A case study!

Hey – here’s a case study!

Travis, a young man, recently contacted me to let me know just HOW MUCH the Hate Your Way To Happiness programme had helped him and his miserable existence.
Travis is his REAL NAME – he’s not ashamed! This is what he said:

“Dear Anthony

Thanks so much for introducing me to HYWTH! It has changed my life, and for the better, which is a real bonus.
Let me tell you a little about myself. I am a genuine 27-year-old male person. I like many of the things other genuine 27-year-old males like, such as females aged 18-35, sports, television, good food, and socialising. Nothing out of the ordinary, right? Right!

Except.

Yeah, except. Except for the fact that I had an enormous black hole at the core of my being, filled with nothing but pure, undiluted disappointment.
It was a hole that threatened to dwarf my entire body. That’s how big it was! (Note: I am of above average height.)

No matter what I did, it seemed nothing could fill this gaping chasm/yawning void. And believe me, I tried a lot of things. Here is a list of some of them:

1. Yoga
2. ‘Extreme’ sports
3. Sexual orgies
4. Non-sexual orgies
5. Buddhism
6. Social work
7. Self esteem ‘gymnastics’
8. Hypnotism
9. Learning a musical instrument
10. Christianity
11. Satanism
12. Martial arts
13. Marital arts
14. Art
15. Numerous dodgy ‘popular’ self-help courses

These are just 15 of the things I tried. There are others, also! (Contact me for a full list.)

Needless to say, they were all utterly useless. I’d almost given up hope, when a friend* suggested I try to ‘Hate my Way To Happiness’!

Initially, I was sceptical. Hey, who wouldn’t have misgivings about a programme that is so radical, so revolutionary, that it has been mocked, derided and discredited by the great majority of so-called experts in psychology and personal well being around the world?

But then I thought, hey, what the fuck do those fucking quack bastards know anyway?

So I gave it a shot. And even after simply taking the first step – acknowledging my own self-hatred and burying it deep within me – a profound change had taken place.

I realised that the cause of the black hole engulfing my above average height frame/soul was optimism. Optimism, ambition, and high expectations.

Those cancerous feelings were eating away at my metaphorical guts – and I realised that if I filled that space up with hate, I need never be disappointed again! I could apportion blame at will, transferring my feelings outwards, onto external sources!

Now, I never expect a result to fall my way. Why would it? The people and organisations out there that hate me, just as I hate them, are conspiring against me. It’s a weird feeling of release that I can only compare to that peculiar mindset most people associate with English sports fans. And do you know something?

It liberated me!

So thank you, Anthony. Thank you from the bottom of my hate-filled heart. You have changed my life (for the better, as previously noted).

Yours in hate

Trevor (27)

PS. Please feel free to use this personal correspondence for promotional purposes as you see fit.”


So there you have it – it worked for Trevor, and it could work for you too!

Keep the hate alive

Anthony

The Greatest Hate of All!

Hello again.

This week I’d like to introduce you to the first step in Hating Your Way to Happiness! It’s simple – but it’s very important.

Take a moment and think. Who is the most hateful, moronic, irritating, asinine person you know?

That’s right – it’s you! And it’s me! It’s each and every one of us. But, assuming you are reading this alone, it’s you.

Recognising your own essential hatefulness is a key element in hating your way to happiness. Hating yourself is loathing with someone you love to hate!

And the easiest way to begin your journey of self-hatred is by picking out something you hate about yourself. Isolate it. Don’t let it talk to its friends, or family. Let it fester.


A Simple Exercise

1. Think about your body. Consider it. And ask yourself this: What is one, single, solitary aspect of my physical self that I simply cannot stand?

I chose the dark circles under my eyes.

2. Think, really think, about why you hate this physical feature. Come up with some reasons.

For example, I hate the dark circles under my eyes because they make me look tired. But they don’t make me look tired in a glamorous, rock and roll, excessive lifestyle kind of way. They make me look tired in a ‘stayed up late because he couldn’t stand the idea of a sleep filled with dreams of inadequacy and social isolation being the only barrier between the dark of night and another soul-deadening, life-depleting day at work’ kind of way. I hate those dark circles because they articulate to the world my own lethargy and stunted ambition, my surrender to a world that doesn’t care I exist.
I also hate them because they make me look a bit like Jon English, star of Australian Play School and mediocre sitcoms.

Now do the same for yourself!

3. Write down your feelings about this physical aspect of yourself that you hate. Write them down in detail. Pour your heart out.

4. Memorise what you have written.

5. You now have two choices. Either hide what you have written in a place no one else will ever find it; or destroy it completely. Do NOT put these thoughts on a web page or ‘blog’. Although these are rarely read by anyone other than yourself, the chance is still there that someone may stumble across it!

6. Most IMPORTANTLY of all: never, ever, EVER ‘learn to love’ or accept what you hate about your body. And do not try to change it.

Hate it.

People need continuity. They need a reference point. An unchanging source of uncomfortable consistency. In future, you will find this inner hatred an invaluable tool when it comes to projecting your hatred outwards. It will be your reserve well of bile.

Be bigoted about yourself!

7. Choose an aspect of your personality you dislike. Repeat steps 1 to 6.


There. Now you’re on your way to happiness!

In the words of noted troubadour John ‘Cougar’ Melancholy [a small joke – his name is actually ‘Mellencamp’]: It hurts so good!

Later, haters!

Anthony

Welcome to HYWTH!

Hello, and welcome to the first in a regular series of articles designed to help you ‘Hate Your Way to Happiness!’
Many people find that life is difficult, and while the great majority of these folks are whinging, workshy layabouts, some genuinely decent ladies and gents feel that the pressures of everyday living are just about too much for them.
These might not be the attention-hungry media whores who throw themselves in front of trains, delaying the reasonable commuter’s journey to his or her place of work; and they might not be the deluded souls who feel that self-mutilation is the key to personal growth.

Nope, these are ordinary people. Ordinary people like you or I. And I’m here to help you, just as I’ve helped myself.

Over the course of these articles I intend to espouse to you my theories of social energy, negative social energy, and positive negative social energy. As you can see, I am unafraid of oxymorons. After all, a moron without an ox is just a moron, right? Right!

Seriously, though, what I have come to learn in the course of my research is that ‘hate’ can be harnessed to help you in your own life. Hate doesn’t have to be frowned upon - that’s just the sort of insane thinking that millions of years of social evolution has fooled us into believing! Don’t go with the pack - go with the herd. The Hate Your Way to Happiness herd!

Remember when Johnny Lydon from the pop group Public Image Pty Ltd said “Anger is an energy”? Well, he was onto something! (He was slightly off-track, however, when he predicted that in future ‘roads’ would assist us by ‘rising up’, instead of forcing us to use our legs in the primitive walking-style to which we’re still shackled. Keep tinkering, Johnny! We think you’re A-OK!)

Over the coming weeks and months I’m going to demonstrate to you that active loathing can be as useful to your own personal welfare as eating a fibre-rich breakfast and avoiding warzones. But possibly not as useful as avoiding Boyzone! [Former Irish boy band.] Just kidding - it’s much more useful than that!

So settle back, relax, and accept the hate into your life. I’ll be sending you all these useful and life-enriching newsletters on a regular basis, but if you’d prefer not to receive them - and more fool you, if that’s the case! - then just drop me a note and I’ll bugger you right off my mailing list.

Alternately, have a look at www.hateyourwaytohappiness.blogspot.com. I’ll be posting the latest articles up there, just as soon as I’ve mailed them out to you. And if you think a friend would be interested, why not forward this message onto them? They’ll thank you!

Anyway - until next time
Keep up the hate!

Anthony