When I was about to enter my junior year in high school (around 1965, I read Dr. Maxwell Malt’z book, then in paperback, called “Psycho Cybernetics.” Maltz was a plastic surgeon.

I learned about the book from an article I read in on the sports page by a professional baseball player that resurrected his career by following these techniques. When I bought the book, I also learned about other athletes whose careers were changed for the better.

I devoured the the book and have practiced the techniques since that time. With that training, I don’t believe I ever would have been as successful as I have been in life. I remember distinctly Dr. Maltz saying how fascinated he was by patients who were disfigured in some way, but the corrective surgery, although it changed their physical appearance, did not change their mental image of themselves. They still acted as if they were disfigured.

So, he devised this technique to change their image of themselves—and this important—to reflect the reality of their now changed physical appearance.

This is great stuff and I will look forward to your coming pieces on the subject. All of the modern spin-offs from this technique are mostly inferior renditions of Dr. Maltz’s approach—the key to which was you were training your mind to reflect the reality of your physical and mental capacity, not something false.