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Now as to your noise episode, here are some suggestions for future use in any episode where irritation is involved. Followed, these suggestions will help you answer the demands put upon you when you feel the need for certain responses. When you are annoyed, if possible state your annoyance to the person involved, reasonably, (underlined) but at the time of the annoyance. When you do not respond in this manner the annoyance builds up and you are then tempted to respond to one incident as if many were involved, because the others were not responded to adequately at the time.

Your irritation would have been understandable and in proper proportion to the annoyance. When you do not behave in such a manner, bitterness piles up, and generally speaking you are not helping the other person involved. You may end up doing them harm through repressed reactions that suddenly explode.

One note. It is extremely important that your dissatisfaction be expressed to your neighbor, and by you. Ruburt may join in, but it is important that you personally express this irritation, and feel its release for yourself in so doing.

Whenever possible such reactions should always be expressed directly by the person involved to the person who causes the irritation, regardless of whatever steps may be taken. The self feels cheated otherwise to some extent. Also with such expression there is a direct involvement with the offender, and such involvement can lead to greater understanding on both parts that otherwise might not result. The interaction is important to both parties. Do you follow me?

This can indeed be experienced as an irritation, but it is a beneficial irritation—the renewed activity of bodily business. [...]

(On December 22, when I reread the session to her, Jane said, “That irritation has passed.”)

The hand was not injured, that is not knocked as by bunking, but was irritated due to a change of wrist motion occurring when he began to use a second typewriter, which he had not used for many years. [...] This caused the irritation and the subsequent nodule.

[...] The chiropractor’s suggestion that the irritation was an arthritic one was made positively; that is, without thinking he stated “Oh yes, that is not normal at all, it is an arthritic nodule.” Later, realizing that the suggestion had been a poor one, and moreover one of which he was not certain, he amended the statement, adding that such a formation could also be the result of injury or simple irritation to the joint.

[...] There is no use for me upon this occasion to do anything more than state the circumstances, except of course to suggest that Ruburt does not dwell upon the irritation.

Now: Ruburt’s irritability is partially physical of late. [...] Irritability is indeed in its way a sign of life and vitality. [...] The irritability then is a healthy, nervous reaction. [...]

Sleeping five hours or so—for Ruburt, in any case—right now is good, because his body wants to move by then, and soreness and irritability begin toward morning as a rule for that reason and at this stage.

[...] The idea was that recent interruptions “got under your skin,” and erupted, so to speak, expressing your irritation. That condition should improve now, since you recognize its cause, and the irritation has been suitably expressed. [...]

[...] I wondered, with some apparent irritation, why Jane’s inner self would permit such a detriment as the symptoms to continue for so long. [...]

(This also irritated me.

(More irritation on my part. [...]

[...] and just then, as I’m irritably aware of his reply, I realize I’m in bed and so is he. [...]

(She remembered to tell me that she’d had muscle spasms in her left leg last night, and that she got very irritated over it, but that they didn’t last long after she took her Darvoset. [...]

(Then in 330 this afternoon I began to scratch again, and discovered red irritated spots on both lower legs and on the forearms to a lesser degree. [...]

[...] The drive, when it shows itself as last evening, is often irritating because the muscles and nerves connected have been so held back, instead of a clear flow of sexual energy then.

Ruburt experienced a jerky irritation of muscles and a jangling of nerves. [...]

[...] I feel he’s irritated, but I tell myself I chose that condition with its resulting humiliations in the past and now I am choosing to be responsive; to be more alive; and those incidences will soon BE past. [...]

[...] It is quite natural that Ruburt becomes irritable at times. He should not pretend otherwise, for such irritability is short-lived, if expressed, and usually directly related to a particular difficulty in manipulation, or whatever.

[...] You would do much better by being frank with him, for he becomes irritated and resentful when he feel you are upset, and is left to guess at the cause. [...]

[...] Feeling some irritation, I let it ring until it stopped.)

[...] Jane said she got irritated at the questions, and I ended up feeling the same way. [...]

[...] Jane told us that my questions had irritated her greatly. [...] The questions re details snapped her back unpleasantly, she said, and were very irritating. [...]

[...] Jane now said the irritation she felt quite strongly just before the session, was her sensing of my own irritation at myself. As stated on page 2, she was aware of the irritation before the session, but puzzled as to its source. [...]

[...] She also felt a definite irritation, but did not know its source, or who or what the target was.

[...] Actually, she was twice irritated. [...]

And: “I’m pissed off,” Jane said now by way of further irritation. [...]

[...] I was also quite irritated, because Seth’s information had the ability to make things seem self-evident; from that point one was always left wondering how anything so basically clear and simple could be so easily missed and/or misinterpreted by those who most dearly wanted to put it to use. [...]

(I suppose my own irritation because of the points listed above communicated itself to Jane easily enough. [...]

3. And yes, the situation can be reversed, too: Seth can get irritated/frustrated with Jane and me. [...]

When you are bothered by noise and tumult, by traffic and the sound of neighbors’ voices, by lawn mowers and other irritating sounds, try this: do not fight them. [...]

As you know, even your physical system reacts when you brace yourself against these things as irritations. [...]

(Long pause.) Increased motion at certain stages can also be interpreted as irritation—a stage that quickly passes. [...]