Our Self image can be described as what we think about ourselves, who we are, and what value we put on ourselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cSelf image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n dr. Maxwell Maltz.<\/p>\n We all carry two images of ourselves. We have one which is the one showing to the world. That is how we move and presents ourselves to the world. How we meet and greet other people. \nBut then we have an inner as well, a purely mental self image. This was the discovery that the american plastic surgeon dr Maxwell Maltz made when he made surgery on his patients in the fifties.. Some of the patients radiated with a new positive personality, a psychological change had occured, when surgery was successful. But others reacted differently. No matter how successful the surgery was it made no psychological change, they remained the same on the inside. The way they saw them selves, their self image, was not altered in any way. They did not recognize the difference that had taken place with the surgery, althought it was obvious to others.<\/p>\n Dr Maltz wrote a book named Psycho Cybernetics and that was something totally new in the field of psychology in the sixties. Psycho is greek for mind and cybernetics means controlmechanism is animal and some machine. Animals are controlled by instincts and blend in with their environment. The behaviour and expression of a species is what defines is. It is limited and is expressed within boundaries. Unlike the animals who blends in with its environment us humans do not. So we create it more or less consciously. Animals have their limitations in their instincts and the plants in their expressions of form.<\/p>\n But us humans have no limitation. Our potential must be said to be limitless!! <\/strong><\/p>\n So why do you need to know about self image?<\/strong><\/p>\n Our mental inner self image are the limitations through which we see the world and ourselves. It affects our whole lives in all its aspects. It determines what we meet in life. It creates our results. It is in itself the results of subconscious decisions and conclusions we have made from experienses we\u00b4ve had since childhood which have most likely been repeated many times. They are emotional memories stored in our subconscious. De subconscious works like a tape recorder. These memories (the subconscious feeling of them) and our inner voice (yes everybody has one) is played again and again in similar situations and becomes the dirving force to keep the beliefs we have of ourselves. \nIf for example one has an image of oneself ass overweight and loses weight, the mechanism will put you \"back on track\" to your self image. In other words you will find the weight you lost again. The same thing if you gain weight. Your self image will find you original weight. The image is the target for the control mechanism.<\/p>\n One can compare how these deviations are picked up and eliminated to a thermostat or an autopilot. A thermostat has a set target temperature that the self image can be compared to. At every deviation in temperature below or above the set temperature the control mechanism in the thermostat picks up and brings to the right temperature. It is locked on a target (the self image) and corrects deviations by bringing them back to target.\nWhat you experience of the outer world is very much colored by your self image. If you for example work on comission and have as part of your self image you make a certain amount, you might pass that amount for a while if for example set a goal to do so. But if your self imgae is not altered the change will not last. You will go back making what your self image says you do!<\/p>\n So if you feel you are stuck and keep repeating the same mistake over and over and over again and almost feel you are sabotaging your own success but don\u00b4t understand why and how, it might be your self image that is limiting you. The same results then keep occurring.<\/p>\n How do we free more of our potential?<\/strong><\/p>\n The fastest way can be to use our mental faculties and use our thinking and imagination to create a NEW IMAGE as a target for the control mechanism. It then changes function to be a control mechanism for success instead of giving limitations. We create a picture the way we WANT life to be and begin to Act from that picture as if it was already true. This is called \"the actors technique\". If we deliberately work with this image the subconscious mind will eventually respond, when repeated, with a new calibrated control mechanism and we have entered in to a improved version of ourselves, that is, the person we have CHOSEN to become. Of course there will be problems along this journey because you will have to crash through the comfort zone and fear to be something you have not yet been. But these are the rules of growth. It takes courage, percistance and setting goals. But the reward is huge. You grow, become proud and gain control over your life, and what could possibly be more satisfying than that?<\/p>\n Publicerades f\u00f6rst h\u00e4r:<\/p>\n