Human Internal Guidance System

All living creatures possess a built-in goal-striving mechanism that propels them towards goals of nourishment, defense and reproduction. Our success instincts help us achieve, other than mere survival, also emotional and spiritual satisfaction. It also operates as a creative mechanism propelling us toward fulfillment of the many goals that make us human.

Since childhood our guidance system, has been invaded and adulterated with inaccurate and bad data that causes it to function in a way that sabotage our success. Like any guidance system, its programming can be changed. We all begin living a self image that is built by the opinions of others about ourselves. That constitutes our servomechanism's basic program. Since we totally believe that is our true self, we act in accordance to the self image we carry around. When our self image is built on the opinion of others about ourselves, most often, it is never true and what we carry is a false projection of our true self .

However, a negative self image can be erased and replaced with a brand new one of your choice. You can build a new and positive self image. But this can only come about if you realize that you have been carrying around a self image that is not consistent with your true self and is dragging you down the lane to failure and has been keeping you pinned down to the floor of mediocrity ever since.

You acquire your self image through unconscious habit. Changing a habit is not easy but doing it is simple. All it takes is whenever those habits surface, erase them and immediately replace them with new habits. Repeating this process of canceling and replacing is the secret of changing bad habits with good ones. In order to be successful in inculcating new habits the processes demands constant and repeated practice. There is a suggestion that if you keep on repeating an action consciously for more than 21 times, that action becomes a habit. It works the other way round too. If you keep canceling a bad habit every time it surfaces, you can erase it altogether because the act of canceling bad habits itself will becomes a habit. If you consciously practice doing it that way, soon it would become an unconscious habit fully.

Let us look at the scenario on a soccer field. Most soccer players are proficient and comfortable in using their right foot to dribble and kick the ball around. When it comes to using their left foot, they feel uncomfortable and would not be able to kick the ball with force and accuracy. We hear TV commentators sometimes say, 'oh, he is kicking with his weak left foot'. Very few can use both feet with accuracy and power, and very few still, attempt to do so. Why are they proficient with the right foot? Simple. They have been using it unconsciously and repeatedly that it becomes a habit. In order to be equally proficient with the left foot, all that they should do is to practice continuously using the left foot until that too becomes a habit. It may be awkward initially but through repeated practice it will become second nature.

Your internal guidance system, like any other servomechanism, works by making mistakes and responding to them. Any path to success is defined by mistakes and corrections. There is nothing wrong in making mistakes but what will be wrong is not to correct those mistakes.

Your internal guidance system most probably has been wrongly programmed by a poor self image that has been built on the life's script written by others. Write your own script and build a new self image. Your new self image will reprogram your guidance system to function consistent with it.