Take Ten Minutes of Nothing

Introduction: Being there and perceiving truly is the beginning of life. This is also "take time of Nothing". It is the very foundation of living. That’s where it all starts.

Another successful week of Hard TRs has come to an end. The house was full, and people were lined up on chairs, successfully doing TR 0.

Being there and perceiving truly is the beginning of life. It is the very foundation of living. That’s where it all starts.

There is great demand for TR 0, which is why we’re offering another Hard TR week this November.

Next Hard TRs Camp: From Saturday, 22. November to Saturday, 29. November 2025.

Much love,

Max Hauri

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Take Ten Minutes of Nothing

Extract from PAB 7 – around mid-August 1953, L. Ron Hubbard

This technique means, oh so literally what it says. It isn’t ten minutes of "relaxation" or "relief" or "rest." It isn’t ten minutes of you, a body. It isn’t ten minutes of somatics. It means ten minutes of no body, no engrams, no walls, no MEST Universe, no sound, no thought, really nothing. All one’s life he is trying to get, to work, to be, to perceive Something. Now for Ten Minutes let us have utterly Nothing. The gettingness of something makes a one-way flow. Also the dwindling spiral. Also, the one thing the analytical mind cannot be, it thinks, yet all it is is nothing, is in MEST terms: Nothing. Mind you, fear of Nothing is enough to make one’s stomach curl for Nothing is death itself. This is unlimited in running time. It always improves a case in the long run if not instantly, as it often does. The preclear discovers sooner or later he can be nothing, that he doesn’t have to strive to be. What a relief! Lao-tse was so right about striving.

The MEST Universe itself is mainly nothing even in the science of physics. In sound, concentrate on the silences between the beats, not the beats, for instance.

You can use Nothing in Matched Terminal Brackets*, you can have Nothing of particular somethings such as dead kinfolk. But the basic technique and the one used here is simply "Ten Minutes of Nothing."

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*Matched Terminals Brackets: The way one does matched terminals is to have the preclear facing the preclear or his father facing his father; in other words, two of each of anything, one facing the other. These two things will discharge one into the other. Thus running off the difficulty.

L. Ron Hubbard