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(3:00. Jane began reading yesterday’s session. It wasn’t easy for her, but she kept at it as I worked on mail, and she finished at 3:20. She’d eaten a good lunch, once more. She said that her right foot kept wanting “to push out” from its doubled up position. “But I can’t do it yet,” she said, “so I’ll try to forget about it.”
(3:39. She began some exercises. Her left foot and leg went up in the air, the foot rotating quite freely. “When I do that, that’s when the right foot wants to, too, and that’s when it starts hurting. I felt her right leg; the whole thing was tense and hard, from close to the groin on down. I massaged it a bit until she told me to stop. I said I supposed the leg was tense so as to serve as a sort of splint for the broken bone near the knee.
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Two small bedsores have healed—another mark of progress. There is no need to be concerned about the occasional discomfort in the right foot and leg. Those areas are awakening, and the new unaccustomed motions are the cause of the discomfort—a discomfort which will vanish in no time as the body continues its improvements. All of the body is being activated—and again, improvements are occurring also that have not yet showed themselves but will soon be doing so.
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(I’d instantly understood the import of what she was saying—that here her body had within itself all the time that fantastic ability to move. So why wasn’t she moving? I couldn’t help but be bothered greatly by this, and tried to shake off the feeling so we could get on with it. But I found it ironic indeed that that capacity was there, while on conscious levels we were trying to move an inch at a time, when we could do so by leaps and bounds as far as the body’s abilities and willingness were concerned.
(I tried to explain to Jane that fear on conscious levels was what was holding her back. That Seth was right: The body was perfectly willing to move, and knew how to do so, if it was allowed to do so. “Maybe it was my ulcers that kept me from moving all that time,” she said.
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