Psycho-Cybernetics - (Ch. 3 Imagination: The First key to your Success Mechanism)

Welcome to chapter 3 within Psycho-Cybernetics. In this video, we discuss Imagination: The First key to your Success Mechanism, The Secret of Hypnotic Power, Truth determines Action and Behavior, Why Not Imagine Yourself Successful?, The Real Secret of Mental Picturing, Finding Your Best Self, and Know the Truth about Yourself. We begin our dialogue discussing, Imagination and how it plays a far more important role in our lives than most of us realize. Imagination sets the goal “picture” that our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as it is so commonly believed but because of imagination. A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what images humans believe to be true about themselves and their environment. This is a basic and fundamental law of the mind. It is the way we are built. I then teach and introduce The Secret of Hypnotic Power. As we are dealing with the power of belief in the human mind and also how our belief system correlates towards our actions, I share a quote from the book. “We found that hypnotic subjects are able to do things only when convinced that the hypnotist’s words are true statements… When the hypnotist’s words are true statements, the subject then behaves differently because he thinks and believes differently. The phenomena of hypnosis has always been a mystery in regards to human behavior.” In the middle of our lesson, I teach Truth determines Action and Behavior and Why Not Imagine Yourself Successful? The human brain and nervous system are engineered to react automatically and appropriately to the problems and challenges in the environment. We act and feel not according to what things are really like, but according to the image your mind holds of what they are like. We have certain mental images of ourselves, our world, and the people around us, and we behave as if those images are true. It follows that if our ideas and mental images concerning ourselves are distorted then our reaction to our environment will likewise be inappropriate. This opens a new psychological door to gaining skill, success, and happiness. Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes which otherwise we could not do. If we picture ourselves performing in a certain manner, it is nearly the same as actual performance. These mental reps can help us perform better. Lastly, I teach The Real Secret of Mental Picturing, Finding Your Best Self, and Know the Truth about Yourself. Successful women and men have, since the beginning of time, used Mental Picturing and Mental Rehearsal to achieve success. It is priming! This same Creative Mechanism within you can help you achieve your best possible “self” if you will form a picture in your imagination of the self you want to be and see yourself in the new role. This is a necessary condition to personality transformation, regardless of the method of therapy used. Somehow, before a person can change, he must see himself in a new role. The aim of self-image psychology is not to create a fictitious self that is all powerful, arrogant, egoistical, and all important. Such an effort is a waste of time as it will have long term consequences. Our aim is to find the REAL self and bring our mental image of ourselves more in line with the objects represented by our goals. It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves; shortchange ourselves and sell ourselves short. Everyone born has potential, they have strengths and weaknesses, and they are natural adept to do specific work well. Whether it is accounting, sales, leadership, compliance. Owning what calls to you and going out to find what calls to you is our main objective in life. Paulo Coelho once said beautifully, “To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.” I take this to mean that within the course of our life, our only true goal is complete self-discovery. To get so clear on who you are, what drives you and what you want to accomplish, take you can move into the world with complete confidence knowing you are doing what you are called to do. We end chapter 3 on a high note with a quote from the book that I teach. “If we have, in our mind’s eye, a picture of ourselves as fear-hunted and defeated nobodies, we must get rid of this image at once. God sees man and woman through great work. Our Creator sees us already serene, confident, and cheerful. He sees us not as pathetic victims, but masters of the art of living; not wanting sympathy, but imparting help to others, and therefore thinking less and less of ourselves, and full, not of self-concern, but of love and laughter and a desire to serve. We must recognize the possibility of change and believe in the self we are now in the process of becoming.”