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Ruburt’s bedsores can improve, and will indeed do so. The ritual of the dressings and so forth, and the general concentration upon those portions of his body have, in the past, helped prolong the condition. It is almost as if the bedsores are being paid tribute.
Ruburt can tell himself that the same energy that writes his books and that moved his foot up this afternoon can indeed heal those other portions of his body. They can close easily and naturally as the body follows its own spontaneous bent toward normal health. There is plenty of nutrition there now to help him, since he is assimilating protein so much better than he did before.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
Now, once more, the thing for Ruburt to remember is the sense of ease, agility, and freedom. He does feel it when his foot moves as it did this afternoon, or when other portions of his body move easily and automatically. That feeling is indeed the feeling of playfulness that I have mentioned so often. The body will follow its own order as the healing process continues, so he should not demand that it perform thus and so, for the body knows what it is doing.
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