“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As to Ruburt: it is because the legs are loosening that he cannot sometimes count upon their remaining in one position when he walks. Normal legs do not —they change with each step, and his are beginning now to move as they should.

[...] The legs are entering their final stages of adequate-enough recovery, so that the walking can be far smoother and his posture erect. [...]

[...] Then her right foot, left leg, torso, all moved well. [...] Her left leg was up 4 inches off the mattress. [...] Right leg started to open up as it had yesterday. [...]

[...] She started lifting her left leg and foot up in the air, off the mattress and pillow. [...]

[...] More left leg up-in-the-air movements, then right foot, then head. [...]

The legs have straightened—that is, the ligaments and muscles have, and to some considerable degree. It is not noticeable as it could be because they are, the legs, still in a process of change that involves the entire body. That is why he noticed the change for the better in bed, when he tried stretching his legs with no weight upon them.

[...] Earlier the legs did not need that much circulation. [...]

[...] I wanted to exercise Jane’s right leg while she was still on her back, as Seth suggested I do each day, but she decided to wait until I’d turned her. [...] The right leg moved well. Jane said the toe touching sent sensations up her legs — as Seth had said it would.

[...] I’d dreamed, in color, that Jane rebroke her right leg several times in the same place. [...]

(After a few minutes, Jane said the dream could have been related to the injuries the nurse’s aide had suffered to her own impaired leg — the one that had been stapled inside that I described in a recent session. [...]

He is right: the leg did move better this morning as he lay on the litter after hydro. [...] The legs are also progressing at their own rate, knowing themselves which activities are necessary, and when. [...]

[...] Jane told me that in hydro this morning she’d felt new movement in her right leg—the broken one—that it both tried to move more, and to straighten out more. [...]

[...] Jane’s body most definitely seems to be concentrating on its upper half, as it did yesterday, with only light motions in a leg or foot, say. [...]

The right leg is immediately before his vision, however — it is highly visible, so that he often compares its position unfavorably with that of the other leg. [...] The body can heal the leg as easily as it can heal the eyes, and as easily as it can heal the bedsores.

[...] I remarked that if she had a session today I’d like it to be on what we’d talked about before I left last night — her right leg, and related challenges. [...]

It is a good idea for now not to concentrate upon that leg, or what it must do eventually in order for walking to take place. [...]

[...] Turning her back on her back went much more easily this noon; she’s also dispensed with the pillow between her legs, and using a doughnut sponge we used to use before the leg break. [...]

[...] I massaged her neck briefly first, and her left leg. [...] After she was on her side I used Oil of Olay to massage her feet, lower legs, arms and hands, talking to all of those portions —and new movements were apparent in all areas. [...]

(Jane is off the Kefzol, the antibiotic Fred Kardon had her on after she broke her right leg. [...]

How could such things “slip my mind”?—front ligament (or muscle) of left leg this AM. [...] Shortly later—4 PM—ligaments behind both legs relax some more, delightful feelings of release to toes.

good straight legs.

send my legs racing

(Jane has been somewhat depressed the last few days because her legs have bothered her, even though evidently they’re in the process of loosening up in back of the knees. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The backs of his legs are stretching. [...]

[...] The stretching muscles are sore, but this will quickly vanish—but that soreness is a healthy sign, representing greater leg action. [...]

[...] The same process that released them is occurring in the legs. As he said once, he does not walk on his arms, so the improvement in the legs takes place in such a way that balance can be maintained. [...]

Inner mobility during this time will be sensed in the legs, though not as quickly apparent. [...] Tension in the head and neck floated down like ripples into the body, and for every obvious improvement in this kind of mobility (Jane waved her right arm about vigorously; it is much improved), inner small releases occur in the legs.

He has been used to putting his full weight on that right leg, so he is more aware of the sensations. [...] The left knee has also loosened, and the entire back of the left leg, the altered position of the right leg however means that the left leg is also uncomfortable when he walks. [...]

[...] Those same changes, however, are repeated in the right hip, the entire right leg; that knee has loosened, and ligaments, tendons, as well as muscles in the heel and ankle area are being coaxed into new activity, and in areas that have been relatively unused before. [...]

The gentle encouragement and the gentle stretching of the legs in his chair is excellent. [...]

[...] Also a large (ligament?) in front of right leg by knee is gaining motion.

PM: right side bothers me PM; leg, knee, and during night my right eye bothers me too. [...]

[...] Jane couldn’t stand for me to rub her left leg after I turned her, because of the strong “pins and needles” feelings the massaging generates in the leg. [...]

[...] “It looks like the legs and feet are trying to do the same things the hands and arms are doing,” I said. [...]

You are quite right: the legs do want, now, to act in coordination with the motion of the arms. [...]

[...] She hadn’t done badly, and I’d rubbed her legs before we slept. She had some right leg sensations—strong enough to notice but not nearly as strong as before, and she’s had them “off and on all day, particularly in the knee and lower leg. [...]

[...] The feelings in the leg and the knee do indeed signify new motion, and the willingness to move. [...]

The right leg has been preparing for some time to straighten itself further. [...] The late difficulty of the last two weeks or so coming up the garage step has simply been the result of changes in both legs —quite beneficial, although in certain positions, whenever weight must be placed exclusively on one leg, then inequalities come into play. [...]

(Today Jane’s right leg “definitely felt straighter this afternoon,” on two occasions, one of them being after her nap. [...]

Coming up the step today, though difficult, actually helped the right leg in its release. [...]

[...] Jane asked him why her right leg was shorter than the left one, and Jeff explained that the break had healed but that the bones were out of alignment, hence the shortness. He said it would take a major operation to restore the leg, with no guarantees that it could be done. A “minor” operation could fix the leg well enough so she could sit up, he said, after Jane said she wanted to start sitting up.

(It’s hardly a coincidence, then, that one of the questions I had for Seth today, and had added to yesterday’s session, concerned her right leg and why she wasn’t straightening it out. The negative part of Jeff’s information is that he said she couldn’t sit up until the leg was fixed to some degree, at least. [...] “Shit,” Jane said, “if my body can recover like it has, then it can fix the leg too.” [...]

[...] I massaged her toes as Seth had recently suggested, which got good results, then after I’d turned her, I gently worked her right leg back and forth as Seth had suggested. The knee of the broken leg actually works quite freely, I remarked — much more so than the left knee. [...] In fact, when she’s lying down, her left foot impedes the motion of her right foot and leg. [...]

In the same way, simply and gently, let him address his legs, telling them his intent to walk again. [...]

[...] She showed me how she could open up her legs more than before, and extend the right one down more. [...] She also noticed the difference in length of her legs, from hip to knee. [...] She’d never had the leg in a cast or sling, as she had the arm. [...]

[...] Then Jane said something very important—that when the guardrail on the bed in down on the left side, and the TV is pushed back out of the way, she gets the impulse to sit up in bed and swing her legs down over the side. Only she can’t straighten out her legs enough yet. [...]

[...] Jane told him she wants her legs to straighten enough so that she can start sitting up. [...]

(While I was getting set to take notes, Jane said she felt her subjective legs “going around in circles.” [...] She also felt that hands were pulling her legs down, straightening them. [...]

[...] “This must be my astral leg; it’s falling back and forth from the knee; the heel touches my spine, which I can’t do.... Now the little men are doing it with my right leg, but they’re having more trouble with it than with the left one. [...]

[...] It feels like my left leg is up higher than my right one, though I can see that it isn’t. And it’s straight. [...]