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(Very good.... [See session 472 in Volume 9 of The Early Sessions.] Material on Jane’s symptoms, interior and exterior illness, inner-self constructions and challenges, recognizing problems, etc. The viewpoint of the inner-self. Jane’s despondencies. Therapy in the symptoms, etc. Reread periodically.)

[...] If individual A is in a period of despondency, then this is because he has already become prey to negative suggestions of his own and others. [...]

If, on the other hand, thinking of him under the same conditions, you stop yourself and say gently to yourself: he will begin to feel better now—or his drinking is temporary—and there is indeed hope here, then you have given him aid, for the suggestions will at least represent some small telepathic ammunition to fight off the war of despondency.

[...] A negative thought, if it is not erased, will almost certainly result in a negative situation, a momentary despondency, a headache, according to the original intensity of the thought.

even when I am despondent

[...] If you want to change the world for the better, but you believe that it will grow worse, despite everyone’s efforts, then you are a truly despondent, perhaps misguided idealist. [...]

[...] His mood was despondent. [...]

[...] Instead, over a period of time you have been consciously entertaining negative beliefs that then generated the strong feelings of despondency.

[...] Remind yourself that life implies action and motion, and even the activity of the most despondent thought flows in great bursts of rhythm.

I am not saying that AIDS victims are outright suicides — only that in many instances the will to live is so weakened and a despondency so strong sets in that such individuals often acquiesce, finally, to their own deaths, seeing no room in the future for their own further growth or development.

(4:12.) Perhaps the greatest variances in human behavior show in mental states, and so parents are apt to feel most crushed and despondent if any of their children prove to be what is generally regarded as mentally deficient. [...]

[...] If an individual is in a state of despondency, this is because he has already become prey to negative suggestions of his own and others. [...]

“If, on the other hand, under the same circumstances, you stop yourself and say gently to yourself, ‘He will begin to feel better now, or his drinking is temporary, and there is indeed hope here,’ then you have given him aid, for the suggestions will at least represent some small telepathic ammunition to help fight off the war of despondency.

[...] A negative thought if not erased will almost certainly result in a negative condition: a momentary despondency, a headache, according to the intensity of the thought.

[...] If he cannot go around the block to start with, he feels despondent, but the habit of walking will grow as he gives it a chance.

[...] If you do this honestly, feelings of self-worthlessness or despondency will go through and vanish, changing of their own accord. [...]

[...] The framework is not thrust upon it, but indeed chosen precisely because of its own characteristics — even those of despondency, perhaps.

Tasting those qualities to the utmost, from that framework the psyche probes the fires of vitality and being as experienced from that specific viewpoint, and the despondency can be more alive than an unprobed, barely experienced joy. [...]

[...] There are no tendencies now worth speaking of, but the discouragement could in certain circumstances turn into an unhealthy despondency, and his intuitional urge to counteract it by seeking out people is a sound one.

The despondencies that he encounters also should show him that these feelings emerge into his conscious awareness now, to be dealt with, where in the past they festered beneath consciousness, and he would not admit them as a problem for he was not that aware of their existence.

[...] Now you have not come to grips with this deep despondency of your own, and you can do so. [...]

Though I haven’t explored this idea yet at all in depth, I got a feeling that by the time I’d finished Mass Events and my God of Jane I’d come to a point of indecision and perhaps certainly some despondency because I had not resolved the issues. [...]

And now because our cousin of Richelieu over here felt so sad and so despondent, I will leave you with that energy that is, after all, inherently your own. [...]

In the world as you know it, it is quite natural to feel sad, or even despondent at times. [...]

[...] The hallway between the bedroom and the bath became, symbolically, the hallway to physical activity through which he was afraid he could not pass, and through whose portals he must go alone, since he did not want to burden you with his despondency over it.

If you do not give up the misconceptions, then your emotions will be those of self-pity and despondency and they will lead you astray. [...]