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Hi Gabor,
got interested in the subjects of yawn/yawning because you
so vividly described the phenomenon throughout all of your
posts regarding processing with TROM.
Below you can find what various sources have to say about
yawning. Firstly what physicians and scientists have to say.
Later various quotes from LRH material and other people
with scientology and other backgrounds.
(I just provide the material as is without commenting.
Only want to mention Paul Adam, who is as well known as
The Yawnguy. Seek out his sites and YouTube videos on the
web. Very impressive work he had done with "Paul's Robot".)
Enjoy reading and do not wonder if you start yawning
occasionally :-)
Best regards
Robin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawn
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A yawn is a reflex consisting of the simultaneous inhalation of air and the
stretching of the eardrums, followed by an exhalation of breath.
Yawning (oscitation) most often occurs in adults immediately before and
after
sleep, during tedious activities and as a result of its contagious
quality.[1]
It is commonly associated with tiredness, stress, sleepiness, or even
boredom
and hunger, though studies show it may be linked to the cooling of the
brain.[2]
In humans, yawning is often triggered by others yawning (e.g., seeing a
person
yawning, talking to someone on the phone who is yawning) and is a typical
example of positive feedback.[3] This "contagious" yawning has also been
observed in chimpanzees, dogs, and can occur across species.[4][5]
Approximately
20 physiological reasons for yawning have been proposed by scholars, but
there
is little agreement about its main functions.[1]
....
http://www.healthline.com/symptom/excessive-yawning
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-
brain/question572.htm
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Occurrencies of "yawn" in Scientology & Dianetics Tech. Dict.:
BODY REACTIONS, one of the ten main needle actions of an E-meter. The deep
breathing of a preclear, a sigh, a yawn, a sneeze, a stomach growl can any
one
of them make a needle react. They’re not important once you know what they
are.
(EME, pp. 18-19)
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excerpt from AAC
FUNDAMENTALS
OF AUDITING
A lecture given on
11 January 1955
....
Now one time we were in the state in Dianetics that we didn't know whether
it
was more important that the preclear yawned – we thought the yawn might be
a
very, very important factor. We watched for yawns very carefully. All a
yawn is
is a change of his basal metabolism. It doesn't demonstrate anything
better or
worse. He might yawn, yawn, yawn and go into a boil-off. Boil-off is – we
thought at one time was therapeutic, until we had somebody run... I got
this as
a – set this up as a project.
And I had auditors make preclears boil off until we had in one case three
hundred hours of consecutive boil-off by a case, with no change of
psychometry.
No change on an E-Meter reading and no change of case or any
rehabilitation of
ability. Boil-off wasn't important, was it? It just wasn't even vaguely
important. It's kind of found – we found out that the preclear didn't even
get
rested in the boil-off. It wasn't something that rested him. He woke up –
if he
went into the session tired he'd come out tired.
....
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Yawning
by Alkaro
Yawning is a remedy for unconsciousness. It blows unconsciousness (LRH).
It is looking at something in a broad way, from PT.
Would one look at the precise things in the Lock, Secondary or Engram
behind it,
one would not yawn.
In this way one could say, that yawning is BPC [Bypassed Charge - Robin]
- by-passing the exact details of
which the charge is composed - but for me it is better defined by saying,
that
it comes from 'trying to confront in a broad way'.
There was also a time on this list (T4R, MR), when Chris insisted, that
yawning
was a sign of a MWH [Missed WithHold - Robin].
This is true in one way: If one is processing something in conventional SCN
[SCieNtology - Robin] processing style and one suddenly starts to yawn -
then one just missed
something (one did not confront something). The view went broader than
focusing
on the exact isness.
Someone in a very good shape like Chris can use this as an indication
where he
'went wrong', spot it and he will stop yawning.
But looking at yawning as a sign for a MWH all the times would be
completely
contra productive.
In many processes yawning is a very good sign.
Doing EFT [Does anyone know what that acronym stands for? - Robin] I am
yawning and this is how I know, the process is working.
When I do havingness, I start to 'look at the here and now' in a broad way
- and
start to yawn. This is good.
When I take 'The whole Incident" (or even chain of incidents) and put it
above
me (etc. - 6 direction process) - I start often to yawn. When I go back to
scanning the exact points of the incident - I stop yawning.
It was Paul's [I guess this is a reference to Paul Adam alias Yawnguy -
Robin] discovery (as far as I know) that yawning is not just an effect
but can be used as cause. Enforced yawning can bring one into PT -
especially if
combined with touching things...
So what IS yawning?
When I go in the Shopping Mall - I can do my 'Shopping Mall Process': I
walk
around without any goal, just looking at everything - and I will start to
yawn.
The explanation for me: there are too many things to be able to be aware of
everything - to have everything under control. Too many things to view to
hold
one VP [ViewPoint - Robin] (which is changing because I am walking anyway).
I start yawning and my havingness comes up.
Or with other words: I am 'less in my head'.
Or with other words: not fixed anymore.
So here comes the question what is Havingness?
Is havingness the ability to pervade INSTEAD of holding a single VP ??
To confront instead of having stable data?
But why this body reaction?
A cat (and also a dog?) - when they are in between two or more possible
behavior
patterns and are confused of what to do next - have a reflex to overcome
this
confusion: they yawn.
Is this the reptilian brain 'knowing' it does not know what to do, knowing
it is
confused? The lowest gradient of Self-Awareness?
Is yawning the reptilian brains way to as is a situation of confusion?
Something like that - I guess.
Yes I guess - and if you are now a bit confused - just yawn it out !!
LOL
Mark
PS Comments very welcome of course !!
(Mark Ruedi, T4R, 11.05.2007, Yawning - Clarification)
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Daruba
Mark, excellent explanation. I find yawning is both havingness, and
BPC also...
Yawning is the body's way of taking in more oxygen, so as to get
more "awake" (this is the physical part)
Paul
Do you guys really agree that yawning is the body's way of taking in
more oxygen? I know that is standard "wisdom" on the subject, but
when I yawn I seem to breathe in less than in a normal breath, let
alone a deep breath. It is obviously more exaggerated, with an open
mouth, but I don't see how it gets in more oxygen through the nose
and mouth than regular breathing.
This may just be an oddity with me, as my normal respiratory rate is
just under five breaths per minute, a third of the average, and has
been in that range as long as I can remember. But I can't hold my
breath underwater for three times as long!
Mark
In fact - yes, I do....I take in much more air - I breath deeper.
If we see that animals do yawn as a stress-release / in a situation where
they
can not 'make up their mind what to do next' - then it could make sense,
that
the body tries to get more energy to overcome this situation.
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Yawning: - I have heard that yawning is a sign of BPC too, but I never
believed
it fully. It didn't quite indicate to me. Functionally I can see that
yawning is
often an attempt to disperse an energy field. Scientologists are taught
that
there are three energy types: flow, ridge and dispersal. This is true as
far as
it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. The problem is "ridge". If one uses
the
scientology model, then ridge has to be divided into two types. Instead, I
prefer to toss out "ridge" and replace it with a corrected list:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Flow
Dispersal Energy Field
Density (collapsed)
Energy
Space
Time
Matter
irosun
iwori
owonrin
odi
These are of course the 4 parts of a universe, restated, and are irosun,
iwori,
owonrin and odi respectively. Yawning is attempting to take a #3 (owonrin,
a
field) and turn it into a #2 (iwori, a space). This is counterproductive,
as
owonrin to iwori is reverse motion around that wheel. (Ed, T4R post 30818,
Jul
06)
- Yawning in SCN is the 'blowing of unconscious charge' . It comes up,
when you
contact a charge, but sweep over it in an unfocused way ( so yes - one
could say
bye-pass it to some degree) - which means, the content is still too
charged to
come up even as a Dub-in.
The interesting thing is, that one can reverse the flow and start to yawn,
and
this will trigger the exact same process and start to blow charge.
(Discovered
by Paul Adam, see next post).
To 'fuel' the process one should at the same time replenish the havingness
(gone
by yawning) by touching things.
It is of course a very slow way of processing (that's why an auditor would
dismiss it) - but it is a very good remedy, in cases when one feels not
too good
and can not see what the charge is at the moment (if one has no auditor
experience).
It can even be used - and teached - as an emotional remedy after an upset.
One
can just yawn it out... (and by touching things 'ground' oneself a new).
(Mark,
T4R, 19.08.07, God the Mother - One Effect of the One Cause plus some later
changes)
- Yawning, by Alkaro, see here
- see also 'Anaten' and 'Anaten Remedy'
- HSD: Yawn
Yawn Machine: - a creation of Paul Adam on the NET in re to a very simple
way of
light processing.
Paul has discovered, that yawning, normally a symptom in Processing, can
be used
by itself.
See also post above. (MR)
- the Yawn Machine you find here http://www.yawnmachine.com/
- see also Paul's 'Robot Auditor'
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Board technical bulletin
5 SEPTEMBER 1968
Remimeo
HANDLING STUDENT DOPE OFF
In my experience as a Supervisor, I found the following of major
importance,
like the TRs 0-4, words and their meanings must be thoroughly learnt early
on in
courses otherwise the balance of the course will be dealing with these
misunderstoods or even worse, this may lead to retrain from scratch.
For Scientology definitions, I demand and get definitions as laid out in
HCOBs,
Policy Letters, tapes and books.
English Words, too, are well defined with a good dictionary at hand. I have
found that Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary is ideal. Others
give
less well defined definitions and sometimes they are even vague in their
meanings.
In the first week of the SO Cl VI Course, many students doped off and even
fell
asleep. With steady patience, the misunderstood PRIOR to the paragraph,
HCOB or
pack was located, indicated and defined in each case. Students remarked
how they
doped off „for some other reason“.
The second week fewer dope offs occurred and there were less flunks for not
knowing definitions of Scientology words. Attendance increased and interest
sharpened. More reference to the dictionary was made.
In short, the lesson was being learned by the students that to by-pass a
misunderstood word equals dope off.
In many cases I spotted an indicator-a slight dullness and/or a yawn-and
sure
enough just prior to the sentence or paragraph being studied lay the
misunderstood.
One chronic case of dope off and hard grind at study of Scientology was
easily
handled by getting him to define the word Scientology itself. This after
being
in Scientology and studying various courses and having read books! There
have
been many of these handled, as obviously if somebody hears the word
„Dianetics“
or „Scientology“ for the first time the immediate response is, „What’s
that?“
and where the definition is not put across clearly it follows the person
throughout the study of the subject until finally spotted and clearly
defined.
Honestly, I must have cracked and cured about 20 such cases of bad study
habits
just getting them to define these two words.
Another student was crying and cracking up and going to pieces with her
coach
desperately going down hill himself in trying to find her misunderstood on
the
material just covered.
Simply questioned with regard to where she felt she was doing well turned
this
off and the reason for all this was that she had not read the last few
pages of
„Self Analysis“. It was not further pursued as all Good Indicators flooded
in,
and she could and did continue rapid progress.
There are many such examples with infinite variations and they all add up
to a
misunderstood.
If you’re sharp these can be located before the student winds up a flat
ball
bearing.
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excerpt from: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A lecture given on
30 November 1950
According to notes published in 1951 by the Hubbard Research Unit
...
“What is the value in attention units gained of yawns or boil-off alone
when
the engram itself is
not yet accessible for reduction?”
That would be a very
interesting question all by itself. You can’t assign a numerical value, but
believe me, the boil-off and material of that character is the thing which
is
suppressing the
analyzer. There is the unconsciousness, and getting the
unconsciousness off the case always
returns attention units. But there was a
condition put on this question—”the engram itself is not
yet accessible for
reduction.” Believe me, if you get a lot of boil-off on a case, there are
engrams underneath that boil-off, and they can be contacted.
...
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