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[...] He must not concentrate on the symptoms, but on the improvements, even when they appear minute enough. [...]

Wednesday—late morning; situation more or less the same; am having some trouble concentrating on writing though as I did yesterday; yesterday I did two fairly nice ink sketches by the way. [...]

I have told him that concentration on his work will dissipate the rest of his symptoms, but he adopted a too-conscious (underlined) deliberation here. [...]

[...] Have him see himself on the floor, for example, and get there without too much concentration upon the method or the muscles used, as this will take care of itself.

[...] The Friday syndrome is just about entirely gone—so again, do not concentrate upon the symptoms that remain. [...]

[...] Again, do not concentrate on an intellectual level, if possible. [...]

[...] Keep the object in mind, but do not concentrate upon it so intensely that you block out your own emotional, (underlined) vitality.

[...] She said she must have been concentrating, because her neck felt stiff at break.

[...] The therapies begun are continuing in more concentrated fashion, and I want both of you to note improvements, to take it for granted they are occurring, and literally to say, as Ruburt did, “To hell with it, it is happening.”

[...] To compensate—beginning at 10:35 PM —I’ll summarize my notes and concentrate upon the session proper. [...]

[...] Once again she concentrated—or her body did—on motions involving mainly her head and shoulders, torso, and to a much lesser degree for the most part, her legs and feet. [...]

(10:54.) Now Ruburt, because of his beliefs, “artificially” disciplined his muscles so that he would be forced to concentrate upon what it seemed you and he both thought was most important in life—your work.

[...] It was necessary because he believed that the spontaneous self, left alone, would not so concentrate—or that his spontaneous self would not, but would also be tempted by whatever other private pursuits. [...]

[...] Those abilities were concentrated upon. [...]

(11:42.) Now Ruburt has been concentrating upon the symptoms, imagining this or that, often not responding to the moment as it is, but to imagined future events and moments filled with threat or difficulty. [...]

[...] You can pick and choose what you concentrate upon. [...]

(9:04.) The main issue, again, must be away from a concentration on the proposition that Ruburt’s condition constantly worsens. [...] In the overall, again, the reasons behind Ruburt’s difficulty should be encouraged to rise to the surface of the mind, where they can be encountered—but the idea is not to concentrate upon those reasons but to let them be one part of a larger therapeutic motion or movement in which they show themselves in order to be orchestrated away. [...]

Concentration upon them will rise and fall naturally in the entire procedure. [...]

[...] The second way, then, is for Ruburt to concentrate upon those improvements he senses daily, either in performance or in feelings of ease, release, or relief. [...]

[...] Preparing Oversoul Seven gives him a good point of concentration, yet beyond that he should allow himself the leisure and pleasure of playing with concepts, with poetry, and even with painting. [...]

[...] Your culture says that you concentrate upon them. [...]

[...] Overall, however, the concentration upon any problem, upon its negative aspects, automatically increases the problem.

(Heartily:) To concentrate upon probable solutions is something else again.

[...] They were retained in order to maintain concentration, period. [...]

[...] You can see where in many regards your beliefs jibed, interacted, and yet you have lately both concentrated on the negative aspects, and this is one of your difficulties. [...]

[...] The more you concentrate on it as the problem in order to get rid of it, the more you blot out other aspects of experience that could help you solve it.

[...] There is a transference of main energy in deeper dream states, from physical concentration to a mental concentration, actually quite separated from physical connections.

[...] He has been concentrating too much on grading our tests.

I suggest that you hold this question until our next session, as Ruburt is tired this evening because of his concentration upon the work which I have mentioned. [...]

[...] You and Ruburt both will be involved in another period of rather concentrated psychic activity together as a main project, within a short time. [...]

Such concentrated periods of activity follow their own patterns and rhythms, and you need rest from them. [...]

[...] It will represent a highly concentrated form of activity and focus.

[...] Intensive concentration along these lines should be followed by several days when you simply do your prayer experiments and then let the whole thing drop from your mind, and give the creative inner self an opportunity to work for you. [...]

Concentrate on the health issue in your exercises for now. [...]

[...] You need not concentrate them upon one issue or another. [...]

[...] Form is the result of concentrated energy, the pattern for it caused by vividly directed emotional or psychic idea images. [...]

[...] Yours is not a system of reality formed by the most intense concentration of energy, therefore. [...]

Other portions of yourself, therefore, of which you are not consciously aware, do inhabit what you could call a supersystem of reality in which consciousness learns to handle and perceive much stronger concentrations of energy, and to construct “forms” of a different nature indeed.

[...] Your experience changes constantly, and so does the intimate context of your life — but you concentrate upon points of order, in your terms, that actually serve to scale down the context of your experience to make it more comprehensible. [...]

(Intently:) Whether dispersed, concentrated in a tight grouping, appearing “alone” or flying through other larger swarms, that particular organization represents your identity.

[...] So unknowingly, now, portions of your consciousness mix and merge with those of other species without jarring your own sense of individuality one whit — yet forming other psychological realities upon which you do not concentrate.

[...] This well-intentioned concentration, this determination to solve the problem, this rational approach, then causes an even deeper sense of inadequacy. The concentration upon the problem brings about a kind of mechanical repetition, a repeated type of hypnotic focus.

The rational approach, built up around this framework, insists that the best way to solve a problem is to concentrate upon it, to project its effects into the future, to ruminate upon its consequences, “to stare at the bare facts head on.”

(9:36.) The intellect is a great organizer — along certain lines, now — so if this concentration is continued it begins to organize its perceptions and experience along the same lines. [...]

[...] Perhaps it is unfortunate, and perhaps it is not, but if you are to become involved to any important degree in this particular kind of endeavor, then you must be willing to devote time, energy and concentration to that work.

[...] If you decide to devote this time, energy and concentration to these endeavors consistently, then you should indeed meet with success. [...]

[...] An intensification of concentration will be required of you that is somewhat difficult to achieve.

[...] He should concentrate his attention upon those periods, rather than concentrating upon the periods when he is blue or upset, and berating himself for those reactions.

(“I think such connective sessions happen between book sessions, for a change of pace — where material doesn’t have to fit a more concentrated overall book focus. [...]