12/10/2025
Why Do We Keep Making the Same Mistakes?
Have you ever found yourself repeating a mistake—in relationships, finances, or even just constantly running late—despite knowing better?
It’s frustrating, and it feels like a broken record.
The answer lies in the Reactive Mind as described in Dianetics - The Modern Science in Mental Health.
The Reactive Mind is a hidden portion of your mind that stores painful, traumatic moments—called engrams.
An engram is a complete mental recording of every perception (sight, sound, smell, feeling, and pain) that occurred when you were unconscious or in great emotional shock.
Here’s the key: These engrams act like hidden triggers.
When something in your current environment (a sound, a smell, a phrase) resembles part of an old engram, the Reactive Mind “restimulates” it. It instantly forces the pain, emotion, and poor logic from that past traumatic moment into your present thinking.
You aren’t making a conscious, rational choice; you’re being commanded by a hidden recording to react irrationally, causing you to make the same old error again and again.
The good news? This isn’t permanent.
Dianetics auditing is the precise method to locate and address these engrams, filing them away as normal memory so they can no longer dominate your behavior.
Ready to stop the cycle and gain control over your actions? Learn how Dianetics can help you access your Analytical Mind—the source of your true intelligence and strength—free from past limitations.
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