A hidden part of the human mind is at the root of our problems of stress,
unhappiness, self-doubt and paralyzing anxiety, said the author of Dianetics:
The Modern Science of Mental Health.
Author L. Ron Hubbard said past
painful experiences are stored as memories just below the level of conscious
thought in what he called the "reactive mind," where they can be triggered in
the present to work destructively against you. It works like this: through years
of research on hundreds of cases, Hubbard discovered two parts to the human
mind. First there is the analytical mind, the mind that rationalizes,
calculates, dreams, solves and creates. This is the part of the mind that we
want to be working at 100% capacity, 100% of the time. What hinders achieving
this 100% level of operation is called the reactive mind.
The reactive
mind is the subconscious part of our mind that acts without our permission. It
takes control on a stimulus-response basis, acting as a self-defense mechanism
gone awry. The reactive mind thinks in identities, that is to say it cannot
differentiate between a current situation and a past painful experience. It
collapses the two, giving us commands to operate off of that have little or no
basis in current reality.
The analytical mind goes through existence
recording diligently until something happens that causes the reactive mind to
take over. The cause could be an accident, heavy drowsiness, emotional shock or
many other combinations of painful experiences. Suddenly the reactive mind
begins recording everything that is occurring around you during the painful
incident: all sounds, scents, sights and feelings.
Later in life, when
you encounter a situation similar to the original recording made, the reactive
mind once again takes over and begins to feed you data about how to act and
respond -- based on information from a totally different incident in the
past!
In the opening pages of Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard wrote, "Dianetics
is no solemn adventure. For all that it has to do with suffering and loss, its
end is always laughter, so foolish, so misinterpreted were the things which
caused the woe."
Herein lies the crux of Dianetics' success. According to
Dianetics practitioners, those things that hold you back, the feeling that you
just can't shake, the mistakes that you can't help but make again and again --
the simple reasons for these and answers to many other mysteries about yourself
and your mind can be discovered through the use of Dianetics technology. Through
years of research Hubbard discovered the source of personal stress, anxiety and
depression and then developed carefully tested procedures to desensitize and
erase the negative content stored in the reactive mind -- thus freeing up your
ability to act solely in the here and now and off of good data stored in the
analytical mind, free from the chains of stress.
In reality, the only way
to realize Dianetics' workability is to use it -- pair up with someone and apply
the techniques. It's easy. Hubbard's bestseller has helped millions, and it
should be read and used by all who are searching for a true understanding of the
mind and a solution to such problems as self-doubt, stress, anxiety and
depression. Dianetics is available in bookstores everywhere or visit http://www.dianetics.org for more information.
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