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Because spinning is a very popular staff and sword martial art visual exercise, people tend to want to be ‘flashy” and look good, and it does work. One day I was talking to a younger man, half my age who had been rather arrogant and pushy, as I spoke to him I subconsciously spun the long stick in my hand effortlessly, and he on seeing this looked stunned, and from then on never acted cocky and arrogant with me again. I pretended not to notice.
But the point is, is that if you are fancy with a stick, staff, sword or whatever, you are showing that you have spent a lot of time practicing with that weapon, and if you are not even concentrating and you do something fancy they will take mental note, they would be fools to not be wary of you.
Watching a sword video, English two handed sword, the guy was holding the sword nimbly, loosely and showing fancy sword moves. In a real sword battle the sword would have been swiftly knocked out of his loose grip quickly.
Hollywood is not normal life, and fighting in movies sometimes is realistic, but the reality is that it is there to entertain you, so that you admire what you see and are entertained. that’s all.
Sometimes life seems lifeless, mundane, boring, and all around us seems to be messy and unkept, and in fact we can feel messy and lazy in our minds..
If we feel that our life is becoming undone then it could be because we have let our standards drop. We let ourselves down when we become slack and loose in attitude and loose in behaviour.
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It is so easy to get up late in the morning, to then sit on a chair and watch YouTube,TV, a movie etc, or just lounge about doing nothing much of anything. Every now and then I catch myself like this because I stay up late on Facebook chatting, or writing a status etc, then I get up late and then feel like doing nothing much for the rest of the day.
They say that the devil finds things to do with idle hands, so it is wise to be positively active. It is good for the heart, body, soul and mind to be positively active.
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I used to get up at 5am, tidy up the house, do exercises from 6am to 7:34am, and then relax, go for a morning walk to the shop, come home and do anymore housework that needs doing before I really start my day.
Recently I have seen that I have become a bit slack and by lunchtime not much is done around the house because I haven’t been getting up early, and once back from the walk to the shop I have been on Facebook, and I have been not doing much.
When this happens I know that to get back to being more organized and ready for the day I need to get tough on myself, and to push myself to getting up early, and keeping focused on the tasks at hand, and not to allow myself to be drawn away to being idle and wasting the day away.
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To do this sometimes I make up a chart of all the housework that needs doing, and then I work fast to get it all done checking off each item. This is a wonderful way to warm up the body before doing some exercises and weights etc.
Housework is a natural way to warm up all the body, and to stretch the body as well. And if you have to reach up to put something on a shelf just stretch that little bit more so that you are doing your body and muscles some good, and when using a broom reach out further with each sweep across the floor, try to use the legs, arms, shoulders in the work at hand, and the same working with the vacuum cleaner.
If we see the value of the work that we put into housework, digging the gardens, and general work around the home we will enjoy it much more and always be keen to get into it.
Good constant exercise, good clean food and water, a clean healthy environment, are all good for the mind. Organized people are often known as people who have their lives in order, but also have good imaginations because they think while they work, and the clever one’s write down what they are thinking about as they go.
I get a lot of ideas for statuses on Facebook while doing housework, by keeping the body active we seem to free up the mind for thinking.
I hope this inspires you to see that instead of paying to use a gym you can do exercise at home just doing your normal chores and doing free workouts like they have on You Tube.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
God does not think like us, and He sees us from a view that is so broad that we can only guess at its magnificence. What I can tell you is that as your faith grows so does your belief that you are totally safe in God’s loving arms. God tests us on many things during our trials and one of them is whether you really trust Him and have faith in His protection of you. Then He waits to see if you will go where He sends you.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
October 24, 2011.
The story is told of a man and an angel who were walking along together.
The man was complaining about his neighbors. “I never saw such a wretched set of people,” he said, “as are in this village. They are mean, greedy, selfish, and careless of the needs of others. Worst of all, they are forever speaking evil of one another.”
“Is it really so?” asked the angel.
“It is, indeed,” said the man.
“Why, only look at this fellow coming toward us!
I know his face, though I cannot remember his name. See his little shark-like, cruel eyes, darting here and there like a weasel’s, and the lines of hardness about his mouth! The very droop of his shoulders is mean and cringing, and he slinks along instead of walking.”
“It is very clever of you to see all this,” said the angel, “but there is one thing that you did not perceive, you see, that is a mirror we are approaching.” said the angel.
– Author Unknown.
We cannot reach the end before we start. One must make those first valuable steps to start a new direction in life.Â
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The first steps are the seeds of great courage…
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
August 16, 2012.
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