Feelings of frustration, discontent, dissatisfaction are ways of solving problems that we all "learned" as infants. If an infant is hungry he expresses discontent by crying. A warm, tender hand then appears magically out of nowhere and brings milk. Many children continue to get their way, and have their problems solved by over-indulgent parents, by merely expressing their feelings of frustration. All they have to do is feel frustrated and dissatisfied and the problem is solved. This way "works" for the infant and for some children. It does not work in adult life. Yet many of us continue to try it, by feeling discontented and expressing our grievances against life, apparently in the hope that life itself will take pity—rush in and solve our problem for us—if only we feel badly enough. Thoughts and feelings go together. Feelings are the soil that thoughts and ideas grow in. This is the reason that you have been advised to imagine how you would feel if you succeeded—and then feel that way right now!
(Excerpted from Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz)
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