“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

No one physical effect caused Ruburt’s slow motion. It has been the overall result of the physical stance. He felt briefly though quite correctly this evening that the area now being worked upon involved quickness of motion.

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.

Ruburt’s recovery is taking place now quicker than it seems to either of you, for the unseen events are the most important ones, and they are accelerating. You can expect the release in physical terms of more muscles and joints, and see the quickening in motion.

End of session. My heartiest regards—and I will tell you, though you have not asked me, you are doing an excellent job on my book. Your decisions are right. Only your own doubts in that regard have caused any difficulties, and despite those your decisions have been correct, and you have added a perspective that I knew I could count upon. Ruburt knows that also.

Since it is late the session is finished—and yet because I am not finished, I will send each of you energy, information and revelations while you are sleeping that will be useful in important ways whether or not you consciously remember them. The energy of your individual and joint ways, however, and my energy, support you. If you have faith in that, then doubts will vanish, and Ruburt’s symptoms also will wither away more quickly than you imagine. So will you sense, Joseph, the contours of your own work as it appears in your painting, and in “Unknown” Reality.