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This was reflected in other portions of the body as well. As you noted, you felt off balance subjectively, and unsure. Now. You had grown used to smoking as a way of comforting yourself. You removed the comfort. You refused to add another, and at the same time you did not face the inner problem that was bothering you, that made the comfort so necessary to begin with. We will go into this more deeply, for you can indeed rid yourself of the symptoms, but I would like to make one point here first. When you bought the dog, subconsciously you felt that the dog was almost a symbol of your failure.

Now there is something else. You want comfort of a certain kind, and you will not ask it of your wife.You feel, again,that you should not need comfort, that she will interpret such a need either as weakness or that she will become frightened. You have been denying yourself comfort of this kind, and it would help prevent the periods of depression, and the mood of depression that has gradually come over you and robbed you of your resistance.

When you turned from the habit, and would have turned to food for comfort, you denied yourself this out of fear of gaining weight. Subconsciously you felt cheated. Now the comfort was needed to begin with so that you could make up for other things that you felt you did not have, and to help you cope with problems, as you are aware.

(To John:) You do not feel free to move. Symbolically you do not feel that you have freedom of motion, and you are expressing this through the body mechanism. You did indeed shake yourself up when you decided to put your smoking aside, but this was simply because you felt subconsciously a loss. The smoking to some extent had been used by you as a method of giving yourself comfort, a way of giving yourself pleasure.

It may seem that the body’s release should only bring feelings of comfort and greater ease. [...] When you are not used to trusting the body, then those activities may seem to be causes for alarm—and such fears should be expressed—as long as the other definite feelings of comfort, ease, quickness, or flexibility are also expressed.

[...] Jane has also been experiencing many other bodily changes, so that as a whole she’s felt rather besieged, and far from comfortable.

[...] Last week the eyes were relatively comfortable, for the process was continuing in lower portions of the body. [...]

The main work, meaning basic work with the neck ligaments, should soon be over, so that the eyes will be far more comfortable, and the other changes largely show in the body’s lower portions. [...]

[...] You have not, either of you, begun to appreciate your physically apparent financial abundance; and you refuse, to some extent, to take comfort from it, but instead concentrate upon high prices without being really consciously aware of the fact that you are able to meet them.

[...] It is growing and will continue to grow, but it will bring you no more comfort unless you learn to appreciate it. [...]

[...] At the same time for all your protest, the (to me) apartment noises are comforting. [...] They remind you of the noises in your family home, conflicting and yet comforting. [...]

Both of you have kept yourselves uneasy in your environment lest you become too comfortable. [...]

[...] Comfort him when this is necessary, but the comforting should follow the lines of constructive suggestions: “You will feel better soon.”

[...] It should not involve pity, for this reinforces the symptoms, but should involve a confident assurance, particularly when he is fearful—an encouragement on your part, of constructive activities, a comforting but not overindulgent attitude, you see.

[...] They couldn’t get her comfortable, she wasn’t eating breakfast, and she wanted me to come down. [...]

[...] We got her positioned much more comfortably. [...]

[...] This is a therapeutic measure that will make way for healings, comfort and reassurance, by his putting together material in different fashions, rearranging experience, turning thoughts inside out.

[...] They sit quite comfortably on their living room couch, with dinner on the coffee table, surrounded by all of the dear, homey paraphernalia that is familiar to your society.

As they sit thus comfortably ensconced (leaning forward with a smile), they observe dramas in which planets explode, and otherworld intelligences rise to challenge or to help the dauntless captain of the good ship Enterprise and the fearless “Spock” — but none of this threatens our friends, Ruburt and Joseph. [...]

[...] Now this drama becomes “more real,” more immediately probable, less comfortable. [...]

(Jane was a bit more comfortable lying on her back today, though not a great deal. [...]

[...] I didn’t get to their house until after 7:30 because I’d been trying to help Jane get more comfortable. [...]

(Long pause at 9:04.) There is no doubt that differing portions of Ruburt’s body are quite comfortable, and far more flexible, when he relaxes in such a fashion. [...]

[...] It is even safe to explore that nature, and it is safe to allow himself to take some comfort in the source of being. [...]

(9:53.) To some extent both of you, and by your own choices, have established your own laboratory of the mind, in which you live your lives and examine them at the same time—and in which you try to view any maladies and dissatisfactions by different standards; and in a light that requires more of you, so that you do not rely as others do upon the comforts of conventionalized knowledge in any field.

You are, it seems, denied the easier satisfactions of accepted answers (pause), and to some extent denied the cozy comfort of shared beliefs. [...]

The idea of comfort foods, however—foods which bring comfort, favorites from childhood or whenever, can be excellent aids. [...]

(“When I get comfortable in my chair, then I start drifting,” Jane said as I worked on these notes. [...]

(“Well, at least I’m somewhat comfortable in the chair tonight,” Jane said as we waited at 8:58. [...] Yet at the same time she sat stiffly forward, her body canted to her left; she didn’t look comfortable, and she decided to try the foam rubber pads beneath her thighs, a move that sometimes “helps relieve the pressure on those [pelvic] bones back there, and keeps me from feeling that I’m falling forward. [...]

[...] Jane’s delivery had been quite good, although she hadn’t appeared to be too comfortable in her chair. [...]

(A nurse and an aide met me at the door to 330 this noon and told me that they’d spent half an hour trying to get Jane comfortable. [...]

This does also allow you to give him some comfort, and help alleviate any feelings you have of not being able to help enough. [...]

[...] All at once I knew I’d be able to eat breakfast — maybe not in comfort, but at least eat. [...]

[...] The majority of individuals have bouts of poor health now and then, from which they recover — so that all in all a fairly comfortable medium is struck.

[...] Room 330 was on the chilly side to me, but Jane was comfortable.

[...] It should be helpful, and certainly somewhat comforting, to realize that even unfortunate birth conditions were not forced upon you by some outside agency, but chosen at inner levels of your own reality.

[...] They will try out the ideas, many of them, to the best of their ability, and learn and gain much, all the time hanging on safely to the banners of conventional beliefs—and Ruburt has allowed himself no such comforts. [...]

Would the library return—a symbol of both of your fears that creativity might not go hand-in-hand with some kind of relative comfort. [...]

[...] Ruburt at that time tried to comfort you as a woman, through caresses, and offering frequent sexual comfort. [...]

[...] This symbolically highlighted the whole affair, and brought it too close to consciousness for either of your comforts.

Now Ruburt strongly reacted this time positively, when you massaged his leg, because he interprets your feelings toward his symptoms in this manner: you will not comfort his body physically because you do not like it. [...]

He has been much more comfortable when he is alone in the mornings and you are at work, because he feels you do not see him at his worst. [...]

[...] Then sometime later I realized I’d been very comfortable, sleeping great, but was now getting sore again—hips in particular, and arms. [...]

[...] Get comfortable in a chair or on a bed. [...]

[...] Sit comfortably in a chair or lie on a bed. [...]

If you hear him uncomfortable in the night, a word of comfort does make him feel less isolated. [...]