Alpha Mind Training Course

I took this four day course quite a few years ago and it has made a huge difference in my life.  I am a multi-tasker constantly being distracted by the urgent rather than the important so yeah I get alot done ... but do I get the right things done?  I found the alpha mind training improved my focus daily, allowing me to be more in the moment rather than performing mental gymnastics with a number of different things.  It helped me define ME and what I consider important, helped me with my goal setting ... my fear of failure ... my unwillingness to take risks, it showed me how to use my brain and achieve more with a lot less emotional anxiety and stress, lets just say that I loved the program and what it has done for me.   This program also totally lines up with the I Ho Chuan and its concepts ... so as far as I can see you can't go wrong with taking this course.

Go for It ... You Won't be Sorry

Crazy and Happy

Had a good week this week,  spent time on my Cane form and it is all roughed in which is really encouraging.  

Struggling with the stick form as parts of it do not seem to be transitioning very well.  I’ve been paying attention to the foot work as this is usually where the problem starts but it hasn’t really been working out very well, not sure why!

 

Playing with the form I designed is exciting and frustrating ... I`ve been trying to change the orientation on parts of it so that it shows better as a performance but I keep changing my mind so I am essentially driving myself crazy with options.  Will have to ask someone to watch me tonight at practice to get some second opinions.  

My learning Spanish got seriously dropped ... company and recovery from the said company and I haven`t done anything for 3 weeks.  Not good, got my office set back up and will get back into it this weekend. 

The art project is rolling ... picked up a book on cartooning for beginners and having fun with it.  You had to know that anything arty I did would involve words ... good grief. :)

Parental Descretion Advised - Womens Health

The past week was medical stuff ... due to the fact that my mother had breast cancer I am considered high risk so they (medical professionals) want me to have a mammogram and such every year now since I turned 50.   I don’t like getting an x-ray ... seems counter intuitive to zap yourself with radiation every year to check if you have cancer ... so I have been investigating other options.   During my research I discovered that this technology is used a lot as a diagnostic tool (not just for breast exams) and is reputed to find the potential for tumor growth much earlier than an x-ray and eliminates the radiation factor unless absolutely necessary.

This is kind of personal yet I worry that many women are not aware that they have any other choice outside of the standard mammogram.  So if you need more info here is a link to a website,

http://www.iact-org.org/articles/articles-second-look.html   read this one start to finish as it presents both sides of the story.

I still take the report to my doctor and get a referral for an ultrasound of any suspicious areas, which they always did after the mammogram anyway, now I just skip the mammogram and the radiation.  This is new and controversial but for the earlier treatment alone I believe it is worth investigating.

Behind already and its only April

So I had company for the last ten days and although it was great to see everybody (and I mean everybody) it was very busy, noisy, crowded and messy at my house and challenging to get my training time in.  I was all up to date on my goals and now I am behind on everything.  So cranking on the requirements, and I can’t remember all the acts of kindness that I did in that period of time,  probably lots, but I never wrote them down so I have a serious hole in my notebook.  Made the moves for my forms without the stick or cane, having a two year old in the vicinity makes it kind of scary as she moves pretty fast and I was concerned she would run (runs everywhere) into the danger zone.  Got in some work on my own form so its fresh again and of course I made a few modifications to improve the flow.  Finally got started on my art journal and realized that this is going to be a lot more work than I expected.   My little cartoon has been a couple of weeks in the making.  Doing a project per week, now seems pretty ambitious.  I will keep working at it and hopefully it will come together a lot faster as I get more proficient. 

Plastic

So last year one of my goals was to reduce the amount of plastic in my life ... which turned out to be quite the challenge and required some very different buying and storage choices (mostly in my kitchen).  And because I was very focused on the subject I learned a lot,  the link below however is totally new for me and very exciting (in an environmental nerd sort of way).  Thank you Ben Conway (studying in China with my girls) for bringing this to my attention.  Truly gives a person hope for the healthy future of mother earth with people like this young man thinking about and coming up with innovative solutions for the problems that we have created.

A 19-year-old has developed an ocean cleanup array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic from the world's oceans.

More info: http://bit.ly/11E4ZK2

Watch his TED talk here: http://bit.ly/PFHhrT