Muscle Memory Alexander Hope Published by Alexander Hope at Smashwords Copyright 2011 Alexander Hope Introduction Tired of sitting back and watching others get all of the rewards in life? Start a powerful program of self-improvement today. If you must watch four hours of television a night, take advantage of the many advertisements that occupy forty percent of what ever programs you are watching, Do your Muscle Memory exercises during the many commercials. You already know how delicious Lemon Chicken is and that Lays should make a Lemon Chicken flavored potato chip. So mute the television and concentrate on your first Muscle Memory exercise and then go back to watching television and then mute the next advertisement because you don’t need a new Volvo right now, maybe next Spring. For now, you are going to do your next Muscle Memory exercise. When you have muted fourteen advertisements, and you have decided to get some pie from Mimi’s, you have finished your Muscle Memory exercises for the evening. Muscle Memory is one of the easiest self-improvement programs to understand and execute. But you must take the second step. Your first step was downloading the eBook Muscle Memory. You must have either downloaded this eBook for a friend or you have finally decided to stop sleepwalking through life and you have decided that it is time to take control of your brain and thus take control of your life and its future. Today you are going to stop being silly about life and admit to your self that you do have control of what your life should be. As far as I can figure out, life is a gauntlet and the only possible reason we are on this earth is to run the gauntlet and help at least one other human being and their dog through the gauntlet. If you can help more then one human being and his dog through the gauntlet, more power to you. But you can’t help anyone if you don’t help your self. So today you are going to stop believing in all the silly things like numerology astrology, and the silliest of them all, religion. Religion has some redeeming qualities because many religions attempt to help the human race run the gauntlet. And without religion, the suicide rate among mothers who have lost children would be much higher. But how silly to believe in some outside source of control and power. And just when you think it couldn’t get any sillier, you find out that some idiots are killing people who don’t believe in their silliness. That’s like some stand-up comedian killing everyone who doesn’t laugh at his favorite joke. You say what does it hurt to hedge your bet by believing in Numerology, Astrology, Witchcraft or God. I say it’s very harmful. If you convince your brain that it has nothing to do with the outcome of your life, your brain will cease to be creative. So stop believing in silly things. They haven’t worked for you or anyone else. So start giving your brain credit for most of the good or bad in your life. Help it get you mostly good. You can read Muscle Memory and do nothing with the information. But that same attitude has been your problem in the past. If you had just tried. If you had gone through the pain of starting a new regimen, you wouldn’t be going through the pain of not fulfilling your dreams now. Life appears to have one very simple formula: Pain now. Or pain later. You have the choice. If you are willing to suffer through the sacrifices of a new regimen now, things will become easier later. If you put off the need to discipline yourself because you want to watch TV or be with your friends or you think you need a few extra hours sleep, invariably you have not escaped the suffering; you have just put it off. The years slip by and you still have not done any of the things that could make you happy and fulfilled. Get off your backside. Get out of the house. Change your attitude. Live as though this is the last hour you can possibly begin the first step on your journey to a new life. Take that first step. The first step is to reprogram your mind and thereby your attitude. You can use meditation or self-hypnosis. But instead, why don't you take a real challenge and improve your body while you improve your mind. Get serious about Muscle Memory. Reprogram your attitude and tone your body (that fantastic mechanism constructed of seven miles of nerve fiber wrapped around five hundred muscles.) Muscle Memory was created by me to teach you how to use this seven miles of nerve fiber to telegraph burning messages to the most unique computer possessed by man: Your Very Own Brain. YVOB’s inimitable abilities are owned and controlled by you. When you finish this book, and practice for thirty to sixty days, you will become a programmer for this greatest of all computers. It is not the purpose of this book; in fact it is pointless to dispute the manufacturer of this most unique computer. Because, if you were offered the most advanced portable computer ever manufactured with never-ending storage and instant retrieval, but it had no label and you were unable to prove who manufactured it (God or Nature or Evolution or Space Cadets), you would still want to possess it. And you would rush down and take a course on how to program it. The good news is that you do possess this most unique computer (YVOB). The bad news is that you never rushed down and took a course on how to program it. Muscle Memory is that course. Now you will start on a path. You will learn how to program YVOB. Repetition and hard work. Over and over. Repeat and repeat. And then one day you will feel the change. The change of mind; change of attitude; change of body. Don’t tell me you are too old to start now. That is just a cover sentence for the word lazy. This year, a seventy-nine year old woman won a weight-lifting contest. A sixty year old swam half way to Cuba. Stop being lazy. Lazy people get nothing from life but the crumbs that are left by the ambitious. It only takes time and hard work: both of these, you can afford. Everything you desire can be achieved if you will but take the time and the energy to etch your desires into your subconscious. YVOB. The skeletal musculature makes up forty percent of the weight of your body. These voluntary muscles are controlled by the central nervous system. The brain sends a message to any member of your musculature group and the group responds. Now you are going to reverse the process; your musculature will send messages to your brain. Use the power of Muscle Memory to set you on the course. Chapter 1 Muscle Memory Power Charge Make a fist with your right hand. Face the palm of your hand toward you. Clinch your fingers into your palm: in and out in and out in and out until your forearm aches. Now say this phrase while you continue to clinch your fist in and out in and out in and out, “I will do Muscle Memory fifteen minutes each and every day.” “I will do Muscle Memory fifteen minutes each and every day.” “I will do Muscle Memory fifteen minutes each and every day.” Repeat and repeat again until you can not clinch your fist one more time. And then clench it one more time! If you clinched your fist until you reached your pain threshold then you burned the phrase, “I will do Muscle Memory fifteen minutes each and every day,” into your brain, you have power charged your mind so that it will find the time and urgency to do Muscle Memory each and every day. That’s how simple Muscle Memory is: reach your pain threshold and then burn the messages into your brain. The added bonus is: you tone your body while you reprogram your brain. Through Muscle Memory, you’ll learn to use the very same pain threshold that mountain climbers reach when they go beyond muscle ache and are able to achieve superhuman stamina and a clear, open mind with acute concentration. The first exercise is logically the easiest, but remember, the telegraph to your brain cranks up when you reach the pain threshold of muscle ache. At that time, Muscle Memory begins to burn your commands into your subconscious mind (the storehouse of your brain.) YVOB. Do the exercises until you feel muscle ache, and then recite your commands. You’ll tone your muscles while concentrating on and controlling your subconscious intake. You’ll achieve a healthy mind and body. Use the Muscle Memory commands or create your own. All Muscle Memory exercises are executed while seated. But these are not exercises for couch-potatoes. Turn off or mute the TV. Concentrate. To work, Muscle Memory exercises must be intense. Intensity will etch the commands into your subconscious mind. In your subconscious mind, Muscle Memory will begin to start building the characteristics that will lead you to achieve your greatest desires Chapter 2 Exercise Number One: Wrist Drop Place your right elbow on a table. Keep your forearm straight up and down at all times. Drop your fist down (with resistance) toward the table top. Bring it back toward you (with resistance.) Remember; do not move your forearm. Move only your wrist. Like the famous wooden woodpecker that bobs up and down into a dish of water. Move only your wrist. Down and up (with resistance.) Repeat and repeat until your wrist begins to ache. Now while you move, painfully, through the exercise, telegraph the Muscle Memory command, “I will have abundance.” “I will have abundance.” “I will have abundance.” Do one wrist and then the other. This Muscle Memory exercise has no magic to it. It will not mysteriously bring you abundance. It will program your brain so that you will demand abundance in your life. Through Muscle Memory, you are letting you brain know that you will no longer put up with having less than the very best. The most comfortable life you can conjure. You are programming your brain to bypass all the crap that has been etched into it. You must re-etch. But this time with positive commands. Continuous practice of Muscle Memory will help you re-etch (reprogram) your brain. YVOB. Repeat and repeat. Etch. It took years to program your brain to allow you to live with less than you desire. Luckily you were not very serious (you were just plain lazy) even about etching the negative things into you brain. Crap that you picked up from your peers, your parents, or some destructive relative. The negatives may have come from TV or movies, but nevertheless, these negatives were slowly etched into your subconscious mind. You are now going to re-etch your brain. But this time it will take considerably less time, because this time you are serious. Get serious! If you want changes, you must get serious. Sometimes life appears to be one big joke, so to get by you have to have a big time sense of humor. But when it comes to programming or re-programming your subconscious mind, you need to crank in nothing but serious thoughts. For what ever you crank in, your subconscious will crank out. If you truly desire positive things to happen, then throughout this re-programming phase, watch and listen to positive things only. Turn off your mind to the negative through this phase. Once you have set a new attitude, you will be able to watch and listen-to negative things and not take them into your personality. Just give up negativity until your brain has been re-etched. Now get serious about this first Muscle Memory exercise. Move just your wrist. Up and down until your wrist tingles with pain. Then push it further. Repeat, “I will have abundance.” Make the moves and believe that you will get abundance soon. Just repeat and repeat. Over and over. “I will have abundance.” “I will have abundance.” “I will have abundance.” Your Muscle Memory book contains fourteen Muscle Memory word telegraphs. Do the exercises each and every day. All at once or at intervals. During a break at work or at housework. During TV commercials. (but turn down the sound.) Or why not start a group Muscle Memory session at work or in your neighborhood? Do the exercises each day. No excuses. Use the Muscle Memory commands, in your Muscle Memory book, for the first sixty days, and then create your own motivation messages. Your messages and Muscle Memory’s messages will change your life. But you must change before you can change your life. It’s true. You know it. Now you have a proven method by which to start to change your life. Start now. Change you. Change your life. Joy, plenty, success, and love are within your reach; within your musculature. It appears that we are not on this earth to suffer day in and day out. But it does appear that very few of us get by without suffering to some degree. Discipline is a form of suffering. It would seem so much easier to just do what ever the Hell we want. But, most of us, if we followed the above path, would end up fat or drunk or incarcerated. So we must go through the suffering of discipline to gain the things we truly desire. Gymnasts go through one of the most difficult regimen of discipline. Gymnasts use rings, parallel and horizontal bars and horses to swing, somersault, and do handsprings. They tone their bodies and clear their minds and develop acute concentration. Now you can develop that same acute concentration through Muscle Memory. This second Muscle Memory exercise will work your forearms and send positive messages to your subconscious mind. Make your forearms ache while you repeat the message. Tone your forearm muscles while you tone your mind. When the first sixty days of Muscle Memory are concluded, you will not only have a much more effective attitude (a winning attitude) but you will also have a healthier body. Do the exercises each and every day. Don’t lie to yourself about not having time. If you have time to work and to watch TV and to help others, then you can find the time to help yourself. You must become very selfish for the next sixty days. You will have to eliminate the negative things in your life for at least this period. If a friend is negative (always bringing you down), if your spouse is negative (always telling you that life is not fair), if your boss is negative (always riding you about your deficiencies), then you must eliminate these people from your subconscious thoughts: when they start the negativity, mentally do your Muscle Memory exercises in your mind and repeat to yourself, “I am positive.” “I am positive.” “I am positive.” Don’t let what they are saying infect your subconscious mind. Chapter 3 Exercise Number Two Forearm Twists Hold your arm straight up and down as in exercise number one. Face the palm of your clinched fist toward you. Now drop your wrist down (with resistance) and twist it away from you until your forearm muscle bulges. Do it over and over until you feel muscle ache. Now use the Muscle Memory message, “I am elated.” “I am elated.” “I am elated.” Push your pain threshold. One arm and then the other. “I am elated.” “I am elated.” “I am elated.” Now both arms at the same time. These same muscles are used by the cross country skier as he or she digs in the poles, flexes wrists and digs in again. Over and over pushing muscles beyond natural endurance (past the pain threshold) to where they function without conscious thought. Remember, hold your forearm straight up and down through the entire exercise. Bend your wrist down and twist it away. The movement should look like a swan’s head and neck as it slowly turns its head to observe the world around it. Let us also observe the world around us. Notice how the people who achieve the most not only do the most, but they work correctly. It takes no more effort to do work correctly than it takes to do work incorrectly. You must put your efforts into work that will pay off with your desires. Things you desire. Not things your parents or your boss or your spouse desire. Things you desire. Don’t hide from these desires by taking on projects that just keep you busy but don’t lead to what you want. Sometimes you do just that because you’re afraid of failure: “I could have been a famous singer but I never pursued it because I was taking care of my sick mother and I had a heavy class load at school and I worked as a saleslady or salesman in the evenings and I had to help the needy on Saturday and I had to go to Church on Sunday and . . . . “Don’t get so busy with surviving that all you do is survive. You are unique in your looks, personality, abilities, talents, and in many other ways, but you are not unique in the burdens that life has heaped upon you. If you study the backgrounds of the achievers, you will find that in most cases, they had at least twice the burdens you now have or will ever have. No more excuses. You are only fooling yourself. You are the last person you should try to fool. Get real! Nothing that has happened to you has not happened to tons of other human flesh. There are probably seven billion people using the Earth’s surface. No one cuts a path without getting scratched and bruised or having to sacrifice. Most of life can be fantastic if you only make the effort. Do it now. Make life fantastic for you. Think about life and how great it is to be alive and to achieve. Do this Muscle Memory exercise and repeat, “I am elated.” “I am elated.” “I am elated.” Mountaineers cling, climb, and pull to the limit of their physical endurance to ascend a mountain. You can ascend this mountain called Life by using Muscle Memory daily. We all have about the same number of mountains to climb in Life. But no matter what number, you must climb them all to achieve your desires. Unless your desires are: to be nothing, do nothing, to want nothing, to help no one, teach no one, and lead no one. It appears that Life is laid out as a rather simple gauntlet. When you begin the path to your desires, there are a ton of competitors, but after the first failure, there are considerably less competitors. After the third or fourth failure, there are so few competitors, trying to get your same desires, that you know them all by name. But if you keep going, no matter how many failures, when you reach your desires there will be a couple of guys and gals who are still at your heals because they are also not counting their failures, but only moving forward toward their goals which happen to be the same as yours. The Hell with failure. It’s part of Life. Stack up the failures. Do the best you can each time. But if you should fail, put the failure on the stack, rehabilitate, and start over again. Do the best you can each time. But fail fast. Don’t spend ten years failing. If you know it won’t work, fail, and go on to the next project. Just do it. One day you will wake up and notice that your life has changed for the better. And the next day it will be still better. Each morning you will beg the sun to come up so you can get on the road. Start moving up that road today. Use this next Muscle Memory exercise to get you up and at it. Convince yourself that you can be a success. You can be a success at the things you desire. What you want. Remember what you want. During the day when you are not doing the Muscle Memory exercises, do them in your head every few hours. Get your internal computer off to a jump-start by repeating this Muscle Memory phrase, “I will be successful.” “I will be successful.” “I will be successful.” Over and over again as you pull your automobile down the driveway of your apartment or house. Look back and decide if you’re happy with this apartment or this house. If you are not, then start dreaming about a new dwelling. Are you happy with the automobile? Your job? Your friends? Your spouse? Take Life by the nap of the neck and start making Life bring you your desires. Many of the people you pass on the road or highway or freeway are driving exactly what they desire and have left a residence with which they are more than happy. And they can’t wait to get to work to do a job they love. They have the same brain capacity as you. They live on the same Earth. They live at the same time. Maybe your desires are greater than theirs. No matter. If they have reached their goals, and they are happy: they are successful. If you haven’t reached your goals, or you haven’t even tried: you are unsuccessful. But you will be successful. Start today by using Muscle Memory to program your subconscious mind with the attitude changes necessary to start you on the road to success. “I will be successful.” should play through your mind. Over and over again. Chapter 4 Exercise Number Three: Upper Arm Lift Hold both arms to your sides. Now curl your upturned fists toward your shoulders (with resistance) until your biceps bulge. Curl over and over until you feel muscle ache. Now, as you continue, use the muscle memory message, “I will be successful.” Use both arms on this powerful exercise; it will tone your arms and burn the Muscle Memory message into your subconscious. The bowler uses his biceps to roll the ball down the alley again and again. And then the great computer (YVOB) records the position of the biceps and supporting muscles needed to make repeated strikes; his subconscious takes over. Strike after strike. Muscle Memory will help you make strike after strike in this game called Life. But you have to get out there and roll the ball. Over and over again. Mistake after mistake until you get it right. Very few people get it right –right from the start. You can put off the practice needed to perfect the profession or trade in which you wish to excel, but you will also put off being the professional or tradesman you need to be to fulfill your desires. Most of your dreams are connected to the profession or trade you want to be involved in. When you picture yourself owning a nice house or a nifty car, you usually picture yourself earning the house or car at your lucrative position at some business or another. The business that you wish to be involved in (almost without exception) takes certain training. Most people want to have a special job, but are unwilling to sacrifice time to learn and perfect the skills that will bring them their desires. It is so much easier to just take what ever job you can get, beat yourself in the ground doing your job, then stagger home and flop in front of the TV to admire the people who have it all and are parading it across the idiot box. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be one of those people, but you have to get out of the house to do it, and you must offer something to the public that will make them willing to make you rich and famous. Almost all the things that you might have to offer have to be perfected, or polished or crafted before you can even attempt to offer them to the public. If you sit in front of the TV, your will have no time to perfect anything. You may learn things that could help you toward your riches, but you still must communicate with the outside world. TV is a one-way communicator. It pours information: good, bad, or indifferent, into your brain, but it doesn’t allow you to respond or create or to make contact with people who can help you improve as you travel along your path to success. Through Muscle Memory, you will convince your brain that you must have success. Your brain will get you out of your chair and on the road. Your subconscious knows what to do to make you successful; but you must demand action. The Whirling Dervish spins and spins and rotates rapidly until he is physically exhausted, then his mind soars to the heavens. Use the next Muscle Memory exercise to make your subconscious mind understand your deepest desires. And then make them come true. Soar to the heavens. Etch the desires into the magnet of your mind. And then attract your desires. Make them a reality. Many people, with less talent than you, have become what you desire to become. They had the confidence to pursue what they wanted. Many times confidence is as important as ability or talent. Someone is going to fill the position that you desire. Someone with the confidence to ask. Most things in life only come if you ask. Asking can put you in the position to get rejected, but rejection is no big deal. It hurts, but most things that lead to success are painful in some way or another. It is painful to study when others are out enjoying the beach. It is painful to continue to practice perfection in a profession where mediocre people are succeeding. But if you want to be one of the winners in Life, you need to practice and practice and practice. You can become one of the best if you practice in a profession or a craft that is contemporary (needed or wanted by today’s population.) Why not be one of the best at what you do? Why not be the one people mention when they praise a certain profession or product? We all know we can survive. So what? Animals survive. But would any one of us, who has watched animals in the wild, want to survive in such a manner. And what of the domesticated animal? Would any of us desire to be dependent on some human being for our food and shelter? So why spend your life at the level of an animal? Why not strive to be the very best at what you do. As soon as you commit to living a good life, you will start receiving the rewards that are part of the good life. It appears that Life has set a trap: to get what you want, you need to show confidence. But to gain confidence you need to get what you want. To eliminate this Catch 22 situation you will start using the Muscle Memory message, “I am confident.” Each day you will etch the message into your subconscious until you go out into the world with confidence. And with this confidence you will get the things you desire. Nothing comes without sacrifice. If you are to gain all the things and positions and reputations you desire, you will need to sacrifice the time to do Muscle Memory exercises now. Why put it off? If you don’t start now, it will be that much longer before you reach your goals. Nothing on TV or nothing your friends are doing or nothing your spouse needs you to do is more important than your goals, your desires, or your future. Start your Muscle Memory exercises today. You will be a day closer to your goals. A day closer to your desires. A day closer to the good life. Chapter 5 Exercise Number Four: Neck Moves Look straight ahead. Turn your head toward your right shoulder (with resistance) as far to the side as you can. Now turn your head toward your left shoulder (with resistance.) Turn from right to left and then left to right and do it again until you feel muscle ache. Back and forth. Back and forth. Repeat the Muscle Memory message, “I am confident.” “I am confident.” “I am confident.” Engrave the message on your subconscious. Again and again. Repeat and repeat. It is very hard work to change. Know it. Accept it. Each morning, as you prepare for your day, consciously pick a time that you are going to do your Muscle Memory exercises. Discipline yourself. No matter what else comes up; do the exercises. It will take you no more than fifteen or twenty minutes. You would gladly pay a psychiatrist or a psychologist or a hypnotist to change you. You would gladly give any one of them fifteen or twenty minutes of your day if they would change your attitude and thereby change your life. Muscle Memory exercises can change your life. But first you must want to change. You bought the book or stole it or borrowed it or hit the internet to get it free for some reason. Regardless of how you obtained it, you must have been looking for something to help you change you. You were looking for something to give you confidence or to change your habits or attitudes to ones that you feel will better carry you to your goals and desires. Muscle Memory can change your life. First get in the habit of doing the exercises. Don’t worry about how perfect the movements are. Don’t worry if you forget and miss one of the exercises. Just get in the habit of doing the Muscle Memory exercises everyday preferably at the same time and in the same place. We are creatures of habit. Some good. Some bad. Take advantage of the human ability to cling to a schedule once it’s programmed into the subconscious. Once you’ve done the Muscle Memory exercises for a while, the routine will become habitual. You will feel a little empty if you miss a day. That’s great. It means that Muscle Memory exercises are becoming a habit; one of your good habits. Make the conscious effort needed to start creating this good habit. Muscle Memory exercises tone all of your body parts, but if you have a different exercise program that has become habitual, use it: but push your exercises to your pain threshold. Each exercise such as curls or bench presses should be done down to the lightest weights and then you should start repeating the Muscle Memory message while flexing your aching muscles while using no weights. The tumbler hits the mat. Triceps of his or her back arms learn, after continuous repetitions, to flip exactly as recorded in the memory of the tumbler’s great computer (YVOB) the subconscious mind. Perfect flips are recorded so the tumbler lands perfectly. Learn to always land on your feet by using Muscle Memory to be agile and strong and alert and healthy. Program your subconscious to feel robust health. Burn in the Muscle Memory message, “I am robust. “I am robust.” “I am robust.” No matter what your trade or profession, you need to be healthy to do the best job. If you are overweight and feel sluggish, you will do a less than efficient job. When you feel robust and healthy, you project your feelings to others. People like to be around happy, confident people. People like to be around energetic, outgoing people. It is very difficult to project positive personality traits if you’re feeling under the weather. Muscle Memory exercises are designed to tone all parts of your body while you program your subconscious mind. If you did nothing else with this Muscle Memory book other than become robust, you would still attract many of the things you desire. Breathe in life; it’s fantastic. You can have most anything you desire. It appears that Life is designed for positives not negatives. It appears that life has many more positives than negatives. So why even entertain negatives. Eliminate negative information from your mind as soon as you have extracted Life’s lessons. Move though life with a robust nature. People will remember you. People will want to do business with you. People will want to be friends with you. This appears to be a one time event: our life here on earth. Why not move though it like you own it. You are as much master of this universe as the next guy. People are moving through the vary same space that you move through. Why are they all smiling and you’re not. Start smiling. Become robust by using the Muscle Memory message, “I am robust.” “I am robust.” “I am robust.” to change your attitude so that you’re one of the happy, smiling people. Let Life bubble up inside you. Let it explode from your lips as you tell friends and strangers about what has happened to you today and yesterday. Gobble up this life (there may not be a second one.) Wouldn’t it be terrible if you thought you could wait for a second life (a second chance) to become the person you truly wanted to be, and in the mix of things as you come to the end of your life, you find there is not going to be a second chance? Do it now. If it turns out there is a second chance, that’s all well and good. What have you lost? But just think: what if this is the only time around. This is it. If you don’t do it now, you’ll never do it. Chapter 6 Exercise Number Five: Back Arm Press Hold your clinched fists up under your armpits, and then press down hard (with resistance) past your thighs, extending and tightening the backs of your arms. Push hard again and again and then when the muscles in the backs of your arms begin to ache, repeat the Muscle Memory message, “I am robust.” “I am robust.” “I am robust.” Get mad. Force your body to work. Force your body and mind to become robust. Bring action into you life. Stop sitting around and expecting good luck or religion or fate to bring the things you desire. It hasn’t worked for you so far; why should it work in the future? There is only one way to guarantee you’ll get what you want out of life. Prayer won’t do it. People pray their way right into bankruptcy. Chanting won’t do it. People chant all day long and get nothing. Astrology won’t get it. People have nothing but astronomical astrological bills from this belief. Only you can make it happen. Nothing outside you can or will change any part of you or the people and things around you. There is no magic. No magician’s magic or priest’s magic or astrologer’s magic or witch’s magic or numerologist’s magic, or a systems player’s magic. No magic. Just hard work. Hard work on the correct project. That appears to be Life’s guarantee: if you work hard (harder than the next guy) on the correct project, you will gain your desires if those desires are in line with the amount of talent you have developed to use on your chosen project. When you make a decision to use Muscle Memory to reprogram your subconscious so that you have the right attitude and the right desire to accomplish your goals, make sure that you have picked a project that can earn what you want and need. It would be insane to program yourself to work hard at a project that hasn’t a snowball’s chance in Hell to earn the money you desire or to showcase the talent you wish to exploit. It appears Life’s guarantee is just that simple: work harder than anyone else at a project that is worth your time and talent and you will gain everything you truly desire. Not all of our desires are much above the level of lusts, but don’t worry if a few of those slip through. Just make sure that most of your desires are in Life’s main stream. Don’t crowd your life with desires that are best left to animals. Transmute some of these lusts into main stream desires and goals. Live a robust life. Enjoy all levels of life. Just don’t use up life on things that won’t get you to your goals. When you reach your goals, go hog wild. But now you need to concentrate. The weight lifter grabs the weighted bar, lifts up, and pulls it to his chest, and then pushes the extreme weight overhead. By repeatedly lifting the weight, he’s built the strength and muscle to complete the lift. He has also programmed his subconscious to accept his ability to lift the weight; it may be more important to his brain that it believes that he can make the lift, than his actual physical condition; he must have both, but the mind is the most important. Now you will program your subconscious to believe that you can lift the weight of the world from you shoulders and become the winner that you know you can be. Program your subconscious to win. What you truly want: your subconscious wants. With the help of Muscle Memory, you will win. Remember, that we are working on the assumption that we only go around once. If that is true, than the only way to go around is as a winner. It would be insane to stumble through life as one of the losers. Why would you want such a thing for yourself or your family? No argument rings true. You have a handicap. So what, many handicapped people excel. I am handicapped. You are a minority. So what many individuals who are from a minority succeed. The President is from a minority You are a woman. So what, there are women in high places. You are overweight so you can’t work hard without risking health problems. So what, you already have a health problem if you are overweight. Lose weight. Stop rationalizing. You say. “It’s not that easy. I was treated poorly and even criminally when I was a child.” So what. Most of us were treated poorly when we were children. You don’t have an education. So what, go to night school. Get educated. For every excuse you have for not excelling in your chosen field there is someone who had your same problems but overcame the problems because they believed in themselves. They believed that they were winners not whiners. And in so believing they became winners. You can become a winner through hard work and knowledge; both take sacrifice; both take setting aside time away from your friends, and the TV, and constant entertainment. To be a winner you must first think like a winner. Muscle Memory will help you begin this crucial part of your journey. Become a winner by first becoming a winner in your mind. For if your subconscious believes that you wish to be a looser, your subconscious mind will make every effort to make it come true. There are enough objects in you path to success; why let your own mind be one of those objects? Work hard, study, and do Muscle Memory. You will become a winner quicker than you ever thought possible. Allow no one to perceive you as anything but a winner. If someone appears to label you as a looser, find out why. Find out why (no matter how painful the answer may be) Learn about yourself from the people around you. An enemy will help you grow much faster than a friend. Friends are much to easy on you. A good enemy will exaggerate your shortcomings’ and that’s exactly what you need: Valid information. Listen to it dissect it. And act on that which is reasonable. Don’t take to heart. Don’t take in the negativity. Just use the information to improve your attitude. Chapter 7 Exercise Number Six: Shoulder Push Hold your right fist clinched at shoulder level then push straight up overhead (with resistance) with a full, reaching movement. Repeat this movement until your shoulder muscles ache. Start your Muscle Memory message, “I am a winner.” “I am a winner.” “I am a winner.” When you can no longer do the movement with your right arm, use your left arm in the same manner repeating the Muscle Memory message, “I am a winner.” “I am a winner.” “I am a winner.” Without relaxing, use both arms and press them upward until your arms drop from fatigue. This is hard work, but remember you are attempting to burn out years of negative messages. You need to suffer now or you will suffer later. This fist to the sky attitude has been the sign of a winner since the beginning of time. Yeah! Shove that fist to the sky. Shove both fists to sky. Tell life you are no longer going to stand by and let everyone but you live the good life. Push the sky upward. Push and push again. Get mad at the weight of it. Make you subconscious know that you are tired of the weight of it. You want to feel free and light and as though you could fly. Each time you push you fist toward the sky think about being a winner. Demand that you become a winner. During the day shove your fist toward the sky and remind yourself that you are a winner and that you become more of a winner as the days go by and as you study Muscle Memory and do the Muscle Memory exercises. In this next exercise, push toward your pain threshold boldly Push hard. Resist hard. Your deltoids will fatigue quickly if you’re doing the exercise correctly. Push the fatigue into pain and start repeating, “I am a winner.” “I am a winner.” “I am a winner.” The winning feeling begins to grow even before you have actually won anything but your own self esteem. Force the issue. After completing your first week of Muscle Memory, start allowing your subconscious to overflow its thoughts onto the living room coffee table. Write them down. You will find a bundle of insecurities that have jumped out because there is no longer any place for them to hide. You have confronted the enemy and the enemy has no place to go. Write the negatives down, then crumple them up and throw the crumpled paper toward the sky. Negative feelings shrivel up and die in the presents of positive feelings. Think winner twenty-four hours a day. Dream a winner’s dreams and start living a winner’s life. Work on it. If you’re approached by negative people, sift through their information, extract anything of value, if there is anything, and then play a tape in you head of the Muscle Memory exercises you did earlier that day. If the negative people think you are spacing out, who cares? They are the destroyers of the good life. Let them flounder in their own negativity. The rowing team builds the uniform movements necessary to win a race. It takes repeated practice. Practice builds acute concentration and programs the great computer to cause the desire to be in sync with the rest of the team. You will learn to program your subconscious to be in sync with the winners of the world: the prosperous people of the world. Use the Muscle Memory message, “I want prosperity.” “I want prosperity.” “I want prosperity.” Etch your desires into the magnetic tape of your great computer YVOB. You must eliminate the feelings of guilt that many have when they become prosperous. You feel guilty because you have been raised in a society that preaches about sharing with your neighbor, but actually means share with your neighbor if your neighbor believes as you do. You know instinctively that all the preaching is nonsense, but we have been brainwashed from birth to believe. Reality appears to be this: you can not share with one person if you can not take care of yourself. To take care of yourself and your family and then the circle outside your family and your community and on and on in larger and larger circles, you must have more and more possessions. In order to earn more and more possessions, you must devote (sacrifice) more and more time. If you can not take care of yourself, you have little or no chance of taking care of others. Stop pretending poverty is noble. If you pretend long enough, your subconscious will begin to believe you; and then your subconscious will help you become or stay impoverished and thus noble. Thus you will be broke and in a position to be noble for no one. Stop using noble poverty as a reason you don’t have things. You don’t have things because you have not earned them. You have not earned them because you are afraid you have little or no ability to earn them. It is so much easier to tell of what you could have been if you had really set you mind to it, then to try and try again until you gain what you want and what you want to be. Most people have exactly what they expect out of life. Even if it is abject poverty. It is a thousand percent more difficult to start at the bottom of the heap and work your way up then it is to start in the middle and work your way up or to start at the top and stay there. But it has been done by thousands of people. So it must be something that can be done no matter at what level you begin. If Life has dealt you a bad hand, so what, it will equalize as you move up Life’s booby trapped ladder. You may start at the extreme bottom and move smoothly up the ladder, but maybe the guy starting in the middle hits every booby trap as he climbs his way to the top. And the guy at the top may just come tumbling down to a place far behind you. But so what, as long as you all end up on top eventually. You will if you make your subconscious understand that you want prosperity no matter what. Chapter 8 Exercise Number Seven: Back Row Hold your arms outstretched to the sides with the palms of your clinched fists pointing down. Press your fist down and forward (with resistance) flexing your upper back muscles. As your upper back begins to ache, use the muscle memory message, “I want prosperity.” “I want prosperity.” “I want prosperity.” Continue to row with your arms while you repeat the phrase. Row and row. Over and over again. Make your muscles work. When you reach your pain threshold, make your muscles and mind work. Grind the message, “I want prosperity.” “I want prosperity.” “I want prosperity.” into your subconscious mind. Etch it in. Eliminate all the negative images you have about wealth and the wealthy. No one, wealthy or poor, is all good or all bad. Some of the most evil, conniving people in the world are poor. But it’s written off to survival. With a wealthy man, it’s written off as greed. Stop labeling things. Just get to work. Just remember that if you don’t have your own, you can’t help others get theirs. This is a good time to make a written list of the things and goals that you need to make you feel prosperous. Take your time and write in your finest hand. Do it slowly. Don’t use a typewriter or a computer. Do this most important list in your own hand. Tack the list up and concentrate on it as you do this Muscle Memory exercise. Repeat the muscle memory message, “I want prosperity.” “I want prosperity.” “I want prosperity.” out loud but concentrate on the list you have painstakingly drawn. The list will contain the ideal mate, the ideal job or profession, the ideal car and house and all the ideal things that you have dreamed of. Tack the list up at eye level and concentrate on it as you struggle through your Muscle Memory exercises. Make the list part of your reality. Make your subconscious mind believe that you will never be happy until you have duplicated each item on the list. Make them part of who you are. You must realize that people who have things (people who have become prosperous) are no different from you. They are just people who have things. They wanted things and their subconscious minds showed them the paths to the things they wanted. Poverty does more than just suck. It rips and tears. It destroys. It eliminates families and love. Anyone who embraces poverty (for what ever reason) needs to get a good swift kick in the psyche. The long distance swimmer moves her arms up and around her torso thus toning her entire body as she executes the back stroke. If she continues the movements past exhaustion, her mind will clear and as she looks up at the heavens, she will be open to all the wonders of the world. You can use a similar movement to tone your muscles; and then when you reach muscle exhaustion, use the Muscle Memory message, “My world is bountiful.” “My world is bountiful.” “My world is bountiful.” to open your mind to all the wonders of the world. Have you been to Spain? Tonga? Vancouver Island? Have you been out of your country, your state, or your city? This is a big world. Sitting and watching it go by on the Travel Channel is insane. Why use up the space? Not just on your overstuffed couch, but on this Earth. Why waste the space? Get off your big, overstuffed couch and step out into the world. See what a bountiful place this world is. How could you ever get bored? Every day there’s something new to see. Something new to explore. Something new to learn. There will never be enough time to learn it all or see it all. How could you possibly settle for anything less than knowing it all or at least trying to learn all you can? And how can you possibly settle for anything less than seeing it all or a least making an effort to see it all? If you had just a year to live, would you do things differently this year? Would you stop putting certain desires off until another day? There is a good chance that this is the last year that you can change. Sometimes, people have become so negative that nothing (no program of any kind) can turn them around. What if you are just on the border, but you go one more year with nothing but negative thoughts? Maybe that one more year will make you irretrievable. Start today with your Muscle Memory exercises. Etch into your subconscious mind the idea that the world is bountiful and that you should take advantage of the world’s bounty. You want some. You need some. You are determined to have some. Nothing could be more pathetic than going through life in poverty when there is so much bounty. If you’re a single mother with little or no education, you can use that excuse, but the problem with such an excuse is that other single mothers have made things happen. They got off the couch and got an education and than went out and got a job and through that job achieved success. Of course it’s not easy. But the fact is you were dealt a certain hand. You can bitch and moan and harp and complain but that will not change the hand. All you can do is recognize your position and plan a way out of it. Then work and work the plan until you see daylight. You will start reaping some of the bounty. Chapter 9 Exercise Number Eight: Chest Clinch Hold your arms out, to your sides, at shoulder height. Now with clinched fists slowly (with resistance) bring your fists together directly in front, squeezing your chest muscles. When your chest muscles begin to ache, start repeating the Muscle Memory message, “My world is bountiful.” “My world is bountiful.” “My world is bountiful.” As you make the Muscle Memory exercise movements, suck in air. Fill your lungs. Think about sucking in all the things you want out of Life. Bring the air into your expanded chest and hold it. Bring the things into your life and hold them. The world is full of many wonderful things. More than enough for all of us. Bring those things into your life. Take your prosperity list and tack it at eye level. Now as you execute this Muscle Memory exercise, visualize sucking in the desires listed on your prosperity list. Make them a part of you. Take the bounty that Life offers and make it part of you. This Muscle Memory exercise is designed to take all of the pessimism from your life. Pessimism that your spouse or teacher or parents or peers may be spreading on a daily basis. Pessimism that says Life has very little to offer. That Life is a gauntlet that you will never be able to complete. Pessimists can all go take a hike. It takes no talent or intelligence to talk of nothing but the negatives. Of course there are negatives. That’s Life. It is what it is. It will always be that way. Why can’t everything be perfect? Who knows? The fact is Life is not perfect. There are negatives. To lead a safe healthy life you must recognize these negatives. But there is little value in preaching negatives day in and day out. If you are even slightly sane, you will recognize the bounty of Life. You will see Life’s possibilities. Possibilities that go beyond anything your negative friends have ever conceived. Muscle Memory is not about positive thinking; you must recognize the negatives in life and then attempt to go around them or away from them. You have no need to be heroic and go through them. But when you have recognized the negatives, there is no need to harp and harp. Or to round up your friends so that you can philosophize about all the dung that Life appears to have fed you. What good does that do? You know the negatives, now you should find some positive way to eliminate or circumvent them. Muscle Memory exercises prepare your subconscious mind to confront the negatives again and again without psychologically collapsing before you win some of the bounty. The ballet dancer turns, twists, stretches, and jumps with a precision that is recorded in his or her muscles and subconscious. Repetition makes it happen. In the next Muscle Memory exercise you will stretch and twist while repeating the Muscle Memory message, “I am cheerful.” “I am cheerful.” “I am cheerful.” Cheerful people are the ones you enjoy being around. Cheerful people always appear to have their act together. Cheerful people never appear stresses out. Maybe they are stressed out far beyond anything you can imagine, but cheerful people have the class not to burden you with their problems. That’s why you enjoy being around cheerful people. This next Muscle Memory exercise is designed to make you one of the cheerful people. If you truly wish to succeed as a people person (maybe your job requires sales contact or problem solving contact) this next Muscle Memory exercise may be your most important exercise. When you become cheerful it's like putting the finishing touches on all of the other positive traits you have habitualized through Muscle Memory. Think how ridiculous it would be to be outgoing but not cheerful. Or to be positively happy but not express it by appearing cheerful. There is no need to be all false sweetness and light. But be cheerful as you move through each day. For all you know, your cheerfulness may be the one thing someone you meet may use as an excuse to continue to be on this Earth. What can it hurt to smile? Or to complement someone? Or to say a kind word? Have you become so indifferent that you don’t recognize that many of the people you meet are hurting? Good morning! How are you doing? How’s the family? Are you afraid it will eat up some of your precious time if someone should actually stop and answer your questions? Isolation has been the major cause of many of our world’s most serious problems. If we were all a little more cheerful; if we were a little more caring; if we were a little more understanding; this world would be just a little better place. Do this Muscle Memory exercise with a smile on your face. For some reason it appears to be almost impossible to think negative thoughts while you have a great, big sincere smile plastered all over your face. Smile as you make the Muscle Memory movements and as you repeat the Muscle Memory message, “I am cheerful.” “I am cheerful.” “I am cheerful.” Smile and repeat. Grin and repeat. Over and over again until you can insure yourself that from now on you will be one of the cheerful people. Chapter 10 Exercise Number Nine: Spine Rock Sit forward on your chair. Hold your arms stretched above your head. Now, lean forward as far as possible and then back as far as possible without letting your buttock lift from the chair. With each movement repeat the Muscle Memory message, “I am cheerful.” “I am cheerful.” “I am cheerful.” Think about being a happy, grinning clown bowing to an admiring crowd. Take as many bows as you deserve. Again and again. Many people have a rough time just getting up in the morning and then facing another day. These people are amazed to meet a cheerful person. What can there possibly be to be cheerful about? They admire the cheerful person because in their hearts they know that the cheerful person probably has many of the same problems that face them. The same unpaid-bills problem. The same bitchy-spouse problem. The same demon-boss problem. The same unrequited-desire problem. But even with all of Life’s problems there are always some cheerful people around to light-up the gloom-and-doom atmosphere. It doesn’t take a Muscle Memory book to tell you that Life is chucked full of problems. But maybe it takes a Muscle Memory book to start you on a course that will equip you to be cheerful as you battle your way through Life’s less than unique problems. Now is the best time to decide that no matter what problems come your way you will stay cheerful. What good does it do to share your problems with the public in general? If you are one of those who must have an audience, it will be less and less possible to round up an audience if your show is all bitching and moaning. Remember smile as you do this next exercise. Smile and concentrate on convincing your subconscious mind that you are cheerful. “I am cheerful.” should be the instructive phrase spinning through your mind as you lean as far forward as possible and then as far backward as possible. Back and forth; with a smile on your face. If you can perform this Muscle Memory exercise in front of the mirror, you will probably progress more rapidly. Look in the mirror and watch as a cheerful, happy person grins and moves back and forth as it repeats the Muscle Memory message, “I am cheerful.” “I am cheerful.” “I am cheerful.” Now when you leave your residence, flash a smile and don’t be surprised if people smile back. Chapter 11 Exercise Number Ten: Waist Roll Sit on your chair and lean to your right as far as you can. Keep your arms stretched over your head. Now lean as far to your left as you can. Do not let your buttock rise from the chair. With each movement repeat the Muscle Memory message, “I enjoy Life.” “I enjoy Life.” “I enjoy Life.” Make a list to use with this Muscle Memory exercise. The list should be long and include such things as the different foods you enjoy, the different kinds of recreation you enjoy, the different people you enjoy, your job (if you enjoy it), your spouse (maybe), all the things you enjoy. Tack the list at eye level, and focus on it as you sway from side to side and repeat the Muscle Memory message, “I enjoy Life.” “I enjoy Life.” “I enjoy Life.” This Muscle Memory exercise is designed to convince your subconscious mind that Life has many good things to offer. It is designed to make your mind realize that you are not starting this program from scratch: there are many things that you are already happy about. Make the list long. Don’t stare at that blank piece of paper. List small things; such as the delicious taste of a fresh peach or the thrill of watching a sunset or reading a good book. by Alexander Hope. Make the list long. Now sway from side to side and repeat, “I enjoy Life.” “I enjoy life.” “I enjoy life.” as you slowly read each line on your enjoy list. Over and over. Up and down the list. Smile as you read. Enjoy this exercise. This may be the only time you go around; wouldn’t it be insane to go through it all and not enjoy most of it? From this moment on you are going to look at Life through rose colored glasses. Step around the negatives if you can. Cope with them if you must. But each day tally up the things that you enjoy in general and the special things that you enjoyed for the day. If your peers think you have become an air-head because of your new positive attitude, if they think that it is not realistic to find enjoyable things in a world that appears to be crumbling, so be it, your peers have their own problems. They must deal with their own problems. Your problems are not within their power to solve. They solve theirs. You solve yours. If you attempt to solve your neighbor’s problems you will not only (in most cases) not succeed, but you will eat up precious time. Time that is needed to reprogram your subconscious mind so that you can solve your own problems and live the good Life. During this crucial period, just take care of yourself. Later, when you have helped you, you can help others. The boxer trains daily; learning to tighten his abdominal muscles to deflect his opponents’ punches. His subconscious learns by repetition to tighten the abdominal muscles at the slightest hint of an on coming blow. Use the Muscle Memory message, “I am assured.” as you flex the very muscles that protect “the brain of your lower body” your solar plexus. Walk through Life with an assurance that you can handle anything that comes your way. You can cope. You can mentally punch your way out of any bag that Life puts you in. You can keep punching when others have dropped to their knees and taken the count. You can stagger to your feet each time until Life has stopped punishing you and has finally started treating you like the champion you are. But this battle with Life takes stamina and good health both mental and physical; that’s why a daily dose of Muscle Memory will put you in great shape to get into the ring and start slugging. For this Muscle Memory exercise, find a photograph of your favorite hero (real or fictional) who epitomizes, in your mind, someone who has stood up and battled Life to the finish and was still standing at the final bell. Not the final bell called death, but the final bell called success. Put the photograph at eye level and concentrate on your image of your hero as you crunch your stomach muscles and repeat out loud the Muscle Memory message. “I am assured.” “I am assured.” “I am assured.” Do this exercise until your stomach muscles cramp with pain. Over and over again as you repeat, “I am assured.” “I am assured.” “I am assured.” It appears that Life doesn’t usually give up anything very easily. You have to battle for it. You have to be in condition to do battle. Only those who are in top mental and physical condition knock Life out and take the spoils. Start the battle now. Train and train some more. Picture yourself as the hero in your assured photograph. Visualize how your hero would cope with and defeat the problems in your life. Your hero wouldn’t sit on his overstuffed couch and pray or chant or passively wait for fate to solve his problems. Your hero would train and build up his strength. He would sacrifice time and pleasures to get into shape for the battle. He would step out of his residence and face Life head on. Visualize your hero coping with specific problems: with your job or your spouse or your neighbors. Visualize where your hero would live; what he would drive; how he would push forward to reach the goals you’ve written on one of your Muscle Memory wish lists. Cramp your stomach muscles as you repeat, “I am assured.” “I am assured.” “I am assured.” Concentrate on your hero’s photograph. Become your own hero. Chapter 12 Exercise Number Eleven: Abdominal Squeeze Sit on the edge of your chair and concentrate on flexing your abdominal muscles first down then up. Down then up. Repeat this movement until your abdominal muscles begin to ache. Now burn the Muscle Memory message, “I am assured,” “I am assured,” “I am assured,” into your receptive subconscious mind. When is the last time you had a strong, flat belly? Now is the time to show yourself that it can be done. You will be extremely proud of yourself because you know it is probably the most difficult part of your body to reshape. And in reshaping these most difficult muscles, you will also reshape and do more to discipline and reshape your subconscious mind than anything you have done thus far in Life. Start today. Know that when you come to the day, that your subconscious mind is convinced that you are assured of getting and becoming what and who you want to be, you will begin becoming what and who you want to be. No changes will begin until you have your subconscious mind on your side. Your subconscious can be your ally or your enemy. Wouldn’t it be much more logical to have it as your ally? Use this concentrated discipline that it takes to strengthen your stomach muscles, to also strengthen your mind muscles. Tighten your stomach muscles and then relax. Tighten and then relax. Tighten and then relax. Over and over again as you repeat the Muscle Memory message, “I am assured,” “I am assured,” “I am assured,” Concentrate on the photograph of your hero. Visualize your hero repeating the Muscle Memory message, “I am assured,” “I am assured,” “I am assured.” Picture his mouth forming the words. Visualize him in your seat doing the Muscle Memory exercise and repeating the Muscle Memory message, “I am assured,” “I am assured,” “I am assured.” Over and over again. Your hero wouldn’t stop when his muscles were a little fatigued; he would continue and push beyond his pain threshold. Follow his lead. Visualize doing as you are certain your hero would do. You must remember that your hero has the same musculature and the same size brain as you. He lives on the same Earth as you. He walks through the same time as you. He also has the same problems. Two of these problems are to keep his stomach muscles strong and to keep his subconscious mind stronger. Emulate him and do both with this Muscle Memory exercise. The cyclist pedals her racing sprocket-ed multi-speed bicycle until her muscles are past the pain threshold and then her subconscious slips into gear and her thighs move like free spinning windmills. With the next movement, you will engrave the Muscle Memory message, “I shall excel.” “I shall excel.” “I shall excel,” into the supreme gears of your fantastic brain. YVOB. It is hard to convince yourself to get up and go if you feel there is nothing worth striving for; or worse yet if you think you are so far down that you can’t get up. This next Muscle Memory exercise is designed to convince your subconscious mind that you are in possession of many good things. That your life has fullness. That there are many reasons to be happy (to some degree) now. You need this starting point. Because if you should think that all is futile, you will just curl up on your overstuffed couch and watch the world parade by. Parade by on the TV screen. You won’t even bother to sit at the window and watch the real world parade by. This Muscle Memory exercise will get you out in the world to watch the real parade. And as you progress through this Muscle Memory course, you will gain the courage to join the parade. And some day after hours and hours of Muscle Memory exercises, you will have the courage and ability to lead the parade. You will excel. That’s what this Muscle Memory course is all about: you will be the leader of the parade. What ever parade you wish to lead. Like any leader, you will have to make sacrifices to march at the head. Start that discipline now. As you kick out with your leg, think about kicking out all of the poor or negative habits that stop you from leading the crowd. Kick out at the lack of courage that stops you from venturing out into the world. Kick out at the lack of discipline to program time for further education. Most of all kick out the negative influences in your life; more than anything they must go. Empty all the negative things from your Life. Convince your subconscious mind that Life is worth living. You can start from a position of strength if you can convince your subconscious mind that you are not starting from the bottom. The idea that your subconscious mind will appreciate being at the rock bottom because, “I can’t get any lower so the only way to go is up,” is bunk. If you hit bottom, there is another way to go: you could just stand still. Standing still at the bottom is just as deadly as sinking toward it. You must convince your subconscious that you’re starting from a higher level. And now you will be able to excel. Chapter 13 Exercise Number Twelve: Thigh Curl Sit on the edge of your chair. Extend your right leg. Now curl your calf in toward the chair. Repeat the movement until your thigh muscles ache and then use the Muscle Memory message, “I shall excel.” “I shall excel.” “I shall excel.” Now do the same movement with your left leg. Remember make your thigh muscles ache. The list needed for this exercise should be a list of the things that you wouldn’t change. A long list of the things that you have done that make you proud. A list of the small things in Life in which you have excelled. Write and write more. Make the list at least a page long. Tack the list at eye level. Now as you do this Muscle Memory exercise, and as you repeat out loud, “I shall excel.” “I shall excel.” “I shall excel.” read the list of good things you’ve excelled in. Each time you read the list, you will remember another good thing that you neglected to list. You have excelled in small things, now you will excel in large things. And as you practice Muscle Memory, you will have even more avenues in which to excel. All of the possibilities in Life are yours if you just make the effort. Each day as you go out into the world, make sure that you realize how lucky you are to live in this country and to have most all of your survival problems solved. There is no need for you to start the day by tracking down food; just go to the market. No need to find shelter for the night; just go to your residence. No need to forge a path to your employment; just hop on the freeway. You really have nothing to do but build your future. All the other elements of survival have been provided you. All you have to do is earn the money to pay for them. This puts you about one hundred steps ahead of the people who preceded you. You may think that the old days were better; that you only had to find food and shelter; that you didn’t have to cope with the traffic problems and the financial problems and the crime problems; all of that may be true but remember; the entire day was spent just surviving. What a pointless existence. Why not excel? Why not be the best at your chosen path? Now, most everything is there for you. All you have to do is concentrate on obtaining it. Use this Muscle Memory exercise and the Muscle Memory message, “I shall excel.” “I shall excel.” “I shall excel.” and your special lists to convince your subconscious mind that there is very little for you to do but excel. You don’t need to trap food or build shelter or blaze trails. All you have to do is decide what you want or what you want to be and start moving toward that goal. The elements of survival have already been put in place for you. The water skier squats up and down as his muscles and his subconscious mind adjust to each wave and current of the water. After he is towed around repeated times, his mind has recorded each and every movement made by his muscles and now the ride is no longer an effort. Now it is a pleasure. Use the next Muscle Memory exercise to program your mind to feel natural with the demands you make on it. Use the Muscle Memory message, “I shall prevail.” “I shall prevail.” “I shall prevail.” If this is going to be your one time around, why not prevail? Why not be the one that is best known for the path you’ve chosen? Why not be the leader in your profession or your trade? It appears that Life has set the rules so that in order to prevail in any venture, you must be conspicuously honest, certifiably knowledgeable, and genuinely in love with what you are doing. All of these attributes are within you. Muscle Memory was designed to bring these attitudes out and cement then into your subconscious mind as a matrix for living. With this new Muscle Memory matrix, you will put yourself in a position to be the leader or craftsman of the year or a professional beyond compare. You will prevail. You will be the one who people come to when they think of hiring the best. You will step back into your residence each night with the glow that comes from being the best. And having the recognition of being the best. You can prevail in what ever you truly want to be. Remember the guy at the top is spending all of his time staying up there. You can use that same time to become more current. To educate yourself, on the most recent discoveries, in your field. You can move ahead at a much faster pace, because you have reprogrammed your mind to concentrate on your goals. Your subconscious mind will force you to sacrifice and study and perfect. You will prevail. Prevailing will also mean that you must be worthy of the position. If you are a craftsman, you must be top notch. If you are a professional, you must be current with all of your information and techniques. If you are a leader, you must be honest and forthright in your dealings with your followers or employees or constituents. Make a list, for this Muscle Memory exercise, that includes the positions that you need to prevail in in order to bring happiness into your life. This may be your only time around. Prevail. Do this Muscle Memory exercise and when the pain threshold is reached repeat, “I shall prevail.” “I shall prevail.” “I shall prevail.” and concentrate on the list that you have tacked at eye level. Think powerful thoughts. Think, “I shall prevail.” “I shall prevail.” “I shall prevail.” Chapter 14 Exercise Number Thirteen: Chair Squat Sit on the edge of your chair. Rise up twelve inches from the seat and then sit back down. Repeat until your thigh muscles ache and then use the Muscle Memory message, “I shall prevail.” “I shall prevail.” “I shall prevail.” Burn it into your subconscious. Tack your list at eye level and concentrate as you move through this Muscle Memory exercise. Read the list over and over again. Add to the list (in your mind) as you think of other things you desire to prevail in. Over and over again. As your thigh muscles begin to ache, repeat, “I shall prevail.” “I shall prevail.” “I shall prevail.” repeat and repeat until you feel the power of the exercise. Repeat and repeat until you feel that you will and shall prevail. Over and over again. Etch the powerful message onto the recording surface of your subconscious mind. Make it part of you. Know that you can prevail. All it takes is Muscle Memory and study, in your chosen profession or trade, and hours and days and months of sacrifice. But you will prevail. What else do you have to do with your time? Watch TV? Where will that get you? If you are to prevail, you must sacrifice time and energy in learning more about your trade or profession than the other guy. If he is better, or more knowledgeable, or more honest with his pricing, he will prevail. You must be the best at all levels. Each level takes a much larger sacrifice of time and energy. Use this Muscle Memory exercise to convince your subconscious mind that it is all worth it. Worth it because it is the only thing that will make you happy. You no longer wish to be a second class citizen. You wish to be the prevailing force in your business, trade or profession. To gain that position, you must excel at what you do. You must use Muscle Memory to program all the positive attitudes, into your subconscious mind, that will bring you to the point where you can prevail. This will not be an instant trip. It will take time and effort. There will be much less TV viewing. Much less socializing. Much less sleeping and resting. Much more concentrating on your future. Much more studying new discoveries and new information about your craft or profession. Much more time spent on your Muscle Memory exercises and wish lists. Start getting serious. The accumulation of Muscle Memory messages should be getting to your subconscious mind even though this may be your first session. Keep repeating. Now is the time to keep the enthusiasm high. The runner forces his body beyond the pain threshold by taking just one more step and then another until he is moving like an automaton without any conscious thought. Use this last movement to force the concept, “I am powerful.” “I am powerful.” “I am powerful.” into your subconscious mind. Being powerful is what it’s all about. Without power, you are subjected to all the indignities that Life can heap on you. Large or small they are still indignities. Being powerful means that you can make your own decisions about where you will live and where you will work and who will be your friends and who will be your spouse. If you have no power, many of these decisions are made by others. Others to whom you have given power over you life. You can take instruction or direction without giving up your power. Power is given up when you have no ability or right to make decisions. This Muscle Memory exercise is about power. You should feel power as you grin and grunt and make your calf muscles sing; these are the muscles that support you when you stand in the face of suppression on the job, at home, or in your community. Find a photograph of the most powerful individual you have met or read about. Tack the picture at eye level and as you move through this last Muscle Memory exercise defy this individual to be more powerful than you. Puff and grunt at the photograph as you bring your calf muscles to their pain threshold. Repeat the Muscle Memory message, “I am powerful.” “I am powerful.” “I am powerful.” over and over again. Do this last exercise with the enthusiasm of a cheerleader cheering for the leading team and the leading player on that team. The most powerful player on the team. Visualize that that powerful player is you. Think power. Exude power. Suck in big gulps of air. Bring the power into your body. Feel it rush through your body and burn in your aching calves. Up and down. Make your calf muscles work. Make them ache. Don’t stop. This is the last exercise. You can make extra effort. Think power. Repeat, “I am powerful.” “I am powerful.” “I am powerful.” If you have executed this Muscle Memory exercise with enthusiasm, your heart should be pounding, your calf muscles should be aching, and your mind should be jacked up and raring to go. For just this reason, it is best to perform the Muscle Memory exercises in the morning. Or else it’s like being all dressed up with no where to go. If you do the exercises at night, you will be all jacked up with nowhere to expend the energy. Chapter 15 Exercise Number fourteen: Calf Raises Sit on the edge of your chair. Raise your right foot up on its toes then slowly (with resistance) let it down, flexing your calf muscle. Make the movement up and down until you feel muscle ache in your calf. Now repeat the Muscle Memory message, “I am powerful.” “I am powerful.” “I am powerful.” Do the same with your left foot. And then do it with both feet. Make this a powerful exercise. Feel the power surge through your calf muscles and up through your body and into your brain. YVOB. Feel the rush. Make the rush carry the message of power to your subconscious mind. When your subconscious mind gets the message, you will know. You will feel your chest puff up and the blood rush to your face. You will feel more and more powerful, and as you continue the Muscle Memory exercises you will feel more and more and more powerful. Expend all of your energy. This is the last exercise. Really work your muscles. Really work your mind. This is a synergistic program. Your body and mind both become strong so they can help each other and you become what you want to be. As you work toward the last ounce of energy and strength left in you calf muscles, run the litany of Muscle Memory messages, “I have abundance.” “I am elated.” “I will be successful.” “I am confident.” “I am robust.” “I am a winner.” “I want prosperity.” “My world is bountiful.” “I am cheerful.” “I enjoy Life.” “I am assured.” “I shall excel.” “I shall prevail.” “I am powerful.” Repeat them over and over again. Flex your calf muscles again and again and again. Look at the photograph of your hero and of the powerful individual you admire. Scan your wish lists and lists of goals and of things you already have. Repeat and repeat. When you feel you can not go any further run the litany three more times as you work both your left and right calf muscles at the same time. “I have abundance.” “I am elated.” “I will be successful.” “I am confident.” “I am robust.” “I am a winner.” “I want prosperity.” “My world is bountiful.” “I am cheerful.” “I enjoy Life.” “I am assured.” “I shall excel.” “I shall prevail.” “I am powerful.” Now repeat it again. And a third time. Relax. Congratulations. You have completed your Muscle Memory power session. Complete your Muscle Memory movements daily (morning or night) force your fantastic Infinite Computer YVOB to lead you to heights beyond your fondest dreams. Don’t stop dreaming. And start living your dreams. This may be your only time around. Be the best you can. If you already have an exercise routine, substitute it for the Muscle Memory exercises, but remember to work to your pain threshold, and then start repeating the Muscle Memory messages. If you use free weights, work from heavy to light and get down to where the last reps are done with no weights; fatigue your muscles before you start the Muscle Memory messages. Do the same if you are using workout equipment: move the pin higher and higher until you are pulling the lightest weigh and until your muscles are fatigued. If you use cables, start with the greatest number of cable you can handle and remove one each time you have forced the last rep from those cables. Get down to one cable before you start using Muscle Memory messages, and then finish by flexing the muscles with no cable at all. Use dynamic tension. Work hard! You will succeed! Have a great day. Alexander Hope. ### Other Smashwords Titles by Alexander Hope: