Mind Control and Distraction: Mind Control Techniques for a Lifetime

Chapter 27 Imagination is the beginning of success (2)
You don't act and perceive things the way they are, you act and perceive them according to the mental picture of "what they are like" that already exists in your brain.You have certain "mental images" of yourself, your environment, and the people around you, and you act as if these images are facts, reality.You are not basing them on how they behave in reality.For example, suppose that the person in front who encountered a bear halfway did not actually encounter a bear, but instead encountered a person in a bear's skin.If he thought or believed that the man was really a grizzly, his emotional and neurological responses would not have changed in the slightest from the situation described earlier.And suppose all he encounters is a large shaggy dog, and his frightened imagination mistook him for a bear.Likewise, he responds automatically according to his "true assumptions" about himself and his surroundings.From this, we can conclude that if our thoughts and "mental images" about ourselves are distorted or simply unrealistic, then our responses to our surroundings and events will also be inappropriate ,unreasonable.

Can these inappropriate mental images buried in the heart be corrected?The answer is yes.Imagine a child who grows up in an environment intentionally segregated by racists - the child may be white, and his parents are "white supremacists" who devoutly believe that all black people are "niggers" and are A source of evil, a threat to their well-being and security; or the child may be black, born into a particularly white-hating family.In either case, certain beliefs are instilled in the child's mind, and these beliefs govern his behavior.He will form certain "truths" in his imagination, and when he grows up, these "truths" will be difficult to change.However, some people are able to make a 180-degree turn in their beliefs and behaviors at certain points in their lives.At present, this phenomenon has even become the main content of the TV programs in which the conflicting parties resolve their conflicts face to face, and it is very popular with the audience.How does a person change himself?If he has a wider and more varied life experience than the pressure of his family's education and social competition; If he challenges what he believed to be true and further discovers that it is only based on illusion, and replaces the original "truth" with a new truth, then he can change himself.Now, think of a child from a poor family who is convinced that it is the odious rich and corrupt government that keep them miserable Think that no matter how hard they try, they will not be able to achieve success, status and wealth.These facts, then, will greatly hinder the child from doing well academically, thereby preventing him from going to college, and driving him to follow his father blindly to work in the factory or in the coal mine (I think I use "coal mine" here. Words are outdated).However, even today, many, many people still accept poverty as a "fact".However, how can people who grow up in such an environment achieve great success (for example, become a particularly successful entrepreneur or manager) when they grow up?He can use meaningful books, well-known people he saw on TV, the influence of a mentor, the accumulation of life experience, and challenge the things he "believes" in one way or another, so as to understand that these things are established On the basis of illusion, and then replace one kind of truth with another kind of "truth".

Just like the "fighters" in the Spanish black community I mentioned earlier transformed from street thugs to chess champions, from juvenile delinquents who might go to jail to model citizens, and as adults to become doctors, lawyers, businessmen, You can also radically change yourself by changing your self-image and feeding it new facts.From a limp fat man to a strong, well-proportioned man, from a timid man to a determined and confident man, from a clumsy and slovenly man to a capable and well-mannered man.Emerging evidence that proves the flaws in your own image may be real and empirical, vividly imagined, artificial, or the influence of other authorities on you.Instead, the self-image communicates the appropriate new instructions to your servomechanism, whereby a new "truth" is born, a new reality emerges.

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Our actions, feelings and actions are the result of our self-image and our own beliefs.When we can realize this, we have an extra lever, and psychology is always indispensable in changing people's character.This lever opens a powerful psychological door through which you can gain the display of skills as well as success and happiness. "Mental imagery" gives us the opportunity to practice new viewpoints and mental attitudes, which we cannot practice through other means.This possibility also exists because your brain and nervous system cannot tell the difference between actual experiences and "vividly imagined" experiences.If we describe ourselves as doing things a certain way in our mental images, we will behave in the same way in real life. The power of "mental imagery" is comparable to that of real practice.When I first made this point, and when others started to make it, it was just a common idea that man could exercise himself in his imagination and agree with it in objective practice. the results.Today, this point of view has been widely accepted by the public, and it has already been proved by countless experiments.Athletes in all sports regularly engage in mental or imagery training.For example, we can think of Dr. Richard Cooper's advice to golfers, which reads as follows: Before you start hitting the ball every time, you need to create a "mental picture" How does the top of the rod react when it hits it, and what effect does your hit have.You need to have a definite, optimistic "visualization" of it.The screen should show the trajectory and direction of the ball's flight, where you want it to fall, how far you want it to roll when it lands, and so on.If you find it difficult to picture the movement of the ball in your mind for a period of time after the shot, then you can imagine a curved road with the same curvature as you want the golf ball to roll. consistent.In this "visual display" your options are only limited by your imagination.You can think of the green as a soft pad with a flagstick ready to receive your shots... In short, you need to find visual images that work for you. "Visual display" is one of the most personal aspects of golf psychology.

American golfer Jack Nicklaus said: "Whenever I swing a golf ball, I must first have a clear and definite picture in my mind. First, I want to "see" where I want the ball to end up. Then, I To "watch" it go to that position, its flight path, and touchdown. A subsequent "scene" has to allow me to see my swing position, and this position has to bring the first picture to life. "Notice how strikingly similar the Golden Bear winner's description of what he actually does, Dr. Cooper's advice, and the guidance presented in this book are.It's important to realize that imagination exercises aren't necessarily limited to sports like golf or tennis.This principle of mental practice is more applicable to virtually any behavior, including behavior in a broader sense, such as speaking up with confidence, speaking with confidence in a business meeting, rather than being terrified and silent all the time, and then Too late to regret.Or directly ask the customer to sign the order, instead of letting the publicity and sales of the product end with your weak words and the other party's ambiguous attitude, and the issue of the order is unresolved.and so on.For the mental and imaginative exercises, I have developed a very specific and practical method of strengthening, using what I call "mental theater" (which I have described earlier in this book).Dr. Cooper has also described a method similar to the "movie technique" I taught in the late 50s (and which I also introduced in the first edition of this book).Jack Nicklaus used the word "scene": He played his successful golf swing as a little "mental movie," that is, away from the actual actual hitting. Watch "movies" in the "spiritual theater", and then come back to reality to experience the feeling of deja vu in thinking.In an article in the July 2000 issue of Golf Magazine, Jack Nicklaus put it this way: "I like to refer to my own practice method, which I call the "filming" method. The more ingrained the method is in your mind, the more you will be able to hit the good ball you want to play in reality." He even said in the fourth step of the "four-step method" he invented: "The complete" The movie "tells you which club is the right one, and you pick that one." It's admirable that Jack Nicklaus found his way, which is almost exactly what I've described as the "movie trick", even A lot further forward.He leaves the tedious task of choosing the right club to his automatic success mechanism rather than conscious decision making.I say he is great because, as far as I know, Mr. Nicklaus has never read my book, although he has probably been influenced by many famous golfers and their coaches.However, in fact, it is not so "remarkable", because in fact almost all athletes who can reach the pinnacle of a certain sport can find a way to learn this similar skill in some unique way.First, I would like to present here some scientific records that fully support the idea of ​​imaginative exercises.In one of the earliest controlled experiments that I know of, the psychologist Vandal demonstrated that the mental exercise of throwing darts at a target (in which the person who throws the target sits in front of the target for a period of time each day) , imagining that you are throwing a dart at a target) improves your chances of hitting the target to the same extent as actually throwing the dart. The journal Science Quarterly reported on an experiment that looked at the role of mental exercises in improving basketball free-throw skills.The first group of students insisted on practicing free throws on the spot every day for 7 consecutive days, and calculated their scores and shooting percentages on the first and last days.The second group of students also counted hits on the first and last day, but did not practice any more than ten days in between.A third group of students counted their free throw percentages on the first day and then spent 20 minutes each day imagining themselves making free throws into the hoop.If the imaginary ball does not go into the free throw, they will correct their free throw process accordingly in their imagination.The results of the experiment are as follows: the first group of students who insisted on 20 minutes of field free throw practice every day, their free throw percentage finally increased by 20%; and the third group of students who practiced free throws only through imagination, their free throw percentage actually increased by 24%!This miraculous experiment has been widely reported and publicized by various media, and it has been often discussed and exemplified in many universities for many years.Of course, the results of such an experiment may not be very rigorous. After all, Shaquille O'Neal's low free throw percentage is always a puzzling problem.However, despite its questionable science, the use of imaginative exercises is really a powerful science.It turns out that imaginative exercises are a practical means of improving skills, improving ingrained "truths" and thus behavior.

"Mind image" is a powerful drug
Kay Porter, Ph.D., and Judy Foster, authors of The Mental Athlete: Inner Training for Peak Performance, have introduced a detailed and effective method for relieving pain and speeding wound healing in injured athletes.The duo wrote in Tennis World magazine: "An important part of self-healing is forming a mental image on which to paint a future optimistic outcome. The act of 'picturing' stimulates your Mind and body, forming a desire for quick healing...Through mental mapping, it is possible to change the automatic physiological responses of the body. When you use imagination, mental imagery, and autosuggestion, you can communicate with your body, And prompt the body to make an appropriate response." Please do not doubt, because this is a scientific fact in medicine and not a hypothesis out of thin air.If every hospital patient and every person entering physical rehabilitation had a copy of Psycho-Cybernetics to read, they would surely get better more quickly.If you will have a dear one or friend in such a situation, please lend them this book.

In view of the thought-provoking and usefulness of this article, we have excerpted a part of it and published it on the website of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation (www.psycho-cybernetics.com).If you want to read it, or recommend it to a friend, you can log on to our website.You'll also find other articles, reviews, and summaries directly related to the book on the site. "Mental image" can help you improve your sales. In the book "How to Earn $2.5 a Year Through Sales", Charles B. Ross introduced how a sales team in Detroit doubled sales by developing a new idea. A lot of stories.Meanwhile, another pitching group in New York boosted their sales by 150%.There are even individual salesmen who use the same method to increase sales by as much as 400%!What is the magic behind the success of salesmen?Let's take a look at what Roth's book says about the specific situation: We call this method "role-playing".If you let it work, it will help you double your sales.So, what is role-playing?Role-playing is really nothing more than imagining yourself in various sales situations, and then working out these problems in your mind ahead of time, until you know what to say and do in various situations in real life.The reason this approach works so well is that selling is really just about meeting situations.

As a salesman, whenever you talk to a customer, a scene is created.He is constantly talking, asking questions, or expressing some opposing or questioning opinions.If you always know how to respond to what he says, how to answer his questions, or how to deal with his objections, you will basically do business... A salesman who practices "role-playing" when he is alone at night, will Create various scenarios in your mind.He imagined how the customer would make it difficult for him as much as possible, asking him all kinds of questions related to the product or not, and then he would try to find the best solution to respond to the other party...

No matter what kind of situation you face, you can prepare in advance.The way to do this is to imagine yourself communicating with the client face-to-face, and he raises objections and questions, and you give appropriate responses.I suspect that Mr. Ross's book is no longer in the market.Just from the "$2.5" on its title, you can tell the age of this book.But since then, countless sales books, marketing training programs, and professional marketing trainers have incorporated this idea in their advice to sales professionals on marketing strategies and methods.In fact, if you work in sales, you've probably role-played yourself in a classroom, in the lab, or in a sales meeting, and you've probably practiced scenarios with a colleague or spouse.However, there is something you may not realize - that moving the role-playing method from the laboratory to the "mental theater" is just as effective or even more effective, because you can achieve "perfection" and success by groping from clumsiness and variability to "perfection" and success. progress.So as long as you rehearse the "drama" in your head until it becomes a habit, then your sales work in reality will fairly closely reflect the hallucinations that have been practiced in your imagination. .

If you think of business negotiation as a higher level of selling, then the following story can be a good proof of my point.The following text is excerpted from a letter written to me by a professional.This individual works for a company representing the company in the negotiation of an intricate, very challenging multi-million dollar contract.The negotiating counterpart was the CEO of a large public company, who had a reputation for being difficult to deal with.Although I cannot disclose the real names of the relevant personnel on both sides, I dare to assure you that this letter is in my hands and is real.The following are excerpts from the letter:

Dear Doctor:
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