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In the past, improvements did not “take” for a long-enough period to produce desired results, because of your own lacks of confidence—Ruburt in particular and you secondarily. If you do trust the body and its wisdom, then you trust it. I will try to clear up such issues as they arise. For now you must take it for granted that such conditions will exist.

Many of the sensations or stages that are definitely considered negative at such times, and certainly appear so in your experience, are the result of misunderstandings because of ingrained beliefs about body behavior, or the result of your lack of confidence. When that continues, the improvements, which are often considerable, appear invisible—or, again, you do not trust them. Further anxiety results.

I do not want to go into history here, but to some extent the Catholic church began the mass pattern that ended up putting the individual in such a position, so that the self was trusted least of all. There were cultural reasons connected here also, but the people in the society were taught to rely upon the priests, so that that authority became substituted for deep individual reliance upon the self.