If a pc says something and the auditor fails to understand what the pc said or meant, the correct response is:

Here's a new discovery. Imagine my making one on the Comm Formula after all these years.

"I did not (hear you) (understand what was said) (get that last). "

Do people ever explain to you long after you have understood?

To do anything else is not only bad form, it can amount to a heavy ARC Break.

Do people get cross with you when they are trying to tell you something?

If so, you are suffering from Premature Acknowledgement.

To say "You did not speak loud enough _____" or any other use of "you" is an invalidation.

Like body odor and bad breath, it is not conducive to social happiness. But you don't use Lifebuoy soap or Listerine to cure it, you use a proper comm formula.

The pc is also thrown out of session by having responsibility hung on him or her.

When you "coax" a person to talk after he has begun with a nod or a low "yes" you ack, make him forget, then make him believe you haven't got it and then make him tell you at GREAT length. He feels bad and doesn't cognite and may ARC Break.

The Auditor is responsible for the session. Therefore the auditor has to assume responsibility for all comm breakdowns in it.

Try it out. Have somebody tell you about something and then encourage before he has completely told you all.

THAT'S why pcs Itsa on and on and on and on with no gain. The auditor prematurely acknowledged. THAT'S why pcs get cross "for no reason". The auditor has prematurely and unwittingly acknowledged. THAT'S why one feels dull when talking to certain people. They prematurely acknowledge. That's why one thinks another is stupid – that person prematurely acknowledges.

Far more serious than Invalidation above, is the accidental evaluation which may occur when the auditor repeats what the pc said.

The quickest way to become a social pariah (dog) is to prematurely acknowledge. One can do it in many ways.

Never repeat anything a pc says after him, no matter why.

The quickest way to start the longest conversation is to prematurely acknowledge for the person believes he has not been understood and so begins to explain at greater and greater length.

Repeating not only does not show the pc you heard but makes him feel you're a circuit.

So this was the hidden ARC Break maker, the cognition wrecker, the stupidifier, the Itsa prolonger in sessions.

The highest advance of 19th Century Psychology was a machine to drive people crazy. All it did was repeat after the person everything the person said.

And why some people believe others are stupid or don't understand.

Children also do this to annoy.

Any habit of agreeable noises and nods can be mistaken for acknowledgement, ends cycle on the speaker, causes him to forget, feel dull, believe the listener is stupid, get cross, get exhausted explaining and ARC Break. The missed withhold is inadvertent. One didn't get a chance to say what one was going to say because one was stopped by premature acknowledgement. Result, missed w/h in the speaker, with all its consequences.

But that isn't the main reason you do not repeat what the pc said after the pc. If you say it wrong the pc is thrown into heavy protest. The pc must correct the wrongness and hangs up right there. It may take an hour to dig the pc out of it.

This can be counted on to make you feel frightened of being "agreeable with noises or gestures" for a bit and then you'll get it straight.

Further, don't gesture to find out. To say, pointing, "You mean this item, then," is not only an evaluation but a nearly hypnotic command, and the pc feels he must reject very strongly.

What a piece of tech to remain incompletely explained. Fair scares one it does. And in the Comm Formula too!

Don't tell the pc what the pc said and don't gesture to find what the pc meant.

Just get the pc to say it again or get the pc to point it out again. That's the correct action.

Also, do not shove things at a pc or throw things to a pc. Don't gesture toward a pc. It drives in anchor points and makes the pc reject the auditor.

The reason a person who Rock Slams on Scientology or auditors or the like can't audit well is that they are wary of a pc and feel they must repeat after the pc, correct the pc or gesture toward the pc.

But Rock Slammer or not, any new auditor may fall into these bad habits and they should be broken fast.

A very high percentage of ARC Breaks occur because of a failure to understand the pc.

Don't prove you didn't with gestures or erroneous repeats.

Just audit, please.