Mind Control and Distraction: Mind Control Techniques for a Lifetime

Chapter 29 Imagination is the beginning of success (4)
Of course, skeptics would like to chalk this up to coincidence or luck.But Jane Sawa is a skilled practitioner of cybernetic theory, and she has a lot to offer as evidence to support her beliefs.In fact, she has been teaching for many years using mind control techniques as an instructor and coach to champion riders.The most well-known among them is the performance of her team members in the Olympics.Even imagining success as a simple, single but vivid and realistic enough picture is enough to prevent the generation of doubts, fears, worries and other bad emotions in our hearts, and can guide the success mechanism to aim at a certain target for precise shooting.In contrast, the power brought by a comprehensive mental rehearsal picture will be even stronger.Whether you are a professional athlete or a sports fan who only participates in sports in your spare time; whether you are a professional sales elite, entrepreneur, senior executive, school teacher, doctor or other professional people.You can try it with mental rehearsal in your daily health practice.There is ample evidence that learning to use this tool and practicing it often will allow you to achieve a variety of worthwhile purposes.It can be said that if you do not use this method, you will not enjoy the benefits of the most basic, reliable, and universal psychological "success path" that we know of in doing things.This is like a carpenter who does not use electricity or use electric tools for his convenience when he is doing carpentry.Although carpentry can be done without electricity, with only mechanical saws and planes, why bother?

Why Imagery Is So Powerful
Control psychology has taught us that imagery is powerful, and that the more people understand how it works, the more they can use it.Each of us has an automatic success mechanism. It is an extremely complex machine that can automatically pursue goals. By using feedback verses and stored information, it can automatically move towards the current goal and automatically correct the course when necessary. .That's the only way it works.Before doing anything, you must first have a clear picture in your mind of how things happened and how they turned out.When the goal is clearly established in the mind, the creative success mechanism in us will guide us to do the rest.This is much better than what we can achieve with just conscious effort and willpower.In fact, achieving goals through conscious effort and strong willpower is not only useless, but sometimes has some bad effects.Consciousness and strong willpower can make you worry about impending bad outcomes and picture yourself repeatedly, making yourself even more tense and worried.It's better to just relax yourself, stop being nervous, stop thinking about possible bad outcomes, just think about getting it done, achieving it, and solving it.This requires you to picture the real goal in your mind and give it to the automatic success mechanism.After that, you will still work hard, but the efforts at this time are guided by the automatic success mechanism, rather than your own conscious control of yourself-in fact, the more conscious you control yourself when you are thinking about a certain thing, It's easier to think about irrelevant things.

Determine the most suitable "self"
Just like a shoe, no matter how good it looks, if it is too small or too big, it will not be comfortable.Only you know if it fits, so the best shoes for you are the most suitable shoes.In the same way, our self is not the omnipotent self, but the real self, the self that suits our abilities.If you have a mental picture of yourself that you want to see, down to every detail of your new role, imagine whether you can fully utilize your innovative mechanisms to help you achieve your best. self.This approach is also very important and commonly used in psychiatric therapy.Such imagining works miraculously. When a person tries to change his or her self-image, his or her character, mannerisms, and habits change accordingly.This is the great energy of our imagination, and it is extremely powerful when it is applied to our imagination of ourselves.for example.We can explore the implications of this AP press release below.Judging from the time in the date column, the article was published in 1958:
just imagine you're a sane person

San Francisco.Some mentally ill patients can improve dramatically and possibly shorten their hospital stay simply by imagining they are normal, two psychologists from the Los Angeles Veterans Administration report.

Dr. Harry M. Grayson and Leonard B. Olinger told the American Psychological Association that they tested this idea in 45 hospitalized patients diagnosed as neuropsychiatric.

The patients first took a routine personality test.Afterwards, the experimenter asked them to take another test with a flat face and answer some questions, but when answering, they should assume that they are "typical normal people who are fully adapted to the external environment".

Three-quarters of the patients completed the improved performance tests, the two psychologists reported, and some of the changes that showed improvement were nothing short of surprising.

In order to answer questions like a "typical normal person who has fully adjusted to the outside world", these patients have to imagine how a standard normal person who has fully adjusted to the outside world would behave.They have to imagine themselves playing the role of a normal person.And that, on its own, is enough to make them "behave and feel like sane people."

We don't know what happened to these doctors and the seminal experiments they conducted, but we now know that the self-image serves as a navigator in psychology.For example, the meanings contained in the imagination of "I should treat this like so-and-so" have been generally accepted by people.This method is not only used to help the mentally ill, the disabled, people addicted to psychotropic drugs, and autistic patients, but it can also be applied to our lives.We're not psychopaths, nor are we any more vulnerable to this approach than the disabled, people addicted to psychotropic drugs, and the autistic.On the contrary, it can effectively help us to do better in life, or to expand more in a certain area.It can be determined that these techniques are applicable to each of us, but as long as we are good at using them, the effect will be more powerful, more immediate and more effective.Because our starting point is much higher than that of mental patients, disabled people, people addicted to psychotropic drugs, and autistic patients.

gain a deep understanding of who you are
Self-image is of great significance in psychology, and its purpose and use is not to achieve an omnipotent, invincible, arrogant "false self" through hypnosis or "motivation".This also goes against the scientific nature of psychology.In fact, this false self-image is the same as our common inferior self-image, which is unhelpful, inappropriate, and unrealistic.Our goal is to find our "true self" and make the most of our strengths.Psychologists generally believe that most people are self-conscious, unable to see their true value, and underestimating their own talents.In real life, there is no such thing as arrogance. Its appearance just expresses people's underestimation of themselves. It is a catharsis of people's pain and low self-esteem to cover up their inner dissatisfaction and insecurity. feel.How can we dig deep into our own potential and know our own truth?How can I truly evaluate myself?It seems to me that psychology should turn to religion on this issue. The Bible tells us that God created man "a little lower than the angels" and "gives him dominion": God created man according to his imagination (just as we create with our own automatic success mechanisms) .If we really believe in the existence of a wise, omnipotent, and universally loving Creator, then we can naturally draw the above conclusions to define his creation—man.First of all, such a wise and omnipotent creator will not create "inferior products", just like we all hope that we will be successful in a certain field, and master painters will not draw inferior oil paintings.Such a creator would not intentionally fail to improve product quality, just as a car manufacturer would not deliberately fail to manufacture a car.

Orthodox Christians tell us that the main purpose and reason of human existence is to "glorify God", while humanists tell us that the main purpose of human existence is "full expression of oneself".

However, if we accept the assumption that God is a loving Creator with the same sense of responsibility for his creation as an earthly father does for his children, then may I hold that orthodox Christians and human beings Theists are actually saying the same thing.For a father, what could be more glorious, proud and satisfying than seeing his offspring live well, achieve success, and fully demonstrate their abilities and talents?If a football star is participating in a game, which of his fathers is not cheering for his children, would he be indifferent and stand by?Jesus expressed the same thought.He told us, "Don't hide our light, but let our light shine so that we may be admirable to our Father." I think that if God's children grovel in their words and deeds, live miserable lives, and fear to rise up so that they can be They are as inferior and anxious as they imagined, then they will not add any "brilliance" to God.

The function of this book is not to inspire and hypnotize, but to tell you the talents and abilities you already have, just like a reminder from a loved one.Many denominations, from evangelical Christianity to Baptist Christianity to Protestantism to so-called "new thought modern religion" and "thinking science" denominations, speak of God's care and love for us.I have discussed mind control theory in depth with ministers, priests, Chinese Buddhist monks, agnostics and even atheists.I don't have any difficulty at all in dealing with these people, we always find the same roots that come from a basic assumption: to save people from their own inner, spiritual, unconscious self-destructive behavior .This assumption is necessary if individuals wish (even if God does not direct them) to succeed rather than fail.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a famous American priest, once wanted to say something about psycho-cybernetics, and I had several pleasant conversations with him.However, I haven't had the opportunity to make the point that the simple "positive thinking" imagined by most people is often doomed because it is based on our underestimation of ourselves and our fear of reality .We must know that God created us, this world exists for us, and we live just to adapt to the real world, so all conceivable successes are obvious.I don't think we'll see an orthodox religion or church that is against mind control.

The fruit of the imagination exercise

It really doesn't matter what your background or viewpoints are religiously, intellectually or philosophically.Imagination exercises, "visualizations," "mental images," or what I call "mental pictures," you name it.The point is that you implement it, turn this "picture" into reality, and that's what matters.If you pick a goal, apply this technique, and actually run a full-scale 21-day experiment with it, you'll be delighted to see the results.You will surely resolve to continue using this technique for the rest of your life and benefit greatly from the practice, as countless athletes, entertainers, doctors, lawyers, business leaders, and others have experienced before you.You can get off to a good start with the following exercises:
We know that our present self-image is based on the imaginings and pictures we have made of ourselves in the past.This kind of imagination and characterization is derived from your evaluation and judgment of your own experience.But when we have subjective wishes, we can't help but force ourselves, so to develop a proper self-image, we must learn to evaluate and judge ourselves properly and objectively.You might as well set aside 30 minutes a day to be alone and free from outside distractions.Relax and make yourself as comfortable as possible.Then close your eyes and start imagining.

Countless facts tell me that imagining myself sitting in a movie theater and watching a movie about myself will get better results.These movie images are as lifelike and detailed as possible.Importantly, you can get information from it that you hadn't thought of before.You want your "mental picture" to be as close to actual experience as possible.The specific method is to pay attention to what details, scenes, sounds, and objects are in the imagined environment.The specifics of the imagined environment are especially important in this kind of practice, because the goal of your practice is absolutely practical, you are creating an "actual experience."As far as the function of the nervous system is concerned, if you imagine enough vivid and detailed enough, your imagination exercise will be equivalent to your own experience.

The next important thing to remember is that during these 30 minutes, you have to watch yourself behave and react appropriately, successfully, and perfectly.It doesn't matter what you said and did yesterday, and you don't have to try to have beliefs like "I'm going to be perfect tomorrow."The nervous system will take care of itself when the time comes—as long as you keep practicing.Watch yourself act and perceive as you wish.Instead of saying to yourself, "I'm going to do this tomorrow," just say, "I'm going to imagine myself doing this right now—for the half day that I'm about to go through." Imagine being the kind of person you want to be How does it feel to be human.If you have always been introverted and timid, "see" yourself dealing with others freely, demeanor and feel good about it; if you are fearful and anxious in certain situations, "see" yourself calmly and calmly Do things, do them with confidence and courage, and feel more cheerful and confident because of your demeanor and poise.

This practice transfers new "memory content" and existing data to your midbrain and central nervous system.It creates a whole new self-image.After practicing for a while, you will be surprised to find that you "behave differently", which is more or less active or spontaneous, and you don't need to try.now it's right.You don't have to think, try, or work hard at this time to avoid feeling different and behaving inappropriately.Your current inappropriate feelings and behaviors are automatic and spontaneous, because you input new "memory content" (real and imagined) into the automatic mechanism.You will find out.This mechanism works automatically on positive thoughts and experiences as well as on negative ones, and works just as well.

Step [-]: Get out the paper and pen, and briefly outline and describe the "mental movie" you plan to construct, experiment, form and watch in the "mental picture".

Step 30: Set aside [-] minutes every day, and finally at the same time every day, find a quiet and private place, close your eyes, enter the "theater", and start playing, editing, and playing your "movie" again.

Step 10: Make incremental "modifications" to the movie (so that the "star" (i.e. yourself) in the film behaves exactly as you expected), and get the experience and results you want.For the first [-] days, you work towards this goal.

Step 11: During the remaining [-] days, play and enjoy this "movie" repeatedly without modification.

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