Stressed for the holidays?

 
 
 


Whether based on our job, our relationship with others or on world events that threaten our lives, stress is a fact of life in the modern world. Stress can result from exposure to shocking events or painful emotions. As a result, stress may also be accompanied by illogical fears and irrational behavior.

One well-known self-help author says that the foundations of stress can be found in what he has called the reactive mind. According to author L. Ron Hubbard, the reactive mind is the portion of a person's mind which works on a totally stimulus-response basis. It is not under his control and can exert power over his awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions.

In his popular book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Hubbard explains that there is something effective available to help people deal with stress. Dianetics describes just how the reactive or subconscious part of the mind can overwhelm the analytical mind—and why this causes stress. This mechanism in the mind managed to bury itself from view so thoroughly that only many years of exact research and careful testing uncovered it.

"This is the mind which makes a man suppress his hopes, which holds his apathies, which gives him irresolution when he should act and kills him before he has begun to live," writes Hubbard in Dianetics.

The book Dianetics provides techniques one can apply to get to this source of stress and anxiety and eliminate it. Whether a person is experiencing stress in the workplace and just cannot stop himself from making the same mistakes on the job again and again; or there is something that a person's loved one is doing out of no ill-will that the person cannot help but "blow-up" about—thus perpetuating the stress in the relationship—the carefully researched techniques in Dianetics have been found to be able to get to the bottom of it.

Stress is often mentally "brushed off" as a normal part of life, something to grit one's teeth through and hope for a better day. Yet just as one would not let a machine continue to operate under extreme pressure, neither should one do that with the mind. There is a way to gain control and operate without the hindrances of stress, anxiety and depression.

Join the millions over the world who have used Dianetics® technology to become truly well and happy. Take your next step towards getting rid of your reactive mind!

Click here to order your copy of The Dianetics Self-Improvement Package.

 

Why should you know something about your mind? by L. Ron Hubbard

"Thus it is of enormous importance that we understand something about the mind, that we understand we are minds, that we are not machines, and it is of enormous importance that Man attain at once to some higher level of freedom where the machine reaction of destruction may be controlled, and where man himself can enjoy some of the happiness to which he is entitled." —L. Ron Hubbard

 
    
  After the initial release of Dianetics, Thousands came to see the author himself demonstrate Dianetics techniques.

Why should you know something about your mind? A question of similar magnitude would be "Why should you live?" A science fiction writer once conceived a world composed entirely of machines, composed to a point where the machines were repaired by other machines, which in turn were repaired by yet other machines, and so the circle went 'round and the machines survived. He wrote this story from the fondest belief of nuclear physicists that there is only a machine, that man derived from some spontaneous combustion of mud, that the soul does not exist, that freedom is impossible, that all behavior is stimulus-response, that causative thought cannot exist. What a world this would be! And yet this world, this pattern, is the goal of the slave makers. If every man could be depressed from his freedom to a point where he believed himself but a cog in an enormous machine, then all things would be enslaved. But who would there be to enjoy them? Who would be there to profit? Not the slave maker, for he is the first to succumb. He succumbs to his own mechanisms. He receives the full jolt of his own endeavors to entrap. What would be the purpose of this world of machines? There can be no purpose worth contemplating which does not include happiness and experience. When a man is no longer able to envision happiness as a part of his future, that man is dead. He has become nothing but an animated robot, without understanding, without humanity, perfectly willing, then, to compose missiles of such detonative quality that an entire civilization could perish, and that the happiness of all could be destroyed in the experience of radiation—an experience which might be considered digestible by an atomic pile*, but not by a human being. Thus, as we depart from the concepts of freedom, we depart into a darkness where the will, the fear, or the brutality, of one or a few, no matter how well educated, may yet obliterate everything for which we have worked, everything for which we have hoped. This is what happens when the machine runs wild, and when man, become a machine, runs wild. Man can only become a machine when he is no longer capable of understanding his own beingness and has lost his contact with it. Thus it is of enormous importance that we understand something about the mind, that we understand we are minds, that we are not machines, and it is of enormous importance that man attain at once to some higher level of freedom where the machine reaction of destruction may be controlled, and where man himself can enjoy some of the happiness to which he is entitled.

—L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard

* atomic pile: an early name for a nuclear reactor.

This excerpt was taken from the book Dianetics 55! by L. Ron Hubbard.

Stressed for the holidays?
Why should you know something about your mind?
by L. Ron Hubbard
Dianetics
Self-Improvement Package
 
 

When it comes to giving the perfect gift to the people you care about most in your life, why not give something not merely of physical value, but also something that will enrich the very quality of their lives?

Why not a gift that creates a new future for the people you love?

L. Ron Hubbard's discoveries into the mind and life have helped millions of people around the world improve their relationships, reach their goals, reduce stress and overall live the kind of life they've always wanted to live.

Dianetics
Self-Improvement Package

There is a hidden part of your mind that affects the way you think, feel and act. It’s called the reactive mind because it reacts irrationally—manipulating your thoughts, controlling your emotions, and making you lose confidence and trust in yourself.

Dianetics provides you with the technology to GET RID of your reactive mind and take control of your life.

This package has everything you need to start using Dianetics to handle your reactive mind, including:

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health book, which gives the complete anatomy of the reactive mind and the technology to erase it.

DVD VIDEODianetics: A Visual Guidebook to the Mind DVD, shows a step-by-step demonstration of Dianetics auditing that makes it easy to get started.

Dianetics Lectures and Demonstrations, four one-hour recorded lectures by L. Ron Hubbard, in which you’ll hear him explain and demonstrate the breakthroughs of Dianetics.

Dianetics Self-Improvement Home Study Course, an easy-to-do course that takes you through all of the above and greatly increases your understanding of Dianetics. Do your lessons on-line!

Join the millions who have used Dianetics technology to become truly well and happy. Take your next step towards getting rid of your reactive mind!

Click here to order your copy of the Dianetics Self-Improvement Package.

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