The earliest mention of havingness as a process is in "SOP-8C: The Rehabiliation of the Human Spirit," under Step IV: Havingness:

"Formula IV:(b) As the pc has rendered automatic his desires and his ability to create and destroy, and has thus placed havingness beyond his control, the auditor should place in the control of the pc his automaticities of havingness and unhavingness and permit him, on his own self determin-ism, to balance his havingness." (Tech Vol II, p.14).

Ron does not give a direct question to balance one's havingness but this might be done by asking: "What would you like to have more (or less) of?"

Ron then goes on to describe a subjective process wherein the PC creates 8 anchor points and pulls (later shoves) them into himslf and retains the mass. This later became two processes: the Remedy of havingness, (shoving in and throwing away mock-ups), and the Repair of havingness (just shoving mockups in).

Havingness and The Reality Scale
In PAB 123, Tech Vol III, p.141, "The Reality Scale," havingness is defined as:

"Reality contains a level known as Havingness. In this little band of Mass there is a scale inside the Reality Scale - the Havingness Scale. And that has to do with the consideration of mass. It's what you DO with mass."

"So the Havingness Scale .. consists of the doingnesses with regard to mass. And they begin at the top with Create, go down at once into Contribute to, into Confront, into Have, into Waste, and on down into Substitute. That all belongs at Mass; these are all the things you do with mass."

Havingness as "what you do with mass," could then lead into USE, mis-use, dis-use, waste, squander, enhance, collect, disperse, play with, save, lose, enjoy, protect, admire, etc.

And these actions could then be seen as a kind of pre-have scale with respect to the definition above, that is, "havingness is what you do with mass," until you don't need to do anaything with it except simply HAVE it.

Other Havingness Definitions
There are a number of other definitions, including havingness as a kind of complicated connectedness, that which permits the experience of mass and pressure, and the concept of being able to reach.

Havingness and IQ
In HCOB 9 Sept 57, Tech Vol III, p.118, there is an observation about IQ, related to havingness: "IQ is the ability to withhold or give out a datum on a self-determined basis."

This implies that any forced or pressured communication, which interferes with the self-determinism of the pc, would reduce IQ.

And security checking could be viewed as spotting areas of "must tell," or "must not tell." In either case, there has been an interruption of self-determinism.

The auditor might approach this by: "Think of something," and "Decide whether you wish to tell me about it or not."

Another way of looking at havingnes in terms of the cycle of be, do, have; is that usually have is the end-point of a cycle of action, a kind of natural stop or resting point.

The Importance of Havingness
PAB 72, Tech Vol II, p.371 has an article "The Importance of Havingness" which states:

".. the only advances worthy of the name of Scientology occur when the auditor repairs or remedies havingness on the pc. Without the repair and remedy of havingness no real gains become apparent. A preclear will not progress when his havingness is impaired." Up to this point, we are still dealing with subjective havingness.

Then in PAB 80, "Scientology's Most Workable Process" on p.395, Ron asks:

".. WHAT is there in this .. mountain of attainment which is the highest gain? Amongst all this gold where is the super-gold? .. Empirically, the super-gold you have had is HAVINGNESS. .. When havingness is neglected, cases do not improve, that's all there is to it."

He continues: "Well, amongst all havingnesses, what is the super-gold process. There is one. It is not very fast, it is terribly certain, it does not fail in our experience and its gains are permanent. It is a process known as the terrible trio."

The commands, each of which are asked a number of times (depending on the auditor's judgement), are: "Look around the room and tell me what you could have." "Look around the room and tell me what you would let remain." "Look around the room and tell me what you could dispense with."

Ron also noted that according to report, the terrible trio could  be self-audited, and that periodic use of any havingness process could aid cognitions.

In The Free Spirit of Jan 86, p.4, in his article "Which Standard Tech?" M.D. Stansfield stated, "Terrific results were obtained in the early days. .. There were many very powerful processes that worked beauifully that were abandoned .. whose only fault was that the PC would go on cogniting and not have to get more auditing! .. Processes like terrible trio .."

Terrible Trio and the Pre-Have Scale
I've tried the terrible trio on a self-auditing basis, but could not get it to bite. So I asked a friend to check variations on the meter, to see if there was one that would read. He tried variations of have, own, reach and handle, and control. I did find as a result of this, that I got a "strugglely" frustrated feeling and arrived at "put up with" or "tolerate" as one meaning of "have."

I asked him to try: "Look around this room and find something you could put up with." This gave me an immediate line charge and big BD. The other two questions could be: "Look around this room and find something you could continue to put up with." And "Look around this room and find something you don't have to put up with."

"Put up with" falls under "endure," along with "survive," and "tolerate" on the pre-have scale and I have noted previously an irritation with "survive" in the sense of putting up with a lot, perhaps that I no longer need to put up with.

As a tech note, perhaps combining the pre-have scale with terrible trio may provide a more effective approach to real havingness. Since terrible trio has fallen out of favor, this may have been one factor, in addition to those explored by Stansfield in the reference cited above.

Factual Havingness:
In Tech Vol III, p.307, Ron gives a factual havingness form of terrible trio, which begins with "Look around the room and find something you have, -- something you would continue, and -- something you would permit to vanish."

Another way of defining factual havingness would be as "available resources." These resources could include personal skills, available tools, and access to others with special expertise.