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The images he is using, as per the belt for his dungarees, is an excellent example of how old familiarity of motion can come to his aid. The new motion involving his hips is also immensely beneficial—and once awakened those motions can now continue to improve.

(At 3:56 Dawn came in to take Jane’s temperature—97.3—and her pulse. After Dawn left Jane said she felt motion in her hips for the first time. She could feel them shifting from side to side as she lay on her back in bed. I could see hints of the motions. Another first, I told her. This would be very important, for now her hips wouldn’t always be laying upon the bed like a dead weight. “The first time I could move them,” Jane said. This could be a very important development. “They definitely moved in a new way for the first time.”

(Jane had an excellent lunch. At 3:30 she began to have a lot of new motions in her neck, rotating her head much more freely from side to side than she’s been able to do so far. It helped the whole back, I said. Her shoulders raised and moved better also. Jane was moving her arms and hands to some extent during lunch. Her toes have been moving also, she said.

(3:40. Now Jane’s feet and ankles began to move in rhythm—just as though she were pedaling a bicycle, she said—and as she grunted and groaned with the effort the feet began to easily move the fastest I’ve seen them do yet. Even her head raised and lowered itself on the pillow in time with the foot motions.

[...] I thought her fear of motion was involved, as well as old family stuff, and she agreed. Half crying, she began more motions with her arms and hands. [...]

[...] The key, I said, was the reference to her understanding physical motion. [...] I gave her eye drops and turned up the TV after she’d gone through various additional motions. [...]

[...] “You’d better get out of here,” Jane said, meaning that the longer I stayed, the longer she’d keep up her motions. [...] I told her often how great it was to see her move, and that her motions only meant that her body was more than willing to cooperate if allowed to. [...]

[...] I massaged under her left knee when she asked me to, almost at once, and was pleased to see the motion in her leg, and head and shoulders, return once again. [...]

[...] Jane began a series of motions again, her left leg going sideways, her head in rhythm also. Different motions were involved in the foot, and I could see the muscles in her left leg moving with the effort. [...] More and more the more inactive right leg and foot show signs of wanting to join in the daily dance of motion. [...]

[...] No one else has noticed her new motions yet. At various times she’s also felt motion even with her head and shoulders. [...]

[...] Generalized body motions. “When everything gets moving like that,” Jane said, as far as the motion goes, it has its own impetus.” [...]

[...] I said the motion came first as far as I knew. [...]

It is true, again, that an initial corresponding inner freedom makes the motion possible, and that the motion itself already means that the mental image of new motion is replacing the old one. The physical motion is obviously the materialization of inner willingness, but you must also set up the opportunity for this to happen. [...]

[...] And the will, now, can be used to initiate a series of actions that will be spontaneous; and the motions now, the physical motions, in turn set up mental images of spontaneity that become self-generating. [...]

This jumping off the radiator the other day, in one stroke disintegrated one such detrimental image that had impeded physical motion. Now it is true that initially the motion was made in his mind, and accepted, but the will can also be used to initiate such actions. [...]

We simply want to remind him again of translating the idea of motion into physical motion. [...]

[...] “That sudden motion shows what potential is still there. [...] After all, if the motion had been allowed on a daily basis, the ulcers would never have developed in the first place. [...]

The body itself definitely responds to such actions, and at minute levels the muscles and all parts of the body actually move as they would if the motions were physically activated. They practice physical motion, in other words. [...]

[...] More head and left leg and foot motions—rather strong. [...]

[...] Those areas are awakening, and the new unaccustomed motions are the cause of the discomfort—a discomfort which will vanish in no time as the body continues its improvements. [...]

[...] They were the best motions in that area she’s shown for a long time. [...] I asked her if the new motions were a sign of the greater freedom of motion she would soon be showing, according to Seth in last night’s session [on the 28th], but she was noncommittal. [...]

(I told her the increased motion represented the key to getting her decubiti under control, that any fears she had about increased freedom of motion simply had to be either dismissed or much downgraded-—turned into positive forces and actions toward motion so that her whole body could mend itself. [...]

His increased energy will show as his increased and increasing motions become more apparent. [...]

[...] Another bout of strong motion—head and torso sideways, left foot up in the air—crying out to me. I offered support, touching her right arm without interfering with motion. [...]

[...] Left leg up, torso side to side—almost violent motions for my wife—excellent signs. Jane felt motions in her hips and right leg and stomach—I could see them. [...]

[...] I feel Seth around but every time I think of having a session I start doing something with motion....” [...] I told her the motion was to come first, since that’s what the sessions were supposed to help her achieve.

[...] Did okay in hydro, trying out a few motions. [...]

Previous to that he had held his head, neck, shoulders, and arms, using them almost as one block, allowing those motions necessary for typing and reading, with some additional motions possible for the few chores he managed to do.

The release of these ligaments, though not complete, brought about changes such as the following: the activation of the entire capillary system; the increase of circulation to the ankles and some observable increased motion in both. The ankles have not suddenly been completely released, but the necessary motions have begun.

[...] The improvements were relatively isolated—kept apart from each other, not connecting overall, so that main motions could be affected. [...]

[...] These ligaments control arm motions, head movement, and have been in those terms largely responsible for holding Ruburt in this position, topwise.

[...] Strong side-to-side motions of head and shoulders, panting. [...] She was concerned at the amount of time she was taking up with her motions, but I told her to forget that. She asked me to ask Seth if she was in a trance when she did her motions sometimes: “If I can ever calm down enough to do it,” she added, referring to having a session. I said I thought she might be at least some of the time; the new motions, repeated, could act to put her “under” because of the novelty of the new motions, etc. [...]

(4:05 More, stronger motions, head and chest sideways, left foot lifting up highest at the ankle that its done so far. [...] The effort of the new motion showed in her hip and thigh and belly, tensing all of those muscles. [...]

[...] Jane began another series of motions after a short rest, especially involving her right arm, wrist and hand. [...]

[...] The motion is taking place under the auspices of the session, to reintroduce him to his own agility. [...]

No one physical effect caused Ruburt’s slow motion. [...] He felt briefly though quite correctly this evening that the area now being worked upon involved quickness of motion.

(Long pause.) Here at certain positions motion was not stopped but slowed down. Now, as large muscle areas gradually release, you can expect to see the return of quicker motions, though some may be in the beginning relatively uncoordinated. [...]

Quicker motion could not appear however until the body reached its present status. You can expect that quicker motion then to begin, and it will in turn demand necessary greater circulation.

[...] You can expect the release in physical terms of more muscles and joints, and see the quickening in motion.

[...] Then, as she grunted and groaned, the motion traveled down her body to her knees and toes. [...]

[...] She began a generalized motion of her whole body, lifting her head and upper torso off the bed and moving them from side to side. [...]

[...] She made strange grunting sounds with her efforts, and almost violent motions. [...]

[...] She cried out, disoriented with the quickness of the motion. [...]

[...] Extra motion between big toe and ankle; beginning of motion ankle definite.

3. Additional motion left foot.

4. Additional motion both knees.

[...] as I write, further new motion top of right foot. [...]

[...] “Oh, oh, oh”—good motions of her head and torso, with noises, and feet alternating motions also. “I wasn’t worried about not doing the motions though,” Jane said, “particularly after the arms started doing their thing last night.”

[...] Jane started some motions with her left foot, then her torso and head, back and forth against the pillow. The motions were mild, but her breathing grew heavier. [...]

[...] The extra motion ability already present in Jane’s hands helped considerably, especially with the right hand.

[...] Rather strong motions of her head and shoulders, side to side and up and down. [...]

[...] I thought her motions might make up for the actual session today. She began lifting her head and upper torso, moving it from side to side, with new motion and considerable success. [...]

[...] Once again she began noisily moving her head and torso from side to side—her best effort yet—the motion having repercussions in her belly and hips, legs and feet. [...]

[...] The arm motions were almost as though Jane was leading an orchestra. [...]

(“Well, take this,” Jane said after a few more puffs, after her best, most prolonged and widest-ranging display of motion so far. [...]

[...] More leg motions, including the right one. “I’m waiting for all of these motions I’m doing to coordinate themselves, in one big motion,” she said. [...]

[...] Strenuous motions of the left leg up and down. [...] Her motion had been so strong I’d almost been afraid she was overdoing it. [...]

[...] Blood pressure and temperature—96.7. Again Jane did well, catching herself in the middle of motion so they noticed nothing. [...]

[...] As she had a smoke Jane could feel the residue of motion in her left leg and foot. [...]

(When I asked her, Jane said today’s session and motions could be interpreted as being related to her dream for last night. She’d dreamed that once certain things, events, were set into motion, they inevitably would continue in their motion until they came true — then the world would end. [...]

(Not very long after the end of the session, Jane began making motions with both arms, raising them up from her body and rotating them. [...] The motions were reminiscent, on a smaller scale, of those she’d begun doing in October 1983, but eventually gave up on.

[...] These motions too were a definite response to new freedom, and I reminded her that Seth had said earlier this year that once it’s allowed to, the physical body will begin responding immediately. [...] The session and the motions certainly did signal new things.

(Carla called for Jane at 9:30, and told me that Jane was again doing those motions. [...]

[...] A few left leg motions. [...] Her motions today were subdued, her grunts and breathing not so prominent. [...]

[...] She finished half an hour later, at 3:30, and we discussed the above events, plus her quick motions involving the burning cigarette of the night before that.

[...] Jane started some rather restrained motions of her head and shoulders. [...]

[...] I saw a few spasmodic motions around the knee area. [...]

[...] She moved her shoulders and arms and hands as usual—very well indeed—which shows that she’s keeping her new motions. [...] Then she did motions with her arms and hands that she hadn’t done before, very fast, she said it felt like she was going to shake her fingers off. [...]

[...] Jane began digging at her left ear with her left hand—in a motion she now does almost automatically. [...] We’ve noticed that her bursts of motion usually take place to their greatest extent around session time, of course. [...]

[...] No one in hydro has noticed any change in her motions, she said. [...]

[...] Now, however, it should be remembered that the muscles can easily accustom themselves to any new motions without anything but a minimum of discomfort.

[...] Now, however, the idea that motion can be easy should be implanted—that it can be easier to move. [...]

[...] “Ease of motion” is the term to use.

[...] There is motion that has nothing to do with time and nothing to do with movement through space. There is motion that exists only in terms of what I call value fulfillment. [...]

([Ron:] “Has All That Is reached the final state of its motion?”)

There is no final state of motion, and it is only because of your present position that it seems to you that there must be such a point. [...]