SELF HELP

Let's have a look to see how the mind works. Your mind operates like a Servo-Mechanism. It refers to the "inner computer" combining memory search and retrieval, creative thinking, problem solving, providing self-confidence, and many other functions. It performs as directed through conscious, rational thought, deliberate use of imagination, and automatic repetition of learned behaviour in congruence with/controlled by the self-image. (Maxwell Maltz) The brain as "serving" the self-image, book – Psycho-Cybernetics.

Maxwell Maltz (March 10, 1899 – April 7, 1975) was an American cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics (1960), which was a system of ideas that he claimed could improve one's self-image. The book introduced Maltz's views where a person must have an accurate and positive view of his or her self before setting goals; otherwise he or she will get stuck in a continuing pattern of limiting beliefs. His ideas focus on visualizing one's goals and he believes that self-image is the cornerstone of all the changes that take place in a person. According to Maltz, if one's self-image is unhealthy or faulty — all of his or her efforts will end in failure.

From Chapter 1 — Your Key to a Better Life — Whether we realize it or not, each of us carries about with us a mental blueprint or picture of ourselves. It may be vague and ill-defined to our conscious gaze. In fact, it may not be consciously recognizable at all. But it is there, complete down to the last detail. This self-image is our own conception of the "sort of person I am." It has been built up from our own beliefs about ourselves. But most of these beliefs about ourselves have unconsciously been formed from our past experiences, our successes and failures, our humiliations, our triumphs and the way other people have reacted to us, especially in early childhood. From all these we mentally construct a "self" (or a picture of a self).

ONCE AN IDEA OR BELIEF ABOUT ORUSELVES GOES INTO THIS PICTURE IT BECOMES "TRUE," AS FAR AS WE PERSONALLY ARE CONCERNED. WE DO NOT QUESTION ITS VALIDITY, BUT PROCEED TO ACT UPON IT JUST AS IF IT WERE TRUE.

To be continued…