Satisfied wants.  The Way Out, is the way out the bottom ! All those who exploit the wants of others for financial gain need to be aware that to do so expands and consolidates the negative in both themselves and their customers.   There are Needs, Wants and Preferences.   Needs include only those things without which we will perish, such as physical needs, security needs, relationship needs, self esteem, inspiration, creativity and empowerment.   Wants are very different. They include those things we obsessively desire or resist. They are all the product of a little robot that, unless we choose to stop it, controls our every thought and deed.   Preferences include all of those things we do not need, and which exert no control upon us, but which, like the sunrise and its rays at the start of a beautiful day, are interpreted by ourselves as costless and priceless joys.  The Havingness of an Operating Thetan.   Needs and Preferences should be the focus of our lives.  Never Wants.   To satisfy the wants of others without informing them that their Desires and Resistances will increase and not decrease as a consequence, is an overt of the greatest magnitude.   Desire and resistance are the energies which motivate your little robot.   I have a little robot, that goes around with me I tell it what I'm thinking, I tell it what I see I tell my little robot, all my hopes and fears It listens and remembers, everything it hears At first my little robot followed my command but after years of training, it's completely out of hand It doesn't care what's right or wrong or what is false or true No matter what I try now, it tells me what to do.   You have an internal Life Management System which reflects the Beliefs and Attitudes you decided upon when you were young (and before). This causes your life to be controlled by Emotions from the past. Your  spiritual ability to be directly responsible for your own life is prevented by automatic Choices and Decisions that you installed during your infancy, childhood and adolescence. Your ability to live “in the now” is prevented by Desires, Resistances, Imaginations and Expectations which are relics from your past. They are inappropriate to the present To take back control of your life you can use your Emotions (Desires and Resistances) as Indicators, to find and update the Beliefs and Attitudes which prevent you from living a spiritually empowered life of success and fun in the here and now. When young, we automate our lives with Beliefs and Attitudes which are either the same as, or sometimes directly opposite to those of our parents and peers. Their instructions and compulsions are rarely evaluated, and we finish up with perfectly functioning but unchangeable systems, telling us whatever we programmed them to tell us, including all the subjective advice, judgements, ridiculing invalidations and compulsions dumped upon us by the well meaning but also out of date beliefs and attitudes of our grandparents, parents, teachers and competitive peers. We need to examine, and if necessary remove these restrictive influences. Although our self created Life Management Systems always comply with the Instructions we gave to them when we were young, they inevitably become less effective and more destructive as time goes by. When they encounter  situations which are out of alignment with our original instructions, all they can do is to produce flawed results, supply ingenious explanations of all failures and stimulate our fears as “indicators" of our accumulating "unfitness for purpose".   Whenever we notice explanations and fears being thrust upon us by our Life Management Systems, we have the opportunity to take back our power, update our systems and improve our lives. Because we have programmed our systems to explain wrongnesses in ourselves or to re focus them, as far as possible, onto others, we feel inappropriate shame and assign blame. We tend never to use the failure to take back our power.  We each need to create a reliable holistic model of how we wish our life and our universe to be. Success and fun in Life depend upon the satisfaction of seven Fundamental Needs. These are our Physical Needs, Security Needs, Relationship Needs, Self Esteem Needs, Inspiration Needs, Creativity Needs and Empowerment Needs. Most people only satisfy their Physical, Security and (to some extent) their Relationship Needs, but by updating  Beliefs and Attitudes, we can also achieve Self Esteem, Inspiration,  Creativity and Empowerment. Your Empowerment requires you to become first an Observer, then a Participant, then a Personal Life Creator and finally a Conscious Creator of your own Universe, all in alignment with THE CREATOR’S  Universe.  Your observation needs to be applied to all your Emotions, but especially those involving Resistance or Desire. You need to observe the automated Thoughts which come to the surface with them from your Sub Conscious Mind. Emotions involving Resistance and Desire come to the surface during stressful times. They are easily recognisable, whilst the Beliefs and Attitudes which cause them remain hidden in your Sub Conscious Mind. Various techniques for observing, understanding and responding to the antics of your self created robotic Life Management System are possible. To become a participant in your Life Management System, you need to specify and then continually focus upon your holistic life model, ensuring that it is specified and continually improved in a way that addresses all of your fundamental needs and preferences. Your preferences, not your desires, are the basis of your success and fun.  You need to learn also to distinguish between Subjective Evidence, Objective Evidence and Universal Principle. The more effectively you learn to differentiate between Subjective Beliefs, Objective Beliefs and Universal Principles, the more powerful a participant you will become. Universal Principles are Eternal Truths, the inclusion of  which purify and improve all Life Management Systems When your use of Universal Principles causes your Self Esteem to increase, you will discover that you have, at the same time, become much more the Conscious Creator of your Personal Life (Clear). To then become the Conscious Creator of your Personal Universe (Operating Thetan) you need to continue the alignment of your activities and your  holistic model. More and more Inspiration and Creativity are the Indicators which will show you that you are moving towards Empowerment, the state of consciousness in which you will be, not only the Creator of your Personal Life but also the Creator of your Personal Universe, all in alignment with THE CREATOR’S Universe.     Empowerment will enable you to create lastingly improved success and fun for others as well as for yourself. You will continue developing and refining your own Holistic Model of the Universe, re-specifying and realigning various Beliefs and Attitudes, using an awareness practice called “Listening to the Whispers”, using those which correspond with your holistic model and allowing the universe always looks after the details.