He refers heavily to Prescott Lecky's idea that whatever is not consistent with the system of ideas a person has will get rejected. To see positive goals, he says that we need a realistic and adequate self-image that recognizes these goals as possible and consistent with the self. Positive results come from a positive goal focus. At the same time, he viewed it as evidence that you could generate goal imagery, and that you could "worry" about positive images instead of negative. Maltz viewed worry, or focusing on negative possibilities, as generating negative goal images that cause the mechanism, the subconscious, the set of human systems like the musculature, to drive toward it. The core of nearly all bad results is the conscious giving bad goal images to the mechanism. When successful responses are found, we can remember past successes, and our mechanism will repeat the successful response.The most powerful goal image is an image of ourselves, because it causes a wide variety of useful or harmful behaviors from the mechanism.The mechanism responds no matter what, whether the goal is "positive" or "negative".The operator gives a goal to the mechanism (called the "Automatic Success Mechanism" and "Automatic Failure Mechanism", which refer to the same mechanism).It can accept a goal- image and an emotion determines if it accepts it The mechanism has sensing equipment like the eyes and ears The various systems, primarily the musculature and nervous systems, propel the mechanism The nervous system works with other systems as the correcting device The memory can be used to see past successes, making future success more likely What's traditionally called the "subconscious mind" isn't a "mind" but a cybernetic mechanism built on our nervous system.A person, for what is conscious, is "the operator", which can identify and offer goals.From this, he drew the following conclusions on a human being: He noted that Wiener sees that man operates the same way. The mechanism refers to successful moves in its memory, hitting the goal without having to search for the answer again.If on track, nothing is done and it keeps going If off track, the correcting device shifts until "the goal minus what it senses" is on track. During propulsion, the mechanism subtracts what it senses from the goal from the data received.The operator gives the mechanism a goal and "starts" it.In Psycho-Cybernetics, Maltz observed from Wiener's work the following on cybernetic mechanisms:Ĭan accept a "goal" has sensing equipment (cameras, radar, infrared, lasers) has a propulsion system has a correcting device has some form of memory Maxwell Maltz drew inspiration from Norbert Wiener's book, Cybernetics, which describes both animals and the self-guided missiles he helped develop in WWII as goal-seeking mechanisms. This concentration on inner attitudes is essential to his approach, as he believes that a person's outer success can never rise above the one visualized internally. He specified techniques to develop a positive inner goal as a means of developing a positive outer goal. He learned that the power of self-affirmation and mental visualization techniques used the connection between the mind and the body. Maltz became interested in why setting goals works. Patients thinking that surgery will solve their problems is an example of the XY problem. Maltz found that his plastic surgery patients often had expectations that were not satisfied by the surgery, so he pursued a means of helping them set the goal of a positive outcome through visualization of that positive outcome. The book defines the mind-body connection as the core in succeeding in attaining personal goals. The book combines the cognitive behavioral technique of teaching an individual how to regulate self-concept, using theories developed by Prescott Lecky, with the cybernetics of Norbert Wiener and John von Neumann. Many of the psychological methods of training elite athletes are based on the concepts in Psycho-Cybernetics as well. Motivational and self-help experts in personal development, including Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy have based their techniques on Maxwell Maltz. Psycho-Cybernetics is a self-help book written by American writer Maxwell Maltz in 1960.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |