Part 1 of the Michael Anthony's E Book How To Be Happy And Have Fun Changing The World.

When I was growing up, my parents didn?t give me an Owner?s
Manual for Human Beings.

How about you? Were you given an owner's manual explaining how you were designed to function? Did it come with instructions how to operate correctly and happily?

My mentor's explanation of the chemical brain and how the brain
processed information, along with his total commitment to the truth, no matter what the consequences, was an owner?s manual that made sense to me. Edgar Phillips gave me direction and started me on the road to happiness. Reading about the insights of other great teachers and thinkers, helped me to fine-tune this owner?s manual that I?m about to share with you.

Human beings were designed by the Creator to all function the same way. A good analogy is the hardware of a computer. We are all hard-wired the same. What makes us behave differently from each other is the way we think, feel and act, which is our software. What most individuals don?t realize is that the power of your brain or Computer?s hardware varies according to the chemistry of your brain. You can dramatically increase the power and efficiency of your brain or personal computer by optimizing the chemistry of its cranial fluid. Let's take it step by step.

Improve Your Brain?s Chemistry

It is critical to conceptually understand that your brain actually
secretes chemicals corresponding to your positive and negative thoughts. The resulting chemistry of your brain?s cranial fluid influences all of your natural abilities and functions. This, in turn, determines how well you perform in everything you do because your brain is like a powerful computer.




The power and efficiency of your wonderful personal computer can be increased dramatically by optimizing the chemistry of your brain?s cranial fluid. This fact is very easy to demonstrate in the world of sports with athletic performance because of the mind/body connection. I have proven this to be true many times in the arena of athletic competition. I am not going to explain the specific details of your electrochemical nervous system and list the numerous bio chemicals that affect your behavior
and performance.

This book takes a common sense approach to a very
profound conceptual explanation of what makes you tick as a human being. The details are not that important. The concepts are! For example, do you know the chemical composition of the gasoline
that powers your automobile or how the engine in your car works? You know that if you turn on the key and step on the gas pedal, your car runs. If not, you take it to a mechanic to have it fixed. You know that if you put water in the gas tank, your car will not run. It is not necessary for you to become a chemist or a mechanic to drive your car, as long as you understand the basic principles.

It may be nice to know the details, but unless you want to be a chemist or a mechanic is it worth the time to learn? The same is true of your electrochemical nervous system. It may be interesting to know the details. However, do you really have the time or desire to get a Ph.D. in neurobiochemistry, like Doctor Michael Raleigh at the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles, CA? Doctor Raleigh specializes in the neurotransmitter serotonin. While he experiments primarily with monkeys, he has done tests with athletes and fraternity members at UCLA. His research supports the findings that higher levels of serotonin in the blood correlate to higher performance levels and that changes in behavior cause serotonin levels to change. I had the opportunity to meet with him in 1984 while I was in Los Angeles for the Olympics. He agreed that my owner?s manual made sense and I was going in the right direction.

If you want an eye opening account of how positive emotions cause chemical changes that help heal the body, read esteemed endocrinologist Dr. Deepak Chopra's Quantum Healing (Bantam Books, 1989). Your mind and body function together. Athletes live and die by the performance of their bodies. From their own personal experiences, they easily relate to the concept that their negative thoughts cause their brain to secrete chemicals that immediately impair their performance. This awareness helps them to be more objective and positive when dealing with challenges. It helps them to control their emotions and increase their performance.

A good metaphor to help you understand the influence of your brain's
chemistry on your performance is a fine-tuned racing engine. Those engines, designed to run on super high-octane gasoline, sputter when using regular gasoline. This is similar to what happens when you are negative. You put low octane chemicals in your brain, causing your performance to suffer. When you are positive and operating on instinct, your brain, metaphorically, secretes super high-octane chemicals and your ability to perform excels as you enter the zone.

Your brain receives input through your five senses.

SENSE STIMULI

See

Hear

Feel

Taste

Smell

Whenever you .see., .hear., .feel., .taste., and .smell. something
(stimuli), it enters your nervous system as an electrical impulse through a neuron (nerve cell). Once the electrical message reaches the end of the neuron (called a synapse) the electrical impulse/message converts into a biochemical (called a neurotransmitter). Then, this chemical message is converted back into an electrical impulse/message when it reaches the next neuron. This process repeats itself over and over until the message reaches
the brain and is acted upon. In reality you have an electrochemical nervous system. As the
chemicals change, the messages change and your brain?s performance varies accordingly.

When you are positive and operating on instinct, your brain, metaphorically, runs on super high-octane chemicals. Your performance excels and you feel at your best.
It is important to realize that your electrochemical nervous system is
an alternating electrical current that generates an electromagnetic field, which is infinite in nature.

The strength and quality of your electromagnetic field is felt by those around you. As your awareness increases you will realize that you can?t hide your feelings from those you interact with and they can?t hide theirs from you. That?s why you have good chemistry with people you enjoy being with and bad chemistry with those that you don?t.
What is even more important to realize is that the electromagnetic field that your thoughts create cause attractor fields which affect your life and happiness. We will talk more about the importance and power of the electromagnetic fields your thoughts generate in this chapter and in Chapter 6: Cause and Effect -- Attractor Fields.

You can increase your natural abilities and happiness by consciously
adjusting the chemistry of your brain?s cranial fluid. This fluid is affected by your thoughts, diet/nutrition, exercise, rest, environment and physiology.

CRANIAL FLUID.S CHEMISTRY AFFECTED BY:

Thoughts

Diet

Exercise

Rest

Environment

Physiology




THOUGHTS: As previously discussed, your positive and negative thoughts cause your brain to secrete chemicals. These chemicals, in turn, affect all your natural abilities and functions. Your thoughts have two components: facts and emotions. Every stimulus you receive through your nervous system is nothing more than a fact. However, you attach emotions to these facts.
It is imperative for you to realize that negative emotions cause adverse chemical secretions and hinder your natural abilities. Increase your awareness of the profound influence negative emotions have on your brain?s chemistry, performance and happiness. Become more objective and restructure any negative emotional attachment you have to certain facts. Facts are merely facts. However, you can choose your emotional response to them. I?ll tell you how as this book progresses.

DIET/NUTRITION: Everything you eat and drink is a chemical, which affects your performance and how you feel. If you doubt this, observe how a person?s behavior changes when they drink some alcohol. Better yet, ask them how they feel the next day if they drank too much. Since there are many good books available on nutrition, I will just briefly touch on this subject. In the early cave dwelling days there were no factories and no processed foods. Humans are designed to live on natural foods with the proper amounts of protein, carbohydrates and fat. I advise you to eat wisely and in moderation. Also, do not become neurotic about what you eat. Your emotional state is far more important than what you eat, even though what you eat is important.

EXERCISE: When I work with a boxer, swimmer, runner or any athlete who has to push himself to higher levels of physical exertion, I can normally skip this section. His or her daily training routine already includes several hours of intense physical conditioning. However, outside the world of sports, most individuals are out of shape. How about you? In the early days of time, humans engaged in many forms of physical activity just to survive. Your body is designed to function properly with physical exertion so it can remove toxins and secrete beneficial chemicals. If you do not believe this, exercise the next time you are depressed. Notice how much better you feel after exercising. For your body and mind to function at their best, it is important to exercise to make up for the lack of physical activity resulting from today?s modern conveniences. Is 20 minutes of aerobic exercise three times a week too great a price to pay for a healthy body and an alert mental state? When I lived in Palm Springs, I swam a mile almost every day. One day while I was showering after a swim, another swimmer remarked to me
how much better he always felt after swimming. Then he added, It is not like golf, which makes me feel worse after playing a bad round.

REST: Sufficient rest is necessary for the body to eliminate toxins and rejuvenate itself. Have you ever noticed that you sleep more when depressed than when you are excited and happy to be alive? While you sleep, your brain is busy processing all the information it received during the day so that it can make spontaneous decisions when you?re awake. This will be covered in greater detail when I explain Changing Your Tape later in this chapter.

ENVIRONMENT: When I refer to environment, I?m not just talking about the air you breathe and your physical surroundings. I am more concerned with the people around you. The electromagnetic fields they generate, as well as their thoughts and actions, can adversely affect you. I strongly recommend associating only with positive people, or keep to yourself. The only time you should associate with negative people is when you are trying to help them. Your stronger electromagnetic field and positive thoughts and actions will have a positive effect on them. Researchers have found that emotions, positive and negative alike, are nearly as contagious as colds and flu. You can catch feelings of elation, euphoria, sadness and more from friends, family, colleagues, even strangers.
Mood "infection" happens in milliseconds, says Elaine Hatfield, a
psychology professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and a coauthor of Emotional Contagion (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
When interacting with a negative person, take extra steps to remain
positive. Otherwise, you may be influenced by his or her negativity.

PHYSIOLOGY: Your body reflects your emotional state. When you are positive and confident, you stand erect with your chest out and a smile on your face. If you just won ,000,000 in the lottery, imagine how you would feel and how your physiology would respond. You would feel on top of the world. Everyone watching you will see it by the way you carry yourself. Imagine how you would feel and look if you lost your winning lottery ticket. If this depressed you, your eyes would be down and your shoulders slumped. Some individuals would probably feel like killing themselves for losing their winning ticket.
Your physiology works both ways. Your body reflects your feelings.
However, how you carry your body affects your feelings. One of the
quickest and easiest ways to improve your chemistry is to change your physiology. By taking slow deep breaths, standing tall and sticking your chest out, you automatically increase your chemistry and immediately feel better. Raise your eyes to the sky and smile right now. Do you feel a change in your energy and alertness? If you always carry yourself like a winner, you will feel like a winner.
Your thoughts, diet/nutrition, exercise, rest, environment and physiology have a positive or negative impact on your brain?s chemistry which affects how well you perform and feel.



To become happier and more successful, part of the process is to consciously work on increasing the chemistry of your cranial fluid so your brain can perform more efficiently and at higher levels. Since your thoughts have the biggest impact on the brain?s chemistry, That's where I'm going to focus in this book. When you have positive thoughts, your brain secretes positive chemicals and increases the power of your brain. When you have negative thoughts, your brain secretes negative chemicals and decreases the power of your brain. This is a simple, but profound concept to realize. Your happiness depends on it.

In the world of sports, this is very easy to demonstrate because the
mind/body connection provides you with immediate feedback. When you are positive, your performance excels. When you are negative, your performance is adversely affected. My book The Mental Keys to ImproveYour Golf explains this in great detail in relation to golf.

This same understanding applies to your entire life. However, when it comes to your personal, social and business behavior, the feedback may not be as obvious or as immediate. It may take you days, weeks, months or even years, to see or feel the repercussions from your negative thoughts and actions. I?m sure that if you reflect on your life, you will know exactly what I?m talking about Since you know the story of your life better than I do, I?m going to let you provide your own personal experiences and stories of how positive and negative emotions affect your happiness.

Don?t confuse short term pleasures from external sources with happiness. True and lasting happiness always comes from within. External pleasures never last.

Your thoughts from outside stimuli have two components: facts and
emotions. While you may not be able to control the facts you encounter in your life, you can choose how to respond emotionally to these facts. If you choose positive emotions, you will be happy. If you choose negative emotions, you will become unhappy. Your happiness depends on what emotions you choose to experience and how you live your life. Your own life experiences will prove this to you if you are honest with yourself.

Let?s take a quick look at the major positive and negative emotions. Anytime you have any degree of love, generosity, praise and bravery or multiple combinations of these emotions, your brain secretes positive chemicals and enhances your natural abilities. Positive emotions make you happy. Anytime you have any degree of hate, greed, jealousy, and fear or multiple combinations of these emotions, you immediately lower your
Brain?s chemistry and your ability to reason and function at a high level. Your negative emotions are the cause of most of your bad decisions, actions and unhappiness you experience in your life. The rest is caused by ignorance or lack of self-awareness. Stop and let this sink in.

Changing Your Tape
Let?s take a look at why you think and act the way you do. Your brain
starts working at a very early age. Approximately six months after
conception, your brain starts recording all of your mother?s thoughts and actions while you are in her womb. Your brain continues recording all your thoughts and actions throughout your entire life. While you are reading this book, your brain is busy recording and comparing the information that I?m sharing with you to your past thoughts and actions. We will call the recording process of your brain your tape.

Your tape is a conceptual representation of the entire history of all
your previous thoughts and actions. The importance of your tape is that your brain or computer is programmed to make similar decisions according to what is in its data base (your past tape). On your tape is a record of all your positive and negative thoughts and actions that make up your life or comfort zone.

Your brain spontaneously uses all of your strengths and weaknesses
recorded on your tape in its decision making process. Your tape is
programmed to keep you at your present level and within your comfort zone. How you think and act today is merely a reflection of what is on your past tape or software. Most of your current beliefs were put on your tape by your parents and your social conditioning. The same holds true for your emotions. Don Miguel Ruiz in his book The Four Agreements (Amber Allen Publishing, 1997) describers in great detail how your tape and everyone else?s tapes are programmed by their parents and society. Reading his book will help you realize that many of your beliefs and thoughts on your tape are not your own. They were put there by others and you readily accept them as your own.

Your present level of happiness is a reflection of what you have recorded on your tape. Our owner?s manuals are very similar. Since your brain is programmed to make decisions similar to what is on your tape, the biggest challenge you face when trying to change your past thoughts and actions to increase your happiness is your present thinking and belief system. Your level of self-awareness of what exactly is on your tape and understanding of how you were designed to function according to Universal and Natural Laws, greatly affects your ability to change and your current happiness.

In the next chapter, I?ll show you how to increase your self-awareness
so you will know what to change on your tape to increase your happiness. However, change is never easy. When you try to change, you have to overcome what is on your tape. Your tape?s job is to have you repeat what you have done in the past. Your job is to increase your desire and determination to change.

Your tape does not care whether you are positive or negative. It is only concerned with having you repeat your past thoughts and actions. I want you to completely understand that your tape is not your enemy. It is your friend. Without your tape, you would not have a memory. You would not know your name, who you are, how to talk or anything else that you have learned during your lifetime. Your tape provides you with your data base for going through life.

It?s not your tape?s fault that you and your social conditioning have allowed it to accumulate negative thoughts and actions that are holding you back and affecting your happiness. Learn to be very honest with yourself. Find out what is on your tape. To reprogram your tape, you must increase your strengths and overcome your weaknesses. You are not going to change yourself overnight. It takes time, depending on the strength of your desire, and the positive actions you take to change.

If you decide to change, but repeat the same mistakes or negative
behaviors, do not become depressed or beat yourself up. Instead, laugh at yourself. Acknowledge that your tape is strong and very good at what it does. After all, it knows everything about you. It uses all your weaknesses and excuses to keep you where you are. Learn to become comfortable with who you are and what is on your tape. After you acknowledge that your tape has beaten you, decide who is in control -- you or your tape.

There are some things your tape has total control over, since you may not presently be strong enough to change them. Do not become discouraged. Get more determined and work harder and smarter to change what you can. Eventually, you will acquire enough strength and wisdom to overcome your tape in the areas where it presently controls you. If you truly desire to be in control and implement the knowledge that I am sharing with you, it is just a matter of time and effort until you master your tape and increase your happiness. Fortunately, you can change your past tendencies because the most current portion of your tape has the biggest impact on your decision making process. Otherwise, you would be a robot and never could change.

Whenever you attempt to change anything on your tape, you face a battle between your desire to change and your tape?s desire to do its job. The strength of your desire to change determines your success against your tape. Many individuals in our society are overweight and out of condition. Most of them have a desire to change for the better, but their desire is too weak to overcome the strength of their tape. However, when faced with a life threatening heart attack or stroke, many of these individuals change their behavior. Their strong desire to live gives them the strength to overcome their past tape. They exercise, change their diet and lose weight. Desiring to increase your happiness may not be a life or death decision for you. All I can say to you is that the greater your desire to increase your happiness, the greater will be your success. You do not have to go to the extremes that I did, but it certainly accelerates the process. The better you
understand how your tape operates; what is holding you back; and how to implement change; the easier your journey becomes to higher levels of happiness and bliss. Your level of desire is one of the major keys to success.

When you go to sleep, your brain is busy processing all the thoughts
and actions that went on your tape during the day. If you did something different from your normal routine, like exercising or dieting, your brain has to decide to either assimilate this as a new behavior, or reject it. Your brain needs to know how to respond in the future. By putting new thoughts and actions on your tape consistently for thirty days or more, your brain assimilates these as new habits. They become a part of your normal tape response. The best times to give your tape goals or instructions on how to improve your behavior are just before going to sleep and when you wake up.

While you sleep, your brain examines the goals or instructions that you just put on your tape. It has to make a decision how to respond when you wake up. It asks itself, "Whom do I believe, the new you or the old you? The old you probably has been making similar goals or resolutions off and on for years, seldom carrying them out and behaving the same way for most of your life. Your brain, more than likely, will believe the old you and instruct your tape to forget last night?s goals or instructions. Your tape will go about business as usual. Therefore, immediately upon awakening reinforce your
goals and put the instructions back on your tape. Remember, the most current portion of your tape has the biggest impact on your decision making process.

Assume you achieve your goals for several days in a row. For example, you actually do exercise or diet. Now, while you are sleeping, your brain starts to realize that it should begin listening to the new you. It begins to tell your tape to start responding accordingly and in about thirty days you develop a new habit. Then, your tape works for you, instead of against you.

The more success you achieve, the easier it is to be even more successful because your tape becomes your ally. Now, it insists that you keep on improving. Your comfort zone expands to accommodate the new you as the old you drifts away. As I mentioned above if you do something new or behave differently for thirty days, your tape will accept it as the new way to respond. However, if you give your tape an inch, it will go back to its old way of responding.

That?s why change is never easy. Whenever you attempt to change anything on your tape, you face a battle between your desire to change and your tape?s programming to keep you where you are. Your degree of self-awareness and the strength of your desire to change determine your success against your tape.

The time and effort you spend reducing the negative emotions and increasing the positive ones on your tape will determine how much you can increase your happiness.

Wouldn?t it be nice to be happy all of the time and
live in a state of continual bliss? Before I show you how to increase your self-awareness so you can make better choices and reprogram your tape to increase your happiness, let's review the key points of the Owner?s Manual for Human Beings.

Key Points of Owner's Manual:

1) The power of your brain or your wonderful personal computer varies according to its chemistry.

2) Your brain's chemistry is affected by your thoughts, diet, exercise,
rest, environment and physiology.

3) Your thoughts affect your electrochemical nervous system and
generate electromagnetic fields that create attractor fields which affect your life and happiness.

4) Your present thoughts and actions reflect what is recorded on your
tape.

5) Your tape is programmed to repeat its past and does not want to
change.

6) Strong desire and proper direction are necessary to change what is recorded on your tape.

7) Increasing your positive emotions and decreasing your negative
emotions will enhance your brain?s chemistry and natural abilities.

8) Increasing your self-awareness leads to better choices that increase your chemistry and happiness.

End Of Part 1 - If you wish to read all the chapters at once you are invited to download your FREE copy of "How to be Happy and Have Fun Changing the World" at http://www.howtobehappy.org/ Please share this book with your family, friends and the rest of the world.



Michael lives in Bolinas California. His free Happy e-book reveals simple, but profound insights that will help everyone that uses them to live a fulfilled and happy life. If enough individuals use them, it will help change our world for the better.

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