| PSI (pronounced "sigh"), means Positive Self | | | | These forces we will call "strokes". (A term |
| Image. We should all have a Positive Self Image if | | | | borrowed from Dr Eric Berne M.D.) |
| we are to be happy, successful, loving and | | | | The present level of your PSI-belief is a direct |
| complete human beings. Unfortunately, few of us | | | | result of these conflicting strokes throughout your |
| have a very strong PSI, and a lot of us have a | | | | past life. |
| pronounced Negative Self Image (NSI). | | | | - If you have a high PSI, then you received more |
| Lack of PSI-belief will prevent you from achieving | | | | (or better quality) positive strokes than negative. |
| the things you want in life. How much it will | | | | - If you have a low PSI, then you received more |
| prevent you, depends entirely upon the depth of | | | | (or stronger) negative strokes than positive. |
| your Negative Self Image. | | | | These strokes have far more effect upon your |
| - There is a very simple relationship between | | | | PSI when you are younger than when you are |
| your PSI and your achievement potential:- the | | | | older. (By 'older' I mean over about twelve.) |
| stronger your PSI, the more you will achieve. | | | | Remember also that strokes are stored away |
| - The converse is also true:- The stronger your | | | | subconsciously, so you don't have much access to |
| NSI, the less you will achieve. | | | | them via your conscious mind. |
| Remember that this is independent of your | | | | Positive and negative strokes started to |
| abilities, and independent of 'luck', although these | | | | accumulate when you were born (some would |
| two are frequently blamed for the failure which | | | | argue before). As a baby you immediately started |
| always accompanies a Negative Self Image. | | | | to store away feelings about your own self-worth |
| PSI cannot be improved by rational argument, this | | | | (PSI belief), depending upon how your parents |
| is because the subconscious mind does not | | | | handled you and spoke to you. If they spoke |
| understand argument, and PSI is buried deep in | | | | softly and were kind, loving and gentle, then your |
| the subconscious. | | | | PSI started to increase. On the other hand, if |
| Therefore I will not devote this article to telling | | | | they were rough and unkind, your PSI started to |
| you what a really wonderful human being you are | | | | decrease. |
| and how you deserve all the things you really | | | | In the real world, most babies are neither loved |
| want in life. Although this is true, it will not have | | | | absolutely, or continually brutalized, so you |
| much of an effect on your Negative Self Image. | | | | probably received a mixture of positive and |
| Instead I want to explain a little bit about how | | | | negative strokes. Hopefully you received far more |
| people get Negative Self Images in the first place; | | | | positive than negative, but if it was the other |
| then I'll tell you how to dramatically improve your | | | | way round, then you were off to a bad start |
| PSI to the point where you can unlock the | | | | with a pronounced NSI. |
| doorway to success. | | | | The process did not stop there. As you grew up |
| Where Does NSI Come From? | | | | into a toddler and learnt to speak, you started to |
| All people are dealt a full hand of PSI at birth. | | | | be bombarded with messages intended to alter |
| Deep in the womb, the baby feels warm, relaxed | | | | your PSI. Wait a minute! Surely the PSI is not |
| and safe. It has no inkling of the potential dangers | | | | affected by messages like these? |
| which lie outside. If it could enter into a discussion | | | | That's right! It is not really affected by the |
| with you, it would probably say that it felt valued | | | | content of the message, but it is affected by the |
| and wanted; in other words, it would have a high | | | | emotional tone of the message. Put simply, the |
| PSI-level. (Arguments about pre-birth traumas | | | | words are not important, it is the way they are |
| aside for the moment.) | | | | said which affects your PSI. |
| Afterbirth, the baby enters the 'stage of life' upon | | | | For example, you could say really softly, gently |
| which will be enacted an important drama. All good | | | | and lovingly to a one-year-old; "I wish you would |
| drama has conflict as an underlying theme; and in | | | | go and boil your head, I can't stand the sight of |
| this case the conflict is between the forces which | | | | you!" The chances are that the child would smile |
| increase the child's PSI level, and those which | | | | sweetly back at you. |
| decrease it. | | | | Alternatively, you could yell loudly and angrily at |
| You entered onto this stage the moment you | | | | the same child: "I think a banana is a yellow |
| were born, and since that moment, you have | | | | skinned fruit!" and no doubt it would burst into |
| been subjected to some forces which made you | | | | tears and become very upset. |
| feel good (increased your PSI), and some forces | | | | The content was unimportant, it was the |
| which made you feel bad (decreased your PSI or | | | | emotional tone which had the effect. |
| increased your NSI). | | | | |