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You have been holding on to your own symptoms while Ruburt still has his. [...] Tell yourself that you can help yourself and Ruburt far better without the disease caused by the symptoms. [...] Once they were meant to promote your psychological understanding, but now they can only impede your progress; and you are also slightly resentful at Ruburt, feeling that he is somewhat responsible, by still maintaining his symptoms, for your own.

[...] You feel with some justification, that Ruburt in his own concern forgets your lingering symptoms; and he should make an effort now to use his abilities to help rid you of these.

NATURAL HYPNOSIS, HEALING, AND THE TRANSFERENCE OF PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS INTO OTHER LEVELS OF ACTIVITY

“Natural Hypnosis, Healing, and the Transference of Physical Symptoms into Other Levels of Activity.” [...]

[...] Often this represents a symbolic transference of symptoms from the body outward into the social structure.

[...] He decided to think of his symptoms as an enemy, and to give them form in another plane of reality where he could do battle with them. [...]

[...] He thought of turning his symptoms, or the fears behind them, into a demon which he could then slay and conquer for good. [...]

[...] The symptoms were worse following the episode because of the impact with which the creature’s energies were withdrawn and then reabsorbed. [...]

Now in the first place the symptoms are not evil nor his enemies, but methods of instruction that he has himself chosen; and if ever he imagines them isolated in such a fashion, they should be imagined instead as being projected out from him into the whole of the universe where they are absorbed harmlessly, and their energy used to the greater good.

Earlier the symptoms themselves masked the lack of spontaneity in writing. Now the symptoms are not so pronounced and the other problem, which was there, shows. [...]

[...] It was highly therapeutic in that regard, and swept before the spontaneity were symptoms and problems. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The shortage of sessions is a symptom of the fear of spontaneity. [...]

[...] I was especially concerned that Jane wouldn’t be able to surmount the problems, so explicitly delineated by Seth, above, and so eliminate the symptoms. [...]

[...] It is unfortunate that he does not know how to distinguish between, say, symptoms of disorder and symptoms of healing.

[...] In a fashion the symptoms are a result of overorganization—the distrust of impulses not specifically related to writing time. [...]

[...] In the 350th Session for July 6, 1967, is a sentence which has stayed with me— when Seth said: “Ruburt has an unfortunate sense of unworthiness, without which the situation [Jane’s symptoms] could not have developed.” I wondered if the unworthy feeling and the fact of success could be linked through the symptoms.

[...] She has never volunteered a session re her symptoms. [...]

[...] The irony of course is carefully chosen— that he choose those symptoms that reminds him of his mother. [...]

[...] To avoid this he adopts the symptoms, hoping to cheat his idea of the gods, or fate. [...]

[...] The panic reaction, which is true, the fear of seeing reality as it was when he was a child; but this indeed is only a symptom of a symptom, and not an origin.

The realization that he has more than made up for the initial betrayal should result, if he takes the information to heart, in a lessening of symptoms that should result, again, in their disappearance.

In order to rationalize, this personality and all personalities, to give to the present identity a more or less logical explanation for a symptom that is of past origin, the personality will bring forth an actual incident which can then be pointed at by the personal subconscious as a scapegoat.

The incident, the handy incident which gave rise, or rather the incident which allowed the personality to project the symptom finally, in this instance occurred on a Saturday afternoon, and is not remembered consciously by the personality (Louie), and was not known to anyone else.

[...] It can request and arrange for the removal of physical symptoms, because it knows the reasons behind such symptoms.

The tooth symptom is a result of those feelings, and of tensing the mouth and jaw. [...]

Understanding this should remove the difficulty—the symptoms, that is. [...]

The man represented the reason for the symptoms—the dark side, which you both decide to avoid. [...]

[...] You led her through the woods past the symptoms represented by the man, to the ascent.

(Jane and I engaged in a long discussion this evening, covering a lot of ground concerning her symptoms, my role, her lingering and bothersome symptom hang-ons, etc. [...] The purpose of the discussion was to unearth any reasons for the symptoms that we hadn’t touched upon, and we struck pay dirt here. [...]

[...] You may create a physical symptom so that you wonder why you have the symptom and it forces you to ask questions that you would not otherwise ask. You may instead, however, commit an error so that you are suddenly brought up short as you say, “Why did I do this thing which is so unlike myself?” In that case, the error or the action is the same thing as a symptom for it makes you question your own motives and look into your own spirit. [...]

[...] And oftentimes, if an error is committed, it is the same thing as a physical symptom might be. [...]

Now, the inner self knows the answers and often- times the inner self brings you to this error, this action, or this symptom, so that you will look inward. [...]

([Sue: ]“He never seems to have any physical symptoms.”)

[...] You were ashamed to be seen with me—just like you got ashamed to be seen with me now, after I got my symptoms.... [...]

(Jane displayed mild symptoms of anger and resentment, which grew somewhat more vehement at times. [...]

[...] Regardless of the reasons, there are habits of thought, specifically, regarding the symptoms, for example. [...]

[...] Now while this has shown itself in Ruburt’s symptoms, it also showed itself in your work. [...]

(There is also some factual connection in the displacement, since by using the pendulum recently we have learned of the rather important role Blanche played in some of Jane’s earlier associations; due to a complicated variety of events Jane has been bothered lately by some physical symptoms we are in the process of eliminating. These symptoms, and Blanche, as well as Jane’s mother and other contributing factors, are also discussed thoroughly in the next session.

The other still-lingering symptoms will quickly vanish also; the pendulum sessions, quite apart from our sessions, should be maintained as a kind of personal psychic hygiene until the habit of communication is thoroughly established. [...]

[...] The letter to Miss Healy was important here; but more than this, intuitionally Ruburt became aware of insights that were necessary if the symptoms were to vanish.

This to some slight degree was responsible for added symptoms. [...]

We will not stress particular diseases in this book, and mention symptoms only to identify the cases associated with such conditions. It is actually far more important that we stress the symptoms of health and those methods, beliefs, and healings that promote them.

Before, the feelings were present but completely camouflaged into the bodily symptoms. For a short period of time, it may seem that on occasion (underlined) both symptoms and mood are intensified. [...]

[...] And I thought that years ago, [and with my own unwitting cooperation] Jane had given over control of her life in certain large ways to the Sinful Self through the symptoms—and yes, abjectly allowed it to exert such power and influence that now she finally found herself in the grip of a strong force, or set of beliefs. [...]

[...] I was thinking of her depressed response today to her symptoms. [...]

[...] The energy was bottled up in symptoms.

Ruburt should continue as he has been, and further blocks of symptoms will drop away. [...]

Your own symptom, the hand, representing uncertainty in your work. [...]

[...] The symptom was the recognition of conflict. [...]

[...] All of this did help contribute to Ruburt’s symptoms, particularly in the beginning. He was afraid you would be jealous, that others would say he dominated you, and to some extent both of you felt the symptoms helped you save face in society.

(In the deleted session for April 16, 1979 Seth remarked that Jane “used to feel embarrassed because he made more money in those terms than you, and certainly this played some role initially in the symptoms.” [...]

(I didn’t want Seth to leave before I asked this question: “Do you want to say something about your remark that Jane’s early symptoms were at least partly connected with her embarrassment at making more money than I did?”)

(10:29.) The symptoms also served later to provide you both with a sense of separation from the world, a reason for not doing what you thought you should do in conventional terms: go out and spread the word, become television people, or lead groups, or give seminars—all things that largely went against the private portions of your nature, though otherwise you were both equipped to do so.

[...] Ruburt was involved in a process when he initiated the symptoms, in which certain highly specific areas were directly affected, and their function impaired. [...]

[...] A certain network of “small dams” were set up by the symptoms. [...]

All of this incidentally involves the same amazing discrimination that is used in the organization of any physical symptoms, so that specific purposes are met.

Ruburt’s symptoms made sense in an unsafe universe. [...]

[...] Precisely at the time the strong symptoms began, the ESP book was slated for publication. [...] His symptoms then began.

The symptoms, beside other issues, have been a crying out to you for a love he feels he does not deserve but needs, a love he feared you could forget. [...]

The symptoms also served to punish you for making him go to such extremes, because physically they obviously hampered the expression of that love. [...]

The term, woo back to health, is an excellent one, quite apropos to a large extent in all such conditions, and operating beneath most symptoms despite their nature.