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TPS3 Jane’s Notes Thursday, July 14 James anxiety Thursday melancholy willingness

Worked well, James. 2 hours AM. MOSTLY THOUGH, THE ODDEST FEELINGS, as if my head in particular has been held in one position only though I know it hasn’t been THAT stiff; like an iron rod from my head downward so that I had to move in one fashion; all together; and my head inside... shudders, like a car trying to start; particularly something trying to drop or extend or lengthen in the right side of my neck between head and shoulders; and my sinus drain / with this, a willingness more to walk, difficult to describe; and I feel LIGHTER ON MY FEET; though I don’t weigh much when I walk I feel very heavy... and I’m doing this James thing about leaving melancholy’s castle; surely there’s a connection. I did realize yesterday that the body’s natural “God given”! defenses include agility, responsiveness, strength, dependability, good health—and instead I undermined those and set up artificial rigidities; did realize impossible as it sounds that Seth was right—constant anxiety and tenseness caused the whole thing; and DID resolve to let it all go.

UR2 Section 5: Session 718 November 6, 1974 James view Jung tuned William

[...] Because of his own persistent melancholy, she said, James had been able to understand others with the same kind of disposition. [...]

[...] “I was getting just now,” Jane said at 8:58, “that James called his melancholy ‘a cast of soul.’” Her eyes were closed. [...]