I am a man - on a mission. A mission to make you happy by any rational means necessary. Notice I said rational so get your mind out of the gutter. Why are you so unhappy? Why isn't every one of your days filled with joy and purpose and goodwill towards your fellows? I don't mean to be rude, but from what I understand 60% of you are overweight. Could that be the cause or the effect? Doesn't matter. I'm an engineer. I study life. I know bodies and I know what works to make them happy. In the state you are in right now, it ain't about food. No diet will save you. Your body is saying one thing, "USE ME PLEASE, BEFORE I AM USELESS!" Woa that's heavy. Yea in more ways than one.
Now, about my mission: I am here to help.
Yes, we can talk for years about changing your diet. Oh can we talk! And that soft body will remain unused, and just that much closer to saying "Peace out!". Fact is you have got to move - much more! And in a more coordinated fashion than you are now - gravity is winning, and it's time to fight back!
I know that sometimes the thought of "working out" or "getting into shape" seems like pointless vanity. "Why bother?" you say, "My clothes are designed with pleats to hide my rolls." Sorry my friend but it ain't about vanity (that's next weeks article). If you are reading this, your work is not done. We need you strong and healthy and happy. There are people depending on you!
This email is a coupon (see below). This coupon is your golden ticket. Redeem it for a free session. My gift to you. It will make you happy to free your body through movement. This experience could be considered priceless but if I had to put a number on it, I'd say it's value is about $150. Don't hate. That's how I roll. If you want to buy multiple sessions we can negotiate on price, but this one is on me.
Please understand, I've devoted my life to these arts, and made a lot of sacrifices to learn how to train properly. I just want it to be easier for you than it was for me. We can talk about your cheeseburger fetish another time. Now, pick up those dumbbells and give me another set of 20... no make it 30.
Redeeming this offer is EASY and will cost you nothing but a little sweat. Simply, contact me via phone or email. We can meet at Velocity (a private gym on 58th street), outside in a park or I can travel to your home.
Namaste,
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Love and Pain
In regards to the love-pains: It seems to me that far too often we expect too much from our lovers. Our perception of love comes from so many flawed sources. Many come from idealistic stories from our childhood. The fairy tales never match up with reality and we keep thinking there is something wrong with ourselves. Weather that is true or not may never be known because the patterns that we are, are more complex than the mind can grasp. All we can do is either decide to be open to others or not. There is a feedback of information either way. If you have done your internal work then when alone you can recharge yourself without looking for outside stimulus. The internal work should then give you the strength and power to interact and coexist with others again. All we can do then is try not to repeat our mistakes and search for new people who are different and can nurture and cocreate with our new, more evolved selves.There is love in all of the above stages / energy states but I do not think it is correlated with happiness. The purpose of experince is for us to grow and contribute to the greater good in any way we can. There is no guarantee that we will get the embodyment of what we want when we want it. Pain seems to be a big part of the equation. You will get exacty what you want in time, the form may be conceeled and sadly for our egos, may not be this lifetime. Rejoice in this free breath in your new more liberated life
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Manifesting Creative Genius
My past:
It's like this, we are what we pattern. The energies that formed us create a powerful force that drives us in one direction. The direction is not right or wrong once you become aware of it. Some people are born with a predisposition towards success, long life or abundance. Others are born with little chance of survival. Our life's inertia starts into motion at birth, with our genetic code. From there the lessons of our parents and childhood move us in an unconscious direction. Our desires are the projections into a possible future that allow us to improve or destroy our current conditions. To overcome inertia is no small task. If a boulder is falling down one side of a mountain it is going to take a ton of work to get it to land on the opposite side. It can be done however, and also thankfully I think that somewhere, somehow we decided which side we wanted to start down. So, where we land is simply a matter of managing our energy and our emotions. It's the journey and how we steer this thing not where we land that matters.
Genetics:
By 3rd or 4th grade I was placed into a program called G.A.T.E which if I remember stood for Gifted and Talented Education. While some of my friends were heading to LD to get tutored on how to read and add properly, I was studying Greco-Roman architecture, doing art and beginning to indulge my fantasies. I feel my luck in being placed in this program was due to some sort of genetic composition that allowed me to grasp the world with a spacial sense more advanced than my peers. To clarify, I don't feel my parents were doing anything out of the ordinary to push me ahead of the others. I believe they did an equal if not better job raising my sister. For a long time she seemed to be more well adjusted but was not invited into the "gifted" program. This is not to suggest that I was superior in any way. I'm merely observing the facts of my life and hoping to gain some clarity on my current condition. This is all subjective and takes no scientifically measured data into account. Nonetheless, I was in this gifted program at an age too young to have aspired to do so. Sadly this "gift" was to remain somewhat dormant until now.
Environment:
In the days of my youth, (to borrow a phrase from Led Zeppelin) my parents were still pursuing entrepreneurial businesses, I'm sure this spirit inspired me. At the same time I was left to my own devices to learn and grow on my own. I resented the lack of attention and care that I felt that I needed or wanted or deserved. It would be rash to say that this was why I fell in with the wrong crowd. In my hometown there really was no good or right crowd. We were isolated on Neville Island, southwest of Pittsburgh on the Ohio River. As children we grow up with those who are in the closest proximity. Unless your parents are uber protective freaks willing to drive you to the nice parts of town, so you can meet nice kids and do nice things, you hang with those closest to you. Thankfully mine were the former and left me to make my way on the banks of the Ohio River. To clarify I am not trying to indite of my friends or my home town for my current condition. I am trying to show how the breakdown in our social and economics structures inhibits millions of people from reaching their potential. (Yet I am sitting here writing this... actually the realization I just had at this moment transcends the combination of free will and fate... but it is about a novels worth of material)
From 1977 to 1993 I was confined primarily to the island and the neighboring town of Coraopolis. Pittsburgh was a shell of its former industrial self most of the jobs and prosperity had left. Now that I think back about the homes that we all live in; they were all depressing. Bad wallpaper flooring and nothing new, everything in ill repair.
The bottom line is that without my genetics, my rough home town, parents putting me into private school and the teachers I have contacted, I would not be where I am today. However I took a lot of the depressed experiences with me from my youth. Drugs and alcohol were a big part of my identity for a long time. Now I desire space, separation from my past. I want a clean slate and this is the first two weeks I have been sober since I was 15...
It's like this, we are what we pattern. The energies that formed us create a powerful force that drives us in one direction. The direction is not right or wrong once you become aware of it. Some people are born with a predisposition towards success, long life or abundance. Others are born with little chance of survival. Our life's inertia starts into motion at birth, with our genetic code. From there the lessons of our parents and childhood move us in an unconscious direction. Our desires are the projections into a possible future that allow us to improve or destroy our current conditions. To overcome inertia is no small task. If a boulder is falling down one side of a mountain it is going to take a ton of work to get it to land on the opposite side. It can be done however, and also thankfully I think that somewhere, somehow we decided which side we wanted to start down. So, where we land is simply a matter of managing our energy and our emotions. It's the journey and how we steer this thing not where we land that matters.
Genetics:
By 3rd or 4th grade I was placed into a program called G.A.T.E which if I remember stood for Gifted and Talented Education. While some of my friends were heading to LD to get tutored on how to read and add properly, I was studying Greco-Roman architecture, doing art and beginning to indulge my fantasies. I feel my luck in being placed in this program was due to some sort of genetic composition that allowed me to grasp the world with a spacial sense more advanced than my peers. To clarify, I don't feel my parents were doing anything out of the ordinary to push me ahead of the others. I believe they did an equal if not better job raising my sister. For a long time she seemed to be more well adjusted but was not invited into the "gifted" program. This is not to suggest that I was superior in any way. I'm merely observing the facts of my life and hoping to gain some clarity on my current condition. This is all subjective and takes no scientifically measured data into account. Nonetheless, I was in this gifted program at an age too young to have aspired to do so. Sadly this "gift" was to remain somewhat dormant until now.
Environment:
In the days of my youth, (to borrow a phrase from Led Zeppelin) my parents were still pursuing entrepreneurial businesses, I'm sure this spirit inspired me. At the same time I was left to my own devices to learn and grow on my own. I resented the lack of attention and care that I felt that I needed or wanted or deserved. It would be rash to say that this was why I fell in with the wrong crowd. In my hometown there really was no good or right crowd. We were isolated on Neville Island, southwest of Pittsburgh on the Ohio River. As children we grow up with those who are in the closest proximity. Unless your parents are uber protective freaks willing to drive you to the nice parts of town, so you can meet nice kids and do nice things, you hang with those closest to you. Thankfully mine were the former and left me to make my way on the banks of the Ohio River. To clarify I am not trying to indite of my friends or my home town for my current condition. I am trying to show how the breakdown in our social and economics structures inhibits millions of people from reaching their potential. (Yet I am sitting here writing this... actually the realization I just had at this moment transcends the combination of free will and fate... but it is about a novels worth of material)
From 1977 to 1993 I was confined primarily to the island and the neighboring town of Coraopolis. Pittsburgh was a shell of its former industrial self most of the jobs and prosperity had left. Now that I think back about the homes that we all live in; they were all depressing. Bad wallpaper flooring and nothing new, everything in ill repair.
The bottom line is that without my genetics, my rough home town, parents putting me into private school and the teachers I have contacted, I would not be where I am today. However I took a lot of the depressed experiences with me from my youth. Drugs and alcohol were a big part of my identity for a long time. Now I desire space, separation from my past. I want a clean slate and this is the first two weeks I have been sober since I was 15...
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Short Film Career Comes to an End
At this moment I wish to announce that I will no longer be doing short films pro bono. I have been raped of my soul for the last time. I'm done with these wannabe film makers who have no concept of reality. All of the best things I have done (film wise) have been completed in a few short hours. As soon as these psudo-artists are given a camera and some equipment they try to create an epic story using lights, camera angles and movie magic. This is an utter waist of time as the stories they tell are mediocre at best. And that's being generous, I'm done.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Winter Solstice
As the New York winter approaches I hope all of you are enjoying these last few brisk autumn days. Yes, the days are still getting shorter and the air getting cooler as we move closer to the winter solstice on December 21st at 7:04am EST. This day, the day with the least amount of daylight corresponds with the eastern concept of Earth. Heaven and Earth are the two dominating and diametrically opposed forces of the universe (according to Chinese medicinal theory). The interplay of these two forces delineates the changing of the seasons. On June 22nd, the summer solstice, the Sun reaches its zenith and focuses it's energy on the northern hemisphere. This time is considered pure Heaven and is the beginning of summer. The Sun, a giant cloud of burning gas, (ours is 70% hydrogen and 28% helium FYI) shines constant. The Earth, on the other hand, sustains life by being purely receptive to the conditions set by the environment. To put it another way, the Sun shines and this allows the Earth to produce life. Whereas, if the Earth were not here, we can suppose, the Sun would shine anyway. The elliptical shape of our orbit, combined with the rotational velocity, chemical composition of the planet, the sloshing of the tides, and some other unknown mystery stuff and and tad-da! There you have the plants, animals, humans, wireless communication devices and all other wonders that this planet provides.
So…
Even though winter is just about to begin, the days will actually start to get longer. The new solar year begins. Celebrate whatever you want this holiday season but the sun governs the rhythms of this planet. If you want to bring harmony into your life, start by getting in tune with nature. From this point in time, this place of pure receptivity, the next year's seeds of renewal and growth are being sown. This means the time is now, and today is the day. Even if you started your "New Years Resolution" on January 1st you would be eleven days late. During the next month or so there are many great social, cultural and environmental reasons to slack off. On top of your regular set of responsibilities, you have parties to celebrate, gifts to purchase, meals to eat, drinks to drink, deserts to indulge and as a result, plenty of stress (and it's getting cold outside too!). So to those of you who have a foothold on our health and fitness level let's not loose ground. Let us burrow in for a long, healthy winter and set our sights on lofty goals and a bright abundant future. At 7:04am on December 21 the sun reaches the tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. As soon as it reaches this point (the farthest from us here in NYC) it turns around and heads back up to the Tropic of Cancer. Happy solar new year, spring is on the way!
So…
What can we learn from observing nature, the Earth and the cycles of the sun? Well, since the sun and Earth have worked together to create life since the beginning of time maybe we don't have to reinvent the process. Just as the seeds in the ground await the return of the sun, now is the time to be receptive to new ideas and possibilities. Now is the time to look internally and see how much deeper you can go into your own self-development. Decide now to make 2009 the best year of your life and you will carry motivational momentum into January and beyond. We all know the benefits of working out and getting the necessary exercise. Again, exercise reduces stress, improves mood, prevents heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes etc., etc.. To those of you, who are in a rut, and have not been able to make exercise the vital part of your life that it should be, why not start now? Come springtime you'll be in sync with nature. And just as the US prevents wars by starting them, now is the time to go on the offensive (wait bad analogy)…
Now you, like the Earth, can go inward, consolidate, reflect and set in motion your plan for 2009. Yes, please do celebrate 2008 and enjoy the holiday festivities with friends and family. However, the smart and successful know that now is the time to get on track for 2009. Waiting until January is like starting in last place. Just a couple weeks of slacking and indulging at this time of year will take three months to correct. Get lined up with your purpose now and commit to having the long healthy vibrant life you truly deserve.
So…
Even though winter is just about to begin, the days will actually start to get longer. The new solar year begins. Celebrate whatever you want this holiday season but the sun governs the rhythms of this planet. If you want to bring harmony into your life, start by getting in tune with nature. From this point in time, this place of pure receptivity, the next year's seeds of renewal and growth are being sown. This means the time is now, and today is the day. Even if you started your "New Years Resolution" on January 1st you would be eleven days late. During the next month or so there are many great social, cultural and environmental reasons to slack off. On top of your regular set of responsibilities, you have parties to celebrate, gifts to purchase, meals to eat, drinks to drink, deserts to indulge and as a result, plenty of stress (and it's getting cold outside too!). So to those of you who have a foothold on our health and fitness level let's not loose ground. Let us burrow in for a long, healthy winter and set our sights on lofty goals and a bright abundant future. At 7:04am on December 21 the sun reaches the tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. As soon as it reaches this point (the farthest from us here in NYC) it turns around and heads back up to the Tropic of Cancer. Happy solar new year, spring is on the way!
So…
What can we learn from observing nature, the Earth and the cycles of the sun? Well, since the sun and Earth have worked together to create life since the beginning of time maybe we don't have to reinvent the process. Just as the seeds in the ground await the return of the sun, now is the time to be receptive to new ideas and possibilities. Now is the time to look internally and see how much deeper you can go into your own self-development. Decide now to make 2009 the best year of your life and you will carry motivational momentum into January and beyond. We all know the benefits of working out and getting the necessary exercise. Again, exercise reduces stress, improves mood, prevents heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes etc., etc.. To those of you, who are in a rut, and have not been able to make exercise the vital part of your life that it should be, why not start now? Come springtime you'll be in sync with nature. And just as the US prevents wars by starting them, now is the time to go on the offensive (wait bad analogy)…
Now you, like the Earth, can go inward, consolidate, reflect and set in motion your plan for 2009. Yes, please do celebrate 2008 and enjoy the holiday festivities with friends and family. However, the smart and successful know that now is the time to get on track for 2009. Waiting until January is like starting in last place. Just a couple weeks of slacking and indulging at this time of year will take three months to correct. Get lined up with your purpose now and commit to having the long healthy vibrant life you truly deserve.
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