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[...] He knows when he has poor habits in that regard, but have him work with one, say, just one a week, rather than take on several at a time. [...]

[...] In a way, singling out particular attitudes or habits can at times be helpful, for it gives him particular issues to deal with. [...]

You are still both in the habit of minimizing improvements, and negatively projecting into the future, although at times you have spurts of confidence that are responsible for Ruburt’s quite definite physical improvement.

The lack of confidence is what you must both work at, and the old habits of thought. [...]

There is other material pertaining to you and Prentice, and Ruburt has his old habits—but for now we will let it rest. [...]

[...] The “habit” was set in the past when you “shut out” noise that you did not want to hear. You are in the habit of shutting out sound.

[...] The habit simply persisted, and you grasped upon it as the situation continued. [...]

[...] You are in the habit of shutting out sound. [...]

[...] It has taken you some time to develop these habits with such persistence. [...]

[...] To change such habits is often illuminating therefore, and that is why I mention this here. [...]

—but you made some leeway with Ruburt in your last remarks (which I’ve forgotten as I type this) and I would like him to examine his normal habits in the light of what I said about his table and arrangements. [...]

The little habits that have been built up about Ruburt’s condition should be abolished. [...]

[...] Planned distractions (with amusement) of short duration, but more numerous than your present habit allows. [...] Only your habits and attitudes have prevented this, but the idea should be practically put to work.

[...] She did not want to acquire this habit. [...]

This involvement or seeming involvement in your personal habits is somewhat ludicrous. [...]

[...] Peggy said she may have the habit of leaning on her desk at the newspaper office with her left arm or elbow; she will check.

[...] Peggy drinks one as a habit. [...]

[...] He said Peggy should surmount the problem setting up the tension in her back, which was leading in turn to the other physical symptoms, for if she did not there was a danger that any habits of rigidity would grow worse in the future. [...]

Behind all of my suggestions and attempts to help you lie realms of historical culture, or personal episodes, that go back to that main unfortunate habit of self-disapproval regarded as virtue. [...]

[...] The habits were set up. [...]

You did not trust your chair gift because of your own habit of disapproval. [...]

[...] But to some extent they added to Ruburt’s muscular habits of tension. [...]

[...] Yet because he was the one so involved, he had to test each strand, and in the meantime he still had his “old” consciousness, with its habits, to contend with.

[...] And again, your purposes will be served if you make a habit in our sessions of asking me to check into immediate probabilities as far as health is concerned.

[...] Your habit of drinking old, cold, settled coffee is not good. [...]

[...] I suggest however that you make a habit of questioning me concerning health probabilities as you go along.

[...] Ruburt, however, feels that it is not safe to express disapproval—the opposite of your habit—and so he feels threatened to some extent because your verbal expressions are so often of that nature, even if they are not directed to him, and he inhibits his own expression of any disapproval he feels, or frustrations. [...]

After Saturday both of you became frightened again, and your joint beliefs and habits of pessimism to some extent at least meant that you began to doubt the gains that had been made. [...]

[...] Not only that, but his recovery can be fairly easy, but your joint habits of pessimism color your attitudes. [...]

[...] In a few days he has rather effectively broken the habit of worrying, which alone kept his weight down.

[...] The reasons and the habits were all quite consciously available.

[...] Quite as a matter of course, household habits were such that those procedures were maintained almost automatically. [...]

[...] Income from Ruburt’s classes was lost, yet these side effects were chosen quite in line with Ruburt’s and Joseph’s conscious beliefs, habits, and practices.

This involves on his part not a conscious, but a subconscious change of habit. The new habit he has acquired very well. [...]

Without Ruburt’s now and then, really rather petty explosions, the stability of his working habits and the stability of emotional reactions would not be nearly as regular. [...]

[...] In many ways he is indeed a creature of habit, and he feels comparatively safe at the gallery and hates to give up a retreat which has helped financially, certainly. [...]

[...] He could, conceivably, act with no discipline, but he could also conceivably deny himself any freedom at all, and hide within schedule and habit.

You did not realize earlier how strong this desire for habit, and reliance upon it, could be with him. [...]

[...] These are residue, acting on habit patterns, and they must be eventually erased.

[...] The breaking of habit patterns is beneficial, but this should involve a spontaneous, pleasant adventure.

[...] Open up your imaginations in this regard ...throw off the shells of habit ...all kinds of habits (pun to Gert, a former nun). [...]

[...] Life becomes a series of habits, and in the mentally ill, for example, you may have seemingly meaningless habits, compulsively performed. [...]

[...] You are in the habit of carrying these hells and demons around with you, and if you do not watch it you will see them even in the faces of the flowers. [...]