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Exuberance seems to be a quality belonging only to childhood or early youth—yet exuberance is instead the mark of healthy vitality. The mark of nature unimpeded, and it is the heritage of all living creatures. It is back toward their dimly remembered exuberance that many adults look with a sense of loss and nostalgia.

Such negative patterns in childhood cause adults to be frightened of freedom—because freedom seems to imply a threat to life and to health. There are also people, of course, who never fall prey to such unfortunate cycles, but instead remain exuberantly free and healthy. Even so, health to most people means the absence of disease, rather than a state of exuberant well-being, challenge, and fulfillment.

Children’s play is extremely important to a child’s development—and when they play children use those exquisite powers of imagination, confidence, and expectation that provide the wellspring for growth and fulfillment. (Pause.) People who are exuberant are healthy. They appreciate the richness and variety of life. Many children, however, are unfortunately taught by their parents to be suspicious of exuberance and high spirits. And ordered instead to be quiet, well-mannered and obedient.

[...] (Pause.) All of this talk about exuberance, health and vitality may seem quite beside the point to many of you. [...]

[...] Once you know this, you can begin to take steps that will serve to promote exuberance and vitality instead of fear, doubts, and “disease.”

[...] We are presently working on a book to be called The Way Toward Health, and I hope the material in that book will benefit you in the most personal of terms, and allow you to experience the exuberance, joy, strength and good health that are your heritage. [...]

Earlier we spoke about the incredible impulse on the part of all of nature toward exuberance and well-being. [...]

[...] Such attitudes will, of course, be detrimental to feelings of well-being, health, and exuberance. [...]

I bid you now a fond good afternoon, and I do indeed activate those coordinates that quicken healing and exuberance.

If an individual is hampered in that attempt strongly and persistently enough, then the dissatisfaction and frustration will be translated into a lack of physical exuberance and vitality. [...]

[...] I bid you a fond good afternoon — and I have activated those conditions and coordinates that quicken a sense of well-being and exuberance.

[...] To some degree, you squeezed your exuberance into a tight fit, and tried to make a creative productivity regulate itself, to fit the industrial time clock: so many hours bringing a feeling of virtue, even if the attitude itself cut down on the exuberance of inspiration.

The Protestant work ethics lack exuberance. [...]

[...] It takes time to paint or write, but the great inspirations of painting and writing transcend time, and the feeling of freedom and exuberance can give you in a few hours creative inspirations that have nothing to do with the time involved.

[...] In other words, illness is often first marked by a lack of zest or exuberance.

[...] When a person is feeling in good health, exuberant and alive, such queries will be nonchalantly shoved aside — they will have no effect whatsoever. [...]

[...] I enjoy the great vitality and exuberance of your reality, and our city will have joy and exuberance. [...]

[...] If our friend feels fully productive, exuberant and free to use his abilities, then he will be entirely healthy. [...]

[...] Ruburt during his period should imagine feelings of exuberance, energy, and inspiration, general feelings of release and freedom. [...]

[...] Those healing abilities, that exuberance and love of life, is from a deeper layer of the self.

Such ideas, practically speaking anyhow, deny you the use of creative energy and vitality you think you had then, that you think you do not have now—the unbridled free energy and exuberance you have equated with youth. [...]

Now you see, we must turn this energy outward in constructive ways, and in an exuberant fashion.

[...] When he is enthusiastically and exuberantly working, the past becomes comparatively insignificant for him as far as harmful elements are concerned.

[...] It is a language that promotes growth, exuberance and fulfillment, and stimulates the entire organism of the body — signaling the proper responses that are required for health and growth.

The first chapter of the book can be called, quite simply: “The Purpose of This Book, and Some Important Comments About Exuberance and Health.”

[...] He has attempted much more fully than ever to meet what he considers his responsibilities than ever before willingly, and can use an exuberance. Exuberance to him indeed is a safety valve, and all in all an excellent one when kept within bounds.

[...] Like others, though to a lesser extent, you were misled by the more gaudy desire for exuberance and freedom, which is also a basic and engaging part of his nature, and an important part actually from the standpoint of his writing and our sessions.

[...] If possible countering suggestions should carry as much exuberance, or positive energy. [...]

[...] Our mood was exuberant.)

Now I expect your joint and individual exuberance to spread in all areas of your life now—freely—but you must begin those lists and you must take what I have said this afternoon to heart, not bury it in the records.

[...] In all hypnotic sessions and in all periods of self-suggestion, emphasis should indeed be upon health, exuberance, flexibility, strength and vitality. [...]

[...] Ruburt should specifically request dreams in which he is running, with speed and flexibility, dreams in which he dances well, and dreams in which he experiences a magnificent sense of vitality and physical exuberance.

[...] Ask your natural persons to express their vitality and exuberance, and refuse to dampen their experience by frightening them with paper dragons. [...]

Now: it may seem to most people that an exuberant, always-vital, energetic, healthy body would indeed be one of the greatest gifts of all—a body that never worried or showed signs of any disorder, a body that went ahead on its own, so to speak, propelled by feelings of strength and vigor. [...]

[...] It is not realistic to expect a life of unending, exuberant health, with no momentary lapses of any kind. [...]

Ideally, the body would always right itself after such lapses from exuberant health—but even those lapses often exercise that resiliency. [...]

[...] (Pause.) It is also composed of highly charged consciousness that operates almost in a leapfrog fashion, with great bursts of exuberance and vitality. [...]

[...] Life possesses an exuberance. [...]

[...] Seek within yourself — each of you — those feelings of exuberance that you have, even if they are only occasional, and encourage those events or thoughts that bring them about.

[...] His request that you surprise him with buying him clothes is an unconscious attempt to get you to express some financial exuberance, or trust.