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Obsessiveness is a form of Imbalance

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MOTIONLESS SITTING

control of restlessness and agitation through determined motionless sitting
Mental Health Through Will Training, chapter 41, Sabotage Method No. 9: Failure to Practice Muscle Control, page 327 in the 3rd edition
For a detailed description see Manage Your Fears, Manage Your Anger, lecture 56, There Is No Hopeless Case (part 2), pages 352-353

CONTROL

“Whenever you reach the point where most of your actions are controlled and only part of your actions are easily expressed, then you have balance…and that is that kind of balance in which the group reactions predominate over the individualistic reactions, and that’s the only kind of balance we want in life: the balance in which control predominates over reckless expression.”
Manage Your Fears, Manage Your Anger, lecture 37, Balanced Habits, page 231

TRAINING

Then the patient comes here to Recovery, and he is given his training, and what does he learn? He learns to ignore his sensations by knowing they are distressing but not dangerous. He learns to hold down his feelings because he knows - his feelings and impulses - because he knows that the impulses and the promptings of the feelings can be resisted by using muscles, with simple methods. And once he has learned that, he holds down impulses, sensations and feelings, especially the negative feelings of which I spoke to you already. And then he shows his strength, strength of character, strength of will, because character and will have precisely this function, to hold down impulses.
Manage Your Fears, Manage Your Anger, lecture 32, Vanity Is not Pride, pages 199-200