Psycho-cybernetics: Chapter 6, Relax and Let Your Success Mechanism Work for You

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Chapter 6 of Psycho-Cybernetics is centrally significant because it instructs the individual on how to overcome self-imposed anxiety and tension that prevents the automatic Success Mechanism (SM) from performing optimally. This chapter addresses the crucial transition from consciously setting a goal to passively allowing the subconscious guidance system to execute it spontaneously.

Significance

The key significance is defining the proper boundary between the conscious and unconscious mind. The unconscious Creative Mechanism (CM) is incredibly powerful, but it can be easily "jammed" or inhibited by excessive conscious effort, worry, and anxiety.

Role of the Conscious Mind: The conscious mind (forebrain) is responsible for choosing the goal, gathering information, making resolutions, and identifying problems.
Role of the Success Mechanism: The SM operates automatically and spontaneously; it performs the "creative doing" and supplies the "means whereby" to achieve the goals set by the conscious mind.
Trust and Relaxation: The individual must learn to "let it" work, rather than "make it" work by trusting the unconscious process. Success and creative breakthroughs often come automatically when the strained conscious mind "lets go of the problem".

Key Points: Five Rules for Freeing Your Creative Machinery

Dr. Maltz outlined five practical rules to ensure you operate the SM efficiently without jamming it with tension or misplaced effort:

1. Do Your Worrying Before You Place Your Bet

The time for "worrying" (i. e. , prudence and thorough consideration) is restricted entirely to the planning stage or when making available resolutions. Once a decision is made and execution begins, you must relax, "dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome".

2. Form the Habit of Consciously Responding to the Present Moment

The Creative Mechanism can only function in the "now". One must consciously practice concentrating entirely on the task at hand and fully experiencing the present environment to give the SM accurate, current data. By consciously focusing on today and letting go of tomorrow, you stop trying to live in a fictional future or past, relieving worry and anxiety.

3. Try to Do Only One Thing at a Time

Trying to handle multiple tasks simultaneously leads to mental confusion, feeling hurried, and anxiety, as the CM can only handle one job at a time. Realizing the truth that crowded hours still come one moment at a time relieves worry and stress.

4. Sleep On It
If you are stuck on a problem, you should dismiss it from your mind and go to sleep, allowing the Creative Mechanism to work independently of conscious interference. Dreams and subconscious work frequently result in ideas and solutions being presented upon waking.

5. Relax While You Work
Physical and mental relaxation must be continuously practiced and integrated into daily activity to reduce fatigue, tension, and anxiety, which interfere with the efficiency of the CM. You can achieve this by pausing momentarily to recall the sensations of deep relaxation you have practiced previously.


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