How To Help A Friend In Grief

Thursday, March 1, 2001

(NAPS)—While nolife is spared the pain of loss, some people have found an effective way to gain insight from theirloss. possible to learn in the fullest sense from an experience and relieve the personal suffering. Generally, it also increases ability a new wayto look at things. That Mostoften, all that is needed is in other areasas well. “It gave me mylife back,” form of encouraging words from room released from the emotional Haase says. “I came out of the new perspective can come in the pain. The memorieswill always be there and in that sense I will always have my daughter, but the friends, a poem, a prayer—or a book with workable techniques, as happened in the case of Mardee horror that I replayed and all the Haase, whose 25-year-old daugh- ter died of a heroine overdose. As a result of the death, Haase found herself on a mental and emotional roller coaster, overwhelmedby negative emotions. In the middle of her agony, Haase remembered a book she had recently read called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, written by internationally acclaimed author L. Ron Hubbard. Because what she had read in the book made so much sense, Haase picked up the phone and made an appointment to speak to Dianetics is one way people overcome emotional pain by learning a new wayto seethings. 136 countries and millions of reported successes. What Haase got from Dianetics, she said, was the opportunity to look at her life and relationship with her daughter from a newperspective. The techniques developed by Hubbard were designed to help a personto recall incidents of someone at the Dianetics Center loss and pain buried in the mind below the level of consciousness the United States. Haase spent three hours ask- perspective so they become analytical experience rather than near her, one of hundreds across ing every question that was run- ning through her mind andliked the answers she got. For Haase, as for many others, Dianetics had passed the test. The book recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with 18 million copies sold and translations in 52 languages in and to look at these from a new emotional defeat. The techniques are done with a friend. Hubbard discovered that two people working together may find it easier to overcome the mechanism of the mind that blocks one from understanding the experience. In this way, it is painful emotion is gone.” Wanting to share her knowl- edge with others, Haase gathered seven friends together and had an all-day Dianetics seminar in her home. “We cry and weare challenged but always in the end we laugh and share the life-changing process as we gain our newlife- changing perspective. Life just gets better everyday,” she says. “They say that in every experience there is a gift,” says Haase. “Because of my daughter, I gained the gift of knowing that I can face my biggest fear and embraceit and find peace and love on the other side. I found if I can release the biggest pain in my life, I can release it all. I am on an incredible journey of finding myself and finding newrelations with others.” Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard is available in bookstores everywhere.

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