In 1960, Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon from New York, published a book on self-image psychology and goal visualization called Psycho Cybernetics.
In it, he introduced the analogy of the brain as a cybernetic “servo-mechanism”, like a computer designed to find a path to the target it is programmed with.
Maltz suggests that you…
1. call up, capture, and evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and self-confident, you will act successfully.
2. define your goal or end result. Then picture it to yourself clearly and vividly. The image you have of your desired future makes explicit what is implicit in your present situation.
3. share your dreams and tell others about your vision of the future. Verbalization is the key to strong visual imagery
4. use your internal machinery (which is geared for success) to guide you in making the correct muscular motions and adjustments; to supply you with creative ideas, and to do whatever else is necessary in order to make the goal an accomplished fact.
5. throw yourself into achieving your goals full scale.
6. focus on solutions that provide hope and energy, even during challenging times.
7. use imagery and simple emotive words to invoke the unconscious, dreaming mind.
It took all seven of these forms of self-image psychology to write the four novels in my “ENTER THE BETWEEN” Visionary Fiction series.
Have you used any similar forms of self-image psychology in realizing some of your life goals?
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