COLDS:
My first success in Scientology came with reading the first book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Something written in that book changed the character of colds. I had been prone to getting frequent colds that lasted a long time. After reading about colds in the book, I didn’t get a cold for a long time. On the rare occasion when I do get a cold, it is gone in a few days.

     PANIC:
I used the techniques described in “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” on an Australian housewife. She was quite successful with her own home-based business and had a wonderful husband and family of three boys. They were all outdoor types and were off hiking, boating, swimming, etc., every weekend or vacation. The wife was curious about Dianetics so I sat her down for a demonstration. The techniques from the book are so good at improving memory that she recalled two operations she had had at two years of age. She was unconscious for both operations and all the time in between. But she started recalling what happened in the operating room, what the doctor did and what the doctor said. He pronounced her dead on the operating table just as the assistants were putting an oxygen mask on her. She suddenly looked up at me and said, “Do you know that oxygen mask looks very much like a scuba diving mask? Did you know I could never go scuba diving? I could never put the mask on. Do you think I could go scuba diving now?” I didn’t know and told her to try it. Seems she could participate in every outdoor activity there was, but when it came to putting on a scuba diving mask, she panicked. I saw her a few weeks later and asked her if she had gone scuba diving. “Yes,” she replied, “it was marvelous.” No fear since.

     HEADACHES
A teenage boy volunteered at one of my lecture demonstrations to be the guinea pig for a Dianetics session. He recalled an incident of racing downhill with his brother and hitting a metal bar that was at head level. He saw it coming but did not have time to duck or stop. It hit him right over the eye. He did not remember hitting the bar, nor falling, nor the people who came and carried him to the car. He came to in the car on the way to the hospital. As I applied the recall techniques from “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health,” he recalled more and more of the intervening time. He recalled falling, hitting the ground, what the grass felt like, his brother reaching him, his mother, what she said and what she did. He recalled being carried to the car and being put in it. After the session I explained to the audience that that was the type of incident that could cause headaches later in life. His mother was in the audience, stood up and said, “He has terrible headaches right in that spot and the doctor says there is nothing wrong.” The audience started asking her about the particulars of the accident. “That’s exactly what I said and exactly what I did, and he was unconscious,” she said incredulously. I kept track of the boy for several years and he had no headaches during that time.

     BACK PAIN
A man of about fifty volunteered for a demonstration in front of an audience. I didn’t know he suffered from severe back pain that interfered with his work in construction. He recalled an automobile accident in which he had injured his back. Then he recalled an earlier accident in a truck and an earlier accident on a motorcycle and an earlier accident on a bicycle and an even earlier accident on a tricycle, all of which injured his back. After the session all he could say was, “You done mighty for me. You done mighty for me.” He could not write, but he certainly could work now. His back pain was gone.

     ASTHMA A statuesque lady in her 60’s came to me out of curiosity about Dianetics. She was quite successful running a dress shop in a tourist town and still cut a striking pose as a model. As I used the techniques from “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health,” she recalled an incident from her early childhood in India. She had been taken for a walk by her nanny who bought her an ice cream on the street.. After a while she felt ill and later at home her parents thought she was just trying to get attention. It wasn’t until she was seriously ill with diphtheria that they took her to the hospital. There she lapsed in and out of consciousnes with difficulty breathing for several days before she recovered. We ended off and she went about her daily routine. Three weeks later she saw me on the street and ran up to me saying, “I haven’t had any asthma since you gave me that session and normally I would have had it quite badly.”

     MENSTRUAL CRAMPS As a teenager and into my 20’s I suffered so much from menstrual cramps that I was unable to go to work or school for several days each month. They were gradually worsening and having a baby brought no relief. A friend who trained with me on how to use updated Dianetics techniques used them on me with regard to the cramps. I was not having any cramps at the time and didn’t seem any different when she finished. I sincerely doubted the technique had worked on me, but I know now it did. I have never had any menstrual cramps since. In fact, it now feels better to menstruate than not. And the only symptom of PMS is that I clean house.

     WRITER’S BLOCK I have been a writer since I learned how to spell words. But there were often times I just sat in front of the computer and could come up with nothing. The more I availed myself of Scientology the less trouble I have had writing. The idea of writing a book seemed impossible at one time. I couldn’t keep my attention on one project for the length of time it would take to do a book. One course in particular increased my speed and ended my need to edit my writing. I have now written several books which you can see at: members.aol.com/siouxhart/Books.HTM

     ART I have long been known as an artist, but never seemed to be able to bring myself to do as much art as I felt I could. I had a lot of ideas that never seemed to come to fruition. My involvement in Scientology has steadily improved my production in the arts. I found it easier to draw and I got better at it without lessons: members.aol.com/siouxhart/Drawings.HTM

     I decided to learn caricature drawing from a book and did so: members.aol.com/siouxhart/Cartoons.HTM

     I had studiously avoided watercolor as I considered I made too many mistakes to be successful at watercolor. You can see my first three watercolors at: members.aol.com/siouxhart/Watercolors.HTM

     FASHION DESIGN I long had an ability in fashion design, but after my involvement in Scientology won several competitions in fashion design among professional designers, even won the highest level of competition in Florida: members.aol.com/siouhart/Fashions.HTM

     MUSIC I have never had difficulty creating songs, but I long had difficulty taking them further. My progress in Scientology has advanced my creativity in music and my ability to carry through to completion. One song was recorded and got airplay in two states: members.aol.com/siouxhart/Music.HTM

     FILMMAKING As a child I thought up plays and recruited actors to act in them. I had a play for any birthday, anniversary or holiday. When I got into high school, my father got a home movie camera. I instantly got an idea for a film. I took the idea to my father, told him I wanted him and my mother and sisters and brother to act in it, and I would film it and we would have a movie. My father listened to the proposal and said, “But that would not be natural.” His idea of a home movie was not staged. He did not intend to stop my creativity, but that one comment ended any future plays. In fact, I never even thought of it again nor even remembered ever making plays until years later on one of the highest levels of Scientology. It all came back to me and I picked up where I left off, made the film and proceeded on a film career. The second film I made won two awards in a Hollywood film festival--best cinematography and tied for best picture. I went on to co-produce a feature film.