Sep. 6, 2007 - Emotion and Life Energy
I live a pretty hectic life, as do most of us these days. One thing I can always use more of is energy. And it just so happened that I learned something important about how to get it when reading the Dianetics book the other day.
I've been reading Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health. Actually I finished reading it and completed a new course that was released in July (David Miscavige released new editions of all Ron's basic books of Scientology and Dianetics, and CDs of all recorded lectures that accompany them, and I was at the front of the line to get mine!)
Every day that I read I find something I need to understand or resolve something in my life. It's not that my life is f****d up. It's more that the world around me is, and I'm always running into someone or something that needs help, and hate it when I don't know what to do to give the person or people a hand. And that is just part of the genius of L. Ron Hubbard -- that his research and writing is so applicable to situations in life.
But in addition to being practical and incredibly useful the books are also so well written that it's just a pleasure to read them.
No matter what I'm doing, no matter how late it is when I finally sit down and relax, I always make time to read. Usually I read novels, but since I got these books and lectures I take the time at night to read or listen, and I'm finding the effort is coming out of my life. Things are just smoothing out and starting to get better almost as if by magic.
Here's a quote I found in Dianetics that I thought I'd share:
Emotion seems to be inextricably connected up with the actual force of life. That there is a life force, no engineer could doubt. Man and medicine usually look at the pitcher and forget that the pitcher is only there to hold milk and that the milk is the important quantity. Life force is the helium which fills the balloon. Out goes the helium, down comes the balloon.
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