Tim got his last birthday, a wave board - this innovative skateboard, to the one on just two wheels balanced and moving forward by turning your body into s-wave-shaped lines. I admit that I was equally fascinated by this device and felt a certain pleasure, I also try it. However, I have it otherwise does not rolling, balance, requiring airborne means (apart from the bike) - drive so I can not roller skate, inline skating, skate or skateboard. Accordingly, worked my first test trials of the wave board - put on it just once at home and hang it somewhere - not very encouraging.

By turning of the body pushes you to the wave board is the snake

When Tim was then but a week on a school trip, the opportunity came about very naturally, the whole thing more intense in peace to try. My wife had also seized the ambition and soon she managed to keep the first few meters of rolling down on the wave board. Also, I succeeded after a few attempts: It is like a bicycle - it falls over while standing, while driving, it remains alone in the balance. Therefore you should try the first few yards down a shallow slope. If you are not alone, it is also on the standing wave board range of a second person with both hands, so you have to first stop, and then slowly pull the sides can be. Here you can try to let go of the hands to find the balance. We are afraid or feel uncertainty, you can always take your hands again.

This first hurdle - the balance standing in the downhill - was so taken relatively quickly. A bit heavier now proved the progress at a level road. The Wave is "self-propelled" - will be driven by its own motion, without being as in a normal skateboard again and again with one leg off the ground repels to get going. This works by the slight forward tilt of the saw from the side oblique axes mounted in conjunction with the elastic torsion bar which connects the front and rear half of the board.

You have now the whole body from side to side spin, which is moved in a serpentine line. At the beginning of this process was very stressful and I got a little forward momentum. While the whole thing with Tim was already quite effortlessly, I fought my way forward in jerky movements rather square-looking. It took some time before these movements gradually smoothed and rounded. This has been driving ever more effortless. Is actually the movement of my previous experience, not from a specific starting point of the body, but all body parts - feet, legs, hips, torso and shoulders are equally involved. This results in proper technique and not to muscle soreness or exhaustion of individual muscles.

This movement corresponds to an astonishing degree underground movement that I met years ago when Qigong (actually one of the basic movements of the Chan Mi Qigong) and Tai Chi. It also came on the relaxed, circular movement of the entire body. An important role is played by the relaxation and letting go - do not use force, but simply allow the development of the movement. To execute the Wave-riding is fast acting relaxing and invigorating in a natural way - the kind of movement mobilized the flow of Qi's how it is used in traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, I call it in the title and Qigong machine.

We now have all three of its own Board and thus make regular trips, where we drive several miles beuspielsweise along the Ruhr. Or do we turn a few laps in our street or directly to an empty parking lot on Sundays.

The Wave in the way, there are different versions, with me the original Street Surfing liked much better than cheaper alternatives. More information can be found at the following Amazon link:

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Forrest Gump - a movie about an idiot with an IQ of 75 and how he copes with life - was a movie that I had little expected of me, but then equally enthusiastic. Since I count among my personal heroes Forrest Gump (I have even a considerable number of Forrest Gump-quotations for the occasional in-the-round-throwing). Why? I want to be an idiot, maybe, or what?

The fact is that - apart from the low IQ - Forrest Gump fooling us how we should live and act. Even many of the Zen Buddhism as desired characteristics on the path to enlightenment lives Forrest Gump to us like no other.

Recently I came across a book called The even Forrest Gump-of-principle Renate Schmidt, which is dedicated to just these characteristics and lifestyle. These are:

• Simplicity of thinking: seeing things as they are, they are filtered through acquired concepts without perceiving
• Stamina: things run through to the end
• Clarity of action: straightforward, effective action
• Focus on one thing: Like a Zen Master said. "When I eat, then I do nothing but eat, when I sleep, I sleep" If Forrest Gump is running, then he runs, he plays tennis, he plays just tennis.
• No pursuit of personal success: honor and glory may be pleasant, but they have come by themselves, without being sought after.
• Authenticity: always be yourself, never pretend to be different than it is.

Another message of the movie by the way: If you live in such acts and to success is a byproduct of self. Forrest Gump, not only becomes a millionaire, the carrier of the Medal of Honor, fame, and our lives are automatically converted to good, if only "immediate" and is sincere.

Some quotes:

Lt. Dan: "To raise money we need to make us ever more worried." - Forrest Gump: "That's good, one less worry."

Lt. Dan: "I was someone who I was ... Lieutenant Dan." - Forrest Gump: "You're still Lieutenant Dan."

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you get."

"Stupid is who stupid does."

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An interesting book I've read recently is Open Focus attention training by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins. Such as "find through activation of the alpha state of health and creativity," the subtitle suggests, this book is a relaxation technique that was developed by Les Fehmi in decades of research at the Princeton Biofeedback Center and refined continuously.

Biofeedback denotes general methods which attempt to change the current physical or mental condition of the people. This one tries to achieve through imagination, or a change in concentration, where you can directly control the amount of change with a suitable device. An example would be that one tries to reduce the frequency of the heartbeat and we add to this your own heartbeat clearly audible (that would be the feedback), which both control serves as well for the ongoing refinement of the technique leads to this end to the desired result leads - here for an audible reduction in heart rate.

Les Fehmi originally researched alpha waves, which are low-frequency waves of brain activity in the EEG. Alpha waves are usually generated in the deeply relaxed state when the brain is not focused on a single activity. Moreover, both halves of the brain still work together, it comes to so-called phase-synchronous alpha waves, and for precisely this is what the method of Fehmi. He in fact been made sometime after that he was in the lab as part of his research for some time in this state, he still felt for days afterwards often quite different, namely a relaxed, balanced, but also attentive and generally happier.

So he developed methods to produce this state of alpha waves zuverlässing what proved difficult at first, because the more one tries to get into this state, the worse it works. Finally, he found that certain notions of "space" - in the body or around it - most reliably to the desired result. Imagine, therefore, before things like the space between the eyeballs or the space between the fingers, and the mere concentration effect on the visualization in the relaxed state, the increase in alpha waves.

What I find interesting about this is that he comes to the same findings as those found in Asian methods such as meditation or qigong, only that he used just a "Western" approach. His method does the same self-regulation of the body and the same "flow" feeling, such as Buddhist meditation techniques.

The book includes a CD with, with which one can apply the technique itself, without any training required by a teacher. You will be prompted for the CD, is this or that, just imagine what, when combined with the careful choice of words and intonation to the desired result.

According to Fehmi this attention training has a highly positive impact not only on tight muscles, but also to mental disorders such as ADD or ADHD in children, so that they can achieve in school again substantially better.

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