Self Image and Servo Mechanism (Psycho-Cybernetics 1)

Self image can be describes using the analogy of a blueprint. When looking at a blueprint of a house, we know how big a house will be and how many levels and all the precise measurements before actually building it. Dr. Maltz writes about his two important discoveries concerning the self image. First, everything that you do, feel or how you behave is always consistent with your self-image. Then, the self-image can be changed by yourself or other aspect likes environment culture or others.

To explain Dr. Maltz's first point, people who hold certain beliefs about themselves would act in alignment with that thought. The second point Dr. Maltz makes is that the self-image can be changed. This is what he is basing book, Psycho-Cybernetics on. If you can change your self-image, everything about you, inside and out will change in alignment with the self-image. He makes the important distinction that changing the self-image is very different from just positive-thinking.
As for the subconscious-mind according to Dr. Maltz, is a "servo-mechanism".A servo-mechanism is a device used to control an operation through feedback. It is a mechanism that serves for a purpose. So the human servo-mechanism is made up of the brain and nervous system and it is used and directed by the will of the mind. Dr. Maltz calls this the Creative Mechanism. This Creative Mechanism's goal is seeking to create mental images. We can create mental images using our imagination.

All living creatures have built-in a guidance system or goal striving device. Humans on the other hand have what is called the creative imagination which allows us to change our goals. Our Success Mechanism can be directed by the use of the human imagination.

When applying the science of cybernetics to human beings, the brain and nervous system together form a servo-mechanism that operates as a goal striving device. There are two general types of servo-mechanisms. The first type of servo-mechanism is where the target, goal or answer is known and the objective is to reach it. The second type of servo-mechanism is where the answer is not known and the objective is to discover or locate it.

Whenever human beings do creative work they always begin with a target answer in mind which will be recognized when it is achieved. When it comes to problem solving the Creative Imagination scans through stored information and past experiences and then uses them as a guide to help solve the problem. It is also quite common that the answer comes to the conscious mind when least expected, even in the form of dreams when we are asleep. The creative mechanism, according to Maltz has access to stord information in the universal mind.

Creative Imagination enters into all our actions. What the Creative Imagionation does is that it sets a goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. Human beings act or fail to act not because of "will" but because of imagination. Human beings always act and feel and perform in line with what they imagine to be true about themselves and their enviroment.

Maxwell Maltz, M.D. Fics - Psycho Cybernetics Mutakhir (The New Psycho Cybernetics)
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