Automatic Negative Thoughts are like Guided Missiles
Your
internal dialogue
consists of automatic negative thoughts. It is said that thoughts create reality and thoughts become things. But what are thoughts?
One analogy that is fairly accurate is to see your thoughts as very sophisticated guided missiles. Their sophistication is at the level where once they are locked on a target, the computer programming will make all the necessary adjustments to destroy the target. For a deeper understanding as you begin to learn how to meditate it is worth reading Psycho Cybernetics.
Psycho Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Dr. Maxwell Maltz was a plastic surgeon. He discovered that sometimes when he performed plastic surgery on some people, the entire life of that person would change. He started investigating how the mind works. He then created the term psycho cybernetics. It has to do with the psyche and the science of automation, robotics and cybernetics, the science of guided missiles. The way these cybernetic robots work is by trial and error, by learning from their mistakes and zeroing in on a goal.
Guided missiles are usually in silos or on ramps, but mostly they are hidden, pointing straight up at the sky. Once a guided missile is fired, it goes straight up with its radar locked onto the enemy aircraft. The radar tells the on-board computer to make all the necessary adjustments… too far to the right, too high, too far to the left and too low… the onboard computer keeps making adjustments. Now you are too high etc... It learns slowly from its mistakes. It zeros the guided missile automatically in on that target.
Thought Stopping vs. Positive Thoughts
Is it possible to stop your automatic negative thoughts? If you want the guided missile to stop, to abort and not blow up its target, spiritual wellness programs and inspirational thoughts will not rescue you.
Positive thoughts, self motivation or controlling your thoughts cannot help you because the onboard computer is 110% positive of its role. The onboard computer does not give a damn. Once the missile has been fired, the on-board computer’s purpose is to destroy. You need a special abort program.
Automatic Negative Thoughts The Self Sabotage Game
If you have set a goal, for example that you are
hopeless
at mathematics, no matter what you do, this mechanism will make sure that you can never succeed at mathematics.
If you have set a goal that you are hopeless at relationships - you know people like that, perhaps you are one of them - you form a relationship. You think this time it must be the time, for the first time, and it starts out with fantastic romance and passion. And then, oh my God, it flutters, it collapses and it dies. So you try another one. And again it starts so wonderfully. After a while it goes down the drain again, and again, and again, and again, and……….
Other people do this in business. You start a business and it is positive and exciting, you can’t go wrong this time. But then, oh my God, it fails right on schedule, leading to severe occupational stress again and again and again…
Abort Automatic Negative Thoughts
It is inevitable with this automatic negative thought mechanism: Once you have set the goal it goes blindly on to its purpose. Once one of these guided missiles are launched that you are hopeless at business, that you cannot form a successful relationship, this guided missile will make sure that it will zero in on that target. It will make it happen.
Your thoughts create your life. Perhaps it is time to become a meta-creator and install some effective new meta-programming. It starts with debugging the hardware and the software.
You need a special abort program…
