Power Of Perception
- Power Of Perception
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your
mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there
long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
—William James
■ YOU ARE BORN UNAFRAID
The
child is born with no fears, except those of falling and loud noises. All other
fears have to be taught to the child as he or she grows up.
The
two major fears we all develop are the fear of failure or loss and the fear of
criticism or rejection. We begin to learn the fear of failure if we are
continually criticized and punished when we try some- thing new or different.
We are shouted at and told, “No! Get away from there! Stop that! Put that down!”
Physical punishment and the withholding of love, possibilities that scare us
and make us feel insecure, often accompany these shouts and criticisms.
We
soon begin to believe that we are too small, too weak, in- competent,
inadequate, and incapable of doing anything new or different. We express this
feeling with the words, “I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.” Whenever we think about doing
something new or challenging, we automatically respond with feelings of fear,
trembling, and a churning stomach. We react exactly as if we are afraid of
getting a spanking. We say, “I can’t” over and over.
The
fear of failure is the primary reason for failure in adult life. As the result
of destructive criticism in childhood, we hold our- selves back as adults. We
sell ourselves short. We quit before we even try the first time. Instead of using
our amazing minds to figure out how to get what we want, we use our reasoning
ability to create reasons why we can’t, and why the things we want are not
possible for us.
■ YOUR MENTAL HARD DRIVE
Everything
you know about yourself, all your beliefs, are recorded on the hard drive of
your personality, your self-concept. Your self-concept precedes and predicts
your levels of performance and effectiveness in everything you do. Because of
the law of correspondence, you always behave on the outside in a manner
consistent with your self-concept on the inside. All improvement in your life
begins with an improvement in your self-concept.
You
have an overall self-concept that is made up of all your beliefs about yourself
and your abilities. This bundle of beliefs includes all the experiences,
decisions, successes, failures, ideas, information, emotions, and opinions of
your life up to now. This general self-concept determines how and what you
think and feel about yourself, and measures how well you are doing in general.
■ YOUR MINI-SELF-CONCEPTS
You
have a series of “mini-self-concepts” as well. These mini-self- concepts
combine to make up your overall self-concept. You have a self-concept for every
area of your life that you consider important. This mini-self-concept
determines how you think, feel, and perform in that area.
For
example, you have a self-concept for how healthy and fit you are, and how much
you eat or exercise. You have a self-concept for how likable and popular you
are with others, especially with members of the opposite sex. You have a
self-concept for what kind of a spouse or parent you are, for how good a friend
you are to your friends, how smart you are, and how well you learn. You have a
self- concept for every sport you play, and for every activity you engage in,
including how well you drive your car. You have a self-concept for how well you
do your work, and for how well you do each part of your work. You have a self-
concept for how much money you make and how well you save and invest it. This
is a critical area. The fact is that you can never earn much more or less than
your self-concept level of income. If you want to make more money, you have to
change your beliefs about yourself relative to income and money. This is very
important.
■ CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS
In
every case, if you want to change your performance and your results in any area
of your life, you have to change your self- concept—or your beliefs about
yourself—for that area. Fortunately, your beliefs are largely subjective. They
are not always based on facts. Instead, they are based largely on information
you have taken in and accepted as true, sometimes with very little evidence or
proof.
The
very worst beliefs you can have are self-limiting beliefs of any kind. These
are beliefs about yourself that cause you to feel some- how limited or deficient
in a particular area. These beliefs are seldom true, but if you accept them as
valid estimates of your ability, they become true for you, exactly as if they
were correct.
The
starting point of unlocking your potential, and accomplishing more than you
ever have before, is for you to challenge your self- limiting beliefs. You
begin this process of freeing yourself from self-limiting beliefs by imagining
that, whatever they are, they are completely untrue. Imagine for the moment
that you have no limitations on your abilities at all. Imagine that you could
be, do, or have anything you really wanted in life. Imagine that your potential
is unlimited in any way.
Always remember: if you don't have a pictures of your future, you
can't feature in the future.
Say these words:
My sins are forgiven
I am God's best
I have supernatural wisdom
The supernatural is my size.
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