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An inability to face or admit, or solve, physical problems, can also be reflected in the physical condition, and reactivate earlier sensitivities, leading to a sense of hopelessness. Then you come to an impasse where there is no motion of a positive nature, either in the physical realm, or the mental or spiritual one.

The very attempt to solve the physical problems brings out inner abilities. The very attempt to solve the physical problems often solves the inner problems that are being projected upon the physical reality. You cannot stay within a physical condition you consider hopeless and not change it, and expect any kind of creativity or help. You must either accept the situation wholeheartedly, or reject it.

When you can into longer accept it then you must change it. Otherwise the feeling of hopelessness builds up. Ruburt has been afraid, because of his background, to accept the negative aspects of your exterior circumstances. He loves you so deeply that he never wants to admit that you are hurt, bitter or sad. He has always thought that you were used, mainly by your mother, but he was afraid that his statements would be misinterpreted because of his own relationship with his parents.

[...] She is being smothered, you see, by the hopelessness that surrounds her, as well as by her own hopelessness. [...]

The case is not yet hopeless, though it is deteriorating. [...]

[...] All those surrounding the woman absolutely must refrain from attitudes of hopelessness and negative suggestions, either implied or spoken. [...]

[...] That is why a feeling of hopelessness is so destructive.

[...] Feelings of hopelessness should also be verbalized. [...]

(“I was wondering about the feeling of hopelessness he gets.”)

[...] These automatically bring forth feelings of hopelessness.

He must regain that determination to return, and so should you make every effort to do the same; your feelings that the affair is hopeless do not mean that the affair is hopeless — and this must be as clearly understood as possible.

[...] Do not feel hopeless, and do not feel that you are failures. [...] Remind yourselves therefore of that fact, and do not tell yourselves that your situation in any case is a hopeless one.

[...] Hopelessness will not repair the situation.

[...] He is more consciously aware of what he is doing, so that he does not fall, for example, into self-pity so often, or feelings of hopelessness, but instead stops. [...]

[...] If one unpleasant event today automatically causes you to think of 20 more that might happen in the future and you dwell upon those, then you hopelessly confuse your body. [...]

Your idea of helping him has been to remind him of the hopelessness of his condition, to impress upon him his dependence and dire straits. [...]

[...] The situation is not nearly as hopeless as it appears, and I tell you, Joseph, that your joint feelings of hopelessness are as hypnotizing as what I just explained to you of Ruburt’s actions.

I cannot put it to you more simply than this: as long as you persist in considering the situation hopeless, then it is and you make it so. [...]

Locally you had a depressed region not yet in the kind of crisis situation that would draw great federal funds, and highly unstable social and economic conditions coupled with a sense of hopelessness.

[...] The feeling of hopelessness was out in the open for all to see, and therefore action could be taken.

The flood therefore physically materialized the inner problems of the region, and at the same time released energies that had been trapped in hopelessness.

[...] Old patterns of thought can at times rearouse feelings of hopelessness and failure. [...]

Individually, each “victim” was to one extent or another a “victim” of apathy, despair, or hopelessness, which automatically lowered bodily defenses.

[...] Often such outbreaks take place after ineffective political or social action — that is, after some unified mass social protest — has failed, or is considered hopeless. [...]

(Pause at 10:16.) Despair may seem passive only because it feels that exterior action is hopeless — but its fires rage inwardly, and that kind of contagion can leap from bed to bed and from heart to heart. [...]

The mother must change her own feeling of hopelessness, for this in itself becomes an added burden to the situation.

(Pause.) A modern Western physician — granted, with the greatest discomfiture — will inform his patient that he is about to die, impressing upon him that his situation is hopeless, and yet will react with scorn and loathing when he reads that a voodoo practitioner has put a curse upon some innocent victim.

[...] The “quacks” end up with those who are hopeless, who realize the ineffectiveness of other belief systems, find them wanting, and have no place to go. [...]

Your feelings of hopelessness must really be confronted when you feel them, otherwise they erode your position. [...]

Your feelings of hopelessness are your enemy. [...]

[...] They are the result of applied stress, exaggerated finally by feelings of hopelessness, and by some relative feelings of isolation.

[...] Your feelings of hopelessness were the result, as given in the last session, but nowhere did you thoroughly work out in the past the problems of self-disapproval; or if one managed to attain a foothold, the other did not, so you could not properly reinforce each other creatively, and became quickly discouraged.

[...] You can see how Ruburt’s body responds when he suspends self-disapproval, and when he allies himself with his nature, and when you both suspend your sense of hopelessness in that area. [...]

[...] She’d become upset as the time passed, for our conversations more and more stressed the fact, without our overtly laboring the point, that our situation is, in our minds at least, rather hopeless. [...]

[...] You have each your ways of expressing to the other silent attitudes of hopelessness or happiness. [...]