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arthritis
instep
foot
incurable
sponges
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Any imagery involving motion, done playfully, is excellent. Ruburt imagining himself on children’s swings, for example. None of this should be overdone. It can all come as playfully as Ruburt’s writing comes. The idea, again, is to avoid concentration on impediments. You can admit that they show themselves in the present, while reminding yourselves that they can also vanish.
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(I was greatly pleased that Seth answered one of my two questions, by saying that Jane did not have arthritis. This meant, I told her, that she didn’t have to think of herself as having “an incurable disease.” It would also free both of us from speculating about drugs that would “cure” arthritis. I can already see how her healing is going to influence future books, or notes I may write—for I’ll have to explain how the diagnosis of arthritis came about in the medical profession, how erroneous it was, and why we went along with it for so long, while all the time knowing, or at least feeling, that it wasn’t so, that there was more involved than Jane having “an incurable disease.” Interesting. Should make mighty interesting reading some day.
(But this knowledge should do wonders to help Jane free herself. I want to emphasize that, without expecting her to jump out of bed tomorrow, or making any demands at all upon her. What I’m saying, of course, is that today’s session goes along with all of the others, in that it continues to offer renewed hope in a consistent way.
(Then another interesting little event—another sign—took place as I was preparing to leave room 330 tonight at 7:00 PM. Jane cried out and said she had a sudden sharp pain in the instep of her left foot, and that right after that she felt the foot move “sideways” in a way it hadn’t done for a long, long time. Instinctively I reached out to touch the foot as she explained what had happened to me, and she cried out even louder. But I could see the foot moving, seemingly all by itself. I was delighted, and so was she. It seems to be a sign that the bodily changes reach all the way down the legs to the toes. Trust the body, I thought to myself as I drove home: It knows what it’s doing, and how to do it, without any help from “us.”
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(All in all, a most interesting, helpful and hopeful day.... I look forward tomorrow to new signs. I did read Jane the four sessions we’ve had so far, late this afternoon.)