Some time before I read Dianetics, I was fairly aware that there was some part of my mind or something in my mind that made me feel, think and behave in ways that I didn’t want and could not always control.
I knew there were these inhibitions and compulsions present that restricted me from being who I wanted to be and prevented me from doing things I wanted to do.
I didn’t know why or what this was. But I did know that I didn’t have full control of my mind and this fact troubled me.
So I started looking for answers and ways that would help me gain control of this hidden part of my mind.
I read many self-help books on the subject including “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”, several Anthony Robbins publications, and quite a few others. These books gave me various techniques to do better in life, including some mental techniques, which I did have limited success with.
However the success tended to be short lived and the old mental barriers and unwanted impulses remained and continued to exert their influence over me. The techniques also seemed to be a matter of trying to rise above and overcome the barriers and unwanted impulses of the mind, a battle which I didn’t always win.
I also went down the road of self-hypnosis and meditation in a further effort to gain more control of my mind, but the self-hypnosis did not do much and the meditation, while it did give me a calmer perspective on life, still didn’t really result in better control over my mind.
Then I read Dianetics for the first time and I immediately discovered what I was missing and what I hadn’t found in the self-help books I had read previously.
Dianetics described the mental inhibitions and compulsions I was experiencing and explained the exact causes and reasons for them. It provided me with the knowledge and understanding of my mind that I had lacked.
Not only that, it also provided a workable technique to actually get rid of those unwanted mental conditions and achieve a definate clear state of mind.
So after reading Dianetics I had the answers that I had set out in search of: the why and what it was that made me feel, think and act in unwanted ways, and an exact way of removing that factor and thereby gaining full control over my mind, permanently.
Posted by Geoff G on April 14th, 2007
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