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Article: On Top of the World

Positive thinking has been fashionable for decades. It's the idea that you control your life by having the right thoughts: Thinking that good things will happen, that you will have success, that you are able to do it, that you will get a great family etc. And as Scientologists know, the press sells by presenting bad news, and what we need is good news. We should not focus on anything bad, but be up the tone scale5. a scale which plots the descending spiral of life from full vitality and consciousness through half-vitality and half-consciousness down to death. (SA, p . 3 7 )...More. Right?

Wrong. Affinity really is merely the consideration of how well things are going . True, going up the scale may give you energy and optimism, and your considerations about a situation may influence your decisions positively if, for instance, it makes you grasp an opportunity. But things won't go better just because you feel better, just as you don't lose weight by making the balance show less; time doesn't change because you move the hands of the clock. You need to control your life by controlling what goes on in life, and you do need to understand the whole situation if you are to act self-determinedly.

Positive thinking, by the way, should not be confused with a new phenomenon in psychology, emerging around 2000, called positive psychology, which includes, but does not exclusively focus on feeling good. Instead, it focuses on the strengths needed to create a good life, such as perspective, perseverance, judgment, humor etc. This is much closer to the philosophy of Scientology, as expressed in a slogan from DnAbbreviation for Dianetics. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976).. 55!: Accent on ability. Each grade on the bridge is completed when a certain awareness level - an ability - is reached. Feeling good is an important indicator that auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) and life progress well, but it is not what controls your life.

In 1950 Ron made an important distinction between emotion5. emotion could be called the energy manifestation of affinity. As used in Dn, emotion could be called the index of the state of being. In the English language, “emotional” is often considered synonymous with “irrational.” This would seem to assume that if one is emotional one cannot be reasonable. No more unreasonable assumption could possibly be made. (SOS, p. 48)...more and affinity1. the feeling of love or liking for something or someone. Affinity is a phenomena of space in that it expresses the willingness to occupy the same place as the thing which is loved or liked...more he is different: Emotion is a subjective state, while affinity1. the feeling of love or liking for something or someone. Affinity is a phenomena of space in that it expresses the willingness to occupy the same place as the thing which is loved or liked...more is relational, i.e. it varies according to the present situation. Affinity, then, includes a sort of evaluation of the situation and an attitude to deal with it. If the situation is dangerous, we feel fear and flee or fight. If all is safe, we feel perhaps conservative and calm. If something is offensive, we attack or become angry. If all is lost we feel grief, and sit down and cry.

An emotion5. emotion could be called the energy manifestation of affinity. As used in Dn, emotion could be called the index of the state of being. In the English language, “emotional” is often considered synonymous with “irrational.” This would seem to assume that if one is emotional one cannot be reasonable. No more unreasonable assumption could possibly be made. (SOS, p. 48)...more, on the other hand, may have nothing to do with the present situation. It may result from a fleeting thought, some restimulation or an analytical association, but we can also deliberately do things, or think of something, in order to feel good - by thinking we will have success, a great career and a happy family life, and that all will be well. That's all right as long as we remember that it does not, by itself, affect our life. True, there are times when a person is severely keyed in, and all one can do to help him is make him feel a little better, but that is an assist rather than enabling him to take his destiny into his own hands.

Emotion and affinity1. the feeling of love or liking for something or someone. Affinity is a phenomena of space in that it expresses the willingness to occupy the same place as the thing which is loved or liked...more are used somewhat synonymously today, but the distinction between the two concepts are still valid, so please keep them in mind3. a network of communications and pictures, energies and masses, which are brought into being by the activities of the thetan versus the physical universe or other thetans. The mind is a communication and control system between the thetan and his environment. (FOT, p. 56)...MORE as you read this text.

Positive thinking and manipulate emotions so that one is "feeling good", then, is a horrible way to control one's life. Oh, it's fine to watchEvery member of a ship's company has two general types of activities, one of these is as a member of watches, wherein he handles his duties of steering, lookout, engines, etc., including emergency drills. (FO 1109) a "feel good" movie or take a stroll in the park in order to relax - to allow some of the not-is-nesses from work or intense interaction to ooze off; that's a rehabwhen the person was originally released he had become aware of something that caused the reactive mind to de-stimulate at that point or become weak. And so he released...More of some of the life energy that got trapped in the struggle of life. But focusing exclusively on raising your emotional level tends to disconnect you from your real life, your dynamicsthere could be said to be eight urges (drives, impulses) in life. These we call dynamics. These are motives or motivations. We call them the eight dynamics. The first dynamic -is the urge toward existence as one’s self. Here we have individuality expressed fully. This can be called the self dynamic...more, so you become a mystic living on astral planes, or cloud 9 or in a fictitious world of sweetness and light.

Affinity is different. It gives us important information about what is going on and suggests how we might deal with it: flee, cry, take action, have fun. It is often quite reliable, but you are the senior authority who has the greater perspective, who can think a little deeper and reach wiser decisions. Feelings can be dramatized, and it is you, the thetan1. the living unit we call, in Scn, a thetan, that being taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself. (Abil Ma 1) 2. the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 3. the being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)...more, who needs to make sure that you are acting on the present situation - by looking, listening, asking, remembering - from a perspective high on the tone scale5. a scale which plots the descending spiral of life from full vitality and consciousness through half-vitality and half-consciousness down to death. (SA, p . 3 7 )...More, which means above "the watershed" at antagonism, 2.0, which divides the tone scale5. a scale which plots the descending spiral of life from full vitality and consciousness through half-vitality and half-consciousness down to death. (SA, p . 3 7 )...More into positive and negative emotions (which, using the distinction above, are basically affinities, but can be emotions when dramatized).

It is best to be high on the tone scale5. a scale which plots the descending spiral of life from full vitality and consciousness through half-vitality and half-consciousness down to death. (SA, p . 3 7 )...More, but that does not mean that it is always bad to be low on the tone scale5. a scale which plots the descending spiral of life from full vitality and consciousness through half-vitality and half-consciousness down to death. (SA, p . 3 7 )...More. Even if we are not aberrated at all, we may encounter situations where we need to defend ourselves (antagonism), flee from a wild animal (fear), and if we don't grieve over our dead child we are indeed aberrated. Those are not dramatizations resulting in subjective emotions which then make us act irrationally. They are affinities which make us act rationally.

A misemotion is a dramatization1. to repeat in action what has happened to one in experience. That’s a basic definition of it, but much more important, it’s a replay now of something that happened then. It’s being replayed out of its time and period. (SH Spec 72, 6607C28)...more which make us react automatically without being aware of the present situation. Laughing merrily at a funeral would be a misemotion; the manic person, who acts with determination toward a goal but doesn't know whyThat basic outness found which will lead to a recovery of stats. (HCO PL 13 Oct 70 II), or who grossly overestimates his own ability and chance of future success, is no less a victim of his misemotions than the depressed whom no happy news will cheer up.

The person who is stuck low on the tone scale5. a scale which plots the descending spiral of life from full vitality and consciousness through half-vitality and half-consciousness down to death. (SA, p . 3 7 )...More, cannot easily rise above the watershed. The person who is usually high on the scale will go low when the situation warrants it, but will then come back up as things improve. It is largely a matter of free theta, of sheer life energy available to the person, but that is not the only factor. Two things happen when one sinks below the watershed: 1) One looses the perspective that allows one to observe and evaluate the situation analytically and 2) One's attention fixes compulsively on the present unpleasantness. There are degrees of this, of course, but when it gets real bad, all of one's attention is fixed on the horror, the pain, the grief or hopelessness. One has truly become the problema problem is postulate-counter-postulate, terminal-counter-terminal, force-counter-force. It’s one thing versus another thing. You’ve got two forces or two ideas which are interlocked of comparable magnitude and the thing stops right there. All right, now with these two things one stuck against the other you get a sort of a timelessness, it floats in time. (SH Spec 82, 6111C21) 2 . a problem is a postulate-counter-postulate resulting in indecision. That is the first manifestation of problems, and the first consequence of a problem is indecision. (SH Spec 27, 6107C11) 3 . a multiple confusion. (SH Spec 26X, 6107C03) 4 . an intention counter-intention that worries the preclear. (HCOB 23 Feb 61) 5 . a problem is the conflict arising from two opposing intentions. A present time problem is one that exists in present time, in a real universe. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 6 . something which is persisting, the as-is-ness of which cannot be attained easily. (PRO 16, 5408CM20), its one's only beingness, one is entirely interiorized in it and there is no detectable thetan1. the living unit we call, in Scn, a thetan, that being taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself. (Abil Ma 1) 2. the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 3. the being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)...more.

Fortunately, it's rarely that bad, but anyway the solution is to regain one's perspective on the problema problem is postulate-counter-postulate, terminal-counter-terminal, force-counter-force. It’s one thing versus another thing. You’ve got two forces or two ideas which are interlocked of comparable magnitude and the thing stops right there. All right, now with these two things one stuck against the other you get a sort of a timelessness, it floats in time. (SH Spec 82, 6111C21) 2 . a problem is a postulate-counter-postulate resulting in indecision. That is the first manifestation of problems, and the first consequence of a problem is indecision. (SH Spec 27, 6107C11) 3 . a multiple confusion. (SH Spec 26X, 6107C03) 4 . an intention counter-intention that worries the preclear. (HCOB 23 Feb 61) 5 . a problem is the conflict arising from two opposing intentions. A present time problem is one that exists in present time, in a real universe. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 6 . something which is persisting, the as-is-ness of which cannot be attained easily. (PRO 16, 5408CM20) and oneself or, one might say, become again a thetan1. the living unit we call, in Scn, a thetan, that being taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself. (Abil Ma 1) 2. the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 3. the being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)...more that has a problema problem is postulate-counter-postulate, terminal-counter-terminal, force-counter-force. It’s one thing versus another thing. You’ve got two forces or two ideas which are interlocked of comparable magnitude and the thing stops right there. All right, now with these two things one stuck against the other you get a sort of a timelessness, it floats in time. (SH Spec 82, 6111C21) 2 . a problem is a postulate-counter-postulate resulting in indecision. That is the first manifestation of problems, and the first consequence of a problem is indecision. (SH Spec 27, 6107C11) 3 . a multiple confusion. (SH Spec 26X, 6107C03) 4 . an intention counter-intention that worries the preclear. (HCOB 23 Feb 61) 5 . a problem is the conflict arising from two opposing intentions. A present time problem is one that exists in present time, in a real universe. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 6 . something which is persisting, the as-is-ness of which cannot be attained easily. (PRO 16, 5408CM20) rather than a thetan1. the living unit we call, in Scn, a thetan, that being taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself. (Abil Ma 1) 2. the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 3. the being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)...more who is, mindlessly, a problema problem is postulate-counter-postulate, terminal-counter-terminal, force-counter-force. It’s one thing versus another thing. You’ve got two forces or two ideas which are interlocked of comparable magnitude and the thing stops right there. All right, now with these two things one stuck against the other you get a sort of a timelessness, it floats in time. (SH Spec 82, 6111C21) 2 . a problem is a postulate-counter-postulate resulting in indecision. That is the first manifestation of problems, and the first consequence of a problem is indecision. (SH Spec 27, 6107C11) 3 . a multiple confusion. (SH Spec 26X, 6107C03) 4 . an intention counter-intention that worries the preclear. (HCOB 23 Feb 61) 5 . a problem is the conflict arising from two opposing intentions. A present time problem is one that exists in present time, in a real universe. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 6 . something which is persisting, the as-is-ness of which cannot be attained easily. (PRO 16, 5408CM20). As a problema problem is postulate-counter-postulate, terminal-counter-terminal, force-counter-force. It’s one thing versus another thing. You’ve got two forces or two ideas which are interlocked of comparable magnitude and the thing stops right there. All right, now with these two things one stuck against the other you get a sort of a timelessness, it floats in time. (SH Spec 82, 6111C21) 2 . a problem is a postulate-counter-postulate resulting in indecision. That is the first manifestation of problems, and the first consequence of a problem is indecision. (SH Spec 27, 6107C11) 3 . a multiple confusion. (SH Spec 26X, 6107C03) 4 . an intention counter-intention that worries the preclear. (HCOB 23 Feb 61) 5 . a problem is the conflict arising from two opposing intentions. A present time problem is one that exists in present time, in a real universe. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 6 . something which is persisting, the as-is-ness of which cannot be attained easily. (PRO 16, 5408CM20), the thetan1. the living unit we call, in Scn, a thetan, that being taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself. (Abil Ma 1) 2. the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 3. the being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)...more is interesting, while the natural attitude of a thetan1. the living unit we call, in Scn, a thetan, that being taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself. (Abil Ma 1) 2. the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 3. the being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)...more is to be interested, the section from -1.3 (regret) up to 8.0 (exhilaration) is called the emotional section. Minus emotions are from 2.0 down, plus emotions above. We have perspective and good survival when we have plus emotions. But above the emotion5. emotion could be called the energy manifestation of affinity. As used in Dn, emotion could be called the index of the state of being. In the English language, “emotional” is often considered synonymous with “irrational.” This would seem to assume that if one is emotional one cannot be reasonable. No more unreasonable assumption could possibly be made. (SOS, p. 48)...more section we have lookingness, which means observation, whether by looking, listening, tasting, remembering or whatever. We get data and therefore understanding. This is an even better way to gain perspective because you observe objectively, while in the emotion5. emotion could be called the energy manifestation of affinity. As used in Dn, emotion could be called the index of the state of being. In the English language, “emotional” is often considered synonymous with “irrational.” This would seem to assume that if one is emotional one cannot be reasonable. No more unreasonable assumption could possibly be made. (SOS, p. 48)...more section of the tone scale5. a scale which plots the descending spiral of life from full vitality and consciousness through half-vitality and half-consciousness down to death. (SA, p . 3 7 )...More you predominantly let affinity1. the feeling of love or liking for something or someone. Affinity is a phenomena of space in that it expresses the willingness to occupy the same place as the thing which is loved or liked...more inform you about facts.

Just to let you have the full list: Below the emotion5. emotion could be called the energy manifestation of affinity. As used in Dn, emotion could be called the index of the state of being. In the English language, “emotional” is often considered synonymous with “irrational.” This would seem to assume that if one is emotional one cannot be reasonable. No more unreasonable assumption could possibly be made. (SOS, p. 48)...more section we have effortingness, thinkingness, symbols, eatingness, sexingness and mystery. On effortingness you have physical action, for instance, and if you are stuck there, you don't really have emotions, cannot observe etc. You just make yourself move the next sack, and the next, and the next

But that is only if you are stuck there. It's a general rule that we have available all levels below the tone where we usually are operating. So the person on 3.0, can feel grief, and can apply effort etc., but doesn't get stuck there. And you are not low-tone just because you happen to enjoy sex if you can also work and emote. But the guy who can only think of sex would not be well off in life.

Life is all over the scale, and affinity1. the feeling of love or liking for something or someone. Affinity is a phenomena of space in that it expresses the willingness to occupy the same place as the thing which is loved or liked...more is a good servant but a bad master. You are best off at the top of the scale with all levels at your fingertips as you chose. At the top you are really yourself. You are "walking on water" in the sense that you act in the effortless belief that you fully understand the situation and are doing the right thing according to the available data - even though you are aware that something unpredictable may happen. That is part of the game. And that is knowingness.