It took me about 8months to read this book, it's DEEP!! If you read from a intellectual mind only you will only get about 30% of what the book is about!! If you read while being in the conscious presence of "NOW", what you will reap is far greater then just intellectual knowledge!!
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle is an excellent deep book that I'm wrapped I "toughed" it out and became more conscious throughout the book! Thanks Jason Suttie for lending it to me!
Maybe the book wasn't "tough" at all, maybe I just wasn't ready/conscious enough when I started reading it in early January? Yeah I agree with that! :-)
Stole this clip from Alwyn Cosgrove's blog How will you (we) "think" in 20+yrs time from how we do today?
Funny thing is, we still put all our TRUST and believe in GP's/Dr's today!! Why is it that 99% of GP's just prescribe drugs and from a visual point of view they aren't the most "healthiest" person in the room?
Many reasons, however just maybe we'll see that in 20+yrs time :-)
"Having a fighters heart, having gameness, is about knowing yourself and not being afraid of losing. You become a better version of yourself. Nobility is a by-product of that attitude, just like love is a by-product of aggression" Sam Sheridan's Book "A Fighters Heart"
Check out the Fighters Heart in this girl!!
I heard a great story about a netball coach who read my newsletters and when she was coaching her U16 Netball team that played in the South Island Under 17 tournament she told them about what I do and who I train and what a Fighters Heart means!!
When the girls heard the story, the next day they decided while playing netball, that when they needed to "dig" a little deeper they had a call "Fighters Heart"!!
The girls were yelling out to each other "Fighters Heart, Fighters Heart"!
These girls utilized the characters of "Fighters Heart" and made the finals of a Under 17 tournament when they where a Under 16 team! Their coach Donna said the difference in them and other teams was "Belief" in themselves and to have a Fighters Heart against the odds!
The girls unfortunately lost in the final on the score board, but one in the hearts of those that watched them play, they went to heights that they had never been too before! Donna the coach is still getting text's from the girls about how much they have "enjoyed the tournament" and how she has given them "greater belief" about themselves OUTSIDE of netball!!
She's also received comments from parents saying, "What did you say to those girls, their playing better then I've ever seen them"! "They have matured so much"!
How COOL is that, those girls are the REAL winners in my eyes, NO first prize can give you a "Fighters Heart", what their coach Donna taught them is MORE then winning it's about giving your all for more then YOURSELF and don't be afraid of believing in yourself!!
Next time you find your back against the wall or you come 2nd, ask yourself, what did I become in the process? A "ego" looking for something external or did you discover another part of yourself that you can call a "Fighters Heart"!!
Thanks Donna for taking the "Real" meaning of my work and putting it into Action with the next generation of athletes in LIFE and SPORT!
I've just finished reading Sam Sheridan's "A Fighters Heart"! Highly recommend reading it, I found it very educational and enlightening to the some of the "truths" behind why humans fight! It took him 6yrs to create the book and it will take you only 3wks to read, that means you get 6yrs of his life in just 3-4wks!!
If you love combat then get this book not for learning of combat skills but to learn more about A Fighters Heart!
In NZ at the mo it has just been decided by the government that pies, chips, fizzy drinks be taken off the list for school tuck shops! This has been met with some people saying we need more education, kids need choices, black market for food etc....
My opinion which you may or may not agree with and I know my 'way' is always a bit more "staunch" as I'm considered by society that are fighting fat as a fitness freak! Yeah like I don't have bad days :-)
Kids are fat and it's factual! So let's keep it real to those facts! Kids eat more then they burn and there's 101+ reasons why!
Will taking the option of junk food away from school cafeteira's really work? My belief is NO it won't but I don't believe that we should put pies back on the shelfs either!
Education is the key? We have been doing that for the last year 10yrs with an increase in obesity far greater then the messages that are getting out! Should we stop educating? Hell NO!!
Give the kids the "freedom" to make the choice for themselves? Yeah right, I'm sorry this won't work either. I'm a 29yr old disciplined male with more education then the kids and I still don't make "ideal" choices, and I have discipline!!! Adults who have lesser knowledge in health and fitness don't make better choices for themselves for what ever reason so hell the hell do you expect a kid to make a better choice for their health!!??
The answer?FAMILY, FAMILY, FAMILY! The biggest influence you can have on making better choices as a "kid" is what your parents did or didn't do! I do believe that taking out the junk food is a better option. From taking junk food away as a option, now if a kid wants junk they can and will get it from somewhere else more then likely before school! At least the school can be proactive in their position of "we WON'T help them towards obesity at this school"!!
Get rid of the junk food in all tuck shops at EVERY school and keep providing education around "health"! I firmly believe that if you want anything in life you dedicate yourself to achieving it. You don't have a "try" attitude you have a "I will" and now I "have" attitude! Therefore until you have the knowledge, discipline to put these things back in your life then you get rid of any temptation to minimize creating a "trying" attitude!
If your kid is fat, then make the changes all the way for the family you included! Don't create 1/2 measures it's all or nothing! When your included in the changes it changes things as a parent doesn't it!? That's why parents that kill their kids through obesity should go to fat camp to learn that there's more ways then love through food!
There is more and more research of the importance of Omega 3's (Good fats) towards your health! Did you know it can also aid in decreasing body fat and increasing Lean Body Mass?!!
Fat is a 'taboo' word in the fitness/nutrition word but anyone who understands nutrition will know that Omega 3 is a Fat that we NEED or we DIE!
Did you know that the brain is 62% FAT?! That's right it's Omega 3 so if the thing that determines who/how/what you are is fat don't you think it's GREAT thing to consume :-)
5 Reasons Why should you take a good Quality Fish Oil for health?
Decrease depression University of California's JohnssonCancerCenter, Los Angeles, CA health.com
Increase serotonin levels i.e. your happiness
Andrew Stoll M.D.1999 Archives of General Psychiatry
Decrease heart attacks
Bigger,J. Thomas and El-Sherif, Tarek. Polyunsaturated fatty acids and cardiovascular events: a fish tale. Circulation, Vol.103, February 6, 2001, pp623-25 (editorial). Oilofpisces.com
Decrease morning stiffness
Darlington, L Gail and Stone, Trevor W. Antioxidants and fatty acids in the amelioration of rheumatoid arthritis and related disorders. British Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 85, March 2001, pp.251-69. Oilofpisces.com
Populations that have a high intake of fish oils lower incidence of inflammatory diseases such as asthma!
Dry J. and Vincent D. Effect of a Fish oil diet on asthma: results of a 1-year double bind study. Int Arch Allerguy Appl Immurol, Vol.95, 1991,pp.156-57. Oilofpisces.com
5 Reasons fish oils for your Body Composition by Charles Poliquin & Dr Mark Houston MD
Fish oils turn on the lipolytic genes (fat burning genes)
Fish oils turn off the lipogenic genes (fat storage genes)
Preferential utilization for energy production once stored in t
Adipocytes.Reduced inflammation from physical training.
Fish oils are a great stress fighter. Supplementation with n-3 fatty acids inhibits the adrenal activation of steroids, aldosterone, epinephrine and norepinephrine (catecholamines) elicited by a mental stress, apparently through effects exerted at the level of the central nervous system. Therefore, for the same amount of stress, one will produce fewer stress hormones if consuming fish oils on a regular basis.
Flaxseed oil or Fish Oil? Without getting all 'geeky' on you, basically flaxseed oil goes through 4 stages before the body can utilize it and then there is research upon how much you can actually use anyway once it's in a place to be used by the body. Whether you can use it or not is person specific i.e. diabetes, ethnicity, alchol consumption etc...
Please don't mistaken that for Flaxseed is not valuable because it is, however fish oil will ensure you get to utilize all of the EPA/DHA consumed without any debate about if you can utilize it or not!
How much do you take? I have only seen "Results" from taking 9-15grams per day towards lean body mass, pain relief from the stress of training/life, mood, sugar cravings (however I will be getting my hands on research of quantity in the future).
Also to note that the QUALITY of the fish oil at this consumption or any consumption is VITAL!!! Consumer mag has just done some tests on who/what companies in NZ are living the 'truth' behind what they say on the bottles for quality and quantity!
Nordic Naturals is by far the best company who do fish oils and I'm fortunate enough to be a supplier of theirs! If their was a better company that made fish oils and supplied NZ, without a doubt I would supply their product!!
Start today taking a GREAT QUALITY fish oil I don't care if it's 1 capsule the most important thing is you start by taking 1 step! Most health shops supply Nordic Naturals it's a higher price then other brands, but you pay for what you get and it's quality GUARANTEED!
Alwyn Cosgrove put together this project with the help of many friends!! I've got my copy and it's jam packed with info, Alwyn's Cancer Diaries was both inspirational, sad, happy, educational, funny among many other emotions that are hard to put words too.
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