Latest / Motivational Podcast / ALTER YOUR SELF-IMAGE TO ALTER YOUR LIFE – Change the Way You See Yourself
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- 0:11Speaker 1: I don't know where I am now having trouble.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Finding my way around. That's because you've gone just about
- 0:20Speaker 2: as far as you can.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Your body has already done a lot of changing.
- 0:25Speaker 2: But that's only the beginning. The self image your key
- 0:29Speaker 2: to living without limits. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved
- 0:36Speaker 2: except by those who dared believe that something inside them.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Was superior to circumstance.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Understanding the psychology of the self can mean the difference
- 0:48Speaker 2: between success and failure, love and hate, bitterness and happiness.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Discovering your real self means the difference between freedom and
- 1:02Speaker 2: the compulsions of conformity. By understanding your self image, and
- 1:22Speaker 2: by learning to modify it and manage it to suit
- 1:25Speaker 2: your purposes, you gain incredible confidence and power. Whether we
- 1:29Speaker 2: realize it or not, each of us carries within us
- 1:32Speaker 2: a mental blueprint or picture of ourselves.
- 1:37Speaker 3: It may be vague and ill defined.
- 1:39Speaker 2: In fact, it may not be consciously recognizable at all,
- 1:42Speaker 2: but it is there complete down to the last detail.
- 1:53Speaker 2: This self image is our own conception of the sort
- 1:56Speaker 2: of person I am. It has been built up from
- 1:59Speaker 2: our own beliefs about ourselves. Most of these beliefs about
- 2:08Speaker 2: ourselves have unconsciously been formed from our past experiences, our
- 2:11Speaker 2: successes and failures, our humiliations, our triumphs, and the way
- 2:15Speaker 2: other people have reacted to us, especially in early childhood.
- 2:19Speaker 2: From all these we mentally construct a self or a
- 2:22Speaker 2: picture of a self. All your actions, feelings, behavior, even
- 2:29Speaker 2: your abilities are always consistent with this self image. Note
- 2:33Speaker 2: the word always. You will act like the sort of
- 2:40Speaker 2: person you conceive yourself to be.
- 2:42Speaker 3: More important, you literally.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Cannot act otherwise in spite of all your conscious efforts
- 2:48Speaker 2: or willpower. This is why trying to achieve something difficult
- 2:51Speaker 2: with teeth gritted is a losing battle. Willpower is not
- 3:00Speaker 2: the answer. Self image management is. If you aren't achieving
- 3:13Speaker 2: everything you want, it is probably because your goals are
- 3:15Speaker 2: being ineffectively communicated to or rejected by your self image.
- 3:20Speaker 2: You cannot long outperform or escape your self image. If
- 3:24Speaker 2: you do escape briefly, you'll be snapped back. The person
- 3:33Speaker 2: who conceives himself to be a victim of injustice, one
- 3:36Speaker 2: who was meant to suffer, will invariably find circumstances to
- 3:40Speaker 2: verify his opinions. The self image is a premise, a base,
- 3:46Speaker 2: or a foundation upon which your entire personality, your behavior,
- 3:50Speaker 2: and even your circumstances are built. Our experiences seem to
- 3:56Speaker 2: verify and thereby strengthen our self images. Whatever is difficult
- 4:03Speaker 2: for you, whatever frustrations you have in your life, they
- 4:06Speaker 2: are likely proving and reinforcing something ingrained in yourself image, like.
- 4:10Speaker 3: A groove in a record.
- 4:17Speaker 2: It very seldom occurs to us that our trouble lies
- 4:20Speaker 2: in our self image or our own evaluation of ourselves,
- 4:29Speaker 2: based on certain ingrained, possibly hidden patterns of thought that,
- 4:33Speaker 2: if altered, will free you to tap more of your
- 4:35Speaker 2: potential and experience vastly different results. Success from the inside out,
- 4:42Speaker 2: not the outside in. It is literally impossible to really
- 4:53Speaker 2: think positively about a particular situation as long as you
- 4:56Speaker 2: hold a negative concept of self. Once the concept of
- 5:04Speaker 2: self is changed, other things consistent with the new concept
- 5:07Speaker 2: of self are accomplished easily and without strain. You must
- 5:14Speaker 2: find yourself acceptable to you. Your self image must be
- 5:19Speaker 2: a reasonable approximation of you being neither more nor less
- 5:25Speaker 2: than you are. It is a genetic imperative to explore
- 5:39Speaker 2: the brain, because it's there if you're carrying around in
- 5:42Speaker 2: your head. One hundred billion mainframe computers You just have
- 5:46Speaker 2: to get in there and learn how to operate them.
- 5:49Speaker 2: It is your personal imperative to invest the time, energy,
- 5:52Speaker 2: and study needed to better understand and use your mind power.
- 5:58Speaker 2: When your self image is you can go from one
- 6:01Speaker 2: prospect to the next, regardless of the reception you get.
- 6:05Speaker 2: Nobody on the face of this earth can make you
- 6:07Speaker 2: feel inferior without your permission. Do not tolerate for a
- 6:18Speaker 2: minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement
- 6:22Speaker 2: by the absence of inborn talent or ability. This is
- 6:26Speaker 2: a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the
- 6:30Speaker 2: saddest kind. The faculty of imagination is the great spring
- 6:36Speaker 2: of human activity and the principal source of human improvement.
- 6:41Speaker 2: The creative mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work
- 6:45Speaker 2: automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness
- 6:50Speaker 2: or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals you set
- 6:55Speaker 2: for it. Present it with success goals, and it functions
- 7:00Speaker 2: as a success mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and
- 7:04Speaker 2: it operates just as impersonally and just as faithfully as
- 7:08Speaker 2: a failure mechanism. Like any other servo mechanism, it must
- 7:15Speaker 2: have a clear target, objective or problem to work upon,
- 7:25Speaker 2: you will actually program and reprogram or engineer the personality
- 7:30Speaker 2: and the life experiences you desire it. Humans, of all creatures,
- 7:43Speaker 2: are more than creatures. They are also creators. With imagination,
- 7:47Speaker 2: they can formulate a variety of goals. They alone can
- 7:50Speaker 2: direct their success mechanism by the use of imagination or
- 7:54Speaker 2: imaging ability. Many people waste much of their imagination power
- 7:59Speaker 2: for bring it away on aimless daydreaming and fantasy, with
- 8:02Speaker 2: no real appreciation for what it might do if applied purposefully.
- 8:06Speaker 2: The sun's light diffused as a gentle warmth directed through
- 8:10Speaker 2: a magnifying glass in a certain way, it is incendiary.
- 8:16Speaker 2: The imagination aimless may provide pleasant entertainment, applied purposefully, it
- 8:22Speaker 2: can effectively program yourself image and in turn your automatic
- 8:25Speaker 2: success mechanism to realize whatever goals you choose. You are
- 8:38Speaker 2: not a machine, not a computer, but in a very
- 8:42Speaker 2: real sense, you have an awesomely powerful computer like success
- 8:46Speaker 2: machine at your disposal. Your physical brain and nervous system
- 8:50Speaker 2: make up a servo mechanism that you use and that
- 8:52Speaker 2: operates very much like a computer, a mechanical goal seeking device.
- 8:57Speaker 2: Your brain and nervous system constant a goal striving mechanism
- 9:01Speaker 2: that operates automatically to achieve a certain goal. Very much
- 9:05Speaker 2: as a self aiming torpedo or missile seeks out its
- 9:07Speaker 2: target and steers its way to it. Your servo mechanism
- 9:16Speaker 2: is capable of being an automatic success mechanism or an
- 9:20Speaker 2: automatic failure mechanism that depends on what marching orders or
- 9:24Speaker 2: programming it gets through your self image. Servo mechanisms are
- 9:32Speaker 2: divided into two general types, one where the goal or
- 9:36Speaker 2: answer is known and the objective is to reach it
- 9:38Speaker 2: or accomplish it. Two, where the target or answer is
- 9:41Speaker 2: not known and the objective is to discover or locate it.
- 9:45Speaker 3: The human brain and nervous system operate in both ways.
- 9:49Speaker 2: An example of the first type is the self guided
- 9:51Speaker 2: torpedo or the interceptor missile. The target or goal is known,
- 9:56Speaker 2: the objective is to reach it. Such machines must know
- 10:02Speaker 2: the target they are shooting for. They must have some
- 10:05Speaker 2: sort of propulsion system that propels them forwards in the
- 10:08Speaker 2: general direction of the target. They must be equipped with
- 10:11Speaker 2: sense organs radar, sonar, etc. Which bring information from the target.
- 10:16Speaker 2: These sense organs keep the machine informed when it is
- 10:19Speaker 2: on the correct course positive feedback, and when it commits
- 10:22Speaker 2: an error and gets.
- 10:23Speaker 3: Off course negative feedback.
- 10:26Speaker 2: The machine does not react or respond to positive feedback.
- 10:29Speaker 2: It is doing the correct thing already and just keeps
- 10:32Speaker 2: on doing what it is doing. There must be a
- 10:35Speaker 2: corrective device, however, that responds to negative feedback. The torpedo
- 10:43Speaker 2: accomplishes its goal by going forward, making errors and continually
- 10:47Speaker 2: correcting them by.
- 10:53Speaker 3: A series of zigzags.
- 10:54Speaker 2: It literally gropes its way to the goal. Something very
- 11:04Speaker 2: similar to the foregoing happens in the human nervous system.
- 11:06Speaker 2: Whenever you perform any purposeful activity.
- 11:11Speaker 1: You already own the process.
- 12:02Speaker 2: Us are you connected to an infinite storehouse of ideas, knowledge,
- 13:06Speaker 2: and power.
- 13:08Speaker 3: You begin with a goal in mind, an end to
- 13:11Speaker 3: be achieved.
- 13:13Speaker 2: Your self image is important to build a good one.
- 13:18Speaker 2: You must have a self that you can trust and
- 13:21Speaker 2: believe in.