Psycho Cybernetics and Law Of Attration

Is it risky using the term 'law of attraction' in a context that is based on psycho-cybernetics? I believe it fits in perfect because they are almost the same thing. Although the term 'law of attraction' has built up so many connotations based on mainstream stigma, it is the preferred term to be used in explaining manifestation. I have read a fair bit on the internet of what people have to say about 'the law of attraction' (LOA) and it almost seems like people have a whole chunk - another half to learn about manifesting. The successful practitioners of LOA have a big difference in their psychology than the failures. Some people refer to using the LOA to 'attract weight loss' for example. They are actually using psycho-cybernetics rather than LOA to loose the weight. LOA is attracting something in from the environment and psycho-cybernetics is changing the environment through the self. They both have the same principles and techniques the only difference is the intention of the desire. Do you want to manifest something through you into reality or do you want to manifest something to you in reality? This is the difference between psycho-cybernetics and LOA but they work together to be a part of the same process. The process is manifestation. I believe a lot of people are stuck in their LOA practice because they don't know about psycho-cybernetics.

Maxwell Maltz the author of psycho-cybernetics explains we have a self image that keeps our behavior consistent. Any deviations are soon snapped back home to the self image. Cybernetics means in Greek "the art of steering" or taking a course of action to attain a goal. Maltz describes the mind as being a goal oriented mechanism. When a goal is set into the mind is stays on course to attain that goal. Anything that is inconsistent with that goal is registered as negative feedback. The goal that is set into the mind through one's life is called the self image.

The self image is the self conditioned goal to steer towards through life. If you see yourself as an overweight person then you are going to act like an overweight person. This is because your mind is a goal oriented mechanism and anything that is set into it is processed. Unconsciously set into your mind that you are an overweight person then your mind will steer in that direction. If then you do loose weight then that is seen by the mind as being inconsistent with being over weight so you will go back to acting like an over weight person and again become over weight. If you loose the weight while shifting your self image to being a healthy weight then your mind will steer that way and keep you consistent there. Do you know someone who sets a goal, does well then sabotages their success? This is called the "snap back" affect. It is because this person's goal is inconsistent with their unconscious self image. They do not identify or believe they are successful so they sabotage to be comfortable in their status they have always been. In a way the mind is a homeostatic mechanism. It maintains what is perceived as true. Although you may like or dislike yourself it is what you believe to be true about yourself - that is why it is consistent.

In an illustration of how this subject can be explained is through an analogy of hypnotherapy. Our mind has two parts to it. The conscious and the unconscious. The conscious is the awake, aware, experiencing, deciding, directing part of the mind. The unconscious is the mechanical side that works automatically, intuitively, and spontaneously. The unconscious mind stores all your memories and beliefs which come together to create the self image. When a stage hypnotist puts a patient in a trance the hypnotist has a direct link to the unconscious. The hypnotist tells the subject that they are weak and have no power to lift a pencil. A pencil is placed before them and they can not pick it up. The muscles are straining and the effort is obvious but the suggestion from the hypnotist makes it impossible for the subject to pick it up. If you think of this suggestion as being a 'goal' for the unconscious mind (which is a goal oriented mechanism) then it becomes obvious that the mind process the 'goal.' On the other hand if the hypnotist tells the subject that they are very strong and tells them that they can pick up anything, even the weights that lay before them. They lift up the weights that they had never lifted before in their life.

So taking this illustration of a hypnotist telling people what they can or can't do on stage is very true in people's lives. When you or anybody else says you can or can't do something then if you believe it, that is going to be true for you. If you think you are unsuccessful then that is the hypnosis of your self image. The same if you believe you are successful, loving, good, bad, smart, weak, confident, fit, est. You are what you have been made to believe by yourself or others.

So setting out to manifest a goal would be hard if it conflicts with the self image. Goals are filtered through the self image and all inconsistencies are rejected or altered. This is why people teach you to do things bit by bit or start small then go big. When you make small improvements and achieve small goals, you can then go onto bigger goals incrementally. They are not just talking about how much you have learned but how much you believe you can do. When achieving more and more you are validating to yourself that you can do more and more. This validation forms a stronger and stronger belief which gets reinforced over and over again. This belief becomes a part of your self image because now you have validation that you can do it and have many experience references to back it up. For example, if you believe you are a failure it could be because you have 'failed' over and over again so now you are hypnotized to act like a failure. Contrastingly if you have succeeded repeatedly then you may believe you are a success - so you will act like a success. Your references may not be from experience rather from what other people may have said to you. The good news is that you can change your self image and you do not need references from experience or from other people. Change comes from your ability to create your own beliefs and turn them into an unconscious truth.

Habits are usually great examples of personal change. Habits are things you have done repeatedly which now have become automatic and second nature. They are patterned thoughts, feelings or actions that have been conditioned into the mind and nervous system. You need habits into order to do things automatically. Life would be so hard if we consciously had to things all the time. Habits build our self image which is who we are. Your self image is a habitual way of being. From your beliefs you have thought, felt, and acted in a way so many times it has turned automatic. If you think, feel, act outside of your habitual ways, you will eventually "snap back." So going for a goal that goes outside your habitual mindset will be rejected or altered. Until you change what you habitually think, feel, and act like, you will continue to be the same.

There are many methods for changing, breaking, making new habits. The most popular method is visualization. This method is also popular in the law of attraction practice. Visualize having new habits such as being loving will have to include mentally rehearsing yourself being loving. Repeating the visualization over and over conditions it into the mind and nervous system. Soon enough it becomes a new habitual way of being. The more it is rehearsed and acted upon the more it is conditioned in.

The interesting thing is that mentally rehearsing the outcome also activates the law of attraction. When your visualization is accepted by the unconscious and the belief is potent enough it works out a way. The amount of certainty that is applied into the visualization empowers the outcome. When the visualization becomes so real in the mind that it feels it has already manifested then that is when you soon see the outcome in reality. When mental rehearsal becomes so clear, vivid, powerful, and certain in the mind you feel as if it has already happened. The mind attracts the people, circumstances and things to achieve that goal. You also start acting in a way that brings the goal into reality. Your unconscious mind spontaneously and miraculously manifests it.

I believe we can not fully explain how it works consciously but the point is that it works. It does take a while of work and practice to have it be effective but the results are worth it!

I will write more about this later!

Love Seb