Happy New Year 2011

Wishing everyone a happy new year, Rock 2011. I request everyone to do Sapling or to get involved in sapling programs as a volunteer, Isha Yoga conducts sapling programs every year, by involving in programs such as this we can enjoy a "happy" new year every year :) Saplings are available for free in every parts of the city, every sapling counts. Planting trees are easy now :)

Golden Years

COMPLETED 11 GOLDEN years in martial arts, years before in 1999 December is when it all started, still remember the classes, I started with Karate, the Dojo was high on Disciple and had worked with loads of "Kyias" I was very enthusiastic when I learned that our school will be conducting Karate classes after the quarterly exams. I wanted to be part of it for sure, only later I came to know that it was compulsory but it was compulsory, many boys hated it and tried to flee but I tried my best not to skip any of the classes. Later I enrolled directly under my Sensei. I was selected among the best 3 in the belt exam out 40 pulse and was part of a 10 member demo among some 30 odd students, that selection and Demo still inspires me, even today. Years seem to have passed really quickly. I had a break in between and when I came back I was in full flow, attending 2 to 3 classes a day, have spend ample time with my master, used to come to my home just to sleep. I could feel that I was transforming into a martial artitst and a good one under the guidance of my master. Teaching Kickboxing to others was a pleasure and that desire still drives me strong. Later I started learning muaythai which is even more intense even in its lighter version. Today I am qualified to teach martial arts and I am looking forward to open a club, truly one of its kind with a quality blend of martial arts, mind workouts such as Meditation, NLP and more. Looking forward to a very bright future and career in martial arts, fitness and mind workouts..Happy Practicing and Merry Christmas

Michale

Michale Jackson is back with his album "Michale" am just loving his duet with Akon. "hold my hand" which is another Michael magic on love Its said that he has composed another 100 songs which is yet to be released and he wanted it to release it after his death, so that it would be sold for a very high price and his kids can enjoy the fortune. Looking at the reach of the album which is released last week its very clear that his music which is yet to be released will be purchased at a very high price. What a cool though by Michale, "100 songs of Micheal" well then heaven can wait!! though he has composed songs in advance, his sudden death is a big lose to music BEYOND DOUBT, we lost the music which was in his mind, that is a big lose, we lost a masterpiece, we lost something very precious but for the moment lets enjoy and cherish his latest work and lets be optimistic and hope that the best of Michale is yet to come in his unreleased 100's

Hold My Hand

Belt Stall

Many marital artists have an affinity towards acquiring belts in different styles, that is actually good “katradi kai alavu kalla dadu ulaga alavu” “known is a drop, unknown is an ocean” but that shouldn't be in the form of greed. Yes this blog is about the dark side of martial arts. It is wonder full if you have a IIIrd Dan black belt in all the famous styles in the world, but to deserve it, it will take 2 third of your life. But I see some of the belts are being literally purchased in the name of 1 day to 1 week workshops, if there is a belt it should be given by obeying the law that the style or club has imposed. You can shorten the period if a student is talented or extremely talented in the lot. like some have been awarded black belts in 2 years where the normal duration is 3 which can be done if the student is worth the belt, but you cannot open a black belt stall "opened to black belts of all styles" and award 2nd Dan and 3rd Dan buy teaching them a few extra Katas, some masters are making full use of the greed in among many instructors and according to me in the subject age is never an issue people of all age would love add grades to their belt, marital arts has more zen values to it than commercial interests, commercial interests always clashes with the art values especially when the art gets popular, but this most not be exploited and definitely must not happen in marital arts because a martial art teacher is looked up as a guru, in eastern traditions like in India a master is ahead of God. so when a teacher isn't sincere he is playing with the consciousness of not just a student but with an entire generation. When it comes to belt test it should not been seen as an easy way to earn money, only those who deserved should be passed, all the students cannot pass all the time, a good club will have some students who would have failed to pass through but that message would be sent to them without hurting his heart, a student should earn his belt it should not be awarded to him by the number of classes he attended or the years he spent in the club. The Quality of black belt is important, what I mean by quality is internal, mainly kicks, when it comes to kicks many fizzle out, I have seen a number of black belts seniors and juniors who haven't mastered the kick entering into teaching, because teaching boosts their ego enormously and of course its a white colored job to earn money, I have literally seen black belts just throw their legs in the name of kicks, people will definitely watch in awe because they will be stuck in the acrobatics of the performer, my heart used to burn when I see this and that is when I made my mind that I will teach martial arts no matter what come may. Years before in Chennai I have heard of a Japanese master who had come to distribute and conduct belt test of his style's branch in the city was issuing black belts to existing black belts in all the styles, it was said to opened to black belts of all styles, many masters thronged to get certified from him because getting certified from an international Japanese master "directly" in your local area doesn't happen everyday and for the instructors who thronged in that will increase their status among the martial arts circle more importantly in their students group, the master made full use of it and charged heavily and issued 2nd, 3rd and 4th Dan black belts by giving them training in a span of 48 hours. Let the belts be earned through performance not through money, if money is the major criteria then Millionaires and Billionaires will have a black belt around their while partying, that wont be a good sight for any martial arts lover

One more, once again

I am writing this blog today just to salute Sachin Tendulkar. You have made 1.5 Billion Indians proud and millions of fans like "Sachin Austin's" dad in Australia. Thank you, Thank you and Thank you. Sachin Tendulkar today has scored his 50th Test Hundreds, many people would have never imagined this in 1989 when he went out to bat against Pakistan nor the selectors or his first Captain and present Chief Selector Krishnamachary Srikkanth would have imagined this on that day!! India's Superman, Superstar and role models for Millions of Indians has created History which no human can ever surpass atleast in the long future. Now since he has completed 50 Test Centuries and one more Test remaining in South Africa, people are now hoping that the time for him to reach 100 International Centuries his just a few months away, with the world cup around the corner. Sachin has scored more runs in the world cup than many people's International Carrier..lol and I am not sure if people have realised that this is Sachin's 6th World Cup appearance which in itself is a record, he equals Javid Miandad's world record for appearing in 6 World Cups from 75 to 96. Miandad would have imagined that his record would stand for ever :) but looking at Sachin's fitness and form he can easily carry on till the next world cup :) but there are chances that he would retire from ODI's if we win the world cup. But Ravi Shastri who has watched and analyised Sachin from Close quarters has said that if Sachin retires it would be from all forms he wont quit one by one :( I would again like to thank Sachin Tendulkar for bringing joy to Million if not Billion of people around the world, if I further continue this blog I will be forced to write all the records one by one and that may be a bit boring for some and since the list wont end cause I may continue writing for another 48 Hrs. and he may continue making new records, some more interesting fact that happened in Sachin's carrier today is that he completed 14500 Runs in Test cricket and appeared in his 175th Test match, the first man to do both again, many say his successor would be Ricky Pointing but after today's knock Pointing is 11 Centuries behind!! 11 Centuries can make a batsmen earn the tag of a Good Test Cricketer!! and some 2027 Runs behind and by the way I came to know that today is Ricky Ponting's birthday :) carry on and on master

Love

should I say thank you or should I say I love you should I say you are the greatest or should I say you are the best

The Open Secret

I am gonna explain what is the technique which is discussed in the books of law of attraction like THE SECRET. The law of attraction which has been hugely popular in the main stream media by Rhonda Brynne and her team through the movie and the book THE SECRET followed by another book THE POWER. I often wonder how can an author keep writing books on the same topic and the teachers keep on conducting new programs in the name THE LAW OF ATTRACTION. I am not talking about Rhonda Brynne here. I have read many books with the tag loa and according to me the best is THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND by Joseph Murphy, THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH by Wallace Wattles, THINK AND GROW RICH by Napoleon Hill and THE SECRET by Rhonda Brynne and more recently THE KEY TO UNLOCK THE SECRET OF LAW OF ATTRACTION and The law of attraction by Michael Losier. Many authors have written on the same topic over and over again but the fact is the ultimate secret of the loa is simple and can be explained in less than 1 page!

Step 1: Ask what you want, I know most of them will be guessing to whom? asking is step through which you make your self clear on the object what you want, it may be an object or anything else

Step 2: Feel that you have already owned it, in a sense this step is to deceive your subconscious mind, because if you can device your subconscious mind then you are through! cause what ever you make it to believe it actives that for you automatically. whether its hypnosis or law of attraction or brain washing, the key is to pacify your conscious mind and insert the commands to your subconscious mind.

"you are what you think you are"

Krishna, Jesus and Buddha and many other thinking minds like the ancient Indian saints have explained things regarding this but none of them have said things in the open.

one of the ways to deceive your subconscious mind by acting as though you have already achieved what you want. Other ways to attract things is to visualize what you want but remember to visualize from the climax of your target, never think of the route, how? it automatically happens if you impress your subconscious mind with your visualization.

Bottom line:

#understand what you want

#feel with emotion that what you want is already yours

#visualize your target as already achieved

#visualization would be more effective when you do it moments before you sleep and when you wake up

Ask and feel with emotion and that's it!! you will receive what you want with very little effort

there is no greater secret than these methods till date, but the authors continues to manipulate with words and are successful in selling their books and links on the same tag "The Law of Attraction" the secret is open secret and there is no more secret on this to be uncovered

I am a Psychologist,

Hypnotic and Law of attraction practitioner