LOCK WORDS
Words that are not in the GPMs, but which are close in meaning to significances that are part of the GPMs. They keep large parts of the Reactive Mind in re-stimulation.
From the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary — based on original LRH source materials, updated through 1982.
Usage
A person may react strongly to certain everyday words because those words are close in meaning to significances buried in their GPMs, keeping large portions of the reactive mind stirred up. In auditing, identifying lock words helps the auditor understand what is holding areas of the reactive mind in restimulation.
Why It Matters
Lock words matter because they can keep a person's reactive mind chronically activated without the person knowing why. Handling them contributes to reducing the overall restimulation load on the individual.
Related Concepts
- REACTIVE MIND — That portion of a person's mind which works on a stimulus-response basis (given a certain stimulus, it gives a certain response) which is not under his volitional control and which exerts force and the power of command…
- SIGNIFICANCE — A word which is used in the special sense to denote any thought, decision, concept, idea, purpose or meaning in the mind in distinction to its masses.
- REACTIVE — Irrational, reacting instead of acting- behavior dictated by the Reactive Mind rather than the individual's own present-time determinism.
- MIND — A control system between the thetan and the physical universe.
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