Month: May 2018

Beginning Jiu Jitsu How To Avoid The Most Frequent Mental Errors

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The sport of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is both physically and mentally challenging. In fact, many refer to jiu jitsu as physical chess! The beauty of this sport is that you can have the most talented physical traits, but it is quite possible to be beat by someone who understands the mental game.

In the early part of the 1990s, an excellent illustration of this can be seen in Royce Gracie and his jiu jitsu matches. He was always the smaller and less athletic guy, but he ended up winning UFC 1, 3, and 4. This was incredible, and it was obvious that he possessed abilities that his opponents could not defeat.

But what does this mean for you?

The mental game is just as important as the physical. Understand what you are good at and what you need to work on. Know those of your opponent as well. Lay out your jiu jitsu plan that is going to benefit what you are good at and prey on what your opponent is bad at. Then, all you have to do is make it happen.

For instance if you are not big, but are fast, you don’t want to get under a guy who is huge. If you weigh a lot, you will want to take advantage of this when you are on top of your opponent. If you have excellent arm bar submissions, you should keep doing them and get them to where they are unbeatable.

However, you don’t want to make the error of believing that you should only concentrate on your strengths. Your jiu jitsu foundation should always be as broad and deep as possible so you understand the full breadth of your art. Instead, use this as a motivator for actually thinking about how you approach competition and live training. By tapping into your mental skills, you will gain a huge advantage over a lot of your opponents.

My advice to you is to write down on a piece of paper: what you are good at, what you need to improve on, and the two techniques you intend to develop. Now practice the two you want to work on. And after every roll, see what falls under your strengths and weaknesses. Once these are written down you are committed, so hold yourself responsible for working on them.

Effective brain cancer treatment and Mental Relief for Patients

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Many people think that the persons, who are suffering from cancer, may not be able to survive and this is an absolutely false statement and feeling. In this advanced world, there are highly qualified surgeons and advanced surgical and non-surgical procedures to treat brain cancer. Of course, depending on the individual, the treatment differs.

The age and health condition of the patients and the size of the tumor and its location are the aspects, which have to be taken for consideration in deciding about the brain cancer treatment procedures. Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are the three important and major procedures, which are performed, generally. Home care is absolutely necessary for the patients, who have brain cancer.

The surgical procedure is normally performed, where the scope of survival is there, with the patient. However, surgeons offer various options for the patients and they need to regain confidence, for the purpose of overcoming the cancer battle. It is always possible for them to live and they need to visit the cancer rehabilitation centers, where there are people, who are living peacefully, after getting rid of their cancer.

Further, these procedures have to be performed, only after the permission from the patient and his or her family members. The patient would not be interested to be with the ventilator, which is necessary, during the procedures. Anything could happen to the patients and when they are with the life support, they can survive. Patients have freedom to think and select their treatment procedures and once they agree to the recommended treatment procedure, the surgeon would start to perform his procedure.

Radiation therapy may be a good option for the brain cancer and the size of the tumor has to be suitable for this system. Multi-disciplinary approach to the disease is required and patients should realize that they are going to live, after winning the battle with the cancer. Most of the patients may not have the tumor in brain, once they undertake the radiation treatment. This is the procedure; with the high level energy x-ray is applied, with the external treatment.

The part of the skin may be irritating and the tumor would be burned inside the brain and the patient should be in perfect condition. Now, specialized and advanced chemotherapy and immune therapy combined brain cancer treatment is being performed for the lymphoma patients. This procedure is with less toxic and at the same time, very effective.

Mental Barriers to Productivity

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I doubt there are many people who can claim that they don’t know what it feels like to be utterly stressed out or so overwhelmed you can’t make sense of anything – all due to a lack of time.

Doesn’t it make sense that you would do something it about it, if you complain everyday that you feel like your days consist of merely putting out fires? But why do so many people complain about time and never do anything about it? What separates those who take action, get amazing results to those who don’t take action and live with the same results? People who complain but don’t do anything about it might have some mental barriers to break through first.

Self limiting Beliefs and negative programming

Growing up you were influenced by your parents and others and you started to model their behaviour. Unfortunately you were too young to decide whether some actions were good or bad, or helpful or not. So if you have picked up and learnt bad habits, you can also unlearn them as well. If you find yourself saying “It is just the way I am, I have always been like this”, you may be a victim of negative programming.

I was born disorganized

You might deem that you were born messy or that you have a certain gene that keeps you “disorderly”, of course this is not true. You may half-mindedly say “I can’t be more organized, I was born this way” but thinking in this way is dis-empowering and keeps you trapped in the same position that you don’t want to be in. Keep in mind as well, that if you believe that you can’t change, you are right; the same goes for believing that you can change, you are also right, so you decide!

Moving forward

Stop sabotaging yourself from having a fabulous life, with tons of more time and tons of less stress. Almost everybody develops habits that don’t serve them, but what really sets the group apart are those who conquer their bad habits from those who are a slave to their habits. If you don’t want to feel frazzled, weighed down or anxious anymore, stop listening to the limiting thoughts that keep you where you are and from being productive.

Giving up to gain

For many, to achieve something, they have to give up something first and this could be another mental barrier. You might have to give up that extra coffee break in the morning; that extra 10minutes snooze or give up the feeling of being in your comfort zone. Whatever it is, you most likely know what is holding you back. If you don’t, ask yourself what is causing you to falter moving forward? What are the thoughts or feelings that are holding you back? Once you are able to identify what your mental barriers are to time management, you are in a much better position to break through them.

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Mental Math Games (part 3 Of 3)

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In the preceding article, involvement in ‘real world’ games, sports and recreational activities was advocated as a way of improving a kid’s mental math skills. As there as so many sports and games to choose from which involve some form of mental math based scoring, it’s almost impossible not to find activities that kids will engage with and enjoy. The advantage of this approach to developing mental math capabilities is that playing sports and games is a social activity which will develop a kid’s mental math and interpersonal skills in tandem. One of the most important lessons a kid can learn is how to be a good loser; board games provide a perfect preparation for the highs and lows of real life. The one serious disadvantage of using involvement in sports and games to improve mental math skills is that it can put great demands on a parent’s or sibling’s time. While you always want to encourage your kids in everything they do and to avoid saying ‘no’ to family activities, there are occasions when settling down to a four hour game of Monopoly would be too disruptive to your home life. In such circumstances, it is important to have a suitable alternative to group activities which will engage and entertain a kid on their own while at the same time developing their mental math skills.

Online Math Games
Online educational resources have developed rapidly over the course of the past decade and there are numerous online math games and activities from which to choose. Many educational sites are free to use, although the payoff is often intrusive including sometimes inappropriate advertising, whereas some sites charge a modest monthly or annual subscription. It’s also worth bearing in mind that some websites offer only math games, whereas others offer a range of games and activities across the whole breadth of the curriculum. So how do you choose a website that will benefit your kid educationally, while being sufficiently engaging that they will want to use it on a day to day basis? The first thing to do is to ascertain which eLearning software is used at school and what your kid thinks of it. If your kid is generally approving, try out the software yourself and form a general view of its educational and entertainment value. It’s worth noting that the majority of subscription services allow you a completely free trial of their software for a couple of weeks, so you’ve a chance to try some alternative providers before taking out a subscription. The ideal is to use the same software both at home and at school, so that your kid remains familiar with a single screen environment and set of characters. However, if you’re unsure about the software used at school you should try alternative software providers until you find something that both you and your kid are happy with. You’ll know if you’ve chosen suitable eLearning software for your kid because they’ll badger you each day to be allowed to play the online math games, rather than you having to coerce them into playing. And, as your kid plays, their mental math skills will benefit immeasurably.

Mental Problem Solver

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There’s a new drugless therapy that works for most mental problems. It has NO bad side effects! It’s easily affordable even to low income families! It works to change brain wave amplitudes by subliminal messaging. It’s much simpler and much less expensive than EEG Biofeedback, (aka Neurofeedback). In 4 separate volunteer tests over the past 3 years, it has clearly shown that it is at least equally successful to EEG Biofeedback, a proved albeit very expensive therapy.

(For a synopsis of all four tests completed from 2004 to 2007 go to: www.drbate.com/Ref/SubliminalSynopsis.html).

It’s called “Neuroliminal Brain Wave Training”, although most just call it “Neuroliminal”. (There’s a Patent Pending on this new usage). The most common usage is while sleeping, although some have also used it during the day as background audio with success.

How does it work? It uses a special combination of speech and audio sounds combined in a subliminal message on a repeating CD. Some call it “beneficial brainwashing”. The 4 tests conducted over 3 years are described at www.drbate.com/SubliminalSynopsis.html. These tests have shown clearly that this therapy is very effective for ADD/ADHD/autism, depression, insomnia, epilepsy, etc. The last test (ended in January 2007) included 9 autistic kids ranging in age from 3 to 11 years old. Those results showed a very similar overall improvement in an 8 week reporting period as would be expected in a similar group using Neurofeedback.

A new volunteer test is scheduled to begin in July 2007. It will last for 2-4 months overall, with reporting data bimonthly. Volunteers with Alzheimer’s, MS, PTSD, anaphylaxis, (severe allergy), autism, epilepsy, schizoid, and other severe problems will be accepted and has just gone out. Since Neuroliminal Training seems to do exactly the same thing that Neurofeedback Training does – namely, change amplitude of different brain waves, and success has been achieved by Neurofeedback with such difficult cases in the past, this is the next logical test. It will use a CD that raises the SMR brain wave, lowers the Theta brain wave, and increases the brain blood flow. (The same CD used in the previous autism test.) Details are available at www.drbate.com/alzvolunteers.html.

What are the drawbacks or potential dangers of this new therapy? The only real drawback is that it takes time to really “brainwash” beneficially. There has never been shown any real danger to either Neurofeedback or Neuroliminal. Like the tortoise, slow and steady wins the race, but it takes time. Neurofeedback definitely works for most of these mental problems. It is NOT a “magic pill”, but it does seem to work miracles over time.