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(In fact, Jane exercised often during the day, in spite of her feeling out of it so much. I asked her to rest her legs at times, for I didn’t want her to develop soreness that might bother in future days. She kept saying her legs wanted to move. Nor was she sore today. When her nurse, Peggy Jowett, came this afternoon, she clapped in applause at Jane’s increased movements. Jane also has increased movement in other parts of her body; she can move her head from side to side much further, and her arms and shoulders work better, she said.

(We sat for the session at about 8:55. Jane had been pretty far out for some time, both before and after supper. However, we’ve been extremely pleased to see that in the last couple of days her legs have acquired a good deal more movement at the knees: her toes spanned a distance from front to back of a good six inches as she swung her legs back and forth. This is far better than she could do even a couple of weeks ago, although I think it was back then that she first showed me a slight increase in knee motion. I measured on the rug the distance she covered.

(I was really pleased. “It looks like those pills—the vitamins—are really beginning to help you,” I said yesterday, after one such session of leg movement. “How about the beliefs and the sessions?” Jane demanded right away. I replied that all I knew was that she couldn’t move like that before taking the vitamins, the peanut oil massages, and the cod liver oil, etc., but I added that I was more than happy to credit sessions, beliefs, and/or anything else that gave us results. I said that I thought the pills, our changing beliefs, and the sessions were all working together.

I hate to tell you this, and I cannot follow through in one evening’s session, but the idea of movement and the idea of time are not at all connected in reality. There is motion that has nothing to do with time and nothing to do with movement through space. [...]

[...] What is the meaning of movement outside of the concept of time?”)

(She did enough with her various movements so that her breathing became hard and noisy. [...] Many of her head and torso motions involved pretty good side-to-side movements also. [...]

[...] After a few movements: “I think if I can stop moving I’ll have a brief session.”)

[...] After we’d checked the lineage of the poetry, Jane did a few movements, although she knew it was getting to be time to turn on her left side. [...]

[...] This afternoon I watched her do some of her exercises on the bed, and saw a noticeable improvement in many of her movements, especially those involving the knees—a most hopeful sign. [...]

(Then at 9:04 Jane discovered a sudden freedom in bodily motion: She could reach across her chest with her left arm, toward her right side, at the same time that she turned to the right from the hips—a movement I hadn’t seen her execute in years.... [...]

(Dozing.) There are scores of activities, connecting various kinds of muscular movement. (Pause.) Those movements follow mental patterns, of course. [...]

(Jane continues to have accelerated movement in her knees—a very encouraging sign. [...]

[...] Their movement—the movement within the cells is more flexible. [...]

[...] It is the fear that is behind your lack of movement. [...]

[...] She was afraid people would start coming in to do her vitals, and see her moving; she feared that once she started a series of movements, she couldn’t cut them off right away if someone entered 330. [...]

[...] Jane began another set of generalized movements of her whole body. [...]

[...] More upper torso movements. [...]

[...] She did a lot of grunting and pushing, and had movement in her belly and hips. [...]

[...] Now there was a general movement of head, torso, legs and feet. [...]

[...] More movements of the right arm this time, and the head and neck. [...]

[...] I said that was an excellent sign, for it showed the body was starting to move out of its safe schedule of doing movements at just one time of the day. [...] If such signs keep up, I may have to alter my own schedule a bit to give her some time for movement after supper, say, before I leave. [...]

[...] After all had left us by 4:09, she had a cigarette and made some more movements. [...]

(She’d done few movements yesterday, but today she seemed to make up for it. [...]

[...] More strong movements, most of her body rocking up and down, then back and forth—head, arms, noises. [...]

[...] Her left leg came up off the bed and pillow in tune with the head movements. [...]

[...] After achieving a good state I began to feel or sense various small “ripples” or movements while lying prone. [...] It was followed by more, lesser feelings of movement. [...]

(Also at times my body felt lighter, as though it was engaging in exploratory movement.

Sat July 16*** right ankle suddenly much improved; more movement; eyes definitely a good deal better after massaging head yesterday.

[...] If the beginning of movement in a piece of furniture is weird to start with, a refusal by the table to sit on the floor as one expects is much more so. [...] There is no question that any of us were causing this effect; all of our movements were plain to see. [...]

(I have seen tables move a few times before, including the much heavier green table referred to in the session, but still find the movement of furniture weird when it begins, since none of us were making any obvious, overt attempts to move said table. [...]

[...] The movements were unmistakable but the messages unclear, except that O B, whom I have not thought of in many years, repeated his presence. [...]

Movement can be freely in new directions, and movement does not necessarily imply a running away from. [...]

[...] The answer, symbolically, is that movement can be toward, and not away from.

(“You might say that the whole demonstration of movement is the equivalent of a session,” I said. [...]

[...] Her shoulder moved better than ever—and now the right one attained an ease of movement equal to the left. [...]

[...] More head and shoulder action, good side-to-side movements, talking to herself, left foot going good. [...]

[...] Within the next few minutes Jane executed more of the same motions, and a general overall movement of her body. [...]

(Her knee movement continues to improve a bit each day, as she kicks her legs back and forth. [...] Evidently her body needs this kind of rest, what with the increased movements and so forth; I haven’t tried to get her to have sessions, thinking the obvious greater relaxation is more important, no matter how much I would like to get more information from Seth. [...]

[...] She had good movement in her arms and shoulders, meaning that she’s preserving the freedoms in those areas. [...]

[...] Now there was a lot of movement in the feet and ankles. [...]

[...] These were Jane’s best movements in quite a few days. [...]

[...] Pretty strong movements of the torso, side to side. [...]

[...] I had whole scenes before my eyes and some freedom of movement within them. [...]