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The spontaneous self is learning to manipulate and maneuver within the somewhat rigid ego limitations. [...]

[...] The conscious mind must be in control of all actions as much as possible, for such a person feels that only rigid, logical thought is strong enough to hold back such strong impulsive force.

[...] It should be flexible enough now for both of you, and not the formation of one rigid point. [...]

[...] At that time in your development you were afraid of emotions in art to such a degree that you chose in comics to deal with stereotypes rather than individual characters, to follow rigid patterns.

[...] When training forces the ego to become too rigid, and to limit its perception of other realities, then the intuitions will not be accepted by the ego because intuitional experience will not fit into the framework of reality as the ego sees it.

[...] The spontaneous self is feared only because it might break down the authority of a rigid structure. [...] It might shatter rigid barriers.

The backed-up feelings helped bring about the rigidity over a period of time. [...]

He was afraid that you did not love and cherish him for himself, and too embarrassed, rigid and proud to continue seeking assurances from you, as he used to do.

[...] The ego, while always changing, is one of the most rigid aspects of identity. [...]

[...] We are still working on one challenge,” so it seemed, finally, that he was powerless or helpless to alter the rigidity of his body.

His ego would have been in great danger of becoming a rigid prison for his intuitive self, because of the necessary defensive mechanisms it had to adopt against the most difficult and threatening aspects of his mother’s personality.

[...] It was the outlet of creative writing, early adopted, that saved him from becoming a most rigid and frozen personality; and if he had adopted such a stonelike ego, then indeed he would now be in dangerous circumstances, since his strong creative nature would finally and disastrously have shattered the stone image.

[...] It is no less rigid for that reason. [...]

[...] It should not be rigid. [...]

[...] I decided that it was a muscular rigidity resulting from the projection and waited quietly for several minutes. [...]

[...] Ruburt has experienced the slight soreness as rigidity in those areas begins to loosen. [...]

[...] You cannot say that I am rigid, since I will try to take your circumstances into consideration.

[...] They think in black and white, and conflicts between their emotions, and their beliefs about their emotions, lead them to seek some kind of shelter in a rigid belief system that will give them rules to go by. [...]

[...] Here the rigid assumptions of normal waking consciousness often fade, and you can find yourself performing those physically rejected activities, never realizing that you have peered into a probable existence of your own.

[...] 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. [...]

[...] The body finally became so desperate to free itself of that rigid Sinful-Self superhuman image that it took itself into the hospital for a month—even if it did almost die in order to get itself in there. [...]

[...] The subject sits mute and quite rigid in his wheelchair. [...]

You should understand that we have been talking about Framework 1 and Framework 2. Ruburt felt, and so did you to some extent, that it was easier to experience Framework 2’s spontaneity in the mental realm of imagination—but you each felt that the physical body was tied somewhat more rigidly to the dictums of Framework 1, to cause and effect. [...]

[...] It therefore attempts to become rigid, because it considers itself the main representative of the self. [...]

When the ego becomes so rigid, it immediately begins an insidious attempt to block off stimuli, to limit the reaches of perception, to enclose itself in what it considers a safe world.

[...] This, combined with your attitude that he take a normal job, almost literally paralyzed him, for your voice was added, in his mind you see, reinforcing the rigid attitude of the overly conscientious self. [...]