Psychocybernetics, A New Way To GET MORE LIVING OUT OF LIFE!
By: Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
Physical relaxation, when practiced daily, brings about an accompanying “mental relaxation”and a “relaxed attitude” which enables us to better consciously control our automatic mechanism. Physical relaxation also, in itself, has a powerful influence in “dehypnotizing” us from the negative attitudes and reaction patterns.
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healither when we are happy. Even our physical sence organs work better. Russian psychologist K. Kekcheyev tested people when they were thinking pleasant and unpleasant thoughts. He found that when thinking pleasant thoughts they could see better, taste, smell and hear better, and detect finer differences in touch. Dr. William Bates proved that elyesight improves when the individual is thinking pleasant thoughts, or visualizing pleasant scenes. Magaret Corbett has found that memory is greatly improved, and that the mind is relaxed, when the subject is thinking pleasant thoughts. Phychosomatic medicine has proved that our stomachs, liver, heart and all our internal organs function better when we are happy. Thousands of years ago wise old King Solomon said in his Proverbs: “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.”