10	THE VOLUNTEER MINISTER'S HANDBOOK
Its a physioiogical datum that has to do with processing and the field of the mmd.
Yõu could therefore expect the greatest incidence of suicide or illness in that field of education devoted to studying absent masses.
This one of studying the something without its mass ever being around produces the most distinctly recognizable reactions.
If a child felt sick in the field of study and it were traced back to this one, the positive remedy would be to supply the mass - the object or a reasonabie substitute - and it would clear it up.
(2) There is another series of physiological phenomena that exist which is based on the fact of too steep a study gradient.
That's another source of physiological study reaction because of too steep a gradient.
It is a sort of a confusion or a reelingness that goes with this one. You've hit too steep a gradient.
There was too much of a jump because he didn't understand what he was doing and he jumped to the next thing and that was too steep and he went too fast and he wili assign ali of his difficulties to this new thing.
Now differentiate here because gradients sounds terribly like the third one of these study hang ups, definitions - but remember that they are quite distinctiy different.
Gradients are more pronounced in the field of doingness but they still hang over into the field of understanding. In gradients however it is the actions we are interested in. We have a piotted course of forward motion of actions. We find he was terribly confused on the second action he was supposed to do. We must assume then that he never really got out of the first one.
The remedy for this one of too steep a gradient is cutting back. Find out when he was not confused on the gradient, then what new action he undertook to do. Find what action he understood well. Just before he was ali confused what did he understand well - and then we find out that he didn't understand it weil.
It's reaily at the tail end of what he understood and then he went over the gradient you see.