SOMATICS

physical pains or discomforts of any kind, especially painful or uncomfortable physical perceptions stemming from the reactive mind. Somatic means, actually, "bodily" or "physical." Because the word pain is restimulative, and because the word pain has in the past led to a confusion between physical pain and mental pain, the word somatic is used in Dianetics and Scientology to denote physical pain or discomfort of any kind. Turned on enough somatics to blow your head off and so forth, and then finally ran out all the suppressions and challenges on the thing, and that was still it.

physical pains or discomforts of any kind, especially painful or uncomfortable physical perceptions stemming from the reactive mind. Somatic means, actually, "bodily" or "physical." Because the word pain is restimulative, and because the word pain has in the past led to a confusion between physical pain and mental pain, the word somatic is used in Dianetics and Scientology to denote physical pain or discomfort of any kind. Turned on enough somatics to blow your head off and so forth, and then finally ran out all the suppressions and challenges on the thing, and that was still it.