A Scientific Basis For The Value Of Remembering Past Successes

One of the Psycho-Cybernetics techniques that has helped me to
change my life is the technique of remembering past successes.

This technique helps you to create that "winning feeling" Dr.
Maltz talks about and, if done before visualizing yourself taking
successful actions, dramatically increases your effectiveness.

Well, science has recently validated this 40-year-old technique.

In the January 2007 issue of the The Proceedings Of The National
Academy Of Sciences Karl Szpunar, a lead researching on memory
wrote, "Our findings provide compelling support for the idea that
memory and future thought are highly interrelated and help
explain why future thought may be impossible without memories."

Szpunar's team used functional MRI to show how (1.) remembering
the past and (2.) envisioning the future are related, as each one
triggers a similar pattern of brain activity in one area of the
brain while creating a different pattern of brain activity in
another.

This may be because when people in the study thought about the
future they tended to use information from the past. For example
to imagine themselves at a party in the future they saw
themselves in places they've been before. (This may help explain
why amnesiacs have difficulty imagining a personal future.)

So imagine how difficult it might be to imagine future success if
you don't access previous memories of success.

This is why the technique of remembering past successes has such
value.

It makes seeing a successful future easier and over time
automatic.