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These need not be necessarily violent motions, but they will induce a feeling of freedom and spontaneity, and increase blood circulation. He should in his exercises imagine strenuous exercise, running very fast for example, until in his mind’s eye his muscles are fully relaxed.

Running until he feels himself out of breath, or dancing to the same degree. The system should be fully activated, you see, and flushed out through such activities. Now. Strenuous exercise, not necessarily overdone you understand, but strenuous exercise physically and imagined, will in itself lead to the kind of deep relaxation that he also must learn now to achieve, and which is needed by the system.

I suggest the exercising images be executed in the time now given to the relaxation exercises, and replacing those in the book (Psycho-Cybernetics). Let him imagine himself performing varied vigorous activities until he is nearly exhausted, and then imagine the ensuing deep relaxation.

I will then close our session. You should also follow the program outlined in the book. If you find it difficult to take a half hour for each exercise, then take what you can, but do each exercise. My heartiest wishes to you both. My congratulations on your progress.

Exercises so far have been too intensely entered into. He was so intent upon performing all given, either exercise or posture, that he became discouraged and pessimistic. [...] Its exercise function is secondary. [...]

He did this even in the mental exercises I suggested. I now recommend all endeavors that combine enjoyment and exercise, where the exercise at least to his mind is incidental, or at least secondary.

He need not decide, now, whether these be yoga or other exercises. He can do one one day and one another if he chooses— but fifteen minutes minimum of any kind of exercising activity.

His success practice is coming along exceptionally well, much better than the relaxation exercises. [...]

[...] You must do this exercise, however, for simply reading about it will not give you the experience that comes from the actual exercise. [...]

[...] These exercises will bring you in contact with other kinds of knowing, and acquaint you with different feelings of consciousness that are not familiar. Your consciousness itself will then have a different feel as the exercises are done. [...]

The other exercises, in fact, will result in a clearer picture of the world, for they will facilitate the very motion of your perceptions, allowing you to perceive nuances in the physical situation that before would have escaped your notice. [...] Therefore the exercises will be important because they will offer you evidence of your own greater perceptive abilities.

[...] I am going to suggest, then, some simple exercises that will allow you to directly experience the “feel of your being” in a different way.

It places his mind on physical performance, and leads automatically into the future in a positive way as he achieves in simpler exercises and then goes on. The exercises themselves then help combat negative suggestions on both of your parts, for you are reassured by any progress. [...]

There will be a beneficial mental and physical carryover from the exercises to other activities, particularly as the trust is built up. [...] The exercises in the past would not have been effective. [...]

[...] The physical assertion of the exercises is good. [...]

In the exercises both will, faith and assertion, come into play in coordinated effort that is met by performance, and by achievement. [...]

Whenever you find yourself thinking of your bank account follow the exercise I have just given you. [...] I am suggesting that you devote the same amount of time constructively that you are now spending destructively, and that the new exercises take the place of the old automatically followed negative exercises that you have indeed been faithfully following.

For all of your objections Ruburt has studiously taken 15 or 20 minutes a day in what he rightly believes to be practical exercises to better your financial condition. He has had enough success spasmodically to know that the exercises work.

Since you are however so strongly concerned with it these exercises will be of great benefit. [...] Now Ruburt in his exercises has been imagining vividly his dream book sold, selling. [...]

[...] You should not ideally have to do any exercises. They are to counter the negative exercises that you are doing.

The populace has embarked upon this strong exercise program because of a mixture of very unfortunate beliefs. [...] Often people exercise over-zealously to punish their bodies, or to force the body to respond at its best, since they do not trust it to do otherwise.

[...] Right now it is socially fashionable to take up some kind of exercise, gym work, or strenuous sport, so it seems obvious that the general populace must have a great regard for the physical body. [...]

(4:27.) In many instances people exercise quite simply because they are afraid of what will happen if they do not. [...]

[...] I worked on mail while it was running, but couldn’t help Jane with a session, exercises, and so forth until it was over. [...]

We want to devote ourself now to some motion exercises, and I may or may not return, again according to those rhythms of which I so often speak. [...]

[...] But right now she wanted to do exercises. [...]

[...] She was to do the exercises without wondering which ones to do, etc., just as she was to accept the body’s own order in the unconscious healing process.

For another exercise, imagine that you are in another part of the world entirely, but in present time, and ask yourself the same questions. [...] Conduct your own variations of these exercises. [...]

[...] In their pretending they exercise their consciousness in a particularly advantageous way. [...]

Alter your time orientation in other such exercises. [...]

[...] Done playfully, such exercises will allow you a good subjective feel for your own inner existence as it is apart from the time context.

[...] Ruburt should continue with his exercises, as they are unusually beneficial for him. [...]

[...] The exercises give a daily relief, and creative refreshment. [...]

If Ruburt will begin his exercises again he will notice an immediate improvement. [...]

Take as much time as you want to with this exercise. [...] This is an excellent exercise to use before you begin — and after you finish with — any experiment involving an alteration of consciousness.

[...] So this exercise will allow you to attend — to focus your awareness to the matters at hand as clearly and vividly as possible. The subjective knowledge of your own point of finest focus will also serve as a reference point for many other exercises.

In our just-previous exercise, when I spoke of having you let your clear perception drop away, and told you to disconnect vision from hearing, you were drifting in terms of your own home station. [...] In the beginning, 15 minutes at most for this exercise; but let your awareness drift in whatever direction you have chosen.

One of the simplest exercises is hardly an original one, but it is of great benefit.

(The yoga exercises have helped some, she said. [...]

[...] He is still doing well with the exercises. [...]

The suggestions should definitely be renewed, with a light touch, but they will make the exercises much more effective. [...]

[...] He is about over the long sleep cycle that followed directly on beginning the exercises. [...]

[...] This exercise should not be done along with the point of power exercise given earlier. [...]

[...] When the exercise is finished do not dwell upon it. [...]

[...] But continue the exercise even if this happens.

You are to begin the book together, making notations as what I say applies personally, and together each of you following through with the exercises given. [...] Before any time-consuming exercises are given however, read the book together and discuss it as it applies.

[...] The exercises will serve you as well as Ruburt. [...] Your own creativity will be vastly improved, and the exercises dealing with feelings will be invaluable to both of you.

[...] Reading it and following the exercises will initiate your own inner and outer motion.

[...] This is an exercise, Peggy told us at break, that she does each morning. Like Jane, she works out with yoga each day, but rushes the exercises in the morning while dressing for work. [...] Seth was right here, according to Peggy, for lately she felt she had been hurrying the exercises too much. Seth told Peggy the rapid neck rolls, which are an exercise supposed to be done slowly, were actually being detrimental to her. In addition, Peggy should be careful at the end of this exercise, when she drops her head forward, supposedly in a relaxed manner. [...] Peggy agreed that she ended the exercise in this manner; and again, she had not thought to mention this to Jane previously.

(Seth told Peggy the yoga exercises were basically excellent for her if done at the proper tempo, and to keep them up. [...]

Indeed, if after such an enjoyable exercise you look about you and compare what you have envisioned with what you have, then you may feel worse than you did before. [...] To some extent, however, according to your freedom within it, such an exercise will automatically rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit, and begin to draw to you whatever equivalent is possible for you within the world of facts that you know (emphatically).

In the exercise just given, you use the belief in effective change in any given area, and then allow your imagination freedom along those directed lines. Such an exercise automatically does even more, opening up the window of perception and letting in the knowledge and experience of other portions of the self. [...]

[...] Yet often your freewheeling, “silly,” seemingly unrealistic imagination will bring you quite practical solutions to your problems, for if the exercise is done properly you will be automatically releasing yourself from restrictions that you have taken for granted.

[...] Now: No Sir Galahad may appear, but if the exercise is pursued properly you will automatically begin to feel loved, and therefore worthy of love, and lovable, where before you felt rejected, unworthy and inferior. [...]

[...] All of these exercises provide training that helps you in all your other work. This particular exercise however definitely requires some success in the recognition of dream projections.

[...] You are bringing into operation, and exercising a higher faculty, and through these exercises this faculty matures.

[...] I am telling this to you because you may find that you are performing this exercise spontaneously. [...]

[...] One of these will be a mental exercise, taking no more than ten minutes, and if done properly, only three times a week, will be of great benefit in keeping joints and muscles loose and free. (Pause.) I should perhaps give you that exercise now.

The lengthening exercise to be emphasized with the arms particularly. [...] That is the end of the exercise.

[...] He should then imagine the neck revolving easily and normally three times in each direction; mentally here doing the yoga neck exercise that he recalls.

It will do good also if during the day occasionally he imagines the exercise as he goes about his chores, but he should not do this willfully, with an intent to command physical performance. [...]

As far as Ruburt’s motions are concerned, the body is following its own rhythms, which will sometimes involve overt, noticeable exercise and activity on the one hand, while on the other it exercises internally, so to speak, making all preparations for the other later exercises and motion. [...]

[...] I wanted to exercise Jane’s right leg while she was still on her back, as Seth suggested I do each day, but she decided to wait until I’d turned her. [...]

[...] The body is therefore affected physically, since certain portions of it are not normally used or exercised, and other portions are kept in a state of strain.

[...] This automatically released, exercised and relaxed areas of the chest, shoulders and back. [...]

I suggest therefore at this point, that you encourage Ruburt in spontaneous physical activity as divorced, say, from a discipline exercise. [...]

[...] We are trying to initiate some small exercises that will encourage freedom, both mentally and physically.

If the exercise is done correctly it is literally impossible for the old idea to obtain any energy for its continuance and your attention is directed to the desired end. [...] If this is the case then the exercise should be continued until you imagine you yourself deciding upon and bringing about the destruction and replacement. [...] Such exercises will cut down the physical time involved however.

[...] The following mental exercise is most effective. [...]

The same exercise can be done while dreaming, you see.

[...] In the exercise you see the house can simply represent fear, for a basic therapeutic method, and the new house confidence.