I was so impressed with the auditing; I became a trained professional auditor and gave many sessions to my friends. They got better too. That’s when I realized that, to get the most out of Scientology, you need to get both auditing and training.
Over the years as a Scientologist, I have almost always been on auditing and Academy training. I am currently continuing on my advanced auditor training.
One of the basic building blocks for the rest of the Bridge is The Survival Rundown. It’s not solving life by thinking; it gets you to look at the present in a vivid way that you haven’t experienced before. The processes are done with a twin – Your twin gets you through a process, and then you get your twin through. I kept a journal of wins on the rundown – both my wins and my wife’s win – sometimes I wasn’t that sure who had which win.
It doesn’t matter, really. We benefited from each other’s gains. You get double the wins when you co-audit the processes. We loved doing the rundown together.
My wife and I collaborate as artists, have fun together, approach the problems of life together – so it’s natural that we would share this co-audit experience.
After I had a major gain from a session, the win tends to expand on the drive home, or the rest of the week. You can continue sharing your realizations with your twin. We would encourage each other to use these gains more fluidly to handle situations in life, or to create our art.
On the SRD, I felt like I was “in the trenches” in a good way. You’re working hard to get your gains. At first – we’d run a process for 10 minutes, and get dazzled by it, “oh, I get it. Wow! Feels amazing! End of session.” Then a note comes back from the case supervisor – “continue the same process.” The powerful gains showed up after digging in deeper.
See, we were all happy thinking and realizing stuff about life. But the C/S wanted to know: “Did any pains turn on? Did you get tired, upset, angry, etc.?” That’s the stuff from the past coming up to the surface.
These are the things that keep your attention out of the present. These processes dredge that stuff up and then you get rid of it.
Then it’s just you — fully being you in the present.
On SRD, I got a new viewpoint on living: there’s a time stream – if you’re not swimming to keep moving on the stream, you just drown in the water as it rushes by.
SRD gave me the ability to keep swimming – keep putting myself there moment after moment. All that work on SRD paid off – now I can do that easily in life.
We hear people talking about trying to get focused, being centered, or how someone else seems “so comfortable in their own skin”.
SRD is a very practical program that addresses all this. It puts your attention on the present environment, takes attention out of the past.
You might have old failures, losses, feelings of overwhelm, or even tedious boredom still hanging around – on SRD, this is all removed.
If you can’t get started on something that you know you should do, it’s just the past failures and other thoughts weighing on you. Get fully in touch with the environment you’re in, and you’ll be excited to start.
SRD makes this easy. My ability to control the present stays strong long after I have finished the SRD. Last month, I worked several 16 hour days in a row, writing a pile of music for orchestra. I finally finished at 4am. After a 3-hour nap, I drove to the studio and conducted a full orchestra for 8 hours, guiding 60 performers all day, enjoying it and getting it done. That’s running a body and a big room of people at a high level on little sleep — a body well past “retirement age” — Surviving to the fullest!”
— D.C.
