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Laughing releases the same kinds of tensions under different circumstances. The quick actions involved in both laughing and crying also quicken circulation, and actually dislodge body “poisons”—natural toxins or elements that have served good purposes biologically, and are harmful only if they are then retained.

Quicker motion could not appear however until the body reached its present status. You can expect that quicker motion then to begin, and it will in turn demand necessary greater circulation.

You cannot make conventional judgments in such matters. In practical terms it is natural for muscles that are restrained to hurt. It was unnatural in those terms for Ruburt not to feel soreness in the past when his body stance was so unnaturally restrained. He did not allow his muscles their natural protest.

A flexible body suddenly in the position of Ruburt’s would protest, and it is a sign of his progress that he now feels that protest. It triggers his release. The discomfort itself, accepted, triggers those body responses that will and are righting the situation. This is highly important. You can minimize pain or discomfort through drugs, cutting down on the “cry” of any symptoms. The cry of symptoms, however, is meant to bring about a new condition, to trigger healing aspects, so drugs can often impede the healing process.

Now Ruburt mentally cut down upon the discomfort of his symptoms, so that the body did not feel its own discomfort strongly enough to trigger healing processes to the degree necessary. If you would keep track, you would find that the sore areas are being treated, and trigger their own releases. This same process follows in many areas of all illnesses. The body is a self-healing mechanism. It counts upon feedback data, however. You do not help ulcer victims by having them avoid certain foods. Instead you remove the impetus for improvement by minimizing the symptoms, which, ideally now, would activate psychological, spiritual, mental, and physical centers, bringing about necessary adjustments.

Ruburt’s particular soreness will be quite transitory—at one stage only, occurring in fact at the first instances of freedom with any given portion of the body. His beliefs are such now that the body’s mobilization processes are vastly accelerated.

He is allowing his body its natural expression. The liberated areas initially reflect the dis-ease, the unease. The protests that he blocked out then can immediately begin their own rehabilitation. He is about over that particular process.