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He creates impediments then as in the other area he creates success. To a lesser extent this applies to your own approach also. Creativity is involved. Let us look then at the third area, for at one time you both also to some extent imagined impediments, changed your approach, and found new results. That area is the financial one, that indeed does now seem to come with an almost magical ease.

There were other issues that have been mentioned, concerning you and the marketplace, but Ruburt’s creativity straddled poor beliefs finally. He stopped looking for financial impediments. He did not worry about money. Just not worrying about it immediately began to give you some financial gain, for in Framework 2 conditions were reversed, and the imagined impediments were not projected into the future. Finally, in Framework 1 those gains began to show: the evidence, in other words. (Amused:) Then, in Framework 1, you had some success to bank upon.

(9:45.) Now let us look at Framework 2. Your ideas come and go effortlessly, without impediments, with a sense of ease that is taken for granted. Your freedom to think is so transparent and natural that you are scarcely aware of it. That freedom comes from Framework 2, as does the great creativity it makes possible. So in certain terms everyone exists in Framework 2. Many people, however, live out their lives, practically speaking, in Framework 1. Ruburt’s physical condition has been most troublesome to you both, for in that area you have stressed impediments and felt a lack of control. Many people, however, experience such difficulty in all areas of their lives, with nothing in their own experience that they can trust to give them evidence for a greater reality or control over their own destinies.

[...] In your situations and compared with others you can hardly complain of a lack, as far as impediments from without are concerned. So the impediments or the feeling of a lack of freedom comes from within.

We will have much to say concerning impediments; and impediments, incidentally, are what you call negative suggestions. And yet remember that these impediments are themselves action.

[...] It cannot so impede action directly, for the very act of forming such impediments involves action. Nevertheless such impediments often set up actions that block the overall movement or direction of the action that composes the whole personality.

[...] It is most frequently the error of the ego, who upon many occasions attempts to deny its dependency upon this cooperation, that sets up impediments, and sets up countersuggestions that can be somewhat considered cancerous, in that if it had its way the ego would envelop all other aspects of the whole organism, and run riot.

[...] The main impediments standing in the way of the time of choosing are, of course, the faulty ideas harbored by any given individual.

Obviously, however, these conditions are also impediments to the time of choosing. [...]

[...] Many of the impediments that I have mentioned impede progress not only after death, but during your own physical existence. [...]

[...] Now Ruburt could say “I cannot write that book, or wonder how many pages it might have,” or think of the endless impediments that might prevent the book from being written. [...]

[...] You do not imagine impediments.

If you began to think in terms of beautifully produced books, without imagining impediments, then automatically the process would begin. [...]

Framework 1 always concentrates upon impediments. [...] He did not think of impediments in that manner.

[...] There are no impediments to prevent it. [...]

(I have the simple, profound faith that anything I desire in this life can come to me from Framework 2. There are no impediments in Framework 2. Framework 2 can creatively produce everything I desire to have in Framework 1—my excellent health, painting, and writing, my excellent relationship with Jane, Jane’s own spontaneous and glowing physical flexibility and creativity, the greater and greater sales of all of her books. [...]

[...] The giant strides necessary involve striding across one’s concerns over impediments, and focusing upon ends. No matter what any impediments may seem to be, they have to be set aside in order to attain that larger goal. [...]

There are no impediments in Framework 2, then, to desires that are natural, creative, and that promote life. [...]

Now the books exist, for no impediments were put in the way here, yet again there was no physical evidence. [...]

[...] Lately I’ve been suggesting to Jane that when she finds herself hassling something she reminds herself that she has “a simple, profound faith that whatever needs to be done for an improvement in my health can take place in Framework 2. There are no impediments in Framework 2. Its creative workings there can show themselves in Framework 1, in my improved physical condition. [...]

[...] Both of you do indeed think in terms of impediments that do indeed seem all too real: the responsibility of maintaining good health, the financial question — and on Ruburt’s part, at least, the fear that he would not recover fully enough, but become ill again and require hospital attention once more.

[...] Begin to consider plans — for the plans themselves will help Ruburt’s condition improve, and will begin to diminish those impediments that now loom so large in both of your minds.

[...] They are beneath him, such fears, but unvoiced they become impediments. [...]

[...] The impediment with reincarnation has nothing to do with his intuitive understanding of it, which was always reflected in his writing. [...]

[...] You do not imagine the existence of blocks or impediments in your way, in the form of additional furniture placed in your path by accident, fate, or design. [...]

[...] Such people begin to imagine impediments in their paths as surely as anyone would who imagined that physical barriers were suddenly put up between them and a table they wanted to reach at the end of the room.

[...] When he is writing he does not think in terms of impediments. What impediments there may be, he brushes aside.

[...] Minimize impediments in your mind and they do become minimized. Exaggerate impediments in your mind and in reality they will quickly adopt giant size.

[...] You have accepted certain impediments of a normal nature, Ruburt’s health difficulties, your problems with chores versus work, or hassles with Prentice—because you believe that in some strange fashion these connect you with others of your kind, and with physical existence itself.

[...] Both of you there have concentrated upon impediments, and suddenly, finally, his desire led him to begin typing the book. [...]

Your time concepts are particularly limiting, because they lead you into a particular focus in which you concentrate upon impediments to your desire. [...]

[...] Now that causes an additional tension, and impediments in Framework 1 that slow down the process to whatever degree, which is exactly what you want to avoid.

[...] You are affecting it properly, but your worry causes impediments.

[...] I keep comparing that to creative activity because the same principles are involved—and impediments do disappear.

It is not so much that he has been worrying—but at times he does think of the impediments that stand seemingly in his way. [...]

(3:45, Carla took Jane’s temperature — 98.4. I read to Jane the session for February 17, concerning impediments in health versus her utter freedom in writing. [...]