The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
It was as if personality itself had a 'face'. This non-physical face of personality seemed to be the real key to personality change. It remained scarred, distorted, 'ugly' or inferior the person himself acted out this role in his behaviour regardless of the changes in physical appearance. If this 'face of personality' could be reconstructed, if old emotional scars could be removed, then the person himself changed, even without facial plastic surgery.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.
Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.
One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.