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(4:05 More, stronger motions, head and chest sideways, left foot lifting up highest at the ankle that its done so far. Then Jane actually lifted the whole foot clear of the bed as it kept flexing. The knee didn’t open more, though. Breathing hard. The effort of the new motion showed in her hip and thigh and belly, tensing all of those muscles. When she rested, Jane said the foot “levitated.”
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(4:30. Suddenly Jane began to lift her entire left leg again—an inch—then two inches—off the mattress. Her belly was tense with the effort. “Safe, safe, safe,” she kept repeating to herself. Then she raised the foot three inches off the bed, flexing the foot at the same time at the ankle. Then even a bit more, breathing loudly, head going back and forth against the pillow.
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(“That can’t be,” I said, seizing upon what I thought was a very good point. “It’s contrary to say that the body can exceed it’s capacity—how can it do that? No matter how much you see someone on that TV set strain to throw a ball, kick one, or run or lift a weight, you can be sure it’s within their physical capacity. Otherwise the body couldn’t do it.” It happened that a TV program was showing segments of various sports [the sound was off] at the moment. Jane said she understood. My concern was that she become able to forget such beliefs, to revel in her body’s innate capacities without fear.
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