This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 2nd day of April, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [4060], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by the book, THERE IS A RIVER.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.)

TEXT

1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [4060].
3. As we find, there are those disturbances from the improper reactions between sympathetic and cerebrospinal systems; thus the attitudes that are a greater portion of the mental or social disturbance with the body.
4. With this incoordination there appears at times an irregularity of the heart's activity. At other periods there is the inability of the eating or of maintaining a normal balance in the diet. There are other periods when the irritation causes overactivity or scant activity of kidneys and bladder. At such times when there are those upsets from either the liver or the kidneys there is restlessness, there is a tendency towards melancholia - even at times to such an extent that those things that would upset the body cause activities in the nervous system wherein the mind reaches that point almost of becoming "weepy", with the "all overs," almost hysteria.
5. These are, as it were, the results of the "batteries" having run down, or the incoordinating of the centers at the lumbar axis, the 9th dorsal, through the brachial center and the whole area of the cervicals, or the connections between the cerebrospinal and sympathetic systems become short-circuited.
6. We would take a series of thorough osteopathic relaxing treatments; combined with hydrotherapy and massage. These may be taken together or one following the other; that is, take six to eight osteopathic adjustments and then have once a week for three to four weeks the thorough hydrotherapy, including a mild sweat - preferably the Fume Bath, using small quantities of witchhazel in same - and then the thorough massage with Pine oils. Even the Bubble Bath with the Pine oil would be well for the body. Then have another series of the osteopathic adjustments.
7. Do have more social life. Do marry again.
8. Ready for questions.
9. (Q) How may I avoid quarrels with my sales manager who becomes angry with me on the slightest provocation?
   (A) This is a part of the conditions arising from the anxieties or the incoordination. You each become rather unreasonable in your demands of the other. But if there are the settlings of the nerves and the bringing about of better coordinations, we will find better conditions.
10. (Q) What should I do with my energy, which seems too great (I seem to scatter my forces)?
    (A) Do these things indicated and then DIRECT the nerves of the body and mind.
11. We are through with this reading.

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BACKGROUND

1. 9/27/43 Letter from [4060]: "...I read an article about your great gift in Coronet Magazine. I have great faith in the psychic phenomenon mentioned, and would like to know how to receive the benefits of your services. My office manager [4060] has foot trouble of long standing. I believe they can be cured but he has not faith. I need an adjustment in my own life, as I feel that there is work which I need to do that is being neglected..."
2. 10/13/43 Letter from [4060]: "...Although I am called [...] by my friends, I am a woman. I am 47 years old and have always been a business woman. My husband died last December and I am very much perplexed about my future. He left me one-half interest in a going business, about which I know very little. I am not on friendly terms with the other heir, although honestly through no fault of my own. It is wholly due to outside influence. I opened this office about the middle of June. It is doing fairly well and I would like to continue in this work. I am also the founder of the United Cooperative Brotherhood, and some friends have offered to help me with the securing of members, but I have been afraid to put any money into it, although I am sure it would bless mankind. It seems that I scatter my forces, and am restless and do not know what to do with my energy - which seems too great. I sleep very little, and am very nervous. I am not very well adapted to living alone. I seem to need someone to lean upon. My sales manager is a widower with five children. He is a fine gentleman, and I am interested in him but afraid he is too high tempered to make a very happy companion. Also there is considerable difference in our financial positions. He seems very fond of me, but yet becomes angry with me on the slightest provocation. We are both very unhappy over these quarrels and I would be happy to avoid them if possible. All these things seem trivial as compared with the needs of people in great physical pain, but I feel that if I do not get myself straight I shall lose my mind. If you can help me, please do..."

REPORTS

1. 8/02/50 Letter from [4060]: "...My chief complaint was nervousness, pain in spine at the base of neck, also between shoulders. This condition existed for several years, recurring frequently. At times the condition became so intense, or severe as to cause vomiting. I went to Dr. [Wesley Smith, D.C.] for six months, but did not keep track of the number of series of treatments taken. Dr. Smith is a Chiropractor. The reading described my physical and mental problems accurately, and after following the treatments, as outlined, I was cured..."

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