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His imagery in hosing down your present house is excellent. He tried today to imagine himself on the old Walnut Street Bridge, walking across it as he used to, carrying a sketchpad. That also is an excellent exercise.
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(Resume at 4:16.) It is also a good idea for Ruburt to remind himself that he knows well that these concepts are true, and that they will lead inevitably toward his recovery—or rather, to his recovery—for they follow the innate laws of nature as it exists in its own state, apart from men’s ideas about it. (All very emphatically.)
His recovery also follows his body’s own unique rhythms, which are as spontaneous as an infant’s. Let him know that his recovery is indeed a fact: he has only to recognize it as so in his mind.
(Long pause at 4:20.) In review, it seems that the most vital ideas for his current situation have been given in this session, where they can be referred to easily. I may or may not return, again according to those rhythms of which I speak—but know that I am present and approachable.
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(Another development cropped up just before supper time, and even brought tears to Jane. Out of the mail I’d picked a letter from a sincere individual who’d tried to visit us this summer. I hadn’t been home and he’d left a card on the porch floor; eventually I’d answered it. His rather long letter dealt with Dr. Childers’ nightshade diet for arthritis; the writer claimed he had a close friend who had recovered completely from rheumatoid arthritis that had plagued him since childhood, by following this diet—no potatoes, paprika [peppers], tomatoes, and a few other common foods of the nightshade family.
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