“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.

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.

Actually, many times he walks to the bathroom faster at night, since he is not worried about how he looks. The larger point is that you believed, each of you, that change in that particular area was possible. Ruburt moves about faster at night because the patterned behavior of the day is not present.