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Using emotion from the present, let him now imagine the event only defiantly, saying to hell with the feelings he had at that time about the dumb psychologist. He gives his past self his current knowledge. The two selves momentarily become merged in a psychological synthesis, and the past self, no longer at that point momentarily immobilized by fear, instead follows through and performs adequately.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
I told him (emphatically) that the hot towels on the knees would help his eyes considerably, and his head. I repeat the statement. The body is quickening. The eyes are acclimating themselves. The main tension points however involved the ligaments of the neck, affecting the eyes, and while those ligaments stayed more or less rigid, the eyes got used to doing their work in a restricted area. When he wanted to look up or down or around, he would move the entire head, neck, shoulder area, rather than, for example, rotating the eyes.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
His body has become more dependable walking, as he knows. The most important thing at this point is for him to keep in as good spirits as possible—not by being Pollyannaish, but by recognizing the reality of his improvements, and by not overstressing those areas in which improvements have not yet appeared. Distractions are good, but you must use them. Ruburt learned, last evening, to use them when you had company.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
The improvements already made are not only important in themselves, but because they are already eliciting further freedoms that will show. The point of power is in the present. Whenever possible, minimize the importance of a problem. Forget a problem and it will go away. Dumb advice, surely, or so it seems. Yet children know the truth of it. Minimize impediments in your mind and they do become minimized. Exaggerate impediments in your mind and in reality they will quickly adopt giant size.
[... 15 paragraphs ...]