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Of course some restraint is necessary, but he has been leaning toward too much restraint in this respect, trying to be what he is not. His personality pattern is not quiet, nor aloof, but given to spontaneous inner motion that maintains its own individualistic balance. He has attempted to tamper with it. Part of this is caused by a misconception, and it is because of this misconception that he found it difficult to see himself as a so-called psychic.

Now, if you err, it is far less dangerous to err on the side of spontaneity, given your personalities, than it is to use too much restraint. Too much restraint could eventually make the abilities inoperable. Too much spontaneity at worst could only cause some embarrassing moments. I am speaking of your personal cases only. The ability grows as it is used. This cannot be stressed too highly.

[...] He picked up restraints from you because he was open to the idea of restraint so strongly.

[...] The idea of restraint therefore must be banished.

(11:10.) There should be considerable improved functioning noticeable in Ruburt’s body—some considerable lack of habitual restraint in motion occurring, say, as affairs now stand, anywhere from now to a week or ten days.

(“Are we going about dispelling these restraints in the right way now?”)

[...] You did not like the radio station that he played, particularly because it was so unrestrained and noisy and blatant, and this he interpreted as a further restraint. [...]

[...] You are not responsible for all of these restraints, you understand. [...]

[...] The symptoms will vanish as quickly as he feels restraints lifted. [...]

[...] It is important because it involves both private and public circumstances, his attitude toward himself, you, and other people, spontaneity, and restraint.

[...] As partners, to some extent consciously you agreed to varying attitudes at different times to the conditions, though the main elements of course are Ruburt’s. You feel the necessity for some restraint in social encounters, and with the world at large. [...]

[...] You have agreed that restraints should be used. [...]

[...] He determined to discipline himself much more carefully from then on, but from this point he threw himself wholeheartedly, for two lives, into lives of great restraint and overcontrol.

Other portions of the personality, while recognizing this, still felt that the personality as a whole needed to impose some restraints upon what it regarded as flamboyantly spontaneous qualities. [...]

[...] Before, the presence of his mother and those surroundings acted as both restraints on over-spontaneity, and as aids for the growth of creativity. [...]

[...] He chose a mock version of those early restraints. [...]

[...] It was a feared image of himself, wrapped too tightly in the bedding, which represented the restraints of old beliefs. [...]

[...] Conscious restraints can lead you into avenues of denial. [...] In your spontaneity then, never forget the sacred uniqueness of a shadow upon a road, the shape of a leaf, the stain upon a coffee cup—in these simple things find a hint of your own uniqueness and travel beyond them—and ignore conscious restraint that would bind you. [...]

[...] With the continuation of the physical restraints other problems grew, and Ruburt would become frightened that his body could not indeed heal itself, and you feared the same. [...]

He felt he responded to people more emotionally, and so he took steps to see that artificial restraints were applied, so to speak, for those tendencies, he felt, could jeopardize not only his own work, but yours. [...]

[...] really, encouraged, damn near joyful; then why the restraint? [...]

It is wrong to think that restraint under such circumstances or discussions is cowardly, though of course, it may be. [...]

[...] At this rate, it will not be long before the muscular activity makes Ruburt’s walking operationally better, for the muscles are incredibly strong and resilient, despite restraints they had been held in.

[...] This is not a statement of passivity in conventional terms, but a creative releasing of the basic personality from the restraints of hampering beliefs.

[...] Few are struck by the fact of their dreams’ own order, or impressed by the ultimate restraint that allows such sometimes-spectacular events to occur in such a relatively restricted physical framework.

[...] Nature as you know it is also a result of your decision to handle large amounts of energy without strong imposed restraints. [...]

[...] That is, he took on the symptoms because he believed that physical restraint was the best way to insure his concentration. [...]

[...] You were not frightened, either of you, because of the familiar surroundings, and you were unusually free to express your feelings for each other, released from restraints of time.

Ruburt became frightened, for example, of out-of-body travel when he began to get it in his head that “all the nuts” were doing it too, and that out-of-body activity involved him in an inner public environment, in which he might meet “all those fools” who were then not bound by physical restraints. [...]

[...] We’ve already obtained some interesting pendulum answers, this morning, about the event, concerning emotional factors that lead to physical restraint. [...]

He learned restraint in this direction with his mother, and all kinds of automatic muscular tensions were then learned to inhibit the expression of fear of anger. [...]