The Banner of Peace

One Earth, One People, One Time. This is the banner of peace. Peace is something we need more off, on micro, meso, macro levels!!! Not as an idea in our heads, but as a lived practice! Egocentrism doesn’t really serve, nor ethnocentrism, we are all living in the global village, let’s begin to act like real world-citizens, and leave this planet, the people and the structures in a better conditions than how we found them!! 

here’s more about the banner of peace

and about it’s creator

Failures, feedback and passion!

A lot of famous people did have a lot of big failures throughout their lives. But they kept on believing in themselves. These people gave themselves the space to experiment and they kept on acting upon their believes. In that sense I have to say, that Anthony Robbins is down right when he says that personal power is all about the ability to take action.

Here are some famous people who “failed”:

It seems that these people did not get affected by their failures, but in some sort of way it gave them fuel to fulfill their goals. Even the great Leonardo da Vinci has had tremendous failures throughout his life. Unfortunately we can not see his painting in the sixteen chapel, because the paint already came off after a week or so. Unfortunately, for him and fortunately for us, his rival Michelangelo did not try to use new revolutionary painting techniques!

A failure of Leonardo da Vinci

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How I grew 10 kilo’s of muscle in six weeks

How I got Inspired

Regularly I have discussions about sports or better said, Martial Arts. Sometimes I claim certain things, and a lot of times I ask certain things to become a better all-round martial artist and of course human being. I tend to look for the best place to train and to look for the people who made a lot of progress in a very short amount of time.

In this quest, that is not only limited to Martial Arts, but to life in general, I keep my eyes wide open. On one of my ‘lucky moments’ I happened to bump in to a book, in the local bookstore The book I found was: ‘The Four Hour Workweek’, form Tim Ferriss. This book is  a book that talks about certain aspects of Time management, but also about achieving, and specially achieving quick and effectively.

Among a lot of subjects, Tim Ferris wrote about his fitness tricks, and particularly about weight gaining and weight dropping. I was, at least to say, pretty interested in his method. But it took until my return from South-America and before my brother introduced me to the method Ferriss his used for his weight gaining.The technique is called High Intensity Training and was developed by Arthur Jones.

Another inspiration for weightlifting I found in the book ‘Integral Psychology’ form Ken Wilber. Wilber (also) writes about about the positive affects of weightlifting for your body, including the brain, and with that your mind.

Back from South America

As I was just back from Peru and Brazil, to train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Cholitzu (a style of Mixed Martial Arts). I lost a few pounds/kilo’s. I weighted 90 kilo’s. I missed my strength, but also was excited about the promise of Tim Ferris and Arthur Jones their methods.

When I was back in Holland I decided to set my goals with weightlifting, before I would train BJJ again. Since I was 90 kilo’s and wanted not only to be back at my 92 kilo’s, but gain even more. I figured that 100 kilo’s would be a perfect weight for my length at 1.96. I decided to work out for 3 times a week, with my brother, cousin and at times by myself, and occasionally with my roommate. My goal was sett for a gain of 10 kilo’s.

In 6 weeks of time I achieved my goal. I must say it has cost me some pain, since I did not train any kickboxing or taekwondo, but also no MMA or BJJ. But the physical pain that I had was even worse, SINCE THIS IS A RADICAL METHOD!

How did I do it?

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Are you going to finish strong?

Soms zit het niet mee in het leven, dingen gaan niet goed, we verliezen dat wat ons dierbaar is en soms gaan we bij de pakken neer zitten omdat we onszelf verlammen door  kritiek van anderen, of erger van onszelf.

De innerlijke criticus

Je innerlijke criticus is vaak degene die ons het hardste afrekent. Volgens Hal en Sidra Stone, bedenkers van de Voice Dialoging techniek, geeft de innerlijke criticus, kritiek om ons te beschermen van vernederingen en teleurstellingen. Hal en Sidra geven veel tips waarvan ik een aantal wil noemen.

1. Ga het gesprek met je innerlijke criticus aan!

Wil je van je innerlijke criticus een bondgenoot maken is het verstandig om het gesprek met hem aan te gaan. Word bewust van wat hij tegen je zegt. Pas wanneer je bewust bent van de stem van de innerlijke criticus kan je het gesprek aan gaan. Stel de innerlijke criticus dan ook rustig kritische vragen!

2. Wees bewust dat jij niet je innerlijke criticus bent!

Nadat je het gesprek met je innerlijke criticus hebt gevoerd, weet dat jij niet je criticus bent! Door het gesprek aan te gaan, koppel je, je kritische deel los van je ego (dat gene waar je, je mee identificeert) simpel doordat je bewust bent van het feit dat de criticus slechts een van de vele innerlijke stemmen is en dus niet gelijk staat aan wie jij bent.

3.Geef de innerlijke criticus de plek die voor jou het beste werkt!

Geef de innerlijke criticus de juiste plek. Duw de criticus niet weg, zo word hij alleen maar sterker. Het is beter om je innerlijke criticus van je ego en/of identiteit los te koppelen. Daarbij is het belangrijk om in te zien dat de criticus een raadgever is die je inzicht ‘kan’ geven over hoe jij verder als mens verder wil groeien.

Vallen en opstaan

Door het gesprek met je innerlijke criticus aan te gaan, zal je minder last van ‘self doubt’ hebben. Op het blog van Timothy Ferriss, auteur van ‘The 4 Hour Workweek’, en tevens een van de mooiste voorbeelden voor iemand die het principe van Time Management beheerst, staat een bericht met een youtube filmpje waardoor je geïnspireerd zou kunnen raken om meer uit je zelf te halen.

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Kortom hoe ga jij met je innerlijke criticus en tegenslagen om? Are you going to finish strong?