Psycho – Another Story
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
I think people unconsciously fear reading the book “Psycho-Cybernetics” because of it’s name…
So, let’s define…
Psycho – Although the term is associated with a crazy person, a mentally unstable person, a psychopath, it is also referred to the mind in general.
psycho-
a combining form representing psyche, (psychological ) and psychological, ( psychoanalysis ) incompound words.
Also, especially before a vowel, psych-.
Origin:
< Greek, combining form of psȳchḗ breath,spirit,soul, mind
And maybe we are all a little psycho, right?…
Cybernetics:
Control processes in electrical, mechanical or biological systems, notably including the negative-feedback-to-positive-results loop. Evolved in large part from guided-missile technology.
“Psycho-Cybernetics” is the basis of all self-help, personal development, law of attraction, soft skills technology and other terms used to describe it, being taught today.
THIS IS NO “SECRET”
This book was written and being taught by a Plastic Surgeon, of all people, but makes sense if you read the book.
His name is/was Maxwell Maltz, MD FICS in the year 1960!
It is amazing; I am such a doer by nature.
I am always doing something.
I am compelled…
It keeps me stimulated, keeps me active and wards off boredom.
I guess it comes from my mom, she was always doing something too and commanded our help in doing it and if we even looked remotely bored she would say:
“Go do a puzzle or read a book, paint or color in your coloring book or play a game with your sister or go run around outside.”
She wouldn’t let us sit in front of the TV AT ALL!
EVEN ON RAINY DAYS!!
BEING does not come first for me…I don’t care what they say. Be Do Have.
Doing creates the Being for me, then Being creates the having…
Because if I’m not doing something, Being has no meaning for me.
Years and years, have I spent on all these teachings and some of it just rubbed me the wrong way.
I questioned the validity of the instructions…
Your heart tells you when something is just not right, but you just have to find out for yourself.
I did everything they said to do for months on end with little and no results.
HOGWASH!!
Watch this…
I finally gave up in frustration…
Then a little while down the road something sparked my attention and I would go after it again…
This happened, I would say about 4 or 5 times within a time period of 25 years.
I listened to audio every day, back and forth to work in my car and whenever I ran around going to the grocery store and errands.
Until I was saturated, I wanted it SO BAD…
I meditated in every fashion possible…
I put pictures up in my office…
I followed all the steps…
Affirmations all over the house…on my kitchen cabinets, refrigerator…everywhere my eyes might even remotely gaze.
I wrote affirmations on my bathroom mirror, changing them occasionally, on and taped them to my bathroom mirror.
I journaled every day…
Wrote notes of appreciation to everyone I knew and didn’t know…
I did EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) RET (Rapid Eye Technology)…
Chanting…yes…
You name it…when I found out about it I did it…
Back to Psycho-Cybernetics…
It actually was part of the beginning of all of this supposedly new way of thinking.
If you have been doing all that other stuff and have not read the book…when you do you will find out that…
Psycho-Cybernetics incorporates a myriad of all the principals in a very common sense way without all the drama…yes, drama.
Even though I totally endorse absorbing all that you can and now that I have read The New Psycho-Cybernetics I can see it, the drama that is.
So, I want to quote a statement in the book that answered one of my questions:
“Unlike philosophical writings and unlike scores of other self-improvement books, Psycho-Cybernetics emphasizes things TO DO, not just things TO THINK. This is important, because it is the constructive DOING that yields RESULTS. IT IS AN ACTION MANUAL”.
It is no wonder that a wealthy prominent partner in this business of mine mentioned one day that “many a person has been damaged by this “Law of Attraction” business.
Mind you, I believe that the principles need to be presented in the correct context but there are everyone and their brothers out there capitalizing on the monetization of the industry for the sheer demand, starvation and unquenchable desire of people realizing that they HAVE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT!
So here it is, SOMETHING DIFFERENT, do it.
Cheers!
– Deborah
“The Change Lady”
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