“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You did not rise above the fear that the symptom itself, a part from everything else, gave you. You were in a panic, thinking of the importance of your hand to your work. You feared so strongly that the symptom could stop you, even from painting, that the fear itself became a detriment for positive suggestion. When your imagination operated freely and not directed concerning the symptom, then it ran in those directions. The very charge behind the fear propelled it.

You did not give the suggestions from a standpoint of assurance. They were like thumbs in your estimation, subconsciously, to hold back the dam of feared eventuality. You gave the suggestions out of fear then, not from a strong framework of assurance. You overaggravated the symptoms, overexaggerating their importance because of this fear.

The difficulties with the hand were not meant to threaten your artistic self. You feared they were. They were meant, in some instances, to protect your artistic self, if you recall our last session. Therefore the fear was a conscious one, and basically unwarranted. The unconscious was not (underlined) threatening your artistic self. You were afraid that it was, or that unwittingly the symptoms would bring this about.

(I was thinking this over. I followed it all right, but at the same time I was wondering why the unconscious, when it saw how I was taking the symptom, didn’t get busy and eliminate it and set me at rest. I will have to ask the question, etc.)