Dianetics Auditing

Dianetics was originally the forerunner to Scientology and followed L. Ron Hubbard’s research into the source of unreasonable fears, upsets, insecurities and psychosomatic illness—which he termed the reactive mind. In his book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health he described the reactive mind in detail and laid out simple, practical, easily taught techniques to handle it, which he called Dianetics Auditing.

The word Dianetics is derived from the Greek dia, meaning “through,” and nous, “mind or soul.” Dianetics is further defined as “what the soul is doing to the body.” When the mind adversely affects the body, it is described as a psychosomatic condition. Psycho refers to “mind or soul” and somatic refers to “body.” Thus, psychosomatic illnesses are physical illnesses caused by the soul. 

Auditing uses processes—exact sets of questions asked or directions given by an auditor to help a person locate areas of spiritual distress, find out things about himself and improve his condition. Many, many different auditing processes exist and each one improves the individual’s ability to confront and handle some part of his existence. When the specific objective of any one process is attained, the process is ended and another can then be used to address a different part of the person’s life.