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To Ruburt. (Pause.) The further agility and freedom he is allowing himself psychologically and psychically is now leading him to the greater physical agility he desires. The idea of strands of consciousness is important, for he can now choose strands. He is beginning to understand that bringing greater freedom to habitual physical thought patterns forms strands of consciousness that you can then follow.

He sees this. You can simply refuse to follow one habitual strand. The strands form experience. They are carriers of pictures and images, and expectations—the threads with which you form the sparkling web of physical life.

[...] In each individual, certain categories of action may be habitually denied. As the characteristics of a personality may be somewhat deduced from those actions which the ego accepts, so also much may be learned about any given personality by a study of those actions which the ego habitually denies.

The ego, then, is as much characterized by those types of action which it habitually denies, as by those types of actions which it habitually accepts. [...]

It should be obvious that in Ruburt’s case no such habitual rejections by his ego have backed up in this manner. [...]

I am not telling either of you to ignore a physical fact, but to avoid habitual, often unthinking negative suggestions that might prolong it. [...]

[...] The ritual involved in opening the cans was a constant habitual negative reinforcement.

Quite hidden, all the habitual rituals of a family have deep psychological connotations. [...]

[...] Before he simply acquiesced to then, and was not able to perceive them as troublesome habitual patterns. [...]

[...] He trusts your common sense, and such a measure will insure that the habitual mood reactions are cut short.

[...] They have lasted because their nature was not understood, and Ruburt habitually kept them in consciousness.

According to the particular case in point, the therapist should then try to point out the errors of thought and belief involved, and also to explain their more or less habitual cast.

First, the ideas must be disentangled, and then the habitual behavior will begin to disintegrate. [...]

[...] The large events of your life, your interactions with others, including the habitual workings of the most minute physical events within your body — all of this follows your conscious belief.

Each of you will find habitual thought patterns in your own life backed up by resulting action — conditioned behavior as it were — by which you continually reinforce negative aspects, concentrate upon them to the exclusion of conflicting data, and so bring them into experience through natural hypnosis.

(11:10.) There should be considerable improved functioning noticeable in Ruburt’s body—some considerable lack of habitual restraint in motion occurring, say, as affairs now stand, anywhere from now to a week or ten days.

[...] You react to your beliefs habitually, often unthinkingly, and in usual ideas of time, and in your experience of it — you must allow yourself “some time” to change that habitual behavior.

[...] Habitual muscle strain is involved, that smothers joints and does not give them room to move.

[...] Even small changes in your habitual ways of doing things will initiate further feelings of freedom, and let you see that many of your taken-for-granted timely actions are highly ritualized.

[...] The cortisone itself to some extent becomes habitual. Now not habit forming, but habitual. [...]

[...] Some muscles were habitually tensed, and the balance thrown off. [...]

[...] The problem is not in the exterior circumstances but in your own mental attitude toward them, and in the habitual patterns of thought that you have subjectively accepted.

[...] Through association in periods of depression a connection can be built up—a habitual pattern in which bad weather suggests depression and vice-versa.

[...] Take a poor day, a dark day for example, a poor habitual reaction, a handful of negative suggestions, and some symptoms, and it does not add up to much.

The feeling even astonished you, so by contrast it should show you your own mode of thought habitually, and by implication suggest Ruburt’s. The experience should have been illuminating.

Old habitual thought patterns are being worked out through the dream communications. [...]

[...] Such habitual, unhappy thoughts will bring about the same kind of physical experience, but it is your own system of beliefs that you must examine.

(9:34.) If you habitually deny the expression of any emotions, to that degree you become alienated not only from your body but from your conscious ideas. [...]

Now: It is true that habitual thoughts of love, optimism and self-acceptance are better for you than their opposites; but again, your beliefs about yourself will automatically attract thoughts that are consistent with your ideas. [...]

[...] This does not mean that elation will not occur but that a balancing upswing of habitual emotion is being accomplished.

[...] Damned up, such sexuality still keeps trying for expression, and it is often men of habitual “sexual discipline” who suddenly break out in bouts of sexual promiscuity or violence.

[...] Whatever you habitually think sinks into the subconscious. [...]

[...] The worry over Seven, for example, was not strong enough to cause such a reaction if the habitual body pattern was being consciously recognized and encountered.

[...] Whatever you habitually think sinks into the subconscious. [...]