Tony Robbins -Re-Awaken_the_Giant_Within

egin to lay the neurological networking to create laughter on a regular basis. As you do this again and
again, you’ll find it very easy to laugh and you’ll certainly have fun.
Anyone can continue to feel good if they already feel good, or if they’re “on a roll”—it doesn’t take
much to accomplish this. But the real key in life is to be able to make yourself feel good when you don’t
feel good, or when you don’t even want to feel good. Know that you can do this instantaneously by
using your body as a tool to change state. Once you identify the physiology attached to a state, you can
use it to create the states you desire at will. Just by changing our physiology, we can change our level of
performance. Our capability is always there, and what we’ve got to do is put ourselves into states where
it is accessible.
The key to success is to create patterns of movement that create confidence, a sense of strength,
flexibility, a sense of personal power, and fun. Realize that stagnation comes from lack of movement.
Can you think of an old person, someone who doesn’t “get around much anymore”? Getting old is not a
matter of age; it’s a lack of movement. And the ultimate lack of movement is death.
If you see children walking along the sidewalk after a rain, and there’s a puddle in front of them, what
are they going to do when they get to that puddle? They’re going to jump in! They’re going to laugh,
splash around, and have a good time. What does an older person do? Walk around it? No, they won’t
just walk around it—they’ll complain the whole time! You want to live differently. You want to live with a
spring in your step, a smile on your face. Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new
priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don’t have to have a reason to feel good—
you’re alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!
FOCUS: THE POWER OF CONCENTRATION
If you wanted to, couldn’t you get depressed at a moment’s notice? You bet you could, just by focusing
on something in your past that was horrible. We all have some experience in our past that’s pretty bad,
don’t we? If you focus on it enough, and you picture it and think about it, pretty soon you’ll start to feel
it. Have you ever gone to an awful movie? Would you go back to that awful movie hundreds of times?
Of course not. Why? Because it wouldn’t feel good to do this! Then why would you go back to the awful
movies in your head on a regular basis? Why watch yourself in your least favorite roles, playing against
your least favorite leading lady or man? Why play out business disasters or bad career decisions again
and again? Of course, these “B” movies are not limited only to your past experiences. You can focus on
something right now that you think you’re missing out on, and feel bad. Better yet, you can focus on
something that hasn’t even happened yet, and feel bad about it in advance! Though you may laugh at
this now, unfortunately that’s what most of us do day to day.
If you wanted to feel like you were in ecstasy right now, could you? You could do this just as easily.
Could you focus on or remember a time when you were in absolute, total ecstasy? Could you focus on
how your body felt? Could you remember it with such vivid detail that you are fully associated to those
feelings again? You bet you could. Or you could focus on things you’re ecstatic about in your life right
now, on what you feel is great in your life. And again, you could focus on things that haven’t happened
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