Page 22 - Self Image Mastery - Week1

22 SELF IMAGE MASTERY ACTION GUIDE
Everyone has had the experience of trying to remember the name of someone, perhaps someone famous. You can see their face in your minds eye but you just can’t quite seem to remember what their name is. This scenario brings us face to face with some of these automatic processes.
The more you try and remember (with your will – a conscious faculty) the further the name seems to slip from your grasp. But if you let it go, relax, think of something else, then you allow the image of the person in your minds eye to communicate to your subconscious mind what you need, then in due course it pops unexpectedly into your awareness.
What part of you performed this unconscious search if you did not perform it with your will power?
This simple example illustrates that not only do you not use your will power to communicate with the subconscious mind, but actually, if you try to force it you actually get in the way.
With a little consideration it quickly becomes apparent that there is far more happening on autopilot than we are consciously controlling ourselves.
Maltz observed that all animals have some kind of built in guidance system that enables them to find food and shelter, to avoid danger and to procreate. Or in other words to survive.
For all animals except one, survival is the goal that their Automatic Success Mechanisms strive to achieve. It is pre-programmed by instinct and they are unable to alter that programming.
But we human beings are different because we have been endowed with Creative Imagination. Using the marvelous power of our marvelous mind we are able to choose any goals we want to lock onto those goals and go after them with everything we’ve got. No other animal can do this.
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