How Others
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Control You
Page 6, Portland Observer, October 28, 1987
by Jane Wilson
It s a push-button society, or so it has often been said. But this may e
more true than we previously might have suspected.
Much like a computer, you have push-button impulses, key wore
phrases that can compel you to do things against your better judgment, or
which can repress you from doing what you want. Even without under
standing the mental mechanisms involved, people frequently try to control
you by discovering and using these phrases to manipulate your reactions
According to the current best-selling book ' Dianetics The Modern
Science of Mental Health” by L. Ron Hubbard, “ The 'handling of human
beings' and what people have been calling, roughly, 'psychology have
been actually push-button handling of a person's aberrational phrases and
sounds."
"Children discover them in their parents and use them with a
vengeance." says Hubbard. "Wives may find that certain words make the
husband wince or make him angry or make him refrain from doing some
thing and so they use these 'push buttons.' And husbands find their wives
push buttons and keep them from buying clothes ot using the car.
In fact, everywhere we are manipulated by button words.
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tising frequently tries to discover general public words and to use these to
make people buy. In the advertising field, they even talk about impulse
buying!
But just what are these button words and why do they have such a
power over us?
Hubbard discoverd that these buttons are in fact words connected to
past experiences of pain and emotion. But until the effects of these phrases
are released through "Dianetics” technology, a person generally is not
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Susan Graber, a well-known and experienced trial and appellate attor
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aware of the connection.
Is there a defense against manipulative efforts of others to control you
with buttons? "Dianetics" actually details a method to gain full control over
your own responses.
But simply recognizing the phenomenon could be a step toward clearer
thinking. If, for instance, you find yourself getting particularly uspet for no
reason about something someone says, realize that they probably just
pushed a button of yours. If you find yourself reac mg in a way you don't
understand, this could be button words at work.
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