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As a result of that definite improvement, Ruburt was able to lift his head slightly as he walked. We can wait if you want....

Those ligaments had been pulled tightly. Only a small, minute alteration in any ligament or muscle affects all others. These ligaments in particular had been in the process of loosening, before Ruburt suddenly found he could thusly move his head, and look up toward the ceiling while walking.

Previous to that he had held his head, neck, shoulders, and arms, using them almost as one block, allowing those motions necessary for typing and reading, with some additional motions possible for the few chores he managed to do.

Ruburt’s eyes had worked quite comfortably, moving in a very limited range of motion because of the tightened neck, head and shoulder muscles and ligaments. Simply put, the eyes worked while locked into certain positions or focuses. He had noticed for some time before that he had difficulty rolling his eyes when they were closed, for example.

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.

He started using them in ways he had not before. They were not in the old locked position, and he was beginning to enlarge his peripheral vision, which though he did not know it, had previously been limited by the head motion. The eye strain began to show. He became frightened. The tenseness from his fear would alternately relax and tighten the muscles, then.

(10:05.) Give us a moment.... There was also increased circulation to the eyes—very important, though this gave him a feeling of congestion at times. You were not having sessions during part of that period. He could not rely upon himself, and he did not trust the eye doctor. The bifocals (recently purchased) were resisted. The eye muscles were trying to work. The bifocals were trying to do the work for the eyes.

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.

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.

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.

To some extent all of Ruburt’s movable parts have, since the sessions lately began, become more pliable. He said he felt a trifle lighter on his feet—again, dismissed by both of you as insignificant. This was the result of increased circulation, but mainly the result of tensions being relieved in those important neck areas.

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.