“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You took one small but important area—one that bothered him deeply, and frightened him; narrowed it down, so to speak, pointed out a simple but effective method of operation to be followed. You clearly made it known that you expected him to behave in that one regard in a different manner. That one habit and no other was to be changed. It was difficult for him. He struggled, for example, against the old ingrained pattern, to get himself up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, or to stop what he was doing in the day, to go every hour, yet he did so. You checked up on him in the beginning. This was important, and helped strengthen the entire affair.

This was important, because it showed that he could change, and removed physical fears he had, for example about his kidneys—but more important, because you zeroed in on an area in which change was possible.

Give us a moment.... It gave him a feeling of accomplishment. The physical patterns are of course the results of inner ones, but the deliberate breaking of a physical pattern serves as a physical example that those patterns can indeed be broken, and helps break the exterior hypnotizing effects of continued repetitious action of a given kind.

Physically the body is still responding. Certain body beliefs operate. I will have more to say but tonight is not the time. He has been lately working with inner ideas of spontaneity, hence the Cézanne material, and the initial speaker’s manuscript. Your encouragement with the bathroom issue was concentrated in that area, and hence effective. Often you are each blind, or shortsighted, in the same areas.

Now Ruburt does walk more around the house than he did, but he should extend this to your ground. It would help if you walked with him in the beginning, though this is not necessarily a prerequisite. Show the body what you want and it will respond. Then, however, in the meantime forget it.