Psycho-Cybernetics by Dick Sutphen
Back in the mid-seventies, anytime I didn't go quickly to sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine I was on the David Suskind show (a sophisticated PBS-type interview show popular at the time). David would ask me esoteric metaphysical questions and I would respond with eloquence.I had read the book "Psycho-Cybernetics" by Dr. Maxwell Maltz (published in 1960). The book was an early version of the "law of attraction," which has most recently incarnated as "The Secret." Maltz talked about how to dehypnotize yourself and manifest with your mind what you desired to experience.
My book, "You Were Born Again To Be Together," was published in April of 1976. A couple weeks after the release of the book, the David Suskind show built a 90-minute show about me. I hypnotized the live audience and the producers of the show picked a woman to be hypnotically regressed back into a past-life on TV. A prestigious metaphysical panel was assembled to discuss reincarnation and I found myself responding to questions from David Suskind.
I could not believe how well Psycho-Cybernetics worked. It was simply focused attention, positive suggestions and visualization. I recently found a copy of the Maltz book, and here is an excerpt that reminded me of that experience:
"The Real Secret of Mental Picturing"
Successful men and women have, since the beginning of time, used "mental pictures," and "rehearsal practice," to achieve success. Napoleon, for example, "practiced" soldiering, in his imagination, for many years before he ever went on an actual battlefield. Webb and Morgan in their book "Making the Most of Your Life," tell us that "the notes Napoleon made from his readings during these years of study filled, when printed, four hundred pages. He imagined himself as a commander, and drew maps of the island of Corsica showing where he would place various defenses, making all his calculations with mathematical precision."
Conrad Hilton imagined himself operating a hotel long before he ever bought one. When a boy he used to "play" that he was a hotel operator.
Henry Kaiser has said that each of his business accomplishments was realized in his imagination before it appeared in actuality.
It is no wonder that the art of "mental picturing" has in the past sometimes been associated with "magic."
However, the new science of cybernetics gives us an insight into why mental picturing produces such amazing results, and shows that these results are not due to "magic," but the natural, normal functioning of our minds and brains.
Cybernetics regards the human brain, nervous system, and muscular system, as a highly complex "servo-mechanism." (An automatic goal-seeking machine which "steers" its way to a target or goal by use of feed-back data and stored information, automatically correcting course when necessary.)
As stated earlier, this new concept does not mean that "YOU" are a machine, but that your physical brain and body functions as a machine which "YOU" operate.
This automatic creative mechanism within you can operate in only one way. It must have a target to shoot at. As Alex Morrison says, you must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it. When you do see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort, or "will power."
Instead of trying hard by conscious effort to do the thing by ironed-jawed will power, and all the while worrying and picturing to yourself all the things that are likely to go wrong, you simply relax the strain, stop trying to "do it" by strain and effort, picture to yourself the target you really want to hit, and "let" your creative success mechanism take over. Thus, mental-picturing the desired end result, literally forces you to use "positive thinking." You are not relieved thereafter from effort and work, but your efforts are used to carry you forward toward your goal, rather than in futile mental conflict which results when you "want" and "try" to do one thing, but picture to yourself something else. (End of excerpt)
It was 32 years ago I first realized the full power of mental picturing. I went on to use the formula to create the first hypnosis tapes. Today, as I'm working with co-writer Carol Morgan, Ph.D. on a major new creative project, we regularly picture together. Over the phone, I hypnotize her and allow myself to drift into an altered state. We link charkas and visualize exactly what we want to have happen and the rewards of manifesting our efforts.
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