Psycho-Cybernetics Part 9 of 30: Disney and Desire
May 19, 2009 by dr. lam
When Walt Disney was seeking investors for his famed theme park, Disneyland, he was confronted with jeers and laughter about his fantastical, non-sensical idea. This pushed Disney to prove all his detractors wrong and to fulfill his life-long dream of opening and succeeding with his vision. The rest as they say is history.
Last week, we talked about how we should reprogram our unconscious servo-mechanism with an Automatic Success Mechanism. How do we do that? The answer is with deep desire. Desire motivates our thoughts. When we feel that we deeply want something bad enough, we overcome insurmountable odds. We overcome negative thinking, and we replace our Automatic Failure Mechanism with our Automatic Success Mechanism. We don’t take no for an answer.
Specifically then, how do we reprogram these negative thoughts? We focus on the end result. Of course, we have to have a desired end goal of what we want so that we can keep our eyes on the prize. Too often we are still plagued with the notions of what we don’t want. Instead, we should focus on what we do want…where our desires lead us. Starting with a deep desire for what we want to attain will create a powerful reprogramming of our unconscious mind. Remember that it is not force of will that Maltz talks about, i.e., it is not our conscious mind forcing us begrudgingly and exhaustingly forward. It is our conscious mind that sets our much more powerful unconscious mind into motion to lead us forward to success. Visualizing what we want every day can generate us to move forward in ways that we could not otherwise imagine.
Also remember that we talked about how our Creative Mechanism was the dividing element between us and the animals, i.e., how we enlist our imagination. Our imagination oftentimes is an unconscious attribute that is set in motion by our conscious mind. As a creative person myself, I open myself to inspiration and thoughts about everything. I move with a conscious desire toward my goals and my unconscious mind oftentimes gives me the answer that I was looking for.
As an example of this, in December 2006, I was interested in getting my name more broadly disseminated out to the world so I began to upload numerous videos that I felt passionately about on YouTube (currently I have 573 videos on the site with over 1.9 million views), at the time a nascent site that certainly was not used for promoting a plastic surgical practice. My mother and sister were both laughing at me at how I was wasting my time doing something so stupid. I was completely passionate that such a move might benefit my practice but just followed my heart and soul. Today YouTube accounts for the principle method by which I have a practice now that garners between 50 to 80% of my patients who have flown in from over 500 cities, 47 states, and from 18 countries for my services. Follow your heart and intuition against all odds.
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Dr. Lam, I think I’m going to have to sleep on these thoughts. Definitely great blog post!! Wow, Dr. Lam, you sure were on top of things to advertise using youtube! Interestingly, that is how I stumbled across your site. I was watching youtube videos on plastic surgery procedures and I watched one of yours and I thought, “Wow, this doctor really knows what he is doing!…lol And then I stumbled across your blog and got addicted to it…lol
haha. glad my videos brought you on board!
Glad you didn’t listen to your mom that time, because that’s exactly how I found out about you too – YouTube:)
thanks vancouver!
This is yummy! Replacing “I’ll try” with “I’ll do it” eliminates acceptance of defeat. Beautiful blog.