The Hidden Programme That Is Quietly Controlling Your Lifeβ¨
Hello family π Happy Thursday. Hope the week has been treating you well. I wanted to bring a quick concept to your attention to hopefully inspire and add some fuel to your fire when it comes to this personal development and spiritual journey. I want to touch on the concept of self-image. It may sound simple and familiar depending on where you are at on your journey. But there is something really profound being communicated here if you take the time to dig deep. I want to bring it to life by sharing a short story. A plastic surgeon in the 1950s named Maxwell Maltz noticed something that completely changed how he understood the human mind. He would perform surgery on patients. Fix their faces. Make them objectively more attractive. And two completely different things would happen. Some patients would walk out transformed. Full of confidence. A totally new lease on life. Others would walk out and still feel ugly. Still feel unworthy. Some even accused him of not changing anything at all. Same surgery. Completely different results. The difference was not the face. It was the self-image. So what is self-image exactly. It is the subconscious story you carry about who you are, what you are capable of, what you deserve and what is possible for you. It is built over years. Quietly. Without you even realising it. From your parents. Your environment. Your experiences. The things people said to you. The things that happened to you. And here is what makes it so powerful and so tricky at the same time. 95% of your actions and behaviours are driven by your subconscious. Not by your willpower. Not by your conscious intentions. Your subconscious. Which means that no matter how hard you try on the surface if the self-image underneath does not change then nothing really changes. That is why the diet works for a while then stops. That is why you get motivated then fall back. That is why the same patterns keep showing up in your relationships. That is why you keep hitting the same ceiling in your career or finances.