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While it is true that Dianetics has become the self-improvement classic, there can be little doubt what it has to offer is just what people are now looking for in ever-increasing numbers. Reducing stress, achieving goals, improving relationships and striving to live up to one's full potential is definitely the 'in' thing. New York Post, TOOLS FOR COPING WITH STRESS 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 on 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 and thus perpetrating 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. To learn more, visitwww.dianetics.org. Hesperia Reporter September 4, 2003, Dianetics has always been ahead of its time. More and more people are realizing that Dianetics technology is a vital survival tool for living in the world today. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, While it is true that Dianetics has become the self-improvement classic, there can be little doubt what it has to offer is just what people are now looking for in ever-increasing numbers. Reducing stress, achieving goals, improving relationships and striving to live up to one's full potential is definitely the 'in' thing. New York Post, [Dianetics is] a new science which works with the invariability of physical science in the field of the human mind. From all indications it will prove to be as revolutionary for humanity as the first caveman's discovery and utilization of fire. Daily Mirror, TREATING CHRONIC PAIN Science has explored a number of ways to help people deal with pain. Some developments - such as those involving drugs or physical therapy - may be the type of treatments most people would expect. Others, however, may surprise you. For example, in 1997 Elvis Winterbottom was accidentally shot in the hip with a .45 caliber gun. After surgery, he was released from the hospital in a wheelchair, unable to walk. Recovery was slow and the pain was intense - to the point where simple actions such as taking a shower were difficult for him. Winterbottom was a chronic pain sufferer. Chronic pain is a condition that affects an estimated 86 million people in the US. It''s defined as pain that continues for a month or more beyond the usual recovery period for an injury, or pain that goes on for months or years as a result of a chronic condition. Winterbottom experienced pain for years, until he attended a career seminar that did more than help his job outlook. While at a lecture on success in the acting industry, Winterbottom learned about a course on the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health . He signed up immediately. During the course he received Dianetics Therapy - a technique developed by L. Ron Hubbard in which one looks at incidents in the past that may be causing physical and emotional pain in the present. Hubbard said there are two parts of the mind: the analytical and the reactive. The analytical mind records mental images and pictures, except for in times of extreme mental or physical pain, at which point memory is stored in the reactive section. Hubbard maintained the reason people experience chronic emotional or physical pain is that the memories of their injuring events are "locked up" in their reactive minds. "I spoke about the shooting and went through the incident with my counselor," says Winterbottom. "I came home and told my wife about it, but didn''t think it was that big of a deal." The next morning, Winterbottom and his wife set out to do their weekly shopping - a chore which Winterbottom generally needed an ample supply of pain killers to perform. "After an hour my wife said to me, ''slow down,''" says Winterbottom. "Then it hit me: I have no pain. I am not limping. I have no pain!" The next day he put his hip to the test. Winterbottom climbed the longest set of stairs in the world at Universal Studios - twice - and still, no pain. Today, Winterbottom''s hip is completely pain-free. "It''s a miracle to me," he says. "That course gave me my life back." For more information, visit www.dianetics.org. Transcript-Bulletin March 19, 2002, WHY MOM IS SO IMPORTANT KEEPING THE KIDS SAFE AND MENTALLY HEALTHY In the charge of woman is the care of the person of the human being and his children," wrote philosopher and author L. Ron Hubbard in his best selling book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. As we send cards, gifts and flowers to Mom this week we should take a moment to reflect on the important role she plays in a family. "It is not, then, any wild utopian thought that woman can be placed above the level hitherto occupied," wrote Hubbard. "And so she must be placed if the childhood of tomorrow''s generation is to reach any high standard, if homes are to be peaceful and unharassed and if society is to advance." Kids constantly fall and bump themselves. They get sick. They have fights with friends that upset them. Accidents, nearly all preventable, are the leading cause of death in children. And if words are said while they are not fully aware and in pain, it can have severe effects later in life. Hubbard''s research uncovered what really goes on in the hidden "reactive" part of our minds and how this affects our lives. It is here that we carefully store all the unpleasant, painful and upsetting experiences of our past. He also discovered why these experiences influence us in the future and cause stress, anxiety, and unhappiness. All that has to happen to activate this part of the mind is physical or emotional pain and a lessening of our awareness. When this happens, all activity and any words spoken get recorded by the reactive mind and they can have command value in the future - in the same way that the commands of a hypnotist can make people do strange things after he has woken them up. These occurrences subtly weave their way from incident to incident causing your life to follow the patterns set up in your reactive mind. How vital then that another be aware of these things and protect her children from reactive commands when they are hurt? Preventing accidents and painful incidents is the first step. You can influence and protect your child by focusing on the seven common sources of accidental injury and death: falls, motor vehicle accidents, drowning, poisoning, burns and fires, choking and firearms. Preventing an accident or injury from having any detrimental content is the next step. Be aware that any words spoken while a child is ill or injured can have an effect later. When kids are in pain keep the area silent. "Say nothing around a sick child or an injured child," says Hubbard. "Smile, appear calm, but say nothing." "It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers." The book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health may be the best present you could give your wife or mother this Mother''s Day. "Woman, you have a right and a reason to demand good treatment," wrote Hubbard. For more information on the book visit www.dianetics.com. California Examiner May 6, 2003, 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. World Reporter Newspaper, FAMILY FINDS HOPE WITH DIANETICS Families with handicapped children have new hope for solving the problems of emotional stress and strain that come to a family following the birth of a handicapped child. Los Angeles parents Shirley and Steve Young say they found the solution to raising a handicapped son in the book "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health." "Our son was born with deformity of his lower limbs," says Shirley. "It was necessary for the doctors to amputate both legs just below the knees so that Eric could later be fitted with artificial limbs that would give him a chance for a normal life." Their son''s condition proved a shock to both mother and father. "Eric was our first child," she says. "I think every mother faces the fear that her child may be born with a handicap, but you think it will never happen to you." "When it does it puts enormous stress on the family. Corrective surgery is very costly. You have to see that your child gets the special attention that he needs, not only professional attention, but additional caring from the parents," she says. The couple''s relationship as husband and wife also suffered for a while, says Shirley and Steve. "We would find ourselves arguing with one another about what was the best thing to do for Eric," says Steve. "Everyone says they have the answer, but they all tell you that your baby will never really grow up to be a normal, well adjusted child because of his handicap. When you hear that, it hurts you as a parent." Both parents, however, refused to accept what they called "a lot of misinformation about children and about the mind." "We had both read the book ''Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health'' and we knew that a person''s physical condition did not in any way influence his mental condition," says Mrs. Young. "It is quite the other way around." Throughout the time her son was being fitted with artificial limbs, the couple applied Dianetics technology both to the baby and to themselves as a family. "It made our relationship with one another even stronger. It helped us raise our son so that he was free from all the false considerations that counselors and psychologists try to force on handicapped children and their parents." As a result, Eric is happy, healthy, well adjusted boy today. He runs, swims and plays baseball. "He even climbs trees," says his somewhat chagrined mother. "I have the same worries that any mother has over a rambunctious six year old." "Dianetics was really the solution," she says. "I tell any mother with a handicapped child to read the book. It opens the door to solving all the problems that psychologists don''t have answers for." Black Voice February 19, 1987, Hubbard holds the distinction of being the world's most translated author, according to the Guinness World Records. Publishers Weekly, Dianetics has always been ahead of its time. More and more people are realizing that Dianetics technology is a vital survival tool for living in the world today. Atlanta Journal-Constitution , TOOLS FOR COPING WITH STRESS 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 on 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 - and thus perpetrating 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. To learn more, visitwww.dianetics.org. Hesperia Reporter September 4, 2003, Dianetics can remove the aberrations which make man a selfish and anti-social creature. ... It holds hope that man may at last dispense with the ugly institution of war, because wars are the end product of social aberrations at the national level. Daily News Los Angeles, [Dianetics is] a new science which works with the invariability of physical science in the field of the human mind. From all indications it will prove to be as revolutionary for humanity as the first caveman's discovery and utilization of fire. Daily Mirror , FAMILY FINDS HOPE WITH DIANETICS Families with handicapped children have new hope for solving the problems of emotional stress and strain that come to a family following the birth of a handicapped child. Los Angeles parents Shirley and Steve Young say they found the solution to raising a handicapped son in the book "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health." "Our son was born with deformity of his lower limbs," says Shirley. "It was necessary for the doctors to amputate both legs just below the knees so that Eric could later be fitted with artificial limbs that would give him a chance for a normal life." Their son''s condition proved a shock to both mother and father. "Eric was our first child," she says. "I think every mother faces the fear that her child may be born with a handicap, but you think it will never happen to you." "When it does it puts enormous stress on the family. Corrective surgery is very costly. You have to see that your child gets the special attention that he needs, not only professional attention, but additional caring from the parents," she says. The couple''s relationship as husband and wife also suffered for a while, says Shirley and Steve. "We would find ourselves arguing with one another about what was the best thing to do for Eric," says Steve. "Everyone says they have the answer, but they all tell you that your baby will never really grow up to be a normal, well adjusted child because of his handicap. When you hear that, it hurts you as a parent." Both parents, however, refused to accept what they called "a lot of misinformation about children and about the mind." "We had both read the book ''Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health'' and we knew that a person''s physical condition did not in any way influence his mental condition," says Mrs. Young. "It is quite the other way around." Throughout the time her son was being fitted with artificial limbs, the couple applied Dianetics technology both to the baby and to themselves as a family. "It made our relationship with one another even stronger. It helped us raise our son so that he was free from all the false considerations that counselors and psychologists try to force on handicapped children and their parents." As a result, Eric is happy, healthy, well adjusted boy today. He runs, swims and plays baseball. "He even climbs trees," says his somewhat chagrined mother. "I have the same worries that any mother has over a rambunctious six year old." "Dianetics was really the solution," she says. "I tell any mother with a handicapped child to read the book. It opens the door to solving all the problems that psychologists don''t have answers for." Black Voice February 19, 1987 , FAMILY FINDS HOPE WITH DIANETICS Families with handicapped children have new hope for solving the problems of emotional stress and strain that come to a family following the birth of a handicapped child. Los Angeles parents Shirley and Steve Young say they found the solution to raising a handicapped son in the book "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health." "Our son was born with deformity of his lower limbs," says Shirley. "It was necessary for the doctors to amputate both legs just below the knees so that Eric could later be fitted with artificial limbs that would give him a chance for a normal life." Their son's condition proved a shock to both mother and father. "Eric was our first child," she says. "I think every mother faces the fear that her child may be born with a handicap, but you think it will never happen to you." "When it does it puts enormous stress on the family. Corrective surgery is very costly. You have to see that your child gets the special attention that he needs, not only professional attention, but additional caring from the parents," she says. The couple's relationship as husband and wife also suffered for a while, says Shirley and Steve. "We would find ourselves arguing with one another about what was the best thing to do for Eric," says Steve. "Everyone says they have the answer, but they all tell you that your baby will never really grow up to be a normal, well adjusted child because of his handicap. When you hear that, it hurts you as a parent." Both parents, however, refused to accept what they called "a lot of misinformation about children and about the mind." "We had both read the book 'Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health' and we knew that a person's physical condition did not in any way influence his mental condition," says Mrs. Young. "It is quite the other way around." Throughout the time her son was being fitted with artificial limbs, the couple applied Dianetics technology both to the baby and to themselves as a family. "It made our relationship with one another even stronger. It helped us raise our son so that he was free from all the false considerations that counselors and psychologists try to force on handicapped children and their parents." As a result, Eric is happy, healthy, well adjusted boy today. He runs, swims and plays baseball. "He even climbs trees," says his somewhat chagrined mother. "I have the same worries that any mother has over a rambunctious six year old." "Dianetics was really the solution," she says. "I tell any mother with a handicapped child to read the book. It opens the door to solving all the problems that psychologists don't have answers for." Black Voice February 19, 1987 , There is something new coming up in April called Dianetics. A new science which works with the invariability of physical science in the field of the human mind. From all indications it will prove to be as revolutionary for humanity as the first caveman's discovery and utilization of fire. Walter Winchell Daily Mirror January 31, 1950, TOOLS FOR COPING WITH STRESS 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 on 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 - and thus perpetrating 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. To learn more, visit www.dianetics.org. Hesperia Reporter September 4, 2003, TREATING CHRONIC PAIN Science has explored a number of ways to help people deal with pain. Some developments - such as those involving drugs or physical therapy - may be the type of treatments most people would expect. Others, however, may surprise you. For example, in 1997 Elvis Winterbottom was accidentally shot in the hip with a .45 caliber gun. After surgery, he was released from the hospital in a wheelchair, unable to walk. Recovery was slow and the pain was intense - to the point where simple actions such as taking a shower were difficult for him. Winterbottom was a chronic pain sufferer. Chronic pain is a condition that affects an estimated 86 million people in the US. It''s defined as pain that continues for a month or more beyond the usual recovery period for an injury, or pain that goes on for months or years as a result of a chronic condition. Winterbottom experienced pain for years, until he attended a career seminar that did more than help his job outlook. While at a lecture on success in the acting industry, Winterbottom learned about a course on the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health . He signed up immediately. During the course he received Dianetics Therapy - a technique developed by L. Ron Hubbard in which one looks at incidents in the past that may be causing physical and emotional pain in the present. Hubbard said there are two parts of the mind: the analytical and the reactive. The analytical mind records mental images and pictures, except for in times of extreme mental or physical pain, at which point memory is stored in the reactive section. Hubbard maintained the reason people experience chronic emotional or physical pain is that the memories of their injuring events are "locked up" in their reactive minds. "I spoke about the shooting and went through the incident with my counselor," says Winterbottom. "I came home and told my wife about it, but didn''t think it was that big of a deal." The next morning, Winterbottom and his wife set out to do their weekly shopping - a chore which Winterbottom generally needed an ample supply of pain killers to perform. "After an hour my wife said to me, ''slow down,''" says Winterbottom. "Then it hit me: I have no pain. I am not limping. I have no pain!" The next day he put his hip to the test. Winterbottom climbed the longest set of stairs in the world at Universal Studios - twice - and still, no pain. Today, Winterbottom''s hip is completely pain-free. "It''s a miracle to me," he says. "That course gave me my life back." For more information, visit www.dianetics.org. Transcript-Bulletin March 19, 2002
