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(10:48.) Framework 2—this is not dictation—has been the basis for white and black magic, for example. Both stress the importance of imagery and desire. Your mental images are therefore of course very important, and two of Ruburt’s of a negative nature have been broken down. Very important: he got up from the bed quite easily in comparison with earlier behavior last night—surprising himself. That was the result of some of his good work in Framework 2.

He has not had nearly as much difficulty with his trousers in the bathroom, and the old image has been largely altered. He saw himself trying to walk without the table the other morning, spontaneously, and before breakfast—a sign of future physical motion of that nature. He stood at the same time while you put his jacket on, something to him unthinkable a while ago. Those were of considerable importance, yet they were not significantly considered. They were forgotten, generally speaking; not entirely, of course.

Mental images are vital. They are more effectively used when playfully executed, and when no contradictions are involved. Ruburt hit on an idea yesterday, and forgot it: he mentally pretended that he was skiing. This is excellent. He doesn’t plan to ski. No contradictions are involved, but the imagery involves the assumption of physical mobility.

When you use suggestions, together they should largely be playful, or relaxing, or authoritative. If you give the suggestions then to Ruburt, they must be suggestions you believe in. If you are in a blue mood, or indisposed, of course that is communicated telepathically and otherwise. The same applies to suggestions you give yourself, for example. If you want to relax and you are tense, it is often simpler to bypass the issue, and tell yourself instead to imagine a peaceful scene, in which case you will relax without ordering your muscles to do so. You react to images as well as to words.

Familiar images become imprinted, as your television games can be imprinted upon your TV screen.

I am speaking rather generally right here to make certain rather specific points, however. When you change details of any kind in your life, to some extent you change your mental images. When you change your routine however slightly, you do the same thing. When you change the furniture in the room the same applies. You can use such knowledge often, so that such changes stand for their symbolic inner alterations.

Take the last few sentences and apply them creatively. Such innocent suggestions of mine are usually quite important. Think of unaccustomed physical images, and mentally try them on for size. Some of these will “take,” bringing into your experience opportunities that have lain latent. For reasons I will not go into now, and speaking simply, you are coming into a fertile period, each of you—in part because of changed beliefs, so that your relationship with Framework 2 is more intimate, practically speaking, now—and I would like you to take advantage of that.