The Self-Image, the Real Secret

Strangely enough, I learned as much if not more from my failures as from my successes -

"Self Image" is your key to a better life. For a true definition, it is our own conception of the

'sort of person, I am which is built from our own belief system.

Got to know it is the most important psychologic discovery of this century from one of Maxwell Maltz's best books, Psycho-Cybernetics.

' Self-Image ' is the common denominator - the determining factor in all our case histories, the failures as well as the successes

When I was living with my own imaginary fears and difficulties in life, my mentor handed it to me and the study has been most rewarding. I understood the secret is this, To really "live" that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have two things,

1. Adequate and realistic Self-image

2. Creative Mechanism to bring success and happiness in achieving particular goals

After talking to different sets of people, noticing their behaviors, and having my own life experiences. I would say, you must find yourself acceptable to 'you'. You must have a self that you can trust and believe in. You must have a self that you are not ashamed to 'be', and one that you can feel free to express creatively, rather than to hide or cover-up. You must have a self that corresponds to reality so that you can function effectively in the real world.

After all, Positive thinking cannot be used effectively as a patch to the same self-image. Because it's folly to put a patch of new material upon an old garment.