Thursday, June 14, 2007

Become The Alpha Male In A Day

The Alpha Male is the leader of the flock, the man who gets the largest slice of the pie. Step back and imagine what it would be like to become the alpha male.

There's a secret: Positive Self Imaging.

Positive Self-Imaging is a holistic technique to catapult you to your destination. The method of mental bimaging gives you an internal map to your sunconscious and conscious behaviors. As you mentally focus on where it is you want to go, and you're determined to reaching your destination, your actions often follow. Literally, your actions spring from your mental images. Precisely, you usually won't move if you haven't already visualized yourself mentally rehearsing the outcome. How you visually represent yourself, in any given situation, is what you transform into, and how you will act. When you solidify your images in a constructive way, positive things happen. Focusing on creating uplifting, pleasurable changes in your life buoys you with uplifting sensations of self-confidence and self-determination.

Picture yourself meandering down a path across a meadow and coming to a barbed-wire fence. If you consider the fence as an impregnable barrier toward completing your goal, then the wall will remain. When you see the fence as having an archway in it, or when you find a way of going over, around or through it, then the barrier is merely one more hindrance to overcome. Nothing more, nothing less. It's a challenge worth your time as an alpha male.

When you yield too much control to any obstacle, or entity, you automatically lower yourself into a no-win situation. One way to leap this no-win quandary is to change the rules. See the situation as an opportunity, to flex your imagination - your mind. When the situation is no longer challenging or healthy, and you're using an exceeding amount of energy with few positive results, select a new outcome where there will be new challenges and opportunities. There is little reason to set yourself up for failure or punishment. Deciding to create positive convictions and expectations about yourself goads the actions you take. Positive actions easily transforms you into the leader- the Alpha Male.

You can shift negative situation by tweaking your regualr responses to challenges and giving careful thought to your long-term goals. An outcome to accomplish a degree from a four-year college within six years is not unrealistic. Never expect to do it in two and set yourself up for disappointment. Choose a map you can realistically commit to. Emotional, physical, and mental plateaus, valleys and peaks are regular experiences on the road to triumph. Focusing on your life progress and recalling where you started creates determination and courage. Improving yourself, and your life, requires concentration and self-discipline. Appreciate the journey. When you apply yourself, you will make your life magic! Then you become the Alpha MAle

As you build faith in yourself, you feel capable of bolstering yourself and colleagues, professionally and socially. Your mindset and self esteem fly new heights. Lofty self esteem and a soaring self-image allow you surmount problems that may otherwise overcome you. Belief in yourself will readily result in having others believe in you. When you seize a direction, and realize where you are going, you will maximize your ability to perform a particular task. When you have social and emotional support from others, you're more hopeful and suffer less turmoil. Finally you also develop an amazing ability to cope with the detrimental effects of negative or condemning statements from others. Hope and self-esteem are the medicine that transforms a negative self-image into a positive one. And it's Rx for those who want to become Alpha Male.

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Friday, May 11, 2007

Dancing Soothes and Heals

You have no doubt noticed children love to dance to music—they move their body with the music openly and freely in whatever way feels best.

Few people have retained or regained the ability to engage in dancing un-self-consciously. Many adults have stopped dancing altogether. You might have hang-ups about your body, or you may fear being judged that your body movement is not artistic enough or have the correct rhythm. You may have simply gotten out of the habit of dancing and then think you are too out of practice or too old to dance.

Whatever the case, you can put aside those false fears or excuses and rediscover the healing/soothing pleasure of moving your body to music-alone, or as part of a couple, or in a group. Opportunities to dance formal or informal abound wherever there are people.

The origin of dance may be as long as the history of humans. We can only guess what dances looked like in earlier epochs.

An early manuscript describing dance is the Natya Shastra on which the modern interpretation classical Indian dance (e.g. Bharathanatyam) is based.

The ancient chronicle of the Sinhalese (Sri Lankans), the Mahavamsa states when King Vijaya landed in Sri Lanka in 543 BCE he heard sounds of music and dancing from a wedding ceremony. Origins of The Dances of Sri Lanka are dated back to the aborginal tribes. The Classical dances of Sri Lanka, Kandyan Dances features a highly developed system of tala (rhythm), provided by cymbals called thalampataa.

In Europe one of the earliest records of dancing is by Homer, whose "Iliad"; describes chorea (khoreia).

The early Greeks made the art of dancing into a system, expressive of all the different passions. For example, the dance of the Furies, so represented, would create complete terror among those who witnessed them. The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, ranked dancing with poetry, and said that certain dancers, with rhythm applied to gesture, could express manners, passions, and actions. Greek sculptors studied the attitude of the dancers for their art of imitating the passions.

Rock-shelter drawings in India reveal the earliest examples of dance. Todo, forms of monkeys at Gupteshvara and a number of human figures at Pahadgarh, Tikla and Abachand present evidence of dance being prevalent in those days. These drawings belong to the period from 5000 to 2000 B. C. As revealed by the stone statuette of a male dancer from Harappa and the bronze figurine of a dancing girl from Mohenjodaro, the Indus Valley civilization had a well-evolved dance culture.

Ballet dancing started in the 16th century. and its became so big that royalty were getting dance masters to teach them ballet.

If you think you have lost the knack for dancing and feel too self-conscious to start in public, reintroduce yourself to the joy of listening and responding to music in the comfort of your home. Set the mood by turning the lights down. Remember it is more fun when you are not thinking about what you look like. You will be surprised how quickly your body moves easily to the music's rhythm. Feel the music in your mind, body and spirit—feel the vibrations healing/soothing your body. Give this experience the attention and importance of meditation in which you agree to allow yourself to fully inhabit your amazing body.

If you think you are awkward, that is what you will create. If you think you are a graceful swan gliding and moving with the music, that is what you will create. Everyone carries the memory of dance in their cells.

If you prefer to take your dance moves to another level, take a class. There are dance studios in every city—in small towns the classes might be taught at the high school. In most cities, you will find every kind of dance from modern to African, ballroom and salsa. Whichever you choose, you will not regret choosing to rediscover your body's natural birthright—the healing, soothing joyful thrill of dancing.

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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