6111C01 SHSpec-74 Formation of Commands

[Details on formulating commands for goals processing]

You can have difficulty with some standard command like, "Think of a
_______ ." In About 50% of cases, the PC won't make sense out of "think" and
it won't read. You could clear the word very carefully, get all his
considerations, process the condition, etc. or, better yet, find a substitute
the PC can understand. Often, "Get the idea" will work, but if the second
part of the command has it in another form, then what? Well, square it around
so it makes sense. (Cure for inability to think: "Look around and find
something that's not thinking.") Be sure it's clear to the PC. Don't find
that you are having trouble with it after you have run it for three hours.
But don't go to the extreme of clearing the same command every session either. Just clear it when you first use it. Even if it looks fine to you, see if it makes sense and is answerable to the PC.

Mental concepts can exist in the absence of words. When you are forming
commands, it's concepts you want to communicate. Words express the form and
character of the think. A thetan, in order to communicate, goes through MEST
and, to hear, takes the communication out of MEST. That's how he keeps off
other thetans. The whole business of forming commands uses that mechanism.
The command should, of course, always be duplicated. That's a havingness
factor, as well as not attracting the PC's attention, and it makes him think a
repetitive thought which will eventually as-is his circuits. Don't get
pedantic about it. Process in the language he speaks, including dialects and
colloquialisms.

If you are trying to compose commands without a knowledge of the basics
of scientology, you'd do better to go hang yourself. One of the basics is to
make sense. Remember that if a word was something the PC was quite rational
about, it wouldn't read in the first place. And it's not up to you to run a
language school for a PC. Often he will cognite on what it means as you run
it. But if you have to change wordings to make the command grammatical or
sensible, be sure to get one that reads and has the same sense to the PC.
Your commands are always being formed and cleared up against the raw stuff of
which aberration is concocted. As a result, it becomes a tricky and vast
subject. The fundamentals of the mind are simple and not very many. The
difficulties of clearing and forming commands can cause the auditor to give up
and just take commands LRH has given. Even if you do this, try at least to
understand the thought behind the command which is meant to be transmitted to
the PC. if it doesn't transmit because of some weirdness, fix it up so it
fits and transmits. LRH expects that you would make sure it's answerable.
Don't change any commands that you are already running, no matter how much
better you now see you could make it. Realize that commands are
communication, not semantics.