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I would like you both to try a slightly different emphasis—but a highly important one, in the way in which you look at Ruburt’s situation.

The reasons behind the condition, causing the condition, brought about the secondary group of mental habits. The bodybuilders look forward to their workouts, for they have a purpose in mind. Ruburt instead developed habits that discouraged him from using his body, except in certain ways. As much as possible, I would like Ruburt to remember these comparisons, for he is just becoming aware of certain habitual thoughts that accompany motion—walking, say, or getting up or down. With your help, he has tried to temper some of these.

(10:22.) I simply want to stress that health in those terms does involve more. The “subconscious” will try to save an individual from great disappointment. This may mean the incidence of a disease, but the disease may save a person’s sanity. So the issues are not nearly as clear as it would at first seem.

If this were not so, the subconscious would not only see to it that the body was in ordinary good health under any conditions, but it would automatically refuse to allow any individual to put its health in jeopardy.

High risk sports would not be allowed—excursions across the seas undertaken with “inadequate” provisions, or with rafts. It is not easy, you see, to draw the line, and the species obviously puts itself in risk situations often; and often attains certain triumphs as a result.

The sensations activate other ligaments, muscles, and so forth. They signal activity. After disuse the sensations are exaggerated. Most people are not aware of them, for example. In the past, and with beliefs not understood, Ruburt would become depressed, or you would, so it is important that that activation be understood.