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[...] For now, however, I simply want to make the point that additional stress was added to the situation. [...]

(Very long pause at 8:20.) I want to go back in terms of continuity, and yet also for tonight’s purposes I want to stress the power of love’s expression in automatically combating such negative situations. [...]

[...] When it is overly stressed, with all of the usual frameworks or rationales that go along with it, it can indeed become frightened, paranoid, because it cannot really perceive events until they have already occurred. It does not know what will happen tomorrow, and since it is overly stressed, its paranoid tendencies can only fear the worst.

[...] I hope to stress what to do, rather than what not to do, although at times I must make the distinction clear.

Because he has not built up the good trust of his body, however, any new discomfort, regardless of origin, alarms him—an alarm that causes him to tense his muscles, withhold his weight, become hesitant—actions that of course themselves bring about stress, and prolong what should be a fairly minor adjustment. [...]

[...] They will always love pageantry, for example, symbolism and excitement, so that their public political events will stress such facts far more, say, than your own. [...]

[...] Religions stress the importance of discipline, sobriety, and penance. [...]

This isn’t all, however, for experiments have now shown that the brain/mind connection can influence immunity, through stressful conditioning either enhancing its effects or subduing them. [...] In physical terms, then, I think it quite possible that in Jane’s case long-term stress, beginning in her early childhood, consistently overstimulated her immune system. [...] Well before she was 10 years old Jane had developed persistent symptoms of colitis, an inflammation of the large intestine/bowel that is often associated with emotional stress. [...]

What I want you to understand is that all of these stresses come about as you learn how to handle the situations that are always under the auspices of your main purposes. [...]

[...] I stressed however that he should make a game of it. [...]

In a strange fashion the symptoms also served to stress what he felt you were both trying to deny—his femininity, in that he felt at a very unconscious level that they made him helpless and in need of someone to lean upon—a mute call for support to you, and at that level he was outraged that instead of giving him your hand you would offer mental suggestions.

[...] It is very important that in times of stress from the outside that you hold your own emotionally, and then you will be least affected by any events that seem (underlined) to be disadvantageous. [...]

[...] But constant questions of such a nature do not help an individual who is having difficulties — and in fact too frequent expressions of compassion can also worsen a person’s state of mind, stressing the idea that he or she must be very ill indeed to attract such feelings of compassion. [...]

[...] This can be countered if Ruburt stresses the idea that he is indeed couched safely, and that his existence is automatically, spontaneously held. [...]

(Long pause, dozing.) I bid you then a fond good evening, stressing once more, however, that additional material that you want will be given, and we will know when the time is right. [...]

(10:22.) I simply want to stress that health in those terms does involve more. [...]

One point: I wanted to stress that when muscles are reactivated, to Ruburt they “feel sore.” [...]

[...] I want to stress the purposes they have served, and their general nature and so forth did help to bring up a variety of important issues. [...]

[...] But you both become frightened, adding to the body’s stress further.

(“The reason why some lose-weight groups succeed in their therapy, at least momentarily, is that belief in the worth of the self is stressed. [...]

I also want to stress here that all aspects of life experience not only sensations but emotional feelings. [...]

[...] Jane had come up with that one, stressing her personal reactions. [...]

I cannot stress these points too strongly. [...]

What I want to emphasize here is the paranoid’s misinterpretation of innocuous personal or mass events, and to stress the ways in which physical events can be put together symbolically, so that from them a reality can be created that is almost part physical and part dream.

[...] In times of stress, they set up an even greater isolation of one part of the self from another, which puts stress upon the system of communication, of course, so that it must be used constantly.

[...] I will continue the subject, tying it more securely to value fulfillment, and stressing the importance of positive action in the physical world, so that ideals can be expressed rather than feared, and so that the doors between impulses and their activations can be left open with some confidence.

[...] To begin with, however, his magical-approach information reminded me at once of the two thoughts Jane had picked up from him back on May 12, the day she held the 915th session for Chapter 8. I’m stressing these points because I think they’re important: “Alone, reason finally becomes unreasonable. [...]

“Now on the question of ‘mental disorders,’ it is highly important that individual integrity be stressed, rather than the blanket definitions that are usually accorded to any group of symptoms.”

[...] I was telling Jane earlier that now I wonder about some of what I wrote—stressing that Jane has arthritis, and the medical opinions about it, and so forth. [...]