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(11:03.) You told Ruburt that when he came down the stairs (this evening) you felt he would get well. This was an intuitive breakthrough on your part, and highly encouraged him. It is extremely important that you think and feel in those terms.

He has finally decided to gain weight, and this in turn will alter his physical image and his conception of it for the better. Your sharing of the intuitive feeling however was extremely important and of great benefit. He needs encouragement, but then he will respond to it as a duck to water.

Your going out was good. I have mentioned this before. The larger variety simply of electromagnetic ranges makes for alterations in both your mental and physical states. Some loving, gentle but firm encouragement and practice on the stairs would be of help, and definitely a concentration upon achievements in any area rather than on failures.

People in the sports arena also often encourage the concept that sexual expression is somehow debilitating to the male, and can weaken his constitution. [...] The fact is that sexual expression is, again, an important element in the entire range of human experience, encouraging mental and physical health and vitality.

There are so many other elements involved in human nature that I do not really want to point out any culprits, yet male-segregated communities are obviously notorious for encouraging that kind of behavior. [...]

Also, as you have been, but even more actively, gently encourage him to express his feelings. He had begun to do this, but your encouragement means much to him along this line, as he still looks to see whether you approve or disapprove. In any given case let him for example know if you disagree with what he is saying, while still encouraging him to say it. [...]

[...] Now I suggest that you playfully encourage him to increased motion. [...] He knows this, but with your encouragement, active but playful, you can accomplish very much here. [...]

[...] The thing is to encourage playful and spontaneous motion while making sure there is no concentration (underlined), upon motions that are still somewhat hampered. [...]

[...] You still allow your imagination to follow your negative beliefs, thus you (me, RFB) are often unable to encourage Ruburt actively, as he is often unable to encourage himself.

[...] You cannot encourage him, saying “I know you can do it, honey, don’t worry about it, you’ll do better next time,” when you are quite firmly convinced of the opposite.

[...] In such circumstances you do not encourage each other, but each add to the problem. [...]

[...] This also encourages various kinds of hysterical reactions, as well as a larger frequency of “contagious diseases” than is experienced by the normal population.

[...] If human relationships are highly regulated and supervised, or family members encouraged to spy upon their relatives or friends, then you have the same kind of curtailment of natural expression and communication.

Again, to a certain degree, religion and science — and the medical sciences in particular — seem devoted to encouraging the most negative beliefs about human nature. [...]

[...] The muscles should be encouraged to relax. [...]

The yoga exercises encourage the muscles to stretch as well as relax, and so far his choice of exercises is good. [...]

[...] With some variation these drugs are actually sometimes given to overactive children, where their effects can be very unpredictable, and result in moods that encourage suicidal tendencies, even in those so young.

It is true that some schools of knowledge almost glorify the use of some drugs as encouraging the expansion of consciousness and the release of repression. [...]

(Very long pause at 3:14.) Doctors should be extremely cautious in the prescription of mind-altering drugs of any kind, and certainly not encourage their use for people in depressed states. [...]

There are individuals who do choose ahead of time — in one lifetime or another — to accept such a divergent genetic heritage for their own reasons — often to experience life from one of its most unique aspects, and sometimes in order to encourage the growth of other abilities that might not otherwise occur.

[...] Because the reasons for any such conditions can be so diverse, then life should be encouraged even in the face of deformities. [...]

Once more, I accelerate those coordinates that quicken your own peace of body and mind, and encourage your own healing processes — and I bid you a most fond early evening.

[...] Now: If this is all you could do from the outside, then how difficult do you think it is for him to encourage himself from the inside?

One particular summer you each made joint effort at the kind of encouragement of which I am speaking, and you got definite results. [...]

Love-making makes your situation safer, so that it encourages expression and automatically comforts all portions of the self. [...]

(Long pause.) Expression should be encouraged on both of your parts, so that that nonspecific directive is freer to find its own specific utterance. [...]

[...] Planning for a small group is (underlined) constructive, and should be encouraged. [...]

[...] comparatively, and both of us felt more encouraged today. [...]

[...] Encourage thoughts or daydreams that have to do with the simple enjoyment of life, and of your abilities. [...]

[...] Both of us were encouraged. [...]

You must realize that expression and not repression is the natural complement of creative abilities, and that in freeing his body, in encouraging physical mobility, he also encourages and frees his inspiration, his psychic awareness, and creativity.

[...] It takes your time, and his now, to encourage his walking, and if this is in “working hours,” both of your old beliefs are directly challenged.

[...] Definitely encourage his walking as you have planned to together. [...]

[...] “Well, this session easily describes the most encouraging news yet,” I told Jane. [...]

(“I guess what I mean is that I’m really encouraged,” she said, elated. [...]

[...] We were very encouraged.)

He did not feel encouraged in those directions in the kitchen. This was the result of his own situation, of course—and yet it is also a symptom of the joint situation as each of you set it up, for as he abdicated responsibilities, so you rationalized your fears, and did not encourage that kind of activity to the extent that you might have.

[...] As to Ruburt: first of all, he is at another stage, and one in which motion should be gently—persistently but gently—encouraged. [...]

The gentle encouragement and the gentle stretching of the legs in his chair is excellent. [...]

Strangely enough, in encouraging his spontaneity you are encouraging your own, because often he acts for both of you. [...]

[...] At one time he felt his emotional spontaneity was indeed admired by you and encouraged, and he blossomed. [...]

You are “above” some of his hassles, but familiar with them, so you can help by offering encouragement precisely when he is down. [...]

Encouraging Ruburt’s physical spontaneity now, you symbolically encourage your own inner spontaneity, and both of you recognize that. [...]

[...] Signs seem very encouraging. [...]

[...] The dreams were meant to encourage him and to show him that the inner order of events does assure his improvements.

You still do not encourage, now, lovingly (underlined) Ruburt to discuss his fears. [...]

Loving encouragement in getting rid of those would have taken care of the trip difficulties. [...]

Again, your loving encouragement that he can, for example, go down a step is highly important and supportive. [...]

2. Rob’s loving encouragement. [...]

[...] This will also encourage him as the two of you quite freely discuss all aspects, and he will not harbor worries that he can speak frankly in the context of the conversation.

[...] Encourage him to do so, get them out in the open where they can quite easily be handled with your help.

[...] The boy should be encouraged to continue painting, regardless of the fact that she knows nothing about it. [...]

[...] At certain tides she rose to peaks of high encouragement that helped him. [...]