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Mini Video: Pilates for Men #Brentwood #LA
Westside LA is a collection of fitness-friendly neighborhoods. Here is one of my favorite fitness studios, Classic Pilates Body on San Vicente Boulevard. (I wish I had a "classic Pilates body!" hey, I'm workin' on it.)
dichotomies. this, mind/body
The article below [link] speaks of the fMRI as a technology that visualizes the mind. And not only, but the process as well. I am a little surprised that as late as 2004, MIT allowed for the perpetuation of the mind/body binary, even if it is just a starter question to which they subsequently try to dismantle. However, they speak of the "brain-mind connection" further down the article, implying the mind and brain are still separated to a degree. Descartes lives on! Is it just semantics? It is a curious way to proceed with language in finding an emergent phenomenon. Someone out there skilled in this area, I'd like to know. Hit me up.
http://www.wi.mit.edu/news/archives/2004/cpa_0609.html
There are many researchers out there trying to tackle the physicality of consciousness; books, articles, and on, as mentioned in the article. All are looking at the brain. It is all fascinating, compelling and ever informative and revealing an incredible amount of information about the resilience of... human. Yet receptors of the brain are found throughout the rest of the body, as within the digestive tract. They respond to the same neurotransmitters as the brain. Mental function, behavior, emotion, intelligence, intellectual burn-out, intuition, stress, IBS, heartbreak, nausea, happiness, what have you, are all full-body experiences.
I am sure I have mentioned this before. A good read on this is Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert, Phd. http://books.google.com/books?id=gPDRP9DV8twC&dq=molecules+of+emotion&source=gbs_navlinks_s It is interwoven with her own personal story of being a woman in the sciences (an incredible one at that), has some technical language, and has been criticized for being new wave b.s. But all are relevant to the development of science and medicine and finding the physical mind.
Seems one for complimentarity. Or maybe that is what integrative physiological science is for. As is the usual, they should talk to each other more often. Or try fMRI'ing brain + the rest of the body.
I Enjoy Smoking
There, I've said it... "I enjoy smoking". Smoking is good for you, it makes you look cool (well, not really - it'd take more than a cigarette to make me look cool). It's the best (probably only) accepted excuse to take a 10 minute break from work. It gives you something to do in traffic jams and when waiting for busses, and a cigarette after a meal is one to be savoured.
Smoking is good. Well no, actually we all know smoking is bad!!!
So what to do when it's time to finally quit? I have a few suggestions...
First of all, if you want to stop smoking, I highly recommend reading the free (and very comprehensive) article how to quit smoking by Tim Brownson. Tim Brownson is a life coach and NLP Master Practitioner. If you really want to quit smoking, Tim's advice will help you.
If you want to quit smoking the easy way, then you might also want to try hypnosis. You can download a stop smoking MP3 right now. Tim actually refers to the Free From Smoking MP3 in his article. It's one of the least expensive out there and comes with a no-questions-asked 30 day money back guarantee, so there's absolutely no risk involved. Tip: use the code FFS10 for a 10% discount.
Finally, if you want to investigate other options, then take a look at these quit smoking reviews. There's a whole variety of options including ebooks, stress relief advice and tips on avoiding weight gain.
Best of luck with your decision to quit smoking - you can do it.
If you found this post helpful, please pass it on to friends, family and colleagues who smoke. Thank you.
Hot Winter Body
Yes, that's right. Let's start living better, and healthily. No more snacking. Let's give this cold season some warmth!
# three
This is late.
Yesterday's challenge to Me was the one thing I have had problems with since I could remember: sports. I'm just not a sports person. I actually spent most of my teenage years not knowing what to do with my body (jump? dance? climb? yoga? noooooo waaaaay)
It wasn't until I suffered from mild insanity and signed up to join the school's competitive climbing club that my body became one with ... whatever else I'm made of.
So. Yesterday's thing-I've-never-done-before was to run 5 km on the treadmill at my gym.
You know when you psych yourself up and tell yourself 5 is only a number and the only thing between you and 5 are wimpy numbers like 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Don't underestimate 2.
I became suicidal at 2.1km and hoisted my white flag at 2.5km.
Loser.
This is one thing I have to try again. Come on, it's 5km. Peanuts!
# one
"Dear Leonard
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is.
At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years.
Always the love.
Always the hours." The Hours, 2000
When we are forced to think about our lives, we tend to retreat into the dangerous comfort of immortality. Life seems to stretch on for years and as you age gracefully in your mind's eye, you do up a list of things you would like to do, later, then, one day.
I want that life now. So it's one hundred and eighty days around my life, my world. # 1: Swim.I have never been able to swim til I took classes with my sister earlier this year, twenty four years after I fell out of my first watery home. Even then, I never really swam in a proper body of water outside swimming lessons. So, the challenge to Me today. Swim.
