Psycho-Cybernetics Part 27 of 30: Establishing the Winning Feeling
June 18, 2009 by dr. lam
As you guys know, these blogs have a lot to do with our feelings first because how we feel dictates our mood, thoughts, and goals. If we don’t like to do a goal, we won’t. If we are sad about a situation, it affects our thinking and our judgment. When we harness our feelings in the right direction, we can enlist the power of our Automatic Success Mechanism to move in the right direction.
When we set our mind on our intended goal in front of us, we need to feel as if the goal is already achieved. We need to take a future tense objective and make it into a present day possibility by feeling how we would feel if we have already accomplished it, as if it were already right in front of us. We can thereby direct our servo-mechanism toward that goal effectively.
When George S. Patton, the great U.S. general in World War II, was asked whether he got any fear in his heart during a major military campain, he replied that he did. However, he said, “I never take counsel of my fears.” So even when we are tainted by a fear of possible failure, that does not ordain the inevitability of failure. We can still succeed despite our fear and anxiety, as Patton rightly pointed out. However, when we can we should focus on future successes rather than the possibility of future failure.
Remember also that when we talked about our condition in a hypnotic situation, our brain could not tell the difference between reality and something vividly imagined. We literally can program our brain for success or failure depending on how we adjust our feeling about the situation. First, set your mind on where your goal should be and then bring your feeling into alignment with that goal, then let your servo-mechanism do the rest.
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That was a great point to bring up about harnessing our feelings in the right direction because our feelings tend to affect our judgment. Also, I liked your point about the future tense of our goals helping get us in the direction we want to be at.
Wow, some great insight and advice, Dr. Lam!!
thanks heather!