This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach. Va., this 5th day of April, 1934, in accordance with request made by her daughter, Miss [...] on Active Membership of her son, Mr. [...].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce.

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1. EC: Yes. As we find, there is still considerable improvement, yet some anxiety at times has arisen from too much exertion under a stress of mental conditions at the time. When the activities are attempted by the body for the better mental and physical balance, without producing too great a strain upon the muscular forces that control the activity of the heart and of the circulation from the lungs to the heart and through the rest of the system, these should be VOLUNTARY from the mental reactions of the body. Those states of high nervous tension that produced the reactions that have been harmful to the expectations of the body and those about it are more the causes than the physical condition produced through such stages, as we have indicated.
2. As we find, while the conditions are slow, yet we would continue with the rubs as indicated for the body, from the lumbar - upper lumbar area to the feet and limbs, see, with those properties as indicated.
3. We would also from time to time - that is, two or three times a week use those activities of the violet ray, and occasionally the ultra-violet, for the recuperative forces for the body to be the more perfectly established, so that the circulation is created in a balance. For, with the slowed circulation and the great periods of inactivity that have existed - other than the deep internal, and this very slow and low, necessarily there are the reactions set up by the application of those things that have been indicated. And, to be sure, this does not mean that now from the diaphragm down only there is to be made more of the stimulations, but there must be kept a perfect balance - through the neuropathic treatments - throughout the upper portions of the body, to the head and arms and a torso, and the lower portions must receive the better or the GREATER amount of attention, that there may be made or be had by the body that which has been indicated is possible to be brought about by June - the ability for the body not to run, but to have the involuntary and voluntary reaction of the limbs in locomotion.
4. Ready for questions.
5. (Q) Should battery also be continued?
   (A) Should be continued; and be mindful that the anodes are kept clear - in the applications from day to day, as we have indicated.
6. (Q) What, specifically, caused the attacks?
   (A) As indicated. An excitement that to the mental body brought an overtaxation of involuntary reactions through the system, when - as we have indicated - most of these should be VOLUNTARY, NOT involuntary reactions, in their establishing of an equilibrium throughout the circulation.
7. (Q) How can other attacks be prevented?
   (A) Don't let the same thing occur again!
8. (Q) What causes the stiffness in the lower parts of the body?
   (A) As indicated. Such great periods of inactivity, and the muscles and tendons have been stiffened by the lack of the urea in the system that makes for the necessary lymph circulation in these portions of the body, by the high temperature and the inactivity that existed. Then, as indicated, these portions need that there be brought about a more perfect CAPILLARY circulation - or superficial as well as internal circulation, and that with the circulation the lymph and emunctory and blood supply be furnished with the necessary elements for the creating of a balance. Remember those periods of development for the body in ordinary conditions have passed, and have become active for general deterioration and change for the system. Hence the greater necessity of persistence and consistence, in not only the mental and physical activities about the body but also the diets that make for a rejuvenation in the plasm created in the blood supply - the white and red blood cells themselves - to make for the unloosening the of the stiffness. This is not rheumatic; it is not arthritic; it is not even a neurosis or a neuritic condition, but rather that indicated.
   Follow these suggestions; we will find GREATER improvement yet in the general physical forces of this body [394].
9. We are through for the present.

   Copy to Miss [...] [Daughter]
   Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 394-1 on 8/18/33 and subsequent Readings and Reports.
2. 3/27/34 Daughter submitted questions in re continuation of treatment, specific cause of heart attack on 3/09/34, etc.

REPORTS

1. See subsequent notations under 394-1 Reports.
2. 7/17/34 See 394-8.

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