Archive for August 9th, 2009

  • Being Oriented About a Rare Disease

    All of us are aware that cancer is one of the leading causes of death all over the world. It is not just an isolated case. It affects any people of any race and of any age. Some of these cancers are so deadly that many people are alarmed about this particular kind of illness. But despite of this, not all of us are aware of the different forms of cancer. We are only oriented to few of its kinds, but there are forms which are rarely heard and talked about and yet are so fatal. Asbestos Cancer is one of these kinds that are rarely experienced by the people.

    This particular kind of cancer, also known as Mesothelioma Cancer is a cancer that has been said nowadays to have no cure at all. It is an aggressive form of cancer. This is caused by too much exposure to asbestos-a naturally occurring mineral composed of millions of fibers that are too small to see. If a person has taken much of these fibers, it leads to the said cancer. The sad part is that products that have asbestos are everywhere and it is inevitable for us to use. The least we could do is to at least minimize our usage of these products.

    Although there is no known cure today, experts are pursuing to take a look at the possibility of finding Mesothelioma Treatment for those who have already acquired this disease.

  • Hitting Faster and Harder the Scientific Way!

    Several items are necessary to a punch for it to be effective. Focus must be to a precise spot in space. It must have no energy in it.

    You heard me right, a punch must be empty. Most people know that the word Karate means ‘Empty Hands.’ Most people have assumed, from this, that you won’t be using weapons, but they are wrong. What the phrase really means is that the hand has no mass, that it is actually empty in a physics sense.

    To strike without using mass is an interesting sensation. In its purest altitude, it means that you do not feel the strike This would mean that you are not really inside the body, that you are outside the body and throwing it around like a big freakin’ ghost would throw a chair.

    On lesser levels it means that you don’t experience the sensation of weight. Why can a child bend his legs and run under a table with no effort, when if you bent your legs and did the same thing it would take tremendous effort? Because the child hasn’t absorbed the concept of weight, yet.

    So how do you achieve this sensation of no weight? You achieve it through training the mind. You train the mind by training the body, and you train the body by making it do forms.

    People who speak slightingly of forms haven’t done them sufficient to see what happens at the end. When you master a form you become lightly removed from your body, and you gain, and lose, different perceptions when it comes to motion. It is very interesting to do a form and feel the whistling sensation of being an object thrown through space.

    The good news is that this is a pleasant sensation, and yet, when done in a strike, it results in the most unimaginable damage to an opponent you…never imagined. Simply, he doesn’t have a defense for something that is apart from the body, and the body of the universe, and seems to slip between time and perception. This, incidentally, is the feeling of Mushin no shin, mind of no mind.

    Your body is still going to weigh the same, and then some, when colliding with an opponent, when you practice doing your art with no weight. Just because you don’t consider yourself to have weight doesn’t mean that the weight isn’t there. Actually, it is even more there, because when you move weightless, and think weightless, you move faster, and your opponent will anticipate accordingly.

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