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DELETED SESSION
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(I turned Jane over on her left side, pillow between her knees, at 4:10. All afternoon she’d complained that she wasn’t doing anything: no Seven, no session.... She was quite uncomfortable on her side, as I tried to help her relax. I told her I was on the point of taking a nap. since it was getting toward the supper tray at 4:45 to 5:00.
(I urged her to try for a session. Finally she decided to have a cigarette as she lay there on her side. Some sort of decision to try had been made. “I sort of feel him around more, like we could have a session after all, you know?” she said at last. It would be her first session on her side, her second in the hospital. I still felt the hope engendered by the first session, on October 9, and wanted to keep that impetus going.
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—Good later afternoon. We will indeed begin a series of sessions, although they may be briefer than our usual ones.
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(5:00. Jane did okay for a first session on her side, I told her as I lit a cigarette for her. So far no interruptions. “How does one dehypnotize oneself?” I asked. “That’s what he’s talking about.”
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Now: By all means, continue with the prayer, as you have been doing, for it has been of definite value. The fact of the sessions themselves will be beneficial, and I will pick a rhythm for them that is most advantageous. For now, again, I want to reassure you that Ruburt can indeed improve—and drastically so.
(Long pause.) He has indeed done well enough, considering the negative suggestions of such an institution as a hospital. I cannot, obviously, give you all the material you might like at one sitting, and indeed, again, it is the fact of the sessions themselves that will also serve as a healing process. That process, then, has already begun, and will continue.
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Again, then, I bid you a fond good evening—and in its way this session will continue at other levels on both of your parts.
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