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You both did fairly well in handling unfavorable moods. Do not bother now, but when you are momentarily “down,” it is then particularly important that Ruburt look in the mirror, apply the lipstick, and smile in whatever fashion. Sometimes a humorous aspect will indeed show itself, and lift his mood automatically.

(The day wasn’t bad — 25 degrees as I headed for room 330 — but a snowstorm was predicted for the afternoon. Jane was already on her back; her left shoulder had been bothering her. It was obvious that she was blue. I got the nurse to help me hoist her further up on the bed so she’d be more comfortable, and that seemed to help. I wasn’t in any too great a mood myself.

(Then Jane told me that last night Shawn Peterson had dropped the bottle of Oil of Olay, and thrown away the dispenser along with the broken glass. The dispensers are hard to find. I asked Jane why she hadn’t at once asked Shawn to save it, but when she remembered to some ten minutes later, it was too late; Shawn had cleaned up the mess and thrown it all out. For some reason this news served as a trigger to plunge me into a depressed mood of my own, which lasted for most of the afternoon. Maybe I was tired.

[...] Subconsciously he also chooses his environment, and throws his own character about it so the basic mood, the underlying mood of a personality beneath all the shifting moods, will also be expressed in color that is reflected in the entire painting, the environment as well.

As a glaze is added to a glaze, so the color of the glazes represent the moods within moods that make up the entire psychological framework of the personality. [...]

[...] Her mood was now normal. As far as I recall, the personality I spoke with had nothing to say about any reasons for her excellent mood earlier in the evening. [...]

[...] Jane did not feel up to par and was not particularly in the mood for a session.

[...] Shortly before 7 PM Jane told me that she felt herself to be in an excellent mood of pleasant anticipation; she thought she might be trying to receive information, but did not know how to go about it.

Moods obviously exist when you are dreaming as well as when you are waking. Physically the day may be brilliant, but if you are in a blue mood you may automatically close yourself off from the day’s natural light, not notice it — or even use that natural beauty as counterpoint that only makes you feel more disconsolate. Then you might look outward at the day through your mood and see its beauty as a meaningless or even cruel facade. Your mood, therefore, will alter your perception.

[...] No matter how dark your mood on any given sunny day, your individual thoughts alone will not suddenly turn the blue skies into rainy ones. [...]

[...] He has this mood. Say it is a mood of defeat. He should realize that he is not defeated but that he has a mood of defeat. [...]

The twenty minutes of psycho-cybernetics should be particularly maintained when he is not feeling well, for in themselves they help him change his mood and give a breathing spell. [...]

(I awoke, still full of good spirits, my previous mood completely vanished. [...] The mood of the second prevailed.)

(Since Seth gave us the material on therapeutic dreams last Wednesday, I began suggesting that I would experience one, as I was in a bad mood generally speaking and had been for a week; also I felt poorly with aches and pains etc.; nothing serious but annoying.

He is by nature highly intuitive and should give his moods some freedom. When he attempts to deny or block what he considers unsuitable moods, outlets are denied them and the next natural cycle, the rising up of high spirits, does not come.

A psychic, he thought, should be calm, untouched by physical events, highly disciplined, rather than spontaneous, such as he was, and sensitive to inner moods, which he was. [...]

[...] These patterns lead quite predictably to moods of powerlessness and restriction.

[...] He trusts your common sense, and such a measure will insure that the habitual mood reactions are cut short.

[...] The morning mood is not nearly as glum. [...]

[...] If you feel blue, let the other know, so that the mood does not linger, undermining what you want to do. At the same time, rally your forces, so that you creatively try to change a mood of disappointment. [...]

[...] When Ruburt feels good by his standards, that is, in a good mood, relatively at peace, and in some kind of bodily ease, taking his situation into consideration, he should note that. [...]

[...] He will be more vulnerable or receptive to your moods than you are to his. You fear moods more than he does, because of the constant emotional gyrations in which your mother is constantly involved. You fear Ruburt’s moods also, for this reason, fearing that you might be swept away by them. [...]

[...] This is one of the main reasons for his own occasional explosive moods.

[...] There were other people in a blue mood on his floor, also. He let himself become partially influenced by their moods, then used that to release old tensions—tensions that earlier, you see, had lodged in muscles and bones. [...]

[...] She slept well after that: “Yeah, I woke up this morning and my mood was fine—I spontaneously felt good. [...]

[...] He felt the impulse to paint, and did so, but by late afternoon he was in a very poor mood. [...]

[...] His mood was so bad because he felt that he could not win no matter what he did. [...]

[...] He is doing well, concentrating upon the good moods, which have increased as a result. [...]

[...] For a short period of time, it may seem that on occasion (underlined) both symptoms and mood are intensified. [...]

In the last period of time Ruburt has also produced his material on Speaker manuscripts, for example, when his mood has been on an entirely different nature, when he was immersed in creativity, and he felt a sense of accomplishment. [...]

[...] This last period was intensified also since both of you were in the same mood at the same time. [...]

[...] The mood passed swiftly. [...]

[...] Such personalities are in much more immediate connections with their own moods, feelings, the interior climate of their being at any given time.

[...] Now if you were different kinds of people, you see, your own moods would fluctuate widely in the normal give and take with other individuals. [...]

[...] There are cycles, highly individualistic, of emotional moods. [...]

[...] Good mood! [...]

On occasions that you barely recognize, one of you has been in a doubting mood while the other was in a mood of faith, picked this up, and was able to change the situation also for the one who felt doubtful. [...]

It is Ruburt of course whose moods are more noticeable, but he still should feel free to discuss his fears with you when he is in a poor mood. [...]

[...] And soon Ruburt’s own mental mood will grow quite substantially better, so that good moods become the natural and accepted mode of operation. [...]

In that way, the good moods become longer. [...] In such ways he will discover what promotes these good moods. [...]

One important point, again, is to remember that in any given day his mood is often excellent for many periods of time. [...]