He is verbal. Words are important to him. He “hit upon” the word “responsive” in relationship to his body. He decided that above all he now wanted his body to be responsive.

That word and its meaning to him has the power to offset many of his negative body beliefs and projections. In the past two days the following events have occurred. They have been largely ignored by both of you. Several large ligament areas have shown significant improvements in terms of release. I am speaking of the right neck area.

Both of you distrusted those events. Ruburt’s eyes felt better, but both of you discounted that also as insignificant. They felt better because the muscles are becoming more used to their newer motions. They will constantly improve in all ways if you trust the body’s resources and intent.

He can for example begin to copy material for, say, an hour a day. Before there was no trouble. That was all the eyes did, relatively speaking. In the body’s reality, for example, today’s improvements are quite momentous—but your joint attitudes in the past put the body’s efforts down.

You are constantly in the position of saying to the body “In the face of what we want, your improvement, whatever it might be, is not only not enough, but almost a parody in the light of normal walking.” In terms of behavior, neither of you reinforce positive behavior in terms of any improvement. You constantly say “In the light of the past, these improvements will come to nothing—and indeed are worse than none, for they only lead into false hopes.”

Ruburt is embarrassed to mention an improvement to you, or to grant any as significant to himself. When he does “break down” and tell you of one, you often frown. Your joint attitudes are plain. Despite this, and because of your good intents, being about this group of sessions, the body is responding. You were in danger of following your old patterns of reaction, which is why I am giving this information.

On the other hand those strides were highly important, for the body did right itself to an important degree, and through all of the difficulty the body has tried to right itself. The idea of responsiveness is vital, and its importance to Ruburt, now that he has attached it to body motion, is extremely significant.

You are another such period, where “conditions are working for you.” I want you to take advantage of them this time, and this session can allow you to do so. You believe the body can improve, or you don’t. The fact that it constantly tries should tell you something. I cannot speak more clearly. Vital improvements have begun. You should see some increased mobility in terms of far quicker motions first of all, followed by a general overall straightening.