I first found the Stuart Lichtman cybernetic transposition technique after joining a group of affiliate marketing mentors. Stuart’s book was called How To Get Lots Of Money For Anything Fast! As a cynical Northerner (based in the UK) this seemed a little cheesy but it was a course requirement so I bought it.
I soon realised that this was the real deal! Stuart Lichtman had spent over 25 years developing a strategy to help people achieve the seemingly impossible. He had studied at MIT in engineering, psychology, and artificial intelligence, masters work in applied psychology, and doctoral work in organisation development and cross cultural business.
After developing what Stuart Lichtman called his cybernetic transposition technique, he tested in on a group of 50,000 people. 81% achieved a seeming impossible goal on their first attempt. A bold claim?
Stuart Lichtman Cybernetic Transposition
So how does the Stuart Lichtman cybernetic transposition technique work then? Through his book you will encounter a number of exercises which Stuart calls the three step process. Firstly, you will focus in on what you really, really want to achieve. One of the main problems with goal setting is that you seldom know exactly what you really want. As time moves on, other goals take a more important role. Or competing parts of your mind get in the way of your achieving it; or unconscious habits.
Or perhaps you didn’t really want your goal badly enough to overcome all the things you’ll have to do to achieve it? This is often why people fail with goal setting. Either they don’t want something badly enough, or they don’t believe they can achieve something. Therefore they set a goal which is more easily achievable, but less desirable. So they don’t follow through because the goal isn’t that important to them anyway.
Stuart Lichtman’s three step process allows you to investigate what you really want and it does this by getting you to repeat your goal over and over. As you sound out and write out your goal, you’ll “tweak” it so that it’s more aligned with your inner values. It also needs to be a goal which is a 10/10 on desirability and a 10/10 on believability. If you don’t believe you can achieve something, you won’t fully commit to the process. Similarly, if you don’t really want it, you won’t follow through either.
Stuart Lichtman Cybernetic Transposition
Cybernetic – the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.
Transposition – transferring one thing to another
The Stuart Lichtman Cybernetic Transposition technique refers to transferring an old memory or achievement to one which is the desirable outcome. Old memories are hard wired into the brain and the unconscious mind. As you think of an old memory or something you have achieved, you can remind yourself of the sounds, sights, smells, emotions and feelings which accompanied all of those memories.
These are useful because they are the communications of the unconscious mind. Think about a dream you had. Dreams are usually in pictures, feelings, sounds and emotions. They aren’t in words! So using words as a means to communicate something important to the subconscious mind won’t be very powerful. You need to use feelings, smells, emotions and sounds to communicate an idea to the subconscious mind and for it to focus on that idea.
The Problem With Old Memories
Old memories aren’t always things you want to remember! So with the cybernetic transposition technique, Stuart Lichtman gets you to re-write your old memories so that they are more desirable.
Memories aren’t always 100% perfect and we often remember things how we want to rather than how they actually were. If you ask a number of people to describe a particular time or event, you’ll likely get a number of different and even conflicting responses.
So with the transposition technique you get to rewrite your history in a way which is much more desirable. Then, you use these already implanted images, emotions and sounds etc. into your new meta story.
What’s A Meta-Story
Your meta story then becomes your future goal or desirable outcome. By rewriting and rewriting over and over, you’ll get clearer on an outcome which is a 10/10 in desirability and a 10/10 in believability also. You’ll then use your old memory to implant the emotions which went along with your past achievement or event.
This, when repeated over and over, will tell your subconscious mind what to focus on. As your subconscious mind focuses on the outcome you want to achieve, it will come up with ways to do so which you may never have thought of.
For most people, me included, we are hardwired with negative repetitions from our childhoods. We tell ourselves old stories over and over which limit our lives. “I’m not good enough”, “Life’s a struggle”, “Money doesn’t grow on trees” and so on.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could interrupt these old, negative stories of limitations and replace them instead with stories which hardwired us for abundance. Well we can! Stuart Lichtman’s Cybernetic Transposition does exactly that. You just need to do the work.
Creating A “Red Flag” For The Unconscious Mind
Have you noticed that when you buy a particular brand of car, you start seeing them everywhere. But before, you never even noticed them. This is an example of your mind focusing in on a particular thing. The same can be done with your unconscious mind through repetition of a meta story.
A meta story, as mentioned, is a rewritten scenario from your past, which is edited to be more aligned with the outcome you want – your goal. By re-rehearsing your meta story again and again, you are effectively creating a very specific target for your mind to focus on. So even when you’re not thinking about it (consciously), your subconscious mind is.
Most people will write their goals out and few times and then forget about them. This doesn’t work because your unconscious behaviours override your desire for your perfect outcome (the goal). With a meta story, you clearly communicate the desired outcome to the subconscious mind in pictures, smells, feelings and emotions.
When you do this enough, and continue to do it, the goal becomes your overriding target which sits in the background slowly but surely attracting you to it. It’s far more powerful than what most of us do with our goals: planning, struggling, working and doing things only on the outside of the equation. While you also need to do these things to achieve a particularly difficult goal or achievement, using the meta story and doing the invisible work in your mind is paramount to a successful outcome that you really want.