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Thoughts About Teaching

4/29/2016

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Thank you for all the Bday wishes!
It is beautiful to hear from so many friends I've made throughout this life, and so many people I had touched.
I've been recognized as a teacher for a very long time. Initially I was just a curious kid who wanted to know things and to do certain things very passionately and for my own good. That got recognized at a young age when people asked me to teach them.
I never thought I would become a teacher, and if anything I resented that thought. I thought there was no money in that field and thought to make a career in another field. I went to a law school, to business administration school and had many jobs and opportunities that paid better, but at the end I always left them to go back to teaching.
No money in the world could ever been more fulfilling then the relationships I would be making as a teacher, the help I knew I could give to my students, seeing their smiles and happiness that were the results.


It's an interesting thing, the world of teaching is very different then the world of going to a regular job, paying bills etc. It is a real world. It's a common situation when a new students have some issues, I would ask him about it trying to understand, and feel that the student think I only care cause he paid me money ( and if he has a problem he might not pay in the future), which is the premises in the "outside" world. Such an opposite perception, it is sometimes hard for people to disconnect from it and see things as they truly are, which is, if I don't care about the student then how can I really help HIM. It would have been a great world if I could save him that consideration and not mix money in it, like it is in other relationships, but I do have to make a living to be able to teach and there need to be a hierarchical relationship for the student to be able to gain from the teaching as it seem that people absorb less of it when they don't pay and feel equal. Where it mostly ends up being a disservice.


With many people I had met in daily life I always had the feeling that they only think what can they get out of me. Some people ask right away for your occupation, trying to evaluate you that way. And other behaviors that make you feel like they are in it only for the gain, these are fake friends. I can understand people that come to me that are used to that mentality as it is very wide spread unfortunately, and I will try to help them. From the wise words of Tony Robins "connection is not enough, you got to find real love". And my addition is know to separate it from the love of greed.


Wanted to put this out there, I know most people here don't know me yet, and so far only see me as a teacher, and as one, I feel that this concept is very basic in my teaching. And it might be an interesting point for you as well.
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Middle ages, It's Here Now!

3/10/2016

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We all know by now about Isis and the likes of it, wanting to live middle age style, and demonstrating their corporal brutality worldwide. It is similar to the punishments we used to do back then, burning witches and the such. How ignorant we must have been to have no rights for women and other ethnicities ( Interesting how we enslaved them by extending credit money that led for their enslavement according to the Historian Niall Ferguson in his book "Civilization", now it takes other forms), to pollute the rivers to the extent that brought so many plagues and had so many people lose their lives to it. I'm sure that back then there were people that had their head straight on from our perspective today , I wonder how did the rest of the people take the more progressive opinions.


Truth is that a lot has changed, but also a lot has stayed the same, I would go the distance to say we live in Modern Middle Ages (MMA?). Whether knowingly or unknowingly we still pollute our common environment (see Chemtrails). We are still suffering from plagues of degenerative disease due to ignorance about our lifestyles and consumption, and these are only the things we have immediate control of.


We are living in a world were social media gives people the ability to unite, throw corrupt governments, and do all sort of things that require coordination between strangers. We have these tools as well as progressive knowledge of right and wrong, yet we still can't bring genocide to an end. We are still slaves to the banks and governments that own us. So busy chasing the bills that we don't come about. We don't educate ourselves about what really matters. We fall to the trap of consumerism and dumbing ourselves down. We allow ourselves to keep destroying the planet, ignoring all the signs, and taking no action.


As far as our population numbers it seems we are growing, so apparently we are doing better then ever. But I wonder about the people 200 years from now, when they think about us, what would they say, how obviously stupid we must have been. They will be correct sorry to say. The good thing is that we are probably on the right track, and hopefuly you too are moving in the right direction.


Be well and read my other blogs

​* Image is taken from the music album "pleasure to kill" by Kreator
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Could it be that everything you know about the world are lies

2/10/2016

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We are going to play a fun game, imagine you got struck by amnesia and had to reconsider all of your beliefs again.

Some guidelines to think with: Some beliefs could benefit a small percentage of people. That doesn't make that belief an absolute truth, For a truth to be absolute it needs to represent the entire picture and hold truth for everyone.

Consider these thought filters; Is this thought about the design of our current civilization benefiting you? Or are you trapped in a false perspectives that play to the hands of a few perverted predatory individuals and organizations.

Another thing to consider is if something is working for you doesn't mean that a better and bigger perspective couldn't work even better for you, and solve issues you might not even be aware of yet.

It seems that there are many pieces of "common knowledge" that stand in the way of us functioning better. Some form of false data striping should be applied to develop the ability to challenge our beliefs and be flexible in the way we hold on to them. That might prove to be crucial.

I've assembled a few beliefs about our civilization, it is fun to play this game with other thoughts as well.

1. Great wealth is money
The saying goes that when you are young your energy goes into making money. And when you get older your money goes to fix your fading health. There is also the capitalistic hunger for material, money and power, however experience many times prove that these commodities don't necessary provide fulfillment and satisfaction in life. It seem that deep social connections and bountiful health predicate happiness better, with many examples of very happy and poor people as well as depressed rich people living with great limitations. Money isn't the most important thing to live by!  It can be nice to have it but it isn’t worth having at any cost. Some costs are just too much and at the end of the day it’s a commodity. It doesn’t matter where it comes from, it always remains the same.

Health on the other hand always brings happiness and satisfaction. If you are not happy and satisfied then your health is suffering. Healthy disciplines tend to build character in ways that benefit the social fabric. It's worth any cost!
With great health comes great wealth! True wealth.

2. Hard work leads to great wealth
This line of thought possibly came from the industrial era where lots of hard work and discipline was needed to benefit factory owners. Instilling the believe that 'it is possible for anyone to grow rich' to the masses. In today's reality we see that people work harder and harder in what we call the rat maze, where the hard work blinds you from seeing the big picture due to the fact that you end up having no time to educate yourself.
Success isn't necessarily easy but thinking smart, educating yourself, and seeing the big picture has proven to provide a bigger value especially when it's backed by high work ethics. Many times understanding the situation better can save lots of unnecessary or counter productive work.
Smart work beats hard work.

3. Our main food staples are our worst enemies
It's been over 200 years since the industrial revolution effected our way of eating, with cereal foods, and carbs being mass produced, and new health problems introduced to our culture. With the generous help and support of our world governments, a trend that has been increasing till the 70's when with the endorsement of western medicine we got the recommendation for a diet high in carbs and low in evil fats. Backed by "science" and statistics that been showing a catastrophic increase in degenerative disease all across the board.
  • The Oat plants family is full of Gluten which attack our system, destroy the Villi in our gut, and create anti bodies that are responsible for many auto immune diseases.

  • The Soy bean, our favorite bean, is responsible for increased estrogen production causing feminine symptoms in men, carcinogenic, and destroying hormonal balance in woman.

  • Dairy Products, containing the carbohydrate Lactose which our body mostly can't digest, break down and rot in our system causing bloating, gas, and a host of auto Immune issue that also stems from the ratio of casein and albumin.

  • Alcohol, needless to say, probably our worst enemy of all, food is much better for us prior to being rot. There is a difference between fermented foods containing gut beneficial bacteria (like sauerkraut), and alcohol which destroy beneficial gut bacteria and everything else in it's way.

And then we wonder why we have bad genetics and why we inherit bad health, When we really only inherit bad health habits.

4. Media bias; World peace has been held back by USA imperialism and the State of Israel by curbing the human rights ambitions of Muslim countries.
We are now starting to see that the USA fulfills a vital part in world management, with great power comes great responsibility. We can't shy away from it, not even for a noble cause, and by shying away from the responsibility it allows all sort of bullies to raise their head. this doesn't prevent war, but makes it inescapable, and increases the amount of casualties that will be amounting once it occurs. More specifically, not every country is being led by values such as human rights and other modern world luxuries. No one is saying that everyone else should or is ready for such indulgences but In order to protect our way of life, intervention in less fortunate areas is necessary with the believe that our moral supremacy to be trusted more than their corruption.

Then we have the long time notion that Israel has been the reason for the unrest in the Middle East, and an "invation" of the west into it. Today we are learning that the Arab countries have been a facade, That they relay stronger to their tribal denomination. and have been given freedom their citizens only want to slauther one another due to religious differences. Their problems obviously have been larger all of these years then their imaginary Israeli enemy, and now that they keep killing each other by the thousands. It's is clear that human rights are a relative issue (not to mention about "refugees" rights already violated by Europe), yet the world still tries to hold onto and overlook Israeli settlements on its land.

"Refugees" are now invading the west. There is nothing wrong with having all sorts of people with conflicting ideologies, but sometimes each one is better off facing their own creation and dealing with their own reality instead of mixing with the opposite way of life. Just like Candida is great when it's contained in the small intestine, helping to break down food, but we wouldn't want it out of the intestine, being systemic and running through our body causing trouble.

We need world leaders that can see the path to making their country flourish in the context of making the planet flourish. We need leaders that can earn other world leaders respect, ones that can coordinate despite contradictory differences toward world betterment, without having the need to have everyone conform to one way of operating. Leaders that don't have the urge to automatically make amends or throw the blame but instead can look deep and understand the weak link in the system, address it without bias, and find the real obstacles that are truly responsible for the lack of coordination.

5. The way to health is to go through Cardio exercise and Bodybuilding at the gym.
Back in the 70's a new awareness to exercise started to take over the western world, championed by cardio type exercise and bodybuilding gym franchises.
By the 80's the bodybuilding scene was already led by the need for steroids and other components that made it irrelevant for health. The science of the last decade made it clear about all the problems caused by cardio type exercise, from production of bad hormones that cause us to gain fat and lose muscle, to the pounding of our joints and its corrosion.

Yet somehow even though there has been so much new science to back a new way of training, it seem like the mainstream circuit are still holding onto the notion of the glorious days of Bodybuilding, the creation of Aerobic dance, and jogging have a magical formula to improve health. Weight lifting can be done in a healthy way of course, and it won't weaken you like its Cardio counterpart. But keep in mind the health price in mobility and coordination among other costs. The science kept moving forward, finding better ways of achieving better results. We can target our goals more specifically then we could in the past. Lots of people are already enjoying these realizations, though it seems that it is still a while from becoming a critical mass.

6. Western Medicine can heal our ailments
Western medicine doesn't deal with solving problems, only with masking symptoms. Western Medicine doesn't heal our body, we heal despite the medicine if we are strong enough (they do have some beneficial procedures like their medical examinations, but that's not enough to take their advice blindly or taste their medicine as it will most likely injure you one way or another). The number one cause of death in our society are degenerative disease and western Medicine claims to not know the reason those occur to begin with. Science did find the reasons behind them but this science isn't available to the doctors since it is bad for business. Medical corporations devise the schooling of doctors in a way that doesn't cover important topics such as nutrition and instead have the main focus be on medicine prescription.

Instead of looking for magical formulas a good place to look at is the symptom and its root. Why are we feeling lethargic? Why is there a headache? A degenerative process? Where did we get out of balance? How far can we continue with it? What is the price we are paying? When would be a good time to truly address that? In the meantime it might be better to keep and feel the suffering, develop some stronger skin, and keep it to remind us to address it at some point.


Why does captive killer whales always have a sad looking back fin? What set us apart from our wild counterparts? This current blog have been an extension of a shorter blog ("Are you informed") I published a year ago.

At the end of the day we are all connected. Instead of trying to make some gains on someone else's back, realize we can all coexist better if we don't only think selfishly, however do so without self sacrifice.
We can gain more if we realize the big picture and are willing to give away the immediate gain.

There is always the question whether you really know something if you don't act on it. Fact is that you don't. If you don't act on it there is still something about it you haven't realized yet. And here I am acting on my knowledge for you.
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How can changes in body perspective change your results?

1/11/2016

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​There are many ways to get ahead in the body game. Learning to use your body in different ways always results in a new body perspective and new movement options as it expands your view on what is possible for you.

There are many ways to arrive at these new body perspectives. Some perspectives are easily gained as you learn skills that are easy for you to master due to a high level of function capacity and easy skills. Other skills might be more challenging where many times lots of work has to be put in. During the hard work phase you would make little discoveries along the way, and learn to use the levers of your unique body, or the length of one limb versus another.

Another way to discover these perspectives is through the guidance of someone who has been through the learning curve and understands how to be the tour guide, developing the journey for the new practitioner of the skill.

Another way that helps gain the new body perspective is putting lots of thinking into its mechanics by constantly thinking it over and over, realizing there is something we don't know about it since we can't perform it, and looking for that component that will make everything seem different.

There are many examples of this process in many skills. Complex skills have their common pitfalls, a good example would be the entrance from standing on four into a bridge. Say a practitioner has a good open bridge. Many practitioners have a hard time rotating the shoulder correctly to get in and out of that position. While focusing on the movement of the shoulder could be confusing at first and lead to various falls or wrong positions, a simple que to use the head and look at the hand which is on the floor as you invert your head prior to placing the second hand down can make an easy fix, and open a new way of moving with great ease creating a way that wasn't accessible before and one where great complexities can be added.

As we progress in life we gain new perspective, learning a new language we learn a culture and perspective. As we learn how to better use our body we learn body perspective, our senses sharpen, our ability to understand other bodies grow with it. Looking for new perspectives is a substantial way of searching for and filtering inspiration and gaining complexity.

Enjoy the journey! Enjoy where you’re at!
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Acquiring the right tastes

12/26/2015

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Babies acquire the taste of the first foods introduced to them, it is a learning curve, as they grow we keep introducing new foods to them, some they like and some they don't, only to discover later that they do like them. Those foods they didn't like at first, we call acquired taste.

Acquiring tastes is something we do throughout our entire life, whether cultivating habits, acquiring tastes for foods, drinks, relationships, movement patterns or concepts, and many other things.

It usually starts with something we could do without, we have no need for it and we ask ourselves, should we pick that up? In case we decided to go for it and succeed, it can become part of our daily routine, the way we look at life and the way we conceive of ourselves, to a point where we might not be able to imagine life without it.

People grow in different ways and directions, everyone has his own interest, some people think ahead and plan how they would like to become, and pick up their habits according to that road map, other might pick up habits at random, or following certain people and adopting their choices.

Sometimes we pick up a habit, and later down the road we realize that this habit didn't take us in the direction we wanted initially to go, the habit was a mistake, but now we have an attachment to this habit and sometimes it's hard to give those habits up, even when we know it is working against us.

Some people have different awareness in this regard, some can isolate the wrong pattern and work out a way to grow out of it, while others might seek some guidance, someone who can help them through the growing pains. Some people develop greater attachment to those old ways, many times greater attachment then they have for their original purpose. When that happens they end up developing in the wrong direction, feeling unfulfilled.

As someone who helps people cultivate new ways, it isn't always easy to understand someone's road, and put him back on it, or help them develop and acquire new ways, many times people resist those new ways, only to like them later, and understand what they have prevented from themselves.

Many times it takes lots of patience, repetition, and the building of trust, to get someone to develop these new patterns. And when thinking about it, it is good for these patterns to be examined in that way, as it could be a very long term commitment.

It is something we all do, but it's good to think about it sometimes.
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Our Quest For Money

12/26/2015

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I believe that moving ahead in life is about gaining a new perspective.

Are you familiar with the old adage about the 1% that control most of the money in the world economy by controlling banks and governments, basically stealing money from the poor?

Well that very well might be the case. Another way to looking at it is that money wasn't developed by nature wasn't it, so people like you and me are those who created it, basically from thin air! Now some of us managed to create more of it, maybe also by getting us to give it to them, but ultimately we all created it into existence. 

It is similar to our quest for health, we create it!  people can learn how to have more for themselves. Health is yours! Whether you have more of it or less, you should claim it. And here it's obvious I couldn't take mine from you, though some dictators do take health from people.

Now part of my ways of staying healthy are eating meat. I take animals life to sustain mine, and I will do so till the animal can out smart me into not eating it, it's called the process of evolution. If I really went to hunt it, it might try to fight me, but in nature animals found better ways to escape and avoid the costly fight.

Same about your money, instead of going on about your life while blaming the rich for your misfortune, open up your eyes, and learn what it really take to change your conditions and how to go about it. the ones you criticize the most probably should be some of your best teachers.

It's far easier to blame powerful successful people for taking what is rightly yours, then it is to ask maybe they are willing to share the wisdom and information. Truth is most people don't have strong enough desire to be truly educated! most desire to stay the same much more then they desire to change. Pessimism has low requirements, learning to ask the right questions is an acquired skill.
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True Weapons

12/26/2015

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Some people develop nuclear capacity, a mental one. It's a powerful tool that comes from a big vision, and can supply electricity and power systems, appearing like it was created from nothing. It can also be used like a weapon and create great destruction. 

Using it too often or using it to destroy will take away from its power, and will gradually make it less then nuclear, but also those who use that side of it often many times never fully develop it. It is so powerful but also elusive that some people don't realize they have it. Wanting to test it the wrong way to prove it to themselves, will cause great destruction and an adaptation of the surrounding.

Those that harness it for the good know very well what they are developing, they are intentional about it, and use it to fuel and grow themselves and their happy surroundings, and in case of need, use it to protect their loved ones. Though even then, using it as a weapon be the wrong choice. The true magic of it is in creating subtle currents and energies that are powerful yet happy and playful, that just make things go right, and these subtle energies needs to be nurtured again with great consciousness for them to stick around.

Some people wonder when they see a walking nuclear reactor, thinking, how and why would someone develop such a great power if they never intend to use it. But they do use it! Just not all at once.

Amir Solsky
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Creating patterens in time

12/26/2015

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With everything we allow to happen through us, we create ourselves, and set patterns in motion, with potentially numerous repetition to happen in the future, for who we are becoming.
Will you take that Ritalin so that you can study (what are you really teaching yourself). Will you have this drink with these people (what emotion are you trying to erase from your experience). Will you have that soda with this less then nutritious food ( why is there this vacuum in your belly). Will you take advantage of this person weakness to make a few bucks (who are you becoming).
Or will you take a walk by the water, read an enlightening book, have a satisfying nutritious meal, help this person out making sure he has been helped as much as possible.
If going from the first group of actions to the second is not easy, it's because you already set things in motion. Truth is it could be easy if you didn't stand in your own way (but on your way instead). You should be asking some questions (and you should have the answers).
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Are you informed?

12/26/2015

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Does a domesticated animal understands its wild counterpart from a domestic view point? does it have any type of knowledge at all? off course it does, and quite a lot. But how applicable is this knowledge to the true ways of this planet. Is the domesticated animal's knowledge more valuable then the wild one's? in a fairy tail world it is... but is it in reality? what is reality?
This is the age of information/misinformation, and we are all domesticated! There is nothing to fear. When starting to understand anything, one of the first steps is understanding that you understand nothing.
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Art is not a choice

12/26/2015

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All living things are expressive- artists, from flowers of plants to the human face, from the shape and state of our bodies to the way we move and interact. 

Expressing our point of view and perspective on one end, expressing biological and physiological processes on the other. 

We have the ability to take responsibility and conscience control over it or we could be the effect of it, not giving any thought to it and hoping that the end result would be graceful enough for the level and shape of the harmony with the environment we wish for. 

Which ever way you look at it, higher discernment of that expression would put your resources to better use in way of allowing better freedom of harmony for those who seek it.


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