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(Jane wanted to know about the delayed reaction she experienced to my suggestions last Monday, after our first such episode, following Seth’s instructions. The effects she felt are described in the notes for the December 5th session. They showed themselves after her nap. I’ve given Jane suggestions twice since then, the last one being at naptime yesterday. as far as we can tell, her reactions to the first suggestion episode have been the deepest so far. Jane has also given herself one such period of suggestion.

(Today Jane’s right leg “definitely felt straighter this afternoon,” on two occasions, one of them being after her nap. She’d also noticed similar effects after our first suggestion period. Today her left side of the head, neck and jaw released further, quite a bit more than usual, she said. Her eyes have been generally better. Jane doesn’t know which suggestion session —or all of them, say —brought about what effects. Overall, her moods have been better, her walking doesn’t hurt as much.

It is a good idea to use after-suggestions, continuing the benefits during later portions of the day or evening. Some of the relaxation was not apparent, either, until Ruburt began to use his body. You can generally expect two kinds of response—one dealing with relaxation, and the other with better functioning or performance.

The right leg has been preparing for some time to straighten itself further. The process was only noticed today. The late difficulty of the last two weeks or so coming up the garage step has simply been the result of changes in both legs —quite beneficial, although in certain positions, whenever weight must be placed exclusively on one leg, then inequalities come into play. Those inequalities however also cause him to draw upon muscular reserves, and trigger greater strength than he has had.

(10:15.) It is quite true to say that Ruburt has hypnotized himself into his physical condition, because in the past to some extent he believed it necessary. To some extent, a lesser one, and with qualifications, you also believed the same thing, and so the suggestions you gave each other tallied. The fact that you are willing to consciously make an effort to change those suggestions is highly vital. That is the change neither of you were willing to make before.

In a way, illnesses are definitely a part of health, for life itself consists of a fine alignment, of imbalances. One disease may actually protect you from a stronger one, or from a detrimental course of action that you might otherwise follow. In the greater realm of activity—I am trying to put this simply—a poor marriage, for example, is on the same level as a chronic but not life-threatening disease. It is not simply that disease is disease, and relationships are relationships, but that the individual generally tries to achieve the best possible conditions for a satisfying spiritual, emotional and physical existence according to beliefs and intents.

There is no separation between body and mind, so that the body has emotional considerations to take into consideration also. It has mental reasons for its actions, then, as the mind has physical ones. A poor marriage, for example, bringing years of loneliness or bitterness is, again, the same thing in its way as, say, chronic kidney stones. Such a person may, however, according to intents and beliefs and focus, be in fairly decent physical health —because health may be a prerogative.

The entire life situation may be unpleasant. But I am trying to show that all ills are not necessarily physical ones. There will be changes, I imagine, in your sessions as you mutually move ahead to even greater resolution, so that you dare make suggestions that you might not think of right now.