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EXCERPT Fear is such a hidden part of our lives, that it can even mask itself as anger. Most times we cannot measure how much it keeps us back, and destroys enjoyment. Good players sense excessive fear in their opponents and know when to move in to finish them off. Although a small measure of fear is necessary for good performance, excessive fear can be destructive. Players at different levels encounter different types of fears. Too much of these types of fears destroy all fun, and stop progress altogether. It is necessary to decide for yourself if your fears are problematic, and be prepared to deal with them. The most common fears for beginners are: Fear of missing the ball This fear is the biggest and causes the most troublesome consequences. When BEGINNERS are afraid of missing the ball, they immediately get as close to the ball as possible. being too close to the ball produces some of the most horrendous technical problems which are very difficult to erase. Do not be afraid of missing the ball, missing the ball is a normal when most BEGINNERS are really trying to acquire correct technical form. |
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EXCERPT We have left the acquisition of knowledge, services and commodities to experts who don’t always have our best interests at heart. Even if they did try to, it is actually impossible for them to supply us with all we need and want, while making it worth their while. People have always exchanged on a personal level, from presents, to who does the chores, to teaching, and holding each others back, etc. big business continues to barter effectively… unfortunately, at personal level, where exchange began, the lack of trust, time, knowledge of each others needs, and unwillingness to find out, has brought things to snail pace. |
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BALANCE and Materialism Can you imagine riding without balance? Or eating the same type of food every day of your life. Without balance there is no variety and nature is astounding in its variety from the stars to the depths of the ocean, in the jungle and to the microscopic. Human beings who are spiritually emotionally mentally and physically alive need variety. Even if we live in the Antarctica or the Sahara there are at least three important areas of life most people need to balance. Health, social and economic. If we live in a more dynamic environment we need to add education. HEALTH has at least three parts: nutrition, exercise and rest. SOCIAL: family, friends and country. ECONOMIC: formal education, career. SPIRITUALITY searches the truth, and keeps these factors in balance. People have always required more than sex, food and money to live dynamic lives. |
| When one of these areas take up most of our resources and time, for a prolonged period, we are looking disharmony in the face. For the strength of a chain depends on its weakest link. Even in most penitentiaries, inmates are encouraged towards health, rest, study, sports, social and even spiritual life. In western life today there is a definite imbalance towards the economic area of life. Materialism has jettisoned consumerism into such importance, that most people are caught up in a lifestyle that leaves very little time or energy for health, recreation, nutrition, exercise, social, and other vital aspects of their lives. The mention of spirituality just seems absurd within the context of these choices. There are substantial increases in migraine headaches, insomnia, obesity and feelings of isolation. These problems are directly related to squeezing these un-squeezable areas of our lives into insignificance. We are suffering and our children will suffer even more because of this madness. Materialism and its keepers have successfully fueled our pride, competitive nature, and most of all our fears, into great prominence, blinding us to the other much greater sides of our lives. ‘Being busy’ has become an exultation, an absurd but accepted excuse for neglecting God, family, friends, country, nature and ourselves. There is an old saying that goes, “you should not kill yourself to feed yourself”, and a truth that goes, “what profits a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul”. |
| Adults who love their children, know that the World wide Web and modern technology is no replacement for a balanced and rich life of variety. They know that nutrition, exercise, rest, entertainment, budgeting, counseling, and friendship, must not be left in the hands of big business. Today we ‘interface’ rather than spending quality time with each other, in personal environments. We have many superficial acquaintances we call friends. Many important social skills are being lost. An enormous amount of our human intelligence is utilized to understand normal human interactions, for example facial expression and body language. When we don't understand each other we do not trust or learn from each other. Formal education can replace but a small part of the learning that normally goes on in the lives of people caring for and teaching each other from the enormous wealth of their own natures, experiences and the natural environment. This type of learning is far more dynamic, spontaneous, exciting, and is full of variety as it comes from many types of people, and things, and not from an approved Person-type usually streamlined in formal education to deliver specific knowledge in an institutionalized atmosphere for regimented period of time. Institutionalized education is very important for dispensing knowledge which is not common in that place at that time. However, when the sources which include schools, colleges universities corporate training, the mass media etc, squeeze life knowledge into insignificance, we are left with people who are proud, yet unaware of their ignorance concerning many human qualities and social skills necessary to form quality relationships. These people live unbalanced lives, without knowing all that they're missing. The astounding intelligence and resources required for some understanding of ourselves, others, our environment, at present, and in the past, to have some idea of the future, make sophisticated computers look like child play. These skills must constantly be used in order to improve, or simply to be maintained. The lack of importance attached to inter-social skill, is frightening. I was deeply involved in modern technology for many years. I loved most of the sciences from childhood, I still do. I studied and taught electronics. Technology is a great tool, and represents one of many areas of human genius. Yet technology is limited within the context of our overall human needs, it is a very sad thing to see a real and dynamic life reduced to a boring and unenlightened techno-economic existence. With all of the audiovisual and superficial diversions created for us, it is easy for many of us to believe that this is all there is to life. |
| Children are relating better to their computers and possessions than parents and friends. We now have more knowledge and less balance, for balance comes only with wisdom, understanding and compassion. |
| In history there are many examples that contradict the statement, “a million Frenchmen can’t be wrong”. |
| ‘A word to the wise is enough’. |