feedback isn't progressing one toward a goal, the correct response is no response. In cybernetic mechanisms, once success is found, it is focused on and errors are forgotten. Maltz encourages readers to recall past failures and unhappy moments. He saw self-image change as self-image realization, "Oh, this is who I am". This is where dramatic behavior change happens. Hypnosis is the relaxed acceptance of ideas (beliefs). Accepted ideas determine what we're willing to see and therefore what goals we pass into the mechanism. Each (agonist) muscle has an opposite, antagonist muscle. When a hypnotist instructed a weight lifter that he couldn't pick up a pencil, he noted that the antagonistic muscles opposed his conscious effort, and he couldn't pick it up. Imagination: The first Key to Your Success Mechanism. Reception The book rapidly attained bestseller status and has remained in print continuously since 1960. Posthumous editions Several adaptations have been produced since Maltz's death in 1975. References Personal development Systems theory books Self-help books