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[...] And in the meantime, make a habit yourself of asking, as you did this evening, about walking after dinner. [...]

[...] He has a habit of ignoring his subconscious, trying to reach other centers, not by going through the subconscious but by attempting to bypass it completely.

[...] She is rather in the habit of sipping at something during sessions, since she uses her voice constantly. [...]

[...] The woman, unfortunately, was not as restrained in her drinking habits.

[...] Going downstairs after breakfast, I saw the car was gone, which meant my neighbor had moved it considerably earlier than is usually his habit, since he leaves for work sometime after I do.

Many children acquire poor health habits through the well-meaning mistakes of their parents. [...]

[...] So despite the habits built up at such times, he is to get up and move about. [...]

[...] Ruburt has the sometime habit of recording his dreams, and an interpretation of them at some times would be helpful. [...]

He is given, indeed, to a peculiar habit of sloth which he must conquer if his artistic abilities are to bear fruit. [...]

[...] Part of your stomach difficulty, and part of Ruburt’s troubles, result from poor habits.

[...] The loving encouragement, again, is highly important, for here you must change habits, both of you, of conditioning. [...]

To a large extent in the physical system, your habit of perceiving time as a sequence forms the type of experience and also limits it. This habit also unites the experiences, however. [...]

[...] With experience, the habit will lose much of its hold. [...]

[...] I write ‘were’ out of habit, because I have this delightful feeling that my printing, writing, and newspaper interests now are what led me to be drawn to the same things back then, even as my work there caused me to be interested in the same things now — an exchange across the board.

[...] Mostly habit of indecision, not having much to do with book itself.

[...] There is obviously, however, no contradiction between habits of subjective thought and creativity and the physical enjoyment of the body and its abilities.

[...] The body adjusts its rhythms in a quite healthy manner to your activities, and without polarized habits of thought, periods of deep creativity will automatically be followed by periods of walking, natural exercise of one kind or another, in which subjective thought and body motion are synchronized.

[...] Yet the self limits itself through boundaries that are arbitrary and erected through fear, and also through habit that originally had its source in the necessity for physical survival. Physical survival does not demand these habits any longer, and they remain as shackles. [...]

[...] However, in this world you are surrounded by familiar objects, details, and ideas, and your main orientation is physical so that you can operate through habit alone even when you are not as well focused within your reality as you should be.

(9:56.) When you go traveling off into other systems, however, you cannot depend upon your habits. [...]

[...] My eyes are down most of the time as I write, although I have cultivated the habit of looking up at Jane quickly every sentence or so, as a matter of routine.

(This was a reference to Bill’s habit of closely scrutinizing Jane as she delivers the material.

[...] It is the poor habits that so far remain. [...]

You are both finally making vital strides in understanding as a result of our last sessions in particular, and on Ruburt’s part because of the changed attitudes he has allowed, and the changed physical habits: the encouragement of motion, the expanded feeling of identity, which now includes the physical body rather than trying to exclude it.

[...] There is a connection of course with his mother’s reaction, simply a habit pattern where she would tell Ruburt she loved him, and then in Ruburt’s eyes be cruel.

Functions in this particular regard are habits. [...]

(We had two questions for Seth, since we’re trying to get into the habit of writing such down as they occur to us: 1. Jane wanted Seth to comment on why he’ll take off on something she’s read, and reinterpret it his own way, or carry it further; her question came up because he did this Monday while she’s reading Fred Hoyle’s book, Ten Faces of The Universe; 2. Jane wanted Seth to give information on her “significant” dream of last Saturday morning, July 1. She couldn’t remember any details from it, but has talked about it often; she thinks it had something to do with health.)

[...] Habits have an important function in your lives. [...]

[...] This does not mean that he need feel like an idiot, but that he set up a body habit for reasons that he once considered valid, and that to change it requires some conscious effort. [...]