This is an essay about having a better ride through life. It isn’t meant to convey any such thing as “The One Way” or “The Only Way” to view or understand existence in this world. It’s a sharing of insights and observations to enlighten, and it’s meant to be used to make your life better. It is very unlikely to conflict with your spiritual, religious or philosophical orientation. Its my hope and intention to augment and broaden these.

The most defeating view of any part of life is that what is happening is an external unwanted creation, imposed on you by some outside source, against or without your will. This is a “victim” attitude, an insistence that someone or something else, and not you, is the source of your state of existence. Consider that idea fully, before reading further.

We tend to take this view when faced with something we don’t want to experience. Commonly, the results of a “something unwanted is invading my life” attitude are the continuation of that condition or situation, or the emotional baggage of how we handle the matter weighing us down.

The key concept here is resistance of that which is for us. Resistance of that which is. Pushing back against something. Expending energy, or force, against incoming energy, or force. This can be, and sometimes is, an all-consuming game of perpetuating a life full of stress and conflict.

This is a tremendous, all-encompassing irony of existence. Expending resistance against that which you don’t want to experience tends to perpetuate the unwanted experience. Resisting the experiencing of that which is, contrary to one’s intention, only creates a situation analogous to the law of physics that every expenditure of energy results in an equal and opposite reaction.

To make this more palpable, think of someone standing in front of you pushing their hand against yours, with you pushing back. You both start out pushing softly, and then push harder and harder against each other. It becomes more of a struggle to maintain your position, and more consuming. Compare this to allowing your hand to be swayed back at the first gentle motion, simply experiencing the moving of your hand. Your footing is unaffected, and the action is over as quickly as it started. The day continues, your life continues, without anything holding you back on that spot.

The mind works the same way. Every experience in life that one resists, to the degree that a being does something other than fully experience an event or situation, it stays with them, and inflicts the force of that moment on the being. Virtually every unwanted, not understood, lingering and/or mysterious feeling and reaction that becomes part of a being’s make-up is, at its root, a condition or situation that one tried to escape, ignore or fight off, rather than simply accepting and fully experiencing. That which one expends effort to resist will back up in their mind.

Another liability to resisting is that the more one resists, the more it becomes an automatic pattern, which leaves one fighting things off that really aren’t very difficult to experience habitually. This entangles one in pointless expending of time and energy.

Your existence is, was and always will be as serene as you accept experiencing that which IS.

What IS, here and now, that is living life.

The opposite of living life is resisting life, putting effort into pushing back at what IS, here and now, or retreating from here and now. Opposing that which IS is done through use of personal thoughts, feelings and/or personal force. This is the action of pushing one’s hand against another hand, resulting in a buildup of opposing forces that can come to feel like solid concrete. It is an increasingly uncomfortable and persistent sensation.

In Scientology, the term “confronting” is used. I think “having” or “experiencing it as it is without shrinking back or pushing it away” might communicate the key idea better, as “confronting”, correctly or incorrectly, has the connotation of emanating force toward a subject or object.

Generally speaking, Scientology techniques are all about using a bit by bit, gradual approach to guide you to open yourself to experiencing your environments, allowing them within your sphere of acceptance, without looking away, shrinking back, or pushing away- to accept experiencing that which is here and now, instead of substituting mental pictures for what is actually here.

There are repetitive processes, wherein the same question or direction, or a series of questions or directions, are repeated over and over to you. You then find, from within your own universe, your answer, newly, each time you are given the question or direction. Through this type of processing you’ll gradually strip away surface responses and considerations to go deeper and deeper, cumulating in unearthing a basic idea or incident that has been buried underneath, and releasing you from the automatic reactions that it had been holding in place, freeing you to be able to easily experience life without the warped vision that had been held in place.

There are “recall” and “returning” processes that direct you to look at or go to progressively earlier incidents occurring at points of your existence to clear out the pain and unwanted feelings encompassed in your recordings of these incidents, with, again, freeing you from the misdirection of those mental images, and thus resulting in the increasing of your ability to easily experience that which is here and now.

And there are objective processes, in which you are being repetitively directed to experience the place you are in here and now, looking at, touching, noticing and describing what is in this environment you are in now. Those mental images of past experiences, and the feelings therein, which tend to stealthily absorb you and make the here and now seem too difficult to simply and easily experience without nervously going somewhere else mentally, will gradually disperse like clouds in the sky, leaving you with a greatly increased ability to easily experience being here and now, and with it, a general feeling of well-being.

In the 1950’s effort processing was developed, in which you are directed, through alternating commands, to gradually experience, to greater degrees, the use of conflicting forces, or efforts to resist and efforts to enforce, contained in various conditions, situations and experiences that are affecting your existence. Through the action of going back and forth between these efforts, gradually dissipating these mental energies locked up in the images within your mind and thus removing the enforcement power of these images on your thoughts and your viewpoint, enabling you to more easily experience life.

So you can see, the basic goal and thrust of Scientology techniques, to diminish your tendency to shrink away from, push away, or otherwise resist what is there, to increase your ability to easily experience all you encounter in your life, so that you can then move forward with your own goals and purposes, undeterred, not discouraged, turned around or stopped by whatever you encounter, and to be and remain well enough at ease with what is here and now to simply and easily experience the continuing occurrences and environments of your existence, as they occur for you.

The most effective techniques for accomplishing this goal in Scientology include Power Processing, and processes R2-33, Perfect Duplication, and R2-34, Description Processing. The latter 2 processes are from the book “The Creation of Human Ability”, copyrighted in 1954, in which the author, L. Ron Hubbard, describes R2-34 as “the single most powerful process in Scientology”. R2-33 is a prerequisite process to successfully running R2-34. Power Processing was developed 11 years later. These 3 processes are among the techniques that I specialize in, and I advocate for everyone to experience the effectiveness of these particular processes.

Sincerely, Dexter Gelfand

Grad V Auditor,

Power Processing Specialist

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