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BKF Memories

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Steve Sanders (now Steve Muhammad) is the greatest karate instructor I’ve ever known, and the Black Karate Federation was, in its heyday, simply amazing.  How amazing?  Well, at one point in the late 70’s, seven out of ten of the top competitors in the California-Nevada-Arizona tri-state area were Steve’s direct or indirect students.  Mind blowing.

 

Anyway, I thought I’d offer a few observations about my days training there.

 

 

1) All the brown belts looked pretty much the same. All the...

More on “do we need to lie?”

Asking if we need to lie, one reader said:

 

“We are built to embellish and tell stories.   Life would really suck if you lived by brutal honesty. Try for a day. Just one day. You will spend years repairing those relationships. Years.”

 

My reply.

 

“Brutal” is the word you used. You can’t add a modifier and say that represents the original statement. I could be honest for a day without damaging any relationships. Not a single lie. Does that mean that I say everything I think? No, but that wo...

ZNT: Eating for Energy

Let’s put the last major piece of the Zero Net Time puzzle together.  So far we’ve talked about the Morning Ritual, which is the pattern of thought, focus, and poken  affirmation to use WHILE IN MOTION.  It contains the elements of the “M.A.G.I.C. Formula” (extracted from Wallace D. Wattles’ “The Science of Getting Rich”) and will provide all basic components of mental, physical, and emotional alignment.  People committed to staying where they are should NOT do this.

 

Next, we learned to bre...

Another classic post…

From 2005

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I noticed years ago that the rules we run our lives by reflect the world view that we develop over the years… and that that world view also reflects the rules. If I began years ago believing that “we become what we think about” and that “we don’t see the world as it is, we see the world as we are,” then there were certain other conclusions that were inescapable. That the model (or map) of the world we carry in our minds and hearts determines the results we get from that world, a...

The Mandela Effect

We were recently discussing “the Mandela effect” where people remember things differently than others, or than facts represented in history books and newspapers, and consider this to be evidence of multiple universes.   (Specifically named for the fact that many people remember Nelson Mandela as having died in the 1980’s while history books say he died in 2013.  Frankly, I think a lot of these people, for whatever reasons, find it more comforting to believe he died in prison, than emerged to...

The Mandela Effect and success avoidance

I just heard about something called “The Mandela Effect” where people assume that their memories of past events, when proved false, are proof of “alternative universes.”

 

I know someone who wants to weave this “multiple universe” theory into a “success system” where people can switch to a reality in which they are more successful.  This isn’t terribly different from The Secret, which seems to say that if you want something enough, you can create it from nothing. The universe will bend for yo...

Zero Net Time Part VI: The rubber meets the road

 

Hi!   I’m back with part VI of the “Zero Net Time” program. And where we’ve kinda stretched out previous aspects, this time we’re going to condense. Entire programs have been written, whole LIBRARIES on each of the four major pieces of this puzzle. I’m going to give you some references to look up to get you started. If you will research them, you have entered an entirely new world.

 

So let’s actually discuss what we’ve already given you:

 

Joint Mobility is first. Scott Sonnon Intuflow Jo...

Shhh…the secret Hollywood project continues…

T and I have been working on a secret project, we can’t talk about it directly in terms of the studio, but I can say that it is based on the “Gracetown” stories in her British Fantasy Award winning collection “Ghost Summer.”

 

We were asked to create a series based on the collection, so we’ve been working for over a year now to create a town, with a curse, and a female protagonist who must unravel the secrets to save her own sanity. There is much more, but again I’m limited in what I can say....

Tilting Left or Right

So within two days I read movie reactions from the far Left and the far Right, or what looks that way from my perspective.  That means, of course, that I am defining myself as much as Left or Right by looking at this stuff. And I’m sanguine about that.

 

First was a thread commenting on “Beauty and the Beast.”    Basically, it was ripping Emma Watson apart for appearing in an “anti-feminist” tale, about a woman suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.  And on into how it encourages women to remain...

Zero Net Time — PART FIVE

So we’re at Part V of the Zero Net Time system, designed for whole body-mind fitness with a minimum investment of time and energy.

 

The modified “3 dimensional performance pyramid” starts with

Psychological health. This comes from aligning our actions with reality, so that we aren’t distorting our reality map. Also by learning to control our emotions by Moving our bodies Focusing our minds Controlling our language.

The specific route to these things is “The morning ritual.”  This gives...