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One of the principals in Dianetics is that moments of past physical pain can reactivate at a later time, causing the body to malfunction and develop physical problems.

These “psychosomatic” illnesses and injuries (psyche = mind, somatic = body - so body pains, illnesses and injuries caused by the mind) are those that medical doctors can’t find a definite physical cause and solution for, or the ones that don’t respond to the treatment they should respond to, because the Reactive Mind is keeping the body deformed in some way.

For me, I had horrible knee problems playing basketball for 8 years. Even when I finally quit, I rested for 6 years and it did not good, not even 1% better. My knees hurt so bad I couldn’t straighten my legs fully. No physical therapy, supplements, exercises or stretching did anything, and I tried ALL of it from the best in the world.

Then after Dianetic therapy my knees just starting healing and within a few months the knee pain was completely gone and never came back. I’m now mid 30s and have perfect knees, despite having then knees of a 70 year old from 10-25 years old.

Do you have an any stories like this?

For me it was probably as a songwriter / music producer I had a hard time finishing songs because I was so indecisive and hard on myself. I would work 200-400 hours on producing a song sometimes and then decide not to release it, so I was never able to succeed at my own music.

Then with certain Scientology and Dianetics auditing (sort of like therapy, but much more precise and the auditor doesn't ever tell you what to think, he only asks specific questions) I completely got rid this problem and now I release a song every 2-3 weeks and get around 10 million streams a month and make my living at putting out my own music.

Mine would be to take bigger risks sooner, because most of them paid off!

I read Dianetics and tried the auditing (Dianetic therapy) so wanted to share my experience for anyone wondering if it works.

Dianetics is basically a mental therapy to get rid of the painful trauma of a lifetime that is causing the person to react irrationally, feel anxious, depressed, etc, as well as any mental cause of physical troubles (where the mind is preventing the body from healing, when it should be able to heal but isn’t).

I had pretty bad anxiety and was naturally a very indecisive person. This didn’t pair well with being a music producer, where I had to make hundreds of decisions on every song haha.

After doing Dianetic auditing, I actually became a very confident person and started making decisions instantaneously (and they usually turned out to be good ones), and got to the point where I could make and release a song every two weeks consistently, and now make my living from that full time!

On the physical side, I had horrible knee problems playing basketball for years. When I quit and had more “rest”, six years went by and my knees were just as bad. Then I tried Dianetic therapy and the pain started lessening. Within then next few months, with the mental aspect handled, the pain gradually went away and my body repaired itself. I now have had no knee pain for years and it’s never come back.

At the same time I also went from chronic wisdom tooth infections to no wisdom tooth infections ever again.

So for me it’s been incredible. Would highly recommend. Has anyone else tried it? What were your experiences?

I’ve done Scientology for over a decade and wanted to share my experience, as it’s been a big part of my success in reaching my goals as a musician, and having a successful relationship.

When I started doing Scientology I had been doing the same thing for years and got to the point where life felt like going through the motions. I wasn’t a particularly unhappy person, but I also wouldn’t say I was happy. And there some things about myself that really bothered me. I couldn’t keep a relationship, I was quite anxious and indecisive, and more of an introvert than I would have liked to admit, even though I covered it up well.

The first thing that happened when I started doing Scientology auditing (sort of like therapy, but way different and in my opinion much more precise and effective) is I came into the present and stopped just going through the motions in life. I realized I didn’t have to keep doing something I was tired of for years. So I quit, and got into music. Within the next year, I decided I wanted a career in music, no plan b (that was a LOT more work than I thought, but that’s for another post).

Long story short, I worked like crazy for years learning and perfecting my craft, ended up making songs that were in over 100 TV shows, ads, and trailers, then decided to be an artist myself instead of making music for others and now get 10 million streams a month and get to do what I love every day as my “job”. I also met the love of my life, got engaged, we have a better relationship with our families than ever before (including those who aren’t Scientologists) and life is honestly pretty great.

Scientology auditing was a huge part of getting out of my own way, bringing out the best of my abilities, and just generally happiness with life.

So much more I could say on this, but don’t want to make the post too long. Feel free to ask anything in the comments and I’ll try to answer.

The word Dianetics comes from the Greek words dia, meaning "through," and nous, meaning "mind or soul". Dianetics was developed by L. Ron Hubbard who wrote Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The subject is defined as "what the mind or soul is doing to the body."

We know that stress can affect us mentally and physically, but have had no reliable solution to it. We see people every day that react in odd, irrational ways and feel emotions that don't make sense. People have fears, insecurities, unwanted emotions and reactions that don’t seem appropriate to what is happening in the present. That’s the area Dianetics addresses. 

The book explains that there are two parts of the mind: the analytical mind and the reactive mind. 

The analytical mind is the rational, conscious, aware mind. It is what you use to observe, think, remember, make rational decisions and solve problems.  

The reactive mind doesn’t think rationally. It works on a stimulus response basis and is not under a person’s control. It’s where you store painful experiences, such as injuries, illnesses, accidents or the loss of a loved one. These can be triggered unknowingly, causing insecurities, irrational behavior, unwanted emotions and even unexplainable physical pains or body problems.

The basic goal of Dianetics is to find the hidden painful experiences that are still influencing a person and take the charge out of them. This is done through applying the Dianetics technique called auditing, where a person is guided back through these incidents until the pain, emotion and confusion connected to them are gone. At that point, the experience no longer has any hold over the person. It becomes an ordinary memory. 

The end goal in Dianetics is the state called Clear, meaning a person is no longer affected by the reactive mind. When you reach this state, you are able to fully be yourself. You’re happier, more confident and able to think rationally and make the best decisions to help you survive in life. 

I had some pretty amazing changes doing Dianetics therapy. I got rid of unsolvable chronic knee problems after every other attempt over 15 years failed. I also used to be very anxious and indecisive, and Dianetics helped me handle that too, which was key part of becoming successful in the music industry as a songwriter and producer.

Have you tried it? What were your thoughts?

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I messaged the current moderators 6 days ago offering to help moderate and haven’t received a response. The subreddit appears inactive and undermoderated, has no rules listed, and it has been almost a year since the last post.

I’d like to help revive the subreddit by adding clear rules, encouraging on-topic discussion, and keeping the community civil, useful, and focused on Dianetics.

My goal would be to make r/Dianetics a more active and well-moderated subreddit for people who are interested in the subject, since there does not appear to be an active subreddit specifically focused on Dianetics.

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I’ve promoted my own music extensively and wanted to share when to do what. Feel free to contribute what’s worked for you in the comments.

Meta ads = best for building actual fans and stability (if the song is connecting and if you have a budget)

UGC campaigns / Trending audio = trying to hit the lottery on one song you believe in. It probably won’t translate to catalog as much, but has the highest ceiling in the 0.01% of the time it really goes.

Organic social media on your own account = much harder than it used to be since the algorithms don’t like people going off platform (which people will do when they find a song they like and go play it) - works if you can learn social media formulas well and replicate them with your content. Requires super high output (1-3 posts per day) at the beginning and may take many months of this to catch on. Best option if you have no budget.

Playlists = passive listeners / vanity metric, sometimes bots. Waste of money, won’t build fans.

Sync = lottery and requires your song to follow certain formulas, but the only one where you get paid for your song to be promoted. Only works with styles of music that work really well to picture, which isn’t most

Radio / in-stores etc = only after the song is already popping off.

PR = only after you are blowing up as an artist and labels are reaching out left and right. Don’t bother if you don’t have a a few hundred thousand monthly listeners and even then it won’t drive new listeners, it just gets people to see you in more places and can bring credibility if done right. For small artists, always a waste of money.

Remember that the music is the most important thing and marketing only works if you have a song that is really connecting!

Hope this helps, feel free to ask any questions and I’ll try to answer.

I’ll go first!

All time favorite is probably Sandstone Peak / Backbone trail, which is the highest peak in the Santa Monica mountains. Looks like Hawaii in the spring and you can see clear out to the Channel Islands with jetliner views of the mountain range and ocean. A bit far out but worth the drive.

Close second is Grizzly Flats Trailhead (use Google Maps, the Apple Maps one is wrong) in Angeles National Forest with views out for dozens of miles across the mountains.

And a less dramatic / more convenient hike that’s still gorgeous is Wildwood Canyon in Burbank, with 360 degree views with the Angeles National Forest on one side and the valley out to the hollywood hills out to the distant ocean on the other.

What are your favorites??

Will make this concise:

The good: car gets a lot of compliments, great ride quality, very quiet inside, feels like a proper luxury car in the $100k range. Love love love driving it.

The bad: infotainment system is super glitchy and phone doesn’t always connect (better now than at beginning), tire noise isn’t as low as the Tesla we have but you can replace the tires or you get used to it.

The ugly: the whole motherboard died a few months in, the car stuttered to a stop a few time and then turned into a brick. Had to get it towed. Took weeks to put a new brain in it. On the bright side they gave me a higher trim as a loaner! Ha! Been about 8 months and no more problems since the replacement.

Overall favorite car I’ve ever had, and if a trip to the shop as they work out the bugs isn’t the end of the world for you, I think it’s the best car for the price. If you want perfect convenience, maybe wait until it’s out longer and they work the bugs out. I personally don’t care about perfect convenience, I’d rather have a car I love driving every day.

What’s your experience been?

I figured I’d share what I learned from this experience in case others find it useful.

1. You can make it profitable if people are really connecting with the music, you release routinely (every 4-6 weeks), and you reinvest everything you make. But be patient. Even with a really hot project, It will take at least 6-12 months to get to monthly return on ad spend.

2. Spotify’s algorithm works off repeat listeners. Whatever else you’ve heard about saves and playlist ads, it’s not actually how it works. You need Spotify’s algorithm to kick in to become profitable. If you’re running ads, below 2.0 on a song in the last 28 days won’t work, you ideally want above 2.3 once you’ve been running it for 2-4 weeks.

3. You want a really low Cost Per Click (Cost Per Result technically, running an engagement campaign) for this to work. Below 40 cents you’ll get some momentum but not profitable. Below 30 cents you’ve got a shot. Below 20-25 cents you’ve got something you should invest in and below 15 cents you’ve got something you can really push that’s hot. That’s for tier 1 countries, assuming a $50 a day budget just to have a benchmark. Lower budgets are easier to keep the cost per click low, and higher budgets will be higher cost per click, which is normal.

4. You HAVE TO release routinely, every 4-6 weeks tops. If you can do more often, that’s better. We eventually got up to every other week.

5. when you see a certain type of song working, do more of that. When you see a certain type of song not working, no matter how much you like it, do less of that.

6. remember that once you get a streaming catalog to a certain point, you can sell it or get advances - you don’t have to self fund forever.

7. the songs have to be so good they’re addictive. There are a million songs a week released. If they aren’t so good that the person can’t live without them, the listener will forget about the songs and won’t really become a fan. You need to make fans for this to work.

8. we started at $50 a day and scaled up to a few hundred a day and still made it profitable. Every time we jumped the budget, it took a few months for the revenue to catch up and become profitable again.

9. enjoy the ride and appreciate every win! Set short term goals and celebrate every milestone! It’s a long haul, make it fun!

Feel free to ask any questions, happy to try to help.

I hear all the time “there’s no money in streaming” and wanted to share my personal experience and some data some of you might find useful. I currently have a project making $20k+ per month from streaming, primarily Spotify. I’ve also been writing and producing music professionally for decade, so I had years to accumulate many skill sets (writing, producing, mixing, marketing, etc).

For every success I’ve had, I’ve had a lot more failures. There are no overnight successes.

Short answer - there’s a TON of money in streaming. Don’t believe me? Look at how many private equity firms and investors are jumping into the space over the last 5-10 years.

There’s also a ton of competition, and hands in the pie, and you have to know what you’re doing.

So here is what you should know:

1. With a million songs a week being currently released, no music, no matter how good it is, will just “find its audience”. That’s a thing of the past. You need to be able to market your own music

2. all marketing resources are on the Internet. There is no “secret sauce” that’s entirely gate-kept. There are a LOT of details about these marketing techniques that can be mastered, but nothing that can’t be learned with hard work. For me it was meta ads, for others sync, for others organic vitality. Find what works for you.

3. streaming is a recurring revenue source, which means its actual value is 3-10x what it makes per year. So you won’t see a return immediately, but you’re building equity in a song catalog that can be worth a lot. Just because you’re spending more than you’re making short term doesn’t mean you’re failing.

4. the playing field is leveled. Major label artists have no secret advantages anymore. They do however, have a lot of money to throw at songs and teams that know how to use the money correctly (sometimes).

5. you need great music AND marketing for something to work. It needs to be so good it’s addictive, and very professionally mixed and mastered. Even if you release once a week, you’re competing with a million songs every time you release.

Feel free to ask any questions, will try to help!
Also feel free to share your own experiences.

I’ve seen a scam going around of someone who supposedly works a major label (Colombia Records is a common one) reaching out, then asking you if you believe in yourself and want to invest in yourself, want to work with Colombia records etc.

ANY REAL LABEL WILL BE OFFERING YOU MONEY, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

No label will ever ask you for money out of your own pocket. No label will ever ask you to match their investment (you out $50k, we’ll put $50k).

Also if you don’t have a few hundred thousand monthly listeners, or more likely over a million, there’s no way these big labels are reaching out.

If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t true.

Share experiences here if you’ve had them so others know what to look for.

I’ve seen a scam going around of someone who supposedly works a major label (Colombia Records is a common one) reaching out, then asking you if you believe in yourself and want to invest in yourself, want to work with Colombia records etc.

ANY REAL LABEL WILL BE OFFERING YOU MONEY, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

No label will ever ask you for money out of your own pocket. No label will ever ask you to match their investment (you out $50k, we’ll put $50k).

Also if you don’t have a few hundred thousand monthly listeners, or more likely over a million, there’s no way these big labels are reaching out.

If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t true.

Share experiences here if you’ve had them so others know what to look for.

I’ve done sync at a high level for almost a decade and get asked a lot what types of sync fees to expect.

There are a lot of variables, especially how big the artist is. But here is a rough outline of what to expect as an indie artist with a good sync agency negotiating for you. Fees can go higher or lower than these numbers, but this is an average range. The more leverage (success) you have, the higher fees you can get.

To clarify, this is for sync licenses where one-off licenses are negotiated, NOT library music that involves low quality music at mass scale with licensing prices advertised on the website.

TV (IN-SHOW)

Reality shows: $500-$1500

Netflix: $1500-$7000

Other streaming services:
$5k-$20k

Network (ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC):
$5k-$20k

TRAILERS (TV or Movies)
$30k-$80k, can be higher for big movies.

ADS
Online only:
$10k-$50k per year (can renew)

All media including broadcast in one major region (North America, Europe, etc):
$50k-$100k per year

All Media worldwide:
$80k-$150k per year

TV promos (where a network advertised their own upcoming shows on their own network). These are billed weekly.
$3k-$10k per week, can run from 1 week to 12 weeks or more.

Feel free to ask any questions!

Every distributor has different payout rates negotiated with Spotify etc, so they pay different amounts, varying up to 20%. Highly recommend releasing through different distributors and finding which pays out the most for your most popular countries, as it may differ by country (company 1 may pay higher for country a streams, while company 2 may pay higher for country b streams). Feel free to comment below if you’ve ran any of these tests and what the results were. Make sure it’s for the same countries you’re comparing, as of course a song that’s popular in the US will pay significantly more than a song popular in Indonesia.