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(At 9:00 PM Seth came through. Jane, holding her neck very stiffly forward, spoke softly and without emphasis. She paced slowly; I could not tell if her eyes darkened. At the same time our cat Willy began to cry and try grasping at Jane’s legs and ankles. He’s done this before at sessions. But now Jane found it difficult to elude him, since any quick movement set up spasms in her neck.)

The wry neck enabled Ruburt to identify with his mother, and therefore avoid such punishment. At the same time, the wry neck itself inflicted a punishment in place of the imagined and feared greater punishment which Ruburt felt his mother intended, the imagined punishment being a basic and infantile terror of being pulled back into the womb.

(At 6:00 AM Jane woke me to say that she was in the grip of an extremely painful stiff neck. By the time we obtained treatment for it the time was close to noon, so it seemed there would be no session this evening, or at most a few words from Seth acknowledging the seriousness of Jane’s predicament.

(Sunday, and until late at night, Jane had been reading The Winthrop Woman, a book about American colonial life in the 1600’s by Anya Seton. Last night she was unable to get to sleep, thinking about the book, and surmised that in some way the book had roused her subconsciously. Jane had forgotten it, she said, but now thought that upon reading the same book a few months ago, she had also developed neck trouble, although not to as severe a degree. The book dealt extensively with the sufferings of women in childbirth, and their lot in general, in those days.

[...] my neck feels heavy; Frank comes back into the kitchen for a cool drink... [...] Something—pressure in my head maybe keeps changing—the bottoms of my feet feel woozy; they throb gently; so does my neck; my breath deepens, ears feel funny—was going to walk around the house or do some other writing but for now at least I’ll have to go along with... [...] this all continues; I feel a twinge of guilt—Rob’s typing reminds me that I was to do my three hours—but this IS writing; cataloging body-mood changes; I want to sketch the men working—eyes, sinuses, ears and neck strongly “working.” [...]

[...] I massaged Jane’s neck. [...] When I did her neck her feet began to move too—there’s a connection, she said. [...] Just like yesterday, when I’d rubbed that certain spot on her neck. Now today her head once more began to flop back and forth very rapidly on the column of her neck. [...]

(Head-neck area “working” during night.)

[...] Ligaments right neck releasing. [...]

[...] During the day and particularly at night, the ligaments in right side of my neck definitely loosened; giving me some new neck and head motions that are quite obvious to me; the entire right side seemed to be loosening.

[...] Some ligaments that had been shortened in the head and neck area began to lengthen. [...]

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.

Ruburt’s eyes had worked quite comfortably, moving in a very limited range of motion because of the tightened neck, head and shoulder muscles and ligaments. [...]

[...] I am speaking of the right neck area.

From Tuesday AM through Friday late afternoon—it seems that more or less constant softening and loosening of all moveable parts went on, particularly the gradual releasing of heavy ligament group in neck, right side. [...]

Friday afternoon and Saturday—As I worked on James, I massaged my head, which certainly seemed to help the neck and other areas. [...]

In this rhythm generally, first the right and then the left neck arteries are affected, releasing so far. [...] This week the right neck ligaments continued a new release that affects the ears, sinus, and head pressures—and of course the eyes also.

[...] The tension resulted in jaw pressures, affecting the teeth, the sinuses, and in particular the tightening of large ligaments in the neck. [...]

The main work, meaning basic work with the neck ligaments, should soon be over, so that the eyes will be far more comfortable, and the other changes largely show in the body’s lower portions. [...]

[...] The release so far of those neck ligaments has allowed for the awakening of nerves in the knees, and the beginning release of the ligament group here—highly important (underneath the knees).

[...] My head and neck area have been “moving around” constantly inside themselves, as mentioned in yesterday’s notes. When I awakened, something had suddenly cleared connected with the entire right side of my head and neck, involving the right ear, eye, jaw also. [...]

[...] The neck massage I’d given her earlier, which Seth referred to, had followed a turning also. It had been painful for her to be turned, and I’d tried to relieve some of her tenseness by massaging her neck muscles and back. [...]

[...] The massage that you gave Ruburt briefly this afternoon, in the neck areas, is extremely beneficial—not only to his entire condition, but specifically beneficial to his sight. [...]

[...] It resulted however in an operable but limited fashion with all of the muscles tightened and restricted to some degree, the original tension being applied to the head and neck area.

[...] The neck and throat muscles were held in a particular fashion. [...]

[...] Those important neck ligaments and head areas are definitely releasing. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] At her request I put my finger on a certain spot high up on the back of Jan’s head, where the muscles from the neck join the skull—and suddenly her head began to flop forward then jerk backward at an almost alarming rate, so fast did it move. [...]

[...] Jane could still feel the motion and its effects in her neck.

[...] Noticed however even during this, a strange and delightful and sudden release, physically with arms, legs, shoulders, neck. [...] Hands far stronger, left hand definitely has resumed—overnight?—a far more normal appearance, and both much, much stronger; arms much better, neck flexible, shoulders; even think arms have ‘let down,’ a bit. [...]

[...] The latest series, so to speak, of necessary adjustments are occurring, so that again the relationship between neck and shoulders, with the hips and knees, are beneficially altered. [...]

The important neck areas are being further improved. [...]

[...] As I turned her she said that this morning in hydro she’d felt more movements in her right leg—it had opened up more—and in the muscles of her upper back and her neck. [...]

[...] I rubbed various spots on Jane’s neck and head—got good results with motions. [...]

[...] Jane could also turn her head to the right, on the column of her neck, to look towards me a bit, in a way she can’t usually do. [...]

Now: someone might fall down and badly jar the head or neck area, in which case you have an observable bruise, or wound or whatever. [...]

[...] The resulting release of muscular tension was definitely obvious to him, and reflected not only in the neck or head area, but also in the important knee areas, and traveling to the ankles.

[...] The feeling in the knees is most encouraging, and represents the new activity of joints coming to life again, as the result of the new responsiveness of those neck ligaments.

[...] The head could move, and the neck, in certain positions. [...]

[...] The rigidity was largely set up in the head and neck regions—arms and shoulders, thus necessitating the bending of the knees and so forth.

The neck ligaments, as mentioned, and the jaw area were particularly involved. [...]

[...] As the knee and neck areas began—as they are—spontaneous motions, unused activities of the eyes also began to show. [...]

[...] The main tension points however involved the ligaments of the neck, affecting the eyes, and while those ligaments stayed more or less rigid, the eyes got used to doing their work in a restricted area. When he wanted to look up or down or around, he would move the entire head, neck, shoulder area, rather than, for example, rotating the eyes.

[...] The neck is gaining resiliency. [...]

(This morning Jane’s neck was better; but since she was far from well we anticipated but another short session tonight, if we had one at all. [...]

[...] Jane said she was fairly dissociated, somewhat to her surprise; she said she must have been, because she was not conscious of her neck while delivering the material.)

[...] Body continues all day; neck area, shoulders, eyes. [...]