Psycho-Cybernetics - See Yourself at Your Best
Matt Furey's Super Human Success Blog
“An ordinary idea
that is acted upon
will bear more fruit
than a fabulous idea
left in the idle position.
When the average and
ordinary is given a
little juice, it can
transform into
something
far bigger than
originally envisioned.”
Matt Furey
I keep various notebooks and journals.
Some tiny, some much larger.
Others are leather bound, this one has
spirals.
I write cursive or script and almost never print.
Sometimes the characters I draw… a bit better than
stick figures – have squares and triangles that drop a
hint.
And then there are the rhyming words, the poems.
Written just for fun when life is easy or rough.
No thoughts of buy or sell, letting my mind
roam.
Feels good to free the mind from its cell.
Once a day, to let loose without a snare.
Climb a bonsai tree? Let crickets ring a
bell?
With pen and pad, the trivial becomes important.
The telling of what you can ruin or create.
Can you fish without water, or turn a walk into a
hunt?
– Matt Furey
author of One Breath at a Time
P.S. I thought today’s entry would come from my notebook, but as I began… something else wrote itself upon the page. When that happens, go with it.
Two worries. Negative and positive.
Negative worry is about problems.
Positive worry transcends problems
and creates a new path.
from One Breath at a Time
As Dr. Maltz taught in Psycho-Cybernetics, worry is the negative use of your imagination. You picture something in the future and the image you see is horrible.
When you picture something negative in the future, you instantly feel fear, anger, horror and panic.
But when you turn worry into something positive, you picture what you want.
To enhance your mental imagery even more, here’s how you can verbally turn the following situations around:
You’re worried that you’re going to lose your job.
“I’m worried I am going to keep my job or somehow get an even better one.”
You’re worried about a trip you’re going to take.
“I’m worried that I’m going to have an incredible trip.”
I’m worried that I’m going to be homeless.
“I’m worried I’m going to make so much money I will feel totally relieved from life’s burdens.”
Postive Worry!
Give it a whirl and change your whirld for the better.
Matt Furey
P.S. My newsletter coaching group is applying these ideas with stellar results. If you want to leave negative worry in the past and unlock the secrets of positive worry, and much more, in a HUGE way – click here.
Here’s a little poem my alter ego, el Furecat, wrote that I felt compelled to send to you today.
Will’s Powers
You have a Will for a Reason,
and an Imagination ever ready,
every day of every season.
Although One’s Creative Imagination
beats Will’s Powers 100 times in a row,
I wouldn’t ask for Will’s resignation.
Why not blend the two Ways into One?
And with each hand ignited and at your
command, you’ll witness the Power of Done.
El Furecat
The Prosperity Poet
Have a super day!
Matt Furey
By the way, if you haven’t seen yesterday’s YouTube video, here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-JuCf2RRA8
“A burning desire doesn’t mean that
you flex your muscles with excitement,
it doesn’t mean stiffening your spine
and attempting to PHYSICALLY
force your goal upon the world.
A burning desire is a similar to the
story in Genesis of the burning bush.
The bush is on fire but the fire does
not consume the bush.
And so it is with YOU.
You have a desire that burns of its
own accord, it burns within your
heart and mind. It burns without
effort or struggle because you
pictured what you wanted with
so much enthusiasm that the
desire takes on a life of its own.
You wanted this desire.
Now the desire wants you.”
– Matt Furey
If you already own the classic, Psycho-Cybernetics, then continue your journey with Zero Resistance Living and Theatre of the Mind
If it was no one would have heard
of it.
SMART WORK is where the
SECRETS are located.”
Matt Furey
The SMART SECRETS are in the 35-million copies best-seller, Psycho-Cybernetics, and continue in a BIG WAY in Zero Resistance Living and Theatre of the Mind
Ever think there’s something missing in the way people are taught to set goals?
In most cases, you’re taught to think big, set goals that scare you, get out of your comfort zone, take massive action, change all your limiting beliefs and eliminate your negative self-talk.
Meanwhile, a much easier and far less time consuming approach is possible for you.
Consider the Principle of Momentum.
When you have momentum flowing for you, you’re almost impossible to stop.
It begins with something as simple as a positive daily habit that you stick with. Next thing you realize is that this positive habit is bearing fruit. It’s working wonders in your life that you might not have imagined when you began.
You established momentum when you took your first step forward, which made it easier to take the next step, and the next and the next.
When you’re not doing anything on a daily basis to achieve a goal, you have no momentum… no energy. When you’re creating a positive result every day, it’s hard to stop yourself.
So the principle of Momentum is activated with small steps, with daily habits and daily goals. It is NOT activated by the idea of ‘massive action,’ as there is no such thing in the universe. You only get to take one step a time. You only get one breath at a time. You can desire more steps and more breaths at the same time, but sorry, that’s not how nature works.
Here what does work: If you nail at least one goal per day, after a month, you’ve “met” 30 goals and your confidence grows. After a year, you have 365 successes you can bank on. And now you can easily tackle bigger goals because you have Momentum on your side.
Meanwhile, so many of those with the big goals (not daily) feel as though they aren’t any closer than when they started. In short, they have no momentum.
As I frequently say, “Start small and you can have it all. Start too big and you’ll stumble on every twig.”
Here endeth the lesson.
Matt Furey
“See yourself sitting quietly and unmoved while an associate rants and raves. See yourself going through your daily tasks one by one, calmly, composed, unhurried, in spite of the pressures of a busy day. See yourself maintaining the same constant, stable course, in spite of the various hurry-bells and pressure-bells in your environment. See yourself in various situations that have in the past upset you, only now you remain “set,” settled, poised – by not responding.”
– Maxwell Maltz, M.D. Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
Yes!
It’s all about how you SEE YOURSELF in your mind’s eye.
It’s NOT about how you talk to yourself or how you recite or rewrite positive affirmations.
The second you begin to PICTURE yourself in a new way, you begin to change. And when you do it correctly, there’s no fight taking place within your mind as you make those changes.
If there is a fight taking place within your mind as you “work” on changing your life, you’re using will power in a disempowering way.
Imagination trumps will power all day long.
Sure, you can get yourself going with will power, but you cannot sustain it or take it to the next level.
Will power is constantly running out of gas while imagination always has a full tank.
Keep this in mind as you make changes in your life.
Matt Furey
“It is my belief that each personality does already have a quiet center within, which is never disturbed, and is unmoved, like the mathematical point in the very center of a wheel or axle that remains stationary. What we need to do is to find this quiet center within us and retreat to it periodically for rest, recuperation, and renewed vigor.”
Maxwell Maltz, M.D. – Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded
In Asian martial arts, this center within that Dr. Maltz referred to is called the dan tian or “sea of energy.”
In fact, there are three of these centers. The first center is located behind the navel. The second is in the center of the chest and the third is in the center of your brain.
When you put your focus and concentration on the navel or heart center, you begin to feel calmer and more peaceful, almost immediately, especially when you are paying attention to your breathing.
Each day, between activities, you can clear the cobwebs from your thinking, or refresh your energy by focusing on your retreat center.
Once you feel centered, you clear the screen of your mind. By doing this you eliminate any residue from a previous activity that you don’t want spilling into or interfering with the next one.
Matt Furey
“Each person needs a quiet room inside his own mind-a quiet center within him, like the deep of the ocean that is never disturbed, no matter how rough the waves may become on the surface.”
“This quiet room within, which is built in imagination, works as a mental and emotional decompression chamber. It depressurizes you from tensions, worry, pressures, stresses, and strains, refreshes you, and enables you to return to your workday world better prepared to cope with it.”
– Maxwell Maltz, M.D. – Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
The emotional decompression chamber mentioned above is something that every human being has within, yet few take the time to use it. We spend an inordinate amount of time pondering the issues of the day, and almost no time on retreat to the quiet center within.
Take an emotional vacation each and every day. Turn off the tee-vee, the radio and all your devices. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Begin to let the steam out.
Build a room in your mind where nothing can get to you, where nothing can disturb you.
Relax, unwind your mind, recharge and renew.
When you go on a daily retreat to this quiet place within your mind, you will realize that your life begins to blossom and bear fruit in ways unforeseen to you before.
See it. Feel it. Be it.
Matt Furey
Hello and welcome to Psycho-Cybernetics.com - the official site for the original (and expanded) teachings of Dr. Maxwell Maltz, author of the 35 million copy best-seller, Psycho-Cybernetics. I’m Matt Furey, author of the best-selling Nightingale-Conant audio book, Maxwell Maltz’ Theatre of the Mind.
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Best,
Matt Furey
President, Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation
