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(This prediction was coupled with Jane’s use of the hot towels on her knees—as Seth has suggested she do often in the recent sessions—and which Jane has largely ignored. Nor have I encouraged her to use them. We speculated, then, about the reasons or beliefs that lay behind this neglect on our parts. I named several beliefs that could be operating, ranging all the way from a fear of failure to our not wanting to see the symptoms go. So we asked that Seth consider our laxness in not using the towels in the session tonight.

To some extent, you are both holding your breath, so to speak, until your working men are gone. There is no one reason why Ruburt has not used the hot towels with any regularity, or why you have not reminded him—rather, a combination of reasons. Certainly if your joint desire to see Ruburt better was as active and dedicated as theoretically it should be, the towels would have been used.

I am going to give you a brief session. In the rest of the time I want Ruburt to use the hot towels on the knees, and to reread some of our recent sessions. I bid you then a fond good evening.

[...] But when he pulled the shorts up around his waist the blue denim kept turning into a blue Turkish towel type of fabric that he tried to pin together so they’d cover him and wouldn’t fall down. He kept trying to make something useful out this affair, and the more he tried the more obvious it became that he was trying to wrap himself in a blue-and-white Turkish towel in lieu of shorts. [...]

I would like the hot towels applied. [...]

I want the hot towels applied. [...]

[...] Jane did apply the hot towels to her knees after the session.)

2. Three times a week, hot towels to knees for head, eyes, knees.

This also includes the supposition that the hot towels are used. [...]

[...] When he tries to put on ordinary working clothes, however, something happens: the shorts keep changing into a Turkish towel, and harder he tries to pull the pants on the more and more they change, until there is no mistaking that the shorts simply will not do. [...]

The Turkish towel represents the private nature of the self—private attire that you might use in the bath, of intimate nature that comes into contact with the body not so much to hide it as to dry it, give it pleasure, or what have you. [...]

[...] He thought, for example, of his own pajamas that he wears now instead of the jeans he wore before, and it seemed to him that in all his strivings he had in one way or another also acted like your friend whose jeans kept turning into the Turkish towel: he had been trying to protect an important way of relating to the world, or to protect a way of life. [...]

[...] A friend had suggested using a towel to prevent her scratching. When I set out to do the job that afternoon, Jane suggested using catnip on the towel. After some coaxing on the back porch, I got Mitzi rolling around in the catnip on the towel, but only half succeeded in wrapping her up. [...]

(Another question I’d meant to ask but forgot to list, had to do with our failure to do certain things, regardless of how often Seth mentioned them: viz.—using the hot towels, trying for the library, etc. [...]

[...] The same applies to the hot towels, and to the extent to which you are willing, even in small ways, to alter your way of life, to achieve desired ends. [...]

2.) Three times a week, hot towels should be applied to the knees, and this will help his legs—but also clear up his head. [...] Physically, the hot towels on the knees will benefit that condition. [...]

(Room 330 got quite chilly this afternoon—it was cold last night and chilly today—and Jane even had me lay a towel over her part of the time, since we have no heat yet in the room. [...]

[...] I suggest the hot towels be utilized. [...]

[...] The towels will help. [...]

[...] I saw myself from the right side, striding purposefully along with vigorous step, carrying over my right arm a neatly folded white towel. Evidently I wore a bathing suit, but it was obscured by the towel, and I could not see its color. [...]

[...] I want the hot towels on the knees however continued, and all of the suggestions given already. [...]

[...] When I mentioned this in class, one had no idea of what kind of towels were in the bathroom. [...] The cabinet and towels were identical.

[...] On the shelf directly in front of me was a stack of towels, all more or less the same size, as if they were of a set. [...]

I told him (emphatically) that the hot towels on the knees would help his eyes considerably, and his head. [...]

[...] The new bath towels, incidentally, these are an excellent idea. [...]

[...] Now I bid you a fond good evening, and I expect hot towels on the knees. [...]

[...] I suggested hot towels for the knees—and said that this would help the eyes. [...]

Again, I mention the hot towels. [...]

[...] I will say nothing about the “fact” that you have not together studied the last session, or that Ruburt has not used the hot towels, for I do not need to. [...]