Energy

Have you ever seen a person’s bad mood ruin a get together or some one else’s magnetic personality unleash a positive ripple of energy through a gathering, meeting or event, have you ever witnessed this. If a teacher is unbalanced and stressed, their class suffers. If a manager is overwhelmed and impatient the team is not unified and powerful. If Mom and Dad is depressed, out of shape and disconnected from their life purpose, the family becomes stagnant and void of bliss and growth. If teachers feel disconnected from the passion they once had for teaching, the students suffer.
How do we stay energized eating the right foods, drinking the right drinks, getting enough sleep? Filling our day with right things that make us positive rather than negative. Our jobs, the music we listen to the people we surround our selves with. Rather than looking for the things in our lives that will energize us, we should be looking first at the things that are causing our energy to be leaking or draining us.
Things we can do! Create, Have fun, Peace and Quiet / Meditation Just do things in silence let your spirit speak to you, listen to your thoughts and emotions figure them out. The music you listen to, the words in the song, the words we hear spoken and we speak. If we tell a child they are lazy and selfish those words will stick with you. Every word that is spoken is set into motion, which will be a cause and effect. Be careful what you say.
It is unbelievable how negative energy spreads. Positive begets positive. Negative begets negative.
Just as Gandhi said, BE the change you wish to see in the world.
Sifu Hayes
Silent River Kung Fu - Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada

Our Planet

At the rate that mankind is reaping and pillaging our lands such as deforestation and not replacing what is taken. We as the superior of the animal kingdom should be the ones that are managing and caring for the resources that Mother Earth has provided us with. For every tree that we cut we should be replacing with ten and maybe someday we will catch up to stabilize the deforestation that has already happened. I understand that we use a lot of lumber and have a need for it. But if it takes thirty seconds to a minute to cut a tree, limb it and get it ready to put on a truck and fifteen to twenty years for it to become that same size of tree well I guess we are on a road of no return. Then there is the pine beetle, it’s like Mother Nature stating if you don’t take care of this forest I will. Forest fires are important to the regrowth and cleansing of the forest. We are always trying to put them out to save the trees. I know! We hate to see all those trees go to waste. It’s a Catch-22.
Farmed trees are planted in rows and let grow from fifteen to twenty years then cut and replanted. The management people of these farms state that there is more wild life and ecosystem in that forest than there is in an eighty year old forest with a canopy, it seems that the canopy lets no sunlight threw to the forest floor which is knee deep in pine needles and so acidic that nothing will grow. There is a positive side to the tree farms; more tree management farms are needed, in Canada and United States. A win; win situation.
Then there is the very fragile ecosystem of the Rain Forests, and what deforestation is causing in that part of the world.

…The emerging viruses are surfacing from ecologically damaged parts of the Earth. Many of them come from the tattered edges of the rain forest or tropical savanna that is being settled rapidly by people. The tropical rain forests are the reservoirs of life on the planet… (including) viruses, since all living things carry viruses. In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the… flooding of people, and the dead spots of concrete all over the planet....
Quote…. Richard Preston The Hot Zone

Read this link. www.richardpreston.net/books/hz.html
Then click on, read excerpt from his book Hot Zone, if you have not already read his book. It’s a terrifying true story. Can we save this world; at least through the UBBT we are trying.
Sifu Hayes Silent River Kung Fu - Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada

Confidence VS. Arrogance

I found this article to be very helpful in understanding personalities.

Many people have wondered the differences of confidence vs. arrogance. The discussion of confidence vs. arrogance brings to light many similarities and differences between the two characteristics. Confidence vs. arrogance also focuses the attention on the way each of these characteristics affects the behavior of a given individual. Below is a list of differences and similarities between these two characteristics. You can decide for yourself when it comes to confidence vs. arrogance which characteristics fit you best accordingly. 


1. Confidences vs. arrogance both involve believing in one’s abilities. A person who is confident understands they have certain areas of strength. A person who is arrogant also believes that they have certain areas of strength. A person with confidence will also understand others maybe stronger, and that each person is a complete package of strengths and weaknesses so will remain humble in both. An arrogant person will often neglect to acknowledge weakness in light of playing up the strengths. 


2. Confidence vs. arrogance often stem from two different roots. Arrogance is often underplayed by insecurity. An arrogant person tends to be arrogant to compensate for areas of weakness that distress the individual. An arrogant person may seem to ignore any areas of weakness and only play up areas of strength, but they often do so because of an inability to come to terms with weakness. A confident person finds the root of their confidence in self-acceptance - a key confidence vs. arrogance difference. A confident person accepts their weaknesses or faults, even though they may not like them. This acceptance enables the confident person to handle faults with grace and without further compacting the areas of weakness with arrogance. These are key points when understanding confidence vs. arrogance. 


3. The effects of confidence vs. arrogance on relationships clearly mark the difference between the two characteristics. An arrogant person tends to brag and can put others down in an attempt to be the best or come out the coolest. A confident person is above such antics. They recognize their strengths and weaknesses, and allow that other people will have strengths and weaknesses. A confident person need not make life a competition, so a confident person is often much easier to be around. An arrogant person can be cocky and difficult to reason with, making conversation difficult and bothersome. 


4. The physical manifestations of confidence vs. arrogance also help distinguish them. Arrogance is often associated with a swaggering walk and a posture that is overly commanding and dominating. Body language of an arrogant person differs from that of a confident person. A confident person can adopt an open and easy posture that allows others to approach them. An arrogant person is often more aggressive and harder to approach. Confidence vs. arrogance involves truly two different characteristics, sharing only a perceived appreciation for a particular strength. Arrogance, sadly, often accompanies a lack of confidence so that the arrogant person still hurts underneath. The question of confidence vs. arrogance is not a difficult one, and most people would rather be on the confident side of the fence.
Sifu Hayes Silent River Kung Fu - Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada