Reference: The Book of Scientology
Assist Processing
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Summary
When a person is injured in an accident, a facsimile of that incident is impressed on the person’s mind. The facsimile is held in suspension because the sensations from the injury are not easy to assimilate. Hubbard’s solution is to put attention of the person on the incident and have him go through it repeatedly as if it was happening to him just that moment. This will assimilate the sensations to some extent and the pain will subside. The person is then asked to visualize that incident occurring at different places and times under different circumstances and even reversing its sequence. The whole effort is to lessen the person’s fixation on the incident.
Assist consists of applying the above procedure to a recent injury. The experience is fresh in a person’s mind, and so it is easier to process. It speeds up a person’s recovery from his injury.
When the person visualizes or mocks-up the incident or an injured part, he should put it next to another mock-up when there was no such injury. It brings the injury into focus and discharges the trauma. The mock-up should be controllable by the person. If the person cannot control his mock-up, then he should simply discard it and put up a new mock-up that he can control.
Hubbard says, “Using effort to control one’s mockups is of little avail; one simply creates them. Where mock-ups are absent, one will appear if the individual will simply keep putting the thought forward that it will appear. If he puts forward the thought often enough and long enough, he will get such a mock-up.”
The person may become ill or in pain while following this procedure. The remedy for this is simply to continue with the procedure until the illness or feeling has abated. This procedure makes a person look at an injury, or a worry, or a doubt, for what it is. It is continued only for as long as it is necessary.
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Comments
The facsimile is made of sensations that did not get broken up and assimilated within the matrix of existing experience. The entire handling of a facsimile is to break it up and loosen its content so they can be assimilated and perceived.
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