RESTIMULATOR
From the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary — based on original LRH source materials, updated through 1982.
Usage
A restimulator could be a smell, a sound, a person's tone of voice, or any environmental element that is similar enough to the content of an engram or other reactive mind material to cause it to activate. A person who becomes inexplicably upset around a certain type of perfume may be encountering a restimulator connected to an incident in their reactive mind.
Why It Matters
Identifying restimulators helps explain why people react irrationally to seemingly harmless things in their environment. In auditing, addressing the underlying reactive mind content removes the power of the restimulator, so it no longer triggers unwanted reactions.
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…
- 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.
- ART — (The basic definition) ART is a word which summarizes the QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.
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