Bruce Lee Bio - Life Of The Dragon

By Darren W Chow

Bruce Lee is a legend of the martial arts community. In his time, Lee not only trained in the ancient art of Wing Chun, but he also put it to use in both traditional and questionable means. Lee was always known for getting in to fights when he was living in Hong Kong. He even once beat up the son of a Triad leader. According to one Bruce Lee bio, this was the last straw, as some talk was going around thereafter that Lee had a contract out on his life. Lee's parents sent him to live with his older sister in San Francisco pre-1960. While there, he would refine his craft as a martial artist and eventually found his own style that borrowed philosophies from many of the ancient arts that had turned Lee into such a master. Lee's new style was called Jeet Kune Do, or "the way of the intercepting fist."

Unlike many of the traditional teachers of martial arts, who urged against combat unless entirely necessary, Lee seemed to welcome it. According to the Bruce Lee bio, he got in to many fights throughout his short time on the earth. He was a frequent target of criticism from the Chinese community for teaching the ancient arts to Caucasians. It even led to a confrontation between Lee and another master with the stipulation that if Bruce lost he would have to cease teaching the art to the western world. Lee fought the challenger in a highly contested bout, which occurred in private. The challenger claims that he did not lose and that the fight went on for 20-25 minutes, while the Bruce Lee bio said that the challenger was vanquished in just 3 minutes. Neither man relented in their telling of the story. He did challenge Lee to a public rematch that was never accepted. Lee continued teaching his martial arts.
Lee's unique skills eventually earned the attention of Hollywood, who put him to work right away in features such as "Way of the Dragon," "Enter the Dragon," and "Game of Death," that would change the way that people thought about the martial arts movie. He was also noted for a starring role in the classic "Green Hornet" TV series as sidekick Kato, who stole the show with his unique fighting abilities. In spite of his devotion to western culture, Lee was railroaded out of the lead role in "Kung Fu" due to his race.
Lee died in 1973. His official cause of death was cerebral edema, though there have been many theories over the years from a reaction to cannabis to Triad murder to a curse over his family backed by the untimely death of son Brandon. Depending on which Bruce Lee bio you read, the cause of death seems to be different!

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How To Say NO In 2 Simple Ways

By Ankitaa Gohain Dalmia 

Most people don't like confrontations. Saying "NO" can lead to such confrontations sometimes, so here are 2 simple ways on how to say "No" without getting your relationships massacred.
Say No, Cite Your Reason
Think of all the reasons why you WANT to say no to the other person.
Maybe you don't want to go to the mall and chase your friend from one store to another. Maybe you don't want to spend overtime at work doing your boss' work for her. So instead of that, what do you want to do?
Think like this - instead of going to the mall, you'd rather be at home finishing up your laundry or some other long overdue house work. And instead of working overtime (where most likely you're not going to be paid extra), you want to spend some long overdue quality time with your family.
And cite that reason for saying no.
Never lie. What's the point in risking any relationship with lies, huh? So simply say no, state the reason why, and do what you intend to do.
Say No, Stand Your Ground
So what if you don't have any laundry or any other long overdue housework left to do, but still you don't want to go to the mall with your BFF?
For many people, a day at the mall can be relaxing. But it can be quite harrowing to others. If you do like going to the mall, but not particularly with your friend on that particular day/time, I'd still suggest you go for it. Spend some time with your friend. Maybe it's not going to be such a frantic experience as you expect it to be.
However, if you simply don't like going to the mall (or doing something what the other person has suggested/requested), you simply have to STAND YOUR GROUND!
Just say no. If you have to explain how doing something you don't want to do messes up your mood, then do explain. But stand your ground. Don't be a pushover.
If the other person is stubborn, just maintain your calm and stand your ground. Try to make the other person see reason. If that fails, try to suggest an alternative. Maybe you can go to the mall on a weekday, instead of a weekend, when there's less crowd. Bottom-line is stand your ground.

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All You Deserve Is Happiness

By Patricia Gozlan

We all look for happiness out of everything. We work, eat and sleep only to remain happy and contended. Our everyday life is objective, as we make use of assorted means for reaching out one end-happiness. Have you ever wondered why do not we make our ways to this end successfully? Psychotherapists comment that the present age creates a platform for constant antagonism between expectations and fulfillment. The relationship between these two factors is reversely proportionate. It is tough all the times to close the gap for bringing in more ecstasy.
Condition of stress is common. Nevertheless, this amount of stress is sure to remain static, as you need to undergo the similar situation oft in your everyday life. What you can do to cope up stress and depression is to make use of an innovative tool for bringing back happiness into your life. The name of this tool is NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Believe it or not, NLP is an effectual self-mechanism for fostering joy and happiness. It is a behavioral practice for self-awareness and effectual communication for altering the pattern of emotional and mental behavior. You could also define NLP as a medium for personal development targeting at performance development by using certain behavioral and pragmatic methods.
People often wonder in what ways NLP could be helpful for someone. Well, you can try NLP for numbers of purposes. Primarily, NLP helps you developing your behavioral insights. Secondly, Neuro-Linguistic Programming is effective also for gearing personal changes. More importantly, NLP is often recommended for strengthening advanced communication skills. In simple explanation, when you feel that your life is out of your balance, you could try NLP.
Many a people inquire whether NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a scientific program based on rock-solid formula. The truth is that, neither NLP is science nor it claims to have overwhelming success over the practitioners. However, it is true that innumerable people have been benefited by means of this behavioral communication program.
So, what are the techniques with which you could practice NLP for bringing in happiness and balance in your life? You can experiment with the following tricks for restoring balance in your life:

• Centralize your thought thinking about the resource you want to attain in the near future, for instance happiness, tight focus and relaxation.


• Memorize the good moments spent by you. You will more good and relaxed.


• Start believing that your past situations had been focused and relaxed. Now, correlate your present time with that of the past. Pick up the positive thoughts for feeling good.


• Just imagine you have in hold a regulator for controlling all your emotions and feelings. Now control this regulator for amplifying the same feelings and emotions.


• Touch your nose and maximize these feelings and emotions. Repeat this posture as many times as you like.


• Try to captivate the fullest level of mental sanity blended with perfect balance.


• Create a plan for the day. Set your goals and imagine that you have enabled to achieve those goals at the end of the day. Uplift yourself with help of a positive mental status and realize your success in imagery. It is sure to provide you with a considerable amount of ecstasy and joy.

Patricia Gozlan writes about how to achieve concrete business results and fulfillment, for small business owners, worldwide. Her practice is done from Milan Italy, in 4 languages (Italian, English, French, Greek). If you would like to learn more about what it really takes to release inner

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Three Things Most People Do Wrong When Trying to Release Emotions

By Dr Lisa Turner 

Emotions are good. They let us know when something isn't right for us. At least that's what they are meant for.
However all too often the emotion you feel now in the present is actually based in a memory from the past. When this happens it means you can't make the best decisions for yourself. You will find it hard to be 100% present and in the now, because the past is always pulling you back.
Sadly exactly how to recover from the past isn't well known and here are the 3 biggest mistakes that people make when trying to deal with their emotions.
1. Understand them
Do you know someone who knows exactly WHY they have their problems? They know the cause, the events that led to them, how it all happened. They will know and fully understand all the patterns and triggers, and often they will find every opportunity to share them with anyone who seems even remotely interested, they will launch into their "story". The problem is they still have the problem. Knowing why you have the problem and understanding it is a bit like knowing your car doesn't work because its fan belt has broken, but not actually replacing the fan belt.
2. Express them
Many therapies focus on crying, talking about your problem or even shouting and screaming.
Crying does not release the emotions, nor does it resolve the problem. Although crying can give temporary relief and release endorphins, this simply masks the problem and, in fact, reliving the painful event reinforces the problem and makes it worse, rather than better.
Rather than releasing the emotions this actually reinforces them in your neurology. Every time you think a thought, feel an emotion or recall a memory, the neurons fire in your brain along the same original path. Each time you do this you will actually be strengthening that path, making it easier for that pathway to be fired up next time. This is why small events in the present can trigger past trauma. Expressing emotions does not release them.
Therefore each time you relive a traumatic event, you will strengthen the neural pathway. But if you RELEASE the negative emotions new, positive and empowering thought processes can then be installed.
3. Suppress them
This is also called denial and we do this in a variety of ways. Most people will simply kid themselves or deny that they have any problems at all. Often emotions are suppressed or anaesthetised out of consciousness with addictions. Smoking, drinking, video games, TV, eating too much or a compulsion to eat a particular thing, even caffeine will anaesthetise your pain.
However, the pain and the problems are still there. The neurons are still firing, but out of your conscious awareness. So you are radiating out all that energy completely ignorantly until boom some big problem lands in your life and you can't understand where it came from or why it happened when you were thinking happy thoughts.
Telltale signs that you have suppressed emotions
A) Overreactions
You overreact to small things - this is known as emotional leakage. The emotions, denied in one area of your life, literally spill out in other areas. So if you are irritable, overly sentimental, get hurt by small things, even road rage, are signs that you could be suppressing emotions in another area.
B) Low or no Energy
Feeling tired - it takes energy to carry emotions (that's why it's called emotional baggage) and it takes even more energy to suppress them. If you are lacking in energy, need more sleep than most people or just have no get up and go. Many of my past clients were suffering from chronic fatigue or ME, which disappeared once they released their emotions.
C) You have physical pain or even illness
I've received a lot of questions about illness, heart problems, chronic fatigue, auto-immune, chronic pain and so on.
Pain, illness or physical discomfort is one of the ways our unconscious minds communicate with us. Your unconscious mind is communicating with your conscious mind all the time, but in the highly logical, rational, left brain society we have been conditioned to ignore those silly irrational feelings and only to pay attention to rational thinking.
But no matter how irrational they might seem they do have a rational cause. It's just that our conscious / logical mind doesn't have all the information. So it assumes the unconscious mind is wrong and overrules it.
This is what happens with our emotions and illness. Our unconscious mind will tell our conscious mind that something needs to change or move or it will just give us some feedback. But our conscious mind ignores it, so our unconscious mind gives it louder and louder and we turn it off and become numb to our emotions.
The problem is still there so our unconscious mind tries another way of communicating. The unconscious mind runs the body and it governs all those automatic processed like our immune system and muscles etc.
So if we ignore our emotions our unconscious mind gives us the messages as pain or illness. But when we pay attention to the emotions and release them the physical problem can disappear.
This is particularly true of all those psychosomatic illnesses. That doesn't mean they are not real. The pain and the problem is VERY real, but it is caused because we don't have a mechanism to release our emotions so we suppress them.

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How to Handle Anger Appropriately

By Mary Bodel 

Anger can come from many sources. It may be righteous anger, either for yourself or for others. It may be guilt related anger. Sometimes stress causes it, and fear as well. The question is, how do you deal with it, and is it right for you to do something about it?
Righteous Anger: Has someone said something slanderous about you? Perhaps they told their boss or spread it around your workplace, school or the internet. You've got two choices. One is to act out your anger and the other is to let it pass. Acting in anger, even if it's righteous anger, does no one any good. If you're the target, then it especially does you no good. Before you react, calm down, look at it rationally and then decide how you're going to handle the problem.
The same advice holds true if it is because of something done to someone else. Anger begets anger. You can let it spur you to action, but not while you're still feeling the emotion.
Guilt: This is a sneaky one. The more true an accusation is, the angrier you will become. It's a reflex to shield the mind from the realization that you've done something wrong. It will take a lot of self control to swallow it, think about what's being said and then do the right thing, whether it's an apology or some other means of restitution.
Stress: Stress causes a lot of emotions, and anger is only one of them. If you are under a lot of stress, you may need to learn some relaxation techniques to help control them. Visualization is the best if you have the time. If not, deep breathing and counting to ten do actually help. Herbs such as lavender and passionflower could be beneficial, but not when you may need your wits about you.
Fear: In some cases, anger caused by fear may save your life. In others, it may cause lasting harm. It can give you that added push to get out of the way of something, which is good. However, it can also cloud your judgement, make any illness worse and if you open mouth and insert foot, it could ruin relationships.
It is a good idea to talk to your doctor if you have anger issues that aren't resolved by the simple steps above. You may have an underlying medical condition and you may need counseling. The counselor can help you learn stronger techniques to hold anger at bay.

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How To Stop Anger From Controlling Your Life

By Roseanna Leaton

Some people seem to have the knack of avoiding anger; by this I mean that they just don't seem to get angry no matter what provocation they are subjected to. Other people are affected in a hot and heated manner and feel the bile of anger rising in their throats at the smallest provocation. And then there are those who traverse the middle ground between these two opposite positions.
In reality, a little bit of anger can be a very healthy emotion. To feel anger in an appropriate way allows you to express your feelings and let off steam. Anger can also be a good motivator to take important and necessary action. But anger is only a healthy emotion when it is experienced with a certain degree of control.
Unbridled anger can be a very dangerous emotion to experience and it can become your own controller. Uncontrolled anger can be the perpetrator of many a deed which you feel ashamed of at a later time. This type of anger can destroy possessions, relationships and lives.
We know that for some people anger would appear to be a controllable emotion whilst for others it has free reign. If you wish to change your angry responses to situations then it is important to understand that you can learn from those who deal with anger in a different and more productive way.
We often do not appreciate that almost all behavior and emotion can be tempered and changed. It is too easy to think that you are just a "hot headed" person, shrug your shoulders and accept your fate. But that is a complete cop-out.
We happily watch programs on TV like "Dragons Den" and fully appreciate that to work with and be guided by a successful mentor is likely to assist one to become more successful too. We appreciate that financially successful traits can be copied.
In reality, every trait can be copied. And to learn to control your anger will lead to far greater success, as well as comfort, within your life. In learning to control anger you allow your friendships, relationships and every other type of encounter the chance to prosper.
Uncontrolled anger is a negative emotion, which gets in the way of success. It forms a large and uncomfortable barrier, which prevents you from succeeding in almost every arena in life. But anger can be controlled and you can learn how to do this quite easily. You can learn to control anger by watching and copying those who remain calm. You can also learn to control anger with the help of hypnosis mp3 downloads.
Hypnosis allows you to access your subconscious mind, the part where instinctive habits and responses are held. And so a hypnosis download designed to overcome anger can effectively be an extremely good mentor, which guides you to be a far more relaxed and comfortable person.

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Learning To Improve Your Memory Information

by: Timothy Romano

Have you experienced the embarrassment of forgetting a family member's birthday or an important assignment? Are you in school and are finding it toilsome to study successfully for exams and tests? It's not just you! Thousands and thousands of individuals out there have the same challenge, and it doesn't just affect senior citizens. In school, they never teach you improve your memory information, or the time-tested strategies for successful memorization.

Your brain is a very able piece of machinery. The organ collects data and thoughts, and then categorizes and stores them. For the information in the brain to be used beneficially, it must be available for quick retrieval. One such case of quick recall would be answering a question like, "how old are you," or "what is your address?" How many of you have searched high and low for a pair of eyeglasses, and found them right on your head? Maybe you have forgotten something more important like a project at work, or a homework assignment. The good news is that you don't have to keep worrying about your memory. Regardless of age or ability, there are lots of things you can do to exercise, and improve the performance of your memory.

Sometimes the best "improve your memory information" can be found by asking someone who's got a lot of experience under her belt. My grandmother used to tell me about an old trick to help remind myself of something I had to remember. The technique is to tie a piece of yarn on your finger, or put some tape on your hand to serve as a reminder that you had to remember to do something. Since the string or tape is out of the ordinary, it will help you remember what you were supposed to do. You could tie a string on your thumb, wear your watch upside down, or even set an alarm on your mobile phone. The secret is to mix up your normal environment just enough to tune you in to the fact that something is wrong and you have something to remember.

You can also try creating a picture to help improve the effectiveness of your memory. The easiest way to accomplish this is to create a scene in your mind of what you are trying to remember. In my language learning hobby, I have found this technique very effective in learning new vocabulary. This is how it works. "Potato," in the German language, is pronounced cart-awfol, which is in no way like to the word potato in English. Try to form the following image in your mind. You're shopping for groceries at a store in Berlin and see a gigantic cart of rotten potatoes. Your buddy exclaims, "That is a cart of awful potatoes!" Implant the image in your mind and think about how bad that smells. I'll bet that you'll remember the German word! If your image is wild and imaginative, even a little dirty, you are much more likely to remember your vocabulary word. It works, believe it! This is a system I have employed over many hundreds of words in several languages. Try it! You can use this helpful trick to remember far more things than German vocabulary!

These are just a few ways you can supercharge your brain. The improve your memory information that I've shown you here is easy enough that you can start practicing right away! In no time, your memory will be much improved, thanks to the new techniques you've learned and practiced.