The Secret of Self Image - Bob Proctor

[Music] this is an absolutely Beau beautiful world that you and I are a part of and our stay here should be a magnificent Adventure it should never be a boore we were created to have and enjoy all the good that life has to offer you're God's greatest creation and you are meant to win unfortunately not everyone views the world or their life the same way some see it as a very harsh cruel world and they're forever struggling to make ends meet or keep a relationship together it seems they're forever running on a treadmill going nowhere

never taking the time to enjoy what they have or to see the beauty of the world that they're a part of have you ever asked yourself what differentiates the winners from the masses well I have I've researched the subject now for over a quarter of a century and I have found that the winners are aware of a certain place within it's referred to as the higher self and in this higher self there's an image of perfe ction which is forever attempting to express itself in a greater way when the winner wants to turn their dreams

into physical realities they call on this higher self and they set about and changed the world not just for themselves but for everyone in it think of what Edison did he illuminated the entire world Alexander Graham Bell hooked us all together why we just hit a couple of buttons and be talking to a loved one on the other side of the globe and the right Brothers they actually brought us closer together they introduced us to a brand new kingdom and changed our perception of the world forever why do you know we're not long ways away

from anywhere anymore we're only hours away I could be working with Francis McDonald conducting a seminar in Halifax Nova Scotia one day and be way over in Australia with David Walsh doing the same thing the next and then if I chose I could just jump on a plane and fly off to qualum par in Malaysia and be working with jets Peter there the following day we wouldn't be able to do any of those things without the bells the Edison and the rights and of course there's been many other people just like them as a matter

of fact you and I are just like them now you may be saying oh no we're really not but we really are the only difference is our perception of ourself how we see oursel our awareness of this higher place this higher self within and perhaps in the results we're getting anyone that has ever done any Research into human potential will be be quick to tell you that you have infinite potential you've been blessed with exactly the same mental faculties as the bells or the rights and the same power flows to and through you that flew

through them now do you know that you can take and build the most magnificent dream in your mind and by following the instructions in this program we're going to show you how to turn them into results so listen to the program the way you're instructed follow your exercises book you're going to develop what we've referred to as a Winner's [Music] image science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause of success or failure in life and it is the hidden self-image that every person has do you know it controls our life just as certain as

our mind controls our heartbeat now to remake that hidden self-image for success and fulfillment to build a Winner's image is to remake our life if you're wondering what kind of a self-image you have it's not difficult to figure it out all it's required is for you to take a look at the various aspects of your life take a look at the results you're getting possibly your relationships your income the position you hold at work the type of business that you're operating with take a look at your own personal appearance these are all the reason results

they're the outer expression of the inner image now as we alter this inner image everything outside begins to change one of the great errors that almost everyone makes is they attempting to change their income they're attempting to change their position they're attempting to change their business they're attempting to change something outside of themsel without changing what's going on inside it's like I think I think was Emerson said of what use to make heroic vows of amendment if the same old law breaker is going to keep them you know for me to try and change the

results in my life in other words what's going on outside of me without changing what's going on inside would be just about as foolish for me to try and change the reflection of this mirror without changing my physical appearance it's never going to happen well that's what people are doing they're trying to change something outside without changing what's going on inside in 1903 James Allen wrote a marvelous little book and in that book he said something that's rich with truth he said mind is the master power that molds and makes and man is mind and

ever more he takes the tool of thought and shaping what he Wills brings forth a thousand Joys or a thousand ills he thinks in secret and it comes to pass our environment is but our Looking Glass as you go through this program we're going to show you how to alter that inner image and build a Winner's image now to remake this hidden self-image we're going to have to understand a couple of things first of all we're working with our mind and we operate with images in our mind the problem is no one's ever seen the

mind and so when a person begins to think of their mind confusion sets in we're going to have to build a picture of the mind it's like the little kid in school he was doodling away drawing a picture and the teacher said what are you doing and the kid says I'm drawing a picture of God she says nobody's ever seen God he said well way life fines the picture we're going to have to do it the little kid did we're going to build a picture of the mind now what I want to suggest is that

you let this large Circle here represent the mind let the small circle represent the body now the line going out here Will represent our behavior and of course our Behavior causes our results now we're going to take that large Circle and we're going to run a line right across the center of it and that's going to divide the conscious mind from the subconscious mind now what we want to realize is that the conscious mind is the mind that thinks it's the mind that gathers information but I can assure you one thing it's not the part

of your mind that is controlling your behavior your subconscious mind controls your behavior and it's in your subconscious mind that your old self-image is lodged and that old self-image is controlling every act you make it's controlling all of your results now the self-image in your subconscious mind operates almost exactly if not exactly as an automatic pilot operates I want you to imagine that this plane is leaving New York and it's locked on course after it leaves a vicinity of New York the pilot sets the automatic pilot that plane is locked on course for Hawaii should

that plane get hit with some unexpected turbulence and maybe get knocked off course the automatic pilot picks up the deviation from the set goal which is Hawaii it feeds it through a coordinating mechanism the thrust of the engines are altered the flaps are altered and that plane is brought right back on course again it will ultimately get to Hawaii now the self-image in a person's subconscious mind operates exactly the same way let's suppose a salesperson self-image has them locked on for writing a million dollars a year in production that person may have a big week

they get flying off course they might write $300,000 worth of business in a week their self-image will pick up the deviation from the set objective which is a million a year they're way off course it feeds that information the deviation from the set goal into the coordinating mechanism which is the person's nervous system their behavioral patterns will change until they're back on course ultimately at the end of the year they've written a million dollars even although they had a week at three or 400,000 it's the same with a student in school let's suppose a student

self-image dictates that they're getting a d average in school now the parents the teachers may turn the heat up really pour the coals on and the child when have a test and he may come out with a B+ on that test but that is not consistent with the child's self-image the self-image picks up the B+ deviation from the set objective it feeds it into a coordinating mechanism the child's behavioral patterns will change until they're back on course and ultimately they're right back to a d average if they want that child to get a B if

the salesperson wants to increase the business they're going to have to alter the self-image now the first step in altering that image is to fantasize just take the lid off your marvelous mind and dream a German engineer by the name of Carl Benz had a fantasy and he literally turned his fantasy into a fat and in January 1886 Carl Benz was issued a patent for the Ben's motor carriage and the age of the automobile had done this is a replica of that magnificent machine and you know before Ben ever turned his fantasy into a theory

even long certainly long before he turned it into a fact he had asked himself a couple of questions that you and I and every other dreamer will have to go through he had asked himself am I able to do this well he seemed to have that innate awareness of this higher self this image of perfection within him and he saw himself as a person that was actually able to take and turn the fantasy into a fact now he must have been a pretty courageous guy because there were no Horseless carriages in those days but then

he had asked himself am I willing and you see he had ask himself am I willing to accept the ridicule that I'm bound to get am I willing to accept the failures well he said yes I am willing he was willing to pay the ultimate price to turn his fantasy into a fact and ridicule he got his own partner thought he had gone mad and he had to find himself a more congenial colleague to work with he would take this thing out in the evening he take it out at night so no one would see

him he escaped some of the ridicule and time after time he couldn't get it going he had to push it back but it never dawned on him that he would not ultimately realize his dream when This Magnificent machine completed its first long journey with bends at the wheel Every Beat of the engine found an answering echo in the heart of the driver as every turn of the wheels brought him closer to his goal to the realization of what once was a fantasy now in order for you to turn your fantasies into a fact you have

to go through exactly the same process as Carl Ben's and if you do go through the same process you'll meet with exactly the same success regardless of the opposition you might come up against you have to ask am I able ble to turn this fantasy of mine into a fact can I actually realize it can I turn my dreams into reality now you're either going to say yes I'm able to or no I'm not if you realize you are able if you have an understanding of this potential this power within you then you have to

ask yourself are you willing and there's a long series of tests there you don't even know what you're going to come up against one thing is for certain you'll come up against ridicule you may have to move you may have to do all kinds of of things that you don't even think about you have to be willing to do whatever is required if you really want to turn your fantasy into a fact the second you say yes I'm willing at that instant you've created your theory now if you happen to run into a stumbling block

on the able part I'm going to help you over that just one before you can turn your fantasy into a fact you first have to turn it into a theory and before you can do that there's a couple of tests that you're going to have to pass you have to first ask yourself am I able to do this am I actually able to turn my fantasy into a fact now generally when a person doesn't know how to do something they say they can't do it the truth is they can you and I are capable of

doing anything we are God's greatest creation we're Spiritual Beings and as Spiritual Beings we're able to do anything at all all things are possible our objective is to figure out how not whether we're able to or not now it would appear as if the only way I could get to the other side of this ladder is to climb over the ladder but the truth isn't always in the appearance of things you see I could just walk through this ladder now where I might have used an illusion to get this point across you might want to

think of this for a second all obstacles are Illusions but the obstacles cause us to have doubts in our mind are we really capable of doing this you know if you would form the attitude that every obstacle is an illusion just like this ladder I didn't have to climb over it I could just walk right through it well you may not be able to walk through some of the obstacles but I can guarantee you this you're able to figure out how to get around them how to get over them or how to get to where

you want to go you're able to do anything so get the idea about whether you're able or not right out of your mind you're quite capable of doing anything that you want to do you can turn your fantasies into facts just the same as Edison or Carl Benz did the question now you want to ask yourself am I willing to am I willing to do whatever is required to realize my dream you can answer yes to that question like that you built the theory in your mind and you're well on your way now let's review

what we've done we've built our fantasy we've admitted we're able to do it we said yes I'm willing and what we've got is a theory we've got a dream we have a Winner's image in our conscious mind now our objective is to firmly plant it and let it take root in our subconscious mind so that it will change our behavior and change our result to properly deposit your winning image in the treasury of your subconscious mind it's vitally important that you remember the first law of learning it's repetition use this program every day over and

over and over again for 90 days now this might not make a whole lot of sense to you but I want to suggest that you take a half an hour possibly first thing in the morning or maybe just before you go to bed at night and put this videotape on and watch it every day for 90 days you'll find that all the important points start to get burned right into your mind and it'll also start to change your life you're going to develop a heightened awareness of all the key points of this program take the

audio cassettes from this program clear your car of all other cassettes and just put these three tapes in and all the time you're in the car play these audio cassettes now you're going to find that you'll be able to talk right along with me you're going to know the next word that's coming and you're going to find that these ideas are going to become a part of your way of living a part of your way of life begin to visualize yourself with some of the nice things you'd like to have possibly the home that you'd

like to live in it may be the business you want to build or the position you'd like to hold possibly the income you'd love to earn you may want to visualize the vacation that you'd like to take what is important is that you do visualize it's not only important that you watch the video cassettes every day and become very familiar with them or we're listen to the audio cassettes on a regular basis it's Vally important that you set aside 10 15 maybe 20 minutes at least three times a day to completely clear your mind block

out any distractions let yourself totally relax and begin to see yourself actually living the life that you've imagined yourself living see yourself the winner that you want to be and let all these beautiful pictures sink deep into every cell of your being in other words add a lot of emotion to it when you watch the top movie stars like George C Scott or Katherine heurn or possibly Peter o the Oscar winners they're not acting they're literally living the part and as you visualize yourself living the life that you want let yourself feel yourself living it

in other words burn these ideas deep in your mind and then start making a written description of them now after you've made the written description just freeze it stand back and take take a real good look at the written description of your vision and then compare it to how you're actually living then you'll see the changes that have to be made and begin making those changes one at a time there are hundreds of changes you could make but a good place to start would be with your own personal appearance something as simple as how you

dress and how you walk and how you project yourself sends a strong message to everyone in your external world but it also sends a a very powerful message to your subconscious mind do you know Carrie Grant which wasn't even his name he even changed his name to Carrie Grant he projected himself different he walked different he dressed different he talked different he one time said I acted like Carrie grant for so long I became him that's what we're suggesting you do present yourself physically in a manner that's consistent with this new winning image that you're

developing then we want to go inside take a real close look at oursel with our Inner Eye of understanding how do we perceive oursel are we beginning to see oursel from within as the winner that we really want to be when you look at this picture do you see a beautiful young lady or an ugly old lady in fact they're both there it just takes a shift in focus to see one or the other how do you see yourself in the transition period when you're in the process of of implanting your Winner's image in your

subconscious there will in fact be two people for you to perceive the old you and the new you the winner so every time you see yourself as a failure or lacking in some way remember this picture and shift your focus until you see the beautiful new you now take a look at this picture if you concentrate on the black areas you will see two heads facing each other you could even see conflict in the way the faces are confronting each other but if you concentrate on the white area you will see a vase or vessel

you could even imagine that vessel overflowing with peace and Harmony how do you perceive your world do you see it as harsh and difficult where you have to fight every step of the way or do you view it in the way a winner does aware of abundance and plenty for all a winner is never in conflict with his world he sees Harmony in all situations and lets it work in his favor all it takes is a shift in Focus now let's review the overall process we built the fantasy we admitted we're able we said we're

willing we built the theory we committed to use the program both the video and the audio cassettes we've completed the exercises in the workbook we're working towards making the changes we're beginning to visualize on a regular bases and emotionalize those Visions three times a day now do you know every time we do that we're impressing that Winner's image upon the subconscious mind and every time we impress that winning image upon the subconscious mind the old image Fades the one becomes stronger and the old one becomes weaker ultimately that Winner's image becomes our new self-image and

the reflection of it is obvious for the whole world to see and for you and I to enjoy that's when you'll look at yourself and you'll see you're actually living living your fantasy and you'll know and realize that you've created a better world for yourself and everyone else to enjoy and you'll also realize that what you're looking at is a reflection of your own winning image now this video has given you an excellent overview of what can and must be done for you to develop the Winner's image I want to recommend that you follow the

instructions in your exercise book listen to your cassettes every day do exact ly what we've suggested and you're going to turn your world into one of absolute Beauty remember what Emerson said what lies before you and what lies behind you are actually tiny matters compared to what lies within you an image of perfection keep developing that Winner's image