TECHNIQUE 80
A 1952 technique dealing with harmful acts, with the things that then seem to justify them, with being, and with the anatomy of indecision — of "maybe". Its practice is to be each area of life in turn until you can be the whole of it. The 8 stands for infinity and the 0 for zero: to be, or not to be.
From the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary — based on original LRH source materials, updated through 1982.
Usage
It can be applied to bodies, to one lifetime, or to a much longer span. The name is read as the two ends of a choice rather than as the number eighty.
Why It Matters
Indecision, rather than a wrong decision, is what holds people in place. Naming it and addressing it directly is what this technique introduced.
Related Concepts
- OVERT ACT — A harmful act — something done, or deliberately not done, that does the most harm across the areas of life a person is responsible for.
- MOTIVATOR — The consideration and dramatization that one has been wronged by the action of another or a group, and which is characterized by constant complaint with no real action undertaken to resolve the situation.
- BEINGNESS — The assumption or choosing of a category of identity.
- DYNAMIC(S) — The urge, thrust and purpose of life - SURVIVE! - in its eight manifestations. - THE FIRST DYNAMIC IVWKHXUJHWRZDUGH[LVWHQFHDVRQHVVHOI+HUHZHKDYH individuality expressed fully.
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