Your emotional tone level will be found having the majority of traits marked for that level. Your position on the scale varies throughout the day or a given period. But everyone has a chronic tone level.

Your chronic tone level is your average, fairly constant tone — regardless of your social surroundings or who you're with for the moment. Whether the test showed your chronic tone depends upon how honest you were in evaluating yourself when taking it.

The Tone Scale is a scale of sanity. Your position on the scale determines your ability to reason well, to solve the problems of living.

It also determines your survival potential, meaning your ability to succeed, prosper and achieve your goals.

Borderline

2.0 is the borderline indicating whether you are controlling your life or whether it is controlling you. Above 2.0, your potential for happiness and ability to handle stress is greater than below 2.0. Above 2.0, you are valuable to your associates and to society. A person below 2.0 brings others down.

Understanding Your Tone Level

If you are at 4.0, you use enthusiasm, confidence and vitality to inspire those around you to reach up to a constructive level of action.

If you are at 3.5, cheerfulness, you are capable of assuming responsibility but may show some shortsightedness in some areas. You can listen without becoming critical of others.

3.0 is the level of conservatism. You are cautious, and prone to social lying as you are afraid to hurt other people.

If you are at 2.5, you are in boredom. You tend to be careless and untrustworthy, and insincere in your communications.

If your tone level is below 2.0, you are in the danger zone. This is the zone of antagonism, anger and impulsive and destructive behavior, even if hidden or masked, as in covert hostility. Apathy is a very serious level, where a person has failed so often, he easily gives up.

Raising Yourself on the Tone Scale

Knowing your tone level is the first step in understanding yourself. Understanding your condition is the first step in improving it.

The idea of a scale illustrating different levels of happiness and survival potential was a revolutionary breakthrough made by American writer and engineer, L. Ron Hubbard. He did extensive research on the human mind and personality, and discovered the source of what depresses or raises a person on the Tone Scale.

This is covered in his best selling book, Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health. It has sold 20 million copies in over 50 languages and is the world's best selling self-help book.

Your first step in increasing your happiness in life is to read Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and do the free, on-line home study course.

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