First day of a week’s holiday, suppose to be gone to a family reunion but nature calls in the form of, I think it is food poisoning. I have been busy all last night and today, now very weak. But all should be good tomorrow. UBBT and everything else is out the window for today.
Sifu Hayes
www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
Friday, July 30, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Where’s The Love
When we are born our mother shows us how to love by holding us gazing into our eyes. That is when the happy neuro-chemicals flood the infant’s brain. These good feelings are what start’s the process of learning love. An infant can’t survive on it’s own. Without love we do not thrive. Those neurons that grow love contribute to the development of our ability to think, feel, create, imagine, act and care for ourselves in the best possible way. Our destructive aggressiveness happens when our natural emotional needs for a loving relationship get frustrated.
Confucius said that every human heart is alike. When this is realized it becomes the basis for living. If we are all alike we should live our lives according to the golden rule, which is understood in every culture and religion including the philosophy of Confucius. Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. The meaning for this is really forgiveness.
Natural empathy, or the ability to feel what others feel, is proof that man is essentially good. To be human we need to cultivate and develop the heart of compassion.
If we understand the great chain of being, it is our love that helps grow love in children. Confucius and his followers understood this wisdom, 2500 years ago. His main concern was human relationship. He understood that we were in alignment with our intrinsic purpose on this planet when we were able to have the best relationship with others. Our leaders need to run our countries so that relationships would be in the greatest harmony. Wow a great model for our leaders to embrace.
Why do we seem further from what Franklin Roosevelt stated, after seeing the catastrophe of war; there should be four R’s not three: reading, writing, arithmetic and relationships.
Confucius stated that the ideal person is one who can connect with others, one who can love.
How do we develop our capacity for love and compassion? Confucius said that this begins with tireless self-education. Explore our cultural heritage to understand what pilgrims who have gone before us have learned about love and how to achieve it. We must imagine this ideal and continue to develop this image so that we have a goal to aim for. Our heart of love and compassion is cultivated through our actions, what we do every day. Each day we must practice living up to our highest vision of love. We become more humane- we find our hearts- through giving. We need to open ourselves and passionately risk all for the sake of loving others.
Science has joined philosophy and spirituality in understanding that love is our root, answer, and what we are made of. Through a lifetime of self-exploration, we must look within ourselves to find the lost and hidden heart, because the source of love is within yourself.
Sifu Hayes
www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
Confucius said that every human heart is alike. When this is realized it becomes the basis for living. If we are all alike we should live our lives according to the golden rule, which is understood in every culture and religion including the philosophy of Confucius. Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. The meaning for this is really forgiveness.
Natural empathy, or the ability to feel what others feel, is proof that man is essentially good. To be human we need to cultivate and develop the heart of compassion.
If we understand the great chain of being, it is our love that helps grow love in children. Confucius and his followers understood this wisdom, 2500 years ago. His main concern was human relationship. He understood that we were in alignment with our intrinsic purpose on this planet when we were able to have the best relationship with others. Our leaders need to run our countries so that relationships would be in the greatest harmony. Wow a great model for our leaders to embrace.
Why do we seem further from what Franklin Roosevelt stated, after seeing the catastrophe of war; there should be four R’s not three: reading, writing, arithmetic and relationships.
Confucius stated that the ideal person is one who can connect with others, one who can love.
How do we develop our capacity for love and compassion? Confucius said that this begins with tireless self-education. Explore our cultural heritage to understand what pilgrims who have gone before us have learned about love and how to achieve it. We must imagine this ideal and continue to develop this image so that we have a goal to aim for. Our heart of love and compassion is cultivated through our actions, what we do every day. Each day we must practice living up to our highest vision of love. We become more humane- we find our hearts- through giving. We need to open ourselves and passionately risk all for the sake of loving others.
Science has joined philosophy and spirituality in understanding that love is our root, answer, and what we are made of. Through a lifetime of self-exploration, we must look within ourselves to find the lost and hidden heart, because the source of love is within yourself.
Sifu Hayes
www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
Friday, July 9, 2010
Brain Pathways
If you understand your thought patterns it lets you have a healthy attitude, improving your self esteem and boosting your confidence.
When you learn something the brain connection and pathway is weak. The more frequently you think a particular thought the stronger the brain pathway becomes. Which forms a automatic and eventually unconscious habit of thinking. You are actually training your brain.
When learning to ride a bike you are training your brain. Your brain is learning how to keep balance, your eyes on the road, holding the handle bars and steering in the right direction. The more you practice the stronger your bicycle riding pathways become. Eventually you are able to get on your bicycle and ride without thinking. You are operating on automatic. You have created a strong brain pathway that coordinates everything you have previously learned about bicycle riding and compiled it into something like bicycle software, uploaded and is operating seamlessly in your mind.
Your brain works the same way in forming your attitude and what you think of yourself. As a child your attitudes and thoughts about yourself are formed from everything you’ve heard and believed from important and influential people in your life,-- parents, siblings, teachers, friends, etc... If you have had a negative experience as a child, like made fun of by classmates not invited to play with them, you probably have a negative attitude and low self-esteem thought pattern regarding friends and social situations. So as a adult all this surfaces at social gatherings you experience anxiety, fear and nervousness. --People don’t like me, --Nobody is going to talk to me, --I don’t know what to say, --I was only invited because they had to. Believing this, and with emotional energy and acted on with conviction is what’s called your dominant thought pattern or dominant attitude, it all operates on automatic, triggering conscious and unconscious feelings and reactions to the circumstances of your life.
The good news is that it can all be changed by choosing what you are feeling and thinking, when you become aware of your attitude and beliefs. With practice you can create new brain pathways by developing new thoughts and behaviors, these will replace the old patterns of thinking and attitudes.
How to create new brain pathways.
Awareness-- All change begins with awareness.--- Notice your thoughts, feelings, words and actions. Practice---Focus your attention on the present, what do you see hear smell taste and feel?
Choice-- An act of making a decision: consciously choosing the thoughts and feelings for a healthy attitude and your goals and dreams.--- Accept responsibility for your thoughts. Practice--- Choose an attitude or goal you desire. Think about it twice a day in the morning when you get up and before you go to bed.
Change-- Transform your thoughts and feelings toward your goals and attitude. Fear of failure is still going to step in but remember you have to burn new brain pathways. Practice---Change your thinking when ever you notice you are slipping back to the old you. Change is hard to do but with practice things become unconsciously easy. Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
If you understand your thought patterns it lets you have a healthy attitude, improving your self esteem and boosting your confidence.
When you learn something the brain connection and pathway is weak. The more frequently you think a particular thought the stronger the brain pathway becomes. Which forms a automatic and eventually unconscious habit of thinking. You are actually training your brain.
When learning to ride a bike you are training your brain. Your brain is learning how to keep balance, your eyes on the road, holding the handle bars and steering in the right direction. The more you practice the stronger your bicycle riding pathways become. Eventually you are able to get on your bicycle and ride without thinking. You are operating on automatic. You have created a strong brain pathway that coordinates everything you have previously learned about bicycle riding and compiled it into something like bicycle software, uploaded and is operating seamlessly in your mind.
Your brain works the same way in forming your attitude and what you think of yourself. As a child your attitudes and thoughts about yourself are formed from everything you’ve heard and believed from important and influential people in your life,-- parents, siblings, teachers, friends, etc... If you have had a negative experience as a child, like made fun of by classmates not invited to play with them, you probably have a negative attitude and low self-esteem thought pattern regarding friends and social situations. So as a adult all this surfaces at social gatherings you experience anxiety, fear and nervousness. --People don’t like me, --Nobody is going to talk to me, --I don’t know what to say, --I was only invited because they had to. Believing this, and with emotional energy and acted on with conviction is what’s called your dominant thought pattern or dominant attitude, it all operates on automatic, triggering conscious and unconscious feelings and reactions to the circumstances of your life.
The good news is that it can all be changed by choosing what you are feeling and thinking, when you become aware of your attitude and beliefs. With practice you can create new brain pathways by developing new thoughts and behaviors, these will replace the old patterns of thinking and attitudes.
How to create new brain pathways.
Awareness-- All change begins with awareness.--- Notice your thoughts, feelings, words and actions. Practice---Focus your attention on the present, what do you see hear smell taste and feel?
Choice-- An act of making a decision: consciously choosing the thoughts and feelings for a healthy attitude and your goals and dreams.--- Accept responsibility for your thoughts. Practice--- Choose an attitude or goal you desire. Think about it twice a day in the morning when you get up and before you go to bed.
Change-- Transform your thoughts and feelings toward your goals and attitude. Fear of failure is still going to step in but remember you have to burn new brain pathways. Practice---Change your thinking when ever you notice you are slipping back to the old you. Change is hard to do but with practice things become unconsciously easy. Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
Friday, July 2, 2010
Rude Awakening
July 1, 5:30 AM, look out side the roof of the garage and the lawn looks a little white, Oh No Frost!
(They say that if there is frost and you catch it soon enough spray water on the plants and you can save them.)
Well out of the house as fast as I can (in my sleep wear). Feel the leaves of the tomatoes –confirmation-- there is frost-- Grab the watering can spray water on the tomatoes. Across the lawn I run, full speed slipping and sliding on the frosty grass. Turn off the faucet (it’s a quarter turn valve) as I am trying to unhook the pest control sprayer, I’m undoing the hose, there is water spraying all over the place and I am getting wet. I am thinking to myself in a flustered not awake flurry, why has the pressure not bled off the hose yet as the last thread is about to let loose and as I am standing in my own watery getting wet rainbow of water. I finally was waking up enough realize I did not pay attention to the valve; I had turned the water on --not off! I let the water pressure bleed off, unhook the pest control hose, screw on the sprinkler hose, turn on the water. Oh what a lovely sound of --tosh—tosh—tosh of the sprinkler wetting the leaves to keep the frost from settling on the plants. Back up to the house slipping and sliding across the lawn, grab the sprinkler can fill it from the rain barrel and sprinkle the leaves of the tomatoes again.
By now the deck where the tomatoes are is now frost laden and I am standing admiring my work hoping and praying I had saved the plants my wife had toiled over for so many days. I look down at my bare feet they are melting the frost on the deck, I forgot to put on some shoes. Every ten minuets I poured water over those tomatoes until the sun broke over the trees, to shine its warmth on those tomatoes.
Later that day we checked all of the plants not a speck of frost damage. Which makes me wonder did I save the day for those plants!
Happy Canada Day
Sifu Hayes
www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada.
(They say that if there is frost and you catch it soon enough spray water on the plants and you can save them.)
Well out of the house as fast as I can (in my sleep wear). Feel the leaves of the tomatoes –confirmation-- there is frost-- Grab the watering can spray water on the tomatoes. Across the lawn I run, full speed slipping and sliding on the frosty grass. Turn off the faucet (it’s a quarter turn valve) as I am trying to unhook the pest control sprayer, I’m undoing the hose, there is water spraying all over the place and I am getting wet. I am thinking to myself in a flustered not awake flurry, why has the pressure not bled off the hose yet as the last thread is about to let loose and as I am standing in my own watery getting wet rainbow of water. I finally was waking up enough realize I did not pay attention to the valve; I had turned the water on --not off! I let the water pressure bleed off, unhook the pest control hose, screw on the sprinkler hose, turn on the water. Oh what a lovely sound of --tosh—tosh—tosh of the sprinkler wetting the leaves to keep the frost from settling on the plants. Back up to the house slipping and sliding across the lawn, grab the sprinkler can fill it from the rain barrel and sprinkle the leaves of the tomatoes again.
By now the deck where the tomatoes are is now frost laden and I am standing admiring my work hoping and praying I had saved the plants my wife had toiled over for so many days. I look down at my bare feet they are melting the frost on the deck, I forgot to put on some shoes. Every ten minuets I poured water over those tomatoes until the sun broke over the trees, to shine its warmth on those tomatoes.
Later that day we checked all of the plants not a speck of frost damage. Which makes me wonder did I save the day for those plants!
Happy Canada Day
Sifu Hayes
www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada.
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