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(I read yesterday afternoon’s session to Jane this morning. As we’d discussed last evening, we decided to try for another session this morning, possibly to get more specific material on some of the questions I’d raised in the notes for yesterday’s session. Jane also wanted Seth to comment on her “relaxations” during the day: She sleeps practically all day while sitting in her chair. I hoped these relaxations were signs of a healing process taking place after years of tension. At the same time, I wanted material on why Jane might be perpetuating behavior that might lead her back into the hospital—an experience which she’d found to be so traumatic last time.

(10:49 AM. Jane’s voice had been quite good. She’d sat with her head down for much of the session. Pauses as usual. Both of us were encouraged. Yes, thank you, Seth. I still felt that surge of expectation and energy, as though we had somehow turned a corner in probabilities. I was keeping the blessings of Framework 2 in mind.

(I had a lot of typing to do. I read the session to Jane. I also stressed how important it was for us not to be bothered by, or even respond to, any negative suggestions unwittingly given by the nurse, Peggy.

(After the session, Jane could almost come up with something about her feelings of abandonment, yet couldn’t quite do so. Maybe she’ll get it later today.

(And in his own way, Seth finally did give us some material on the bedsores. It was much better than I’d dared hope. I feel good about it, and know that Jane will too when she reads the session.)

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(As far as I can remember, this will be the first time that we held two separate sessions during the same day—if one develops now. After supper Jane told me to come out to the card table with the notebook at 8:15. I got there at 8:22, after finishing a page of typing from Sunday afternoon’s session. I’m trying to get all the material typed as soon as possible.

(“That wouldn’t keep you awake any more than trying to have a session,” I said. “Do you have any insight as to why the relaxation at this time? Is it because we just ate, or...?”

(See yesterday afternoon’s session, re “overlays of meanings.”

That is the material I referred to as being not verbal necessarily—carried by the words in other than usual fashions. Ruburt’s own condition is indeed improving and accelerating, as I have mentioned in the latest sessions. And again, following along as you have been doing. This brings that focus into greater—far greater—intensity and motion.

(Jane’s delivery had been sporadic in an odd way, her Seth voice subdued, making me feel that she could lose the session at any moment by slipping off into sleep. She put her glasses on, telling me that she’d felt my concern during the session. I said I was hoping she’d be able to continue for at least a little while. I lit a cigarette for her. We waited. “I’ll do what I can,” she said, taking off her glasses. She was still smoking.

(8:46.) In many instances, you “get the session” whether or not it seems to you (much louder suddenly) that it has any important material at all. Some sessions, therefore, are their own effect.

(Long pause.) I cannot stress the fact of Ruburt’s attitude toward the medical profession during and immediately following his hospital stay. Symbolically, however, the attitude itself is highly therapeutic, since it “stands for and represents” many important issues in his life—and in settling one you settle all in this regard. Some of the very late material I have been giving you fits in at this point. (Long pause.) To some extent Peggy (the nurse) stands for the medical establishment, of course. (Long pause, head down.) Read that last small group of sessions together, so that the material, both verbal and otherwise, stays with you—and again, you will be feeling the additional reassurance and confidence that comes from your individual and joint triumph, when such episodes are conquered.

(8:56 PM. “Well, you got something,” I said to Jane, almost laughing. “Had quite a time there, didn’t you?” It was amazing, how much better I felt now than when I’d written the notes for yesterday’s session [Sunday, the 7th]. “Anything you want to add?”

(“Yeah, in a minute,” Jane said. But that was it. I read the session to her.