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@Collabodance 2013 #Collabo2013 at Stratford Circus

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@Collabodance 2013 #Collabo2013 at Stratford Circus
Once again I was like I’m not going to type up a review for the show but I end up doing it because it was just that amazing. I don’t know how they do it but every year it gets bigger and better. I remember the first time I went it was more street dance stuff. Now you see more white folks, oriental folks and I could have spotted an Indian or two in the there.

What its about – Up coming dance groups get together and collaborate to a piece of music. Usually mixed songs. And if they don’t collaborate, then it’s a sort of interpretation.

I’ll just get into the bits which really caught my attention.
- Shun and Jacque Price Collective: The guy was mad flexible while the girl was too (for her size).
- Slum Civilians and Emer Walsh: This was very refresing as you see the women in dresses and guys all dapper instead of the usually sneakers, caps and tees.
- Lukas MrFarlane: Apparently some winner of somethings got talent shows or something something. The dude was busting ballet moves in jeans and one sock!
- Turbo: I never thought I’d ever see krumping that moved me so emotionally. I mean apart from the aggressive emotions… this one was deep!
- Final: The last one was so huge I didn’t know what to think. Which brings me to the bad points.

Bad points:
- They tried something new with the lighting and it didn’t work out too well. Either you couldn’t see the moves properly or they weren’t in the light sometimes.
- Some of the performances had too much going on in different parts of the stage so when you see a ‘ooohhh’ move on one side you miss it on the other.

Just some note:
- I saw the guy that wowed me last time and he was just part of the audience but hey it was still great.
- Yellow/Fat Boy/Ricky Norwood/The Presenter: Always entertaining, always funny and he’s got some new jokes too.

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Vedic Wisdom behind eating with your hands

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Vedic Wisdom behind eating with your hands

Vedic Wisdom behind eating with your hands

Eating food with the hands in today’s Western society can sometimes be perceived as being unhygienic, bad mannered and primitive. However within Indian culture there is an old saying that,
” eating food with your hands feeds not only the body but also the mind and the spirit”.

In the Big Brother series some years back, an English participant complained about a indian participants use of her hands during food preparations and her eating habits, “They eat with their hands in India, don’t they? Or is that China? You don’t know where those hands have been.”  Within many Indian households nowadays, the practice of eating food with the hands has been replaced with the use of cutlery.

Have you ever thought of why previous generations in India ate with the hands? There is a reason for their this.  The practice of eating with the hands originated within Ayurvedic teachings. The Vedic people knew the power held in the hand.

The ancient native tradition of eating food with the hands is derived from the mudra practice, which is prevalent in many aspects within Hinduism. Mudras are used during mediation and are very prominent within the many classical forms of dance, such as Bharatnatyam.

The hands are considered the most precious organ of action. This is linked to the Vedic prayer of

“Karagre vasate Laksmih karamule Sarasvati Karamadhye tu Govindah prabhate karadarsanam”

(On the tip of your fingers is Goddess Lakshmi, on the base of your fingers is Goddess Saraswati; in the middle of your fingers is Lord Govinda), which we recite whilst looking at our palms. Thus, this shloka suggests that all the divinity lies in human effort.

Our hands and feet are said to be the conduits of the five elements. The Ayurvedic texts teach that each finger is an extension of one of the five elements. Through the thumb comes space; through the forefinger, air; through the mid-finger, fire; through the ring finger, water and through the little finger it is earth.

Each finger aids in the transformation of food, before it passes on to internal digestion. Gathering the fingertips as they touch the food stimulates the five elements and invites Agni to bring forth the digestive juices. As well as improving digestion the person becomes more conscious of the tastes, textures and smells of the foods they are eating, which all adds to the pleasure of eating.

You may have noticed that elders in the family hardly ever use utensils to measure all the different type of masala, and would instead prefer to use their hands to measure the quantity instead. As each handful is tailored to provide a suitable amount for the own body. Overall there are 6 main documented forms that the hands take when obtaining a measurement a certain type of food ranging from solid food to seeds, and flour.
This is a prime example of how many things within Hindu culture may seem weird and unusual at first glance, but once a closer look is taken it is surprising, but a vast amount of knowledge is revealed.


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The Beautiful Truth … from Sana

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The Great Nostalgia – from The Book of Mirdad

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The Great Nostalgia – from The Book of Mirdad
THE GREAT NOSTALGIA
MIRDAD: Like mist is the Great Nostalgia . Emitted by the heart, it shuts away the heart , as mist, effused by sea and land, obliterates both land and sea.

And also as the mist bereaves the eye of visible reality making itself the sole reality, so this Nostalgia subdues the feelings of the heart and makes itself the feeling paramount. And seemingly so formless , and aimless, and blind as the mist, yet like the mist it teems with the forms unborn, is clear of sight and very definite of purpose.

Like fever also is the Great Nostalgia. As fever, ignited in the body, saps the vitality of the body while burning up its poisons, so this Nostalgia , born of the friction in the heart, debilitates the heart, as it consume away its dross and every superfluity.

And like a thief is the Great Nostalgia . for as a sneaking thief relieves his victim of a burden,
yet leaves him sore embittered, so this Nostalgia, by stealth, lifts all the burdens of the heart, yet leaves it most disconsolate and burdened by its very lack of burdens.

Broad is the bank and green where men and women dance away, and sing away, and toil and weep away their evanescent days. But fearsome is the fire and smoke belching Bull that hobbles up their feet, and brings them to their knees, and stuffs back their songs into their vocal chords , and glues their swollen eyelids with their tears.

Broad also and deep is the stream that separates them from the other bank. And neither can
they swim it , nor can they row across it with an oar, nor sail it with a sail. Few – very few – of them venture to span it with a thought . But all – almost all – are eager to adhere to their bank where each goes on rolling his pet wheel of Time.

The man with the Great Nostalgia has no pet wheel to roll. Amid a world so tensely occupied and pressed for time he is alone without an occupation and unhurried. In humanity so decorous in dress, and speech, and manner he finds himself naked, stuttering and awkward. He cannot laugh with the laughing, nor can he with the weeping weep; Men eat and drink, and have pleasure in eating and drinking; he eats without a relish, and his drink is vapid in his mount.

Others are mated, or busy seeking mates; he walks alone, and sleeps alone, and dreams his dreams alone. Others are rich in worldly wit and wisdom; he alone is dull and unwise. Others have cozy corners which they call homes; he alone is homeless. Others have certain spots of the earth which they call native land and whose glory they sing very loud; he alone has no spot to sing and to call his native land. For his hearts eye is towards the other bank.

A sleepwalker is the man with the Great Nostalgia amid a world apparently so wide awake. He is drawn by a dream which those about him neither see nor feel. Therefore they shrug their shoulders and titter in their sleeves. But when the god of Fear – the fire and smoke belching Bull – appears on the scene, then are they made to bite the dust while the sleepwalker at those

they shrugged their shoulders and tittered in their sleeves, is lifted on the wings of Faith above them and their bull, and carried far over the other bank and to the foot of the Rugged Mountain.

Barren, and bleak, and forlorn is the land over which the somnambulist flies. But the wings of
Faith are strong; and the man flies on.

Somber , and bald, and blood-curdling the mountain at whose foot he descends. But the heart of Faith is indomitable; and the man’s heart boldly beats on.

Rocky , and slippery, and barely discernible his trail up the mountain. But silken is the hand , and steady is the foot, and keen is the eye of Faith, and the man climbs on.

He meets on the way with men and women laboring up the mountain along a broad and smooth roadbed. They are the men and women of the Small Nostalgia who crave to reach the summit, but with a lame and a sightless guide. For their guide is their belief in what the eye can see, and what the ear can hear, and what the hand can feel, and what the nose and tongue can smell and taste. Some of them rise no higher than the mountain’s ankles; some reach its knees; and
dome the hips; and very few the girdle. But all slip back with their guide and go tumbling down the mountain without so much as glimpsing the fair summit.

Can the eye see all to be seen, and the ear hear all to be heard? Can the hand feel all to be felt , and the nose smell all to be smelled? Or can the tongue taste all to be tasted? Only when Faith, born of divine Imagination, comes to their aid will the senses truly sense and thus become ladders to the summit.

Senses devoid of Faith are most undependable guides. Though their road appear to be smooth and broad, yet is it full of hidden traps and pitfalls; and those who take it to the summit of Freedom either perish on the way, or slip and tumble back to the base from which they made their start; and there they nurse many a broken bone; and there they stitch many a gapping wound.

The men with the small nostalgia are they who, having build a world with their senses, soon find it small and stuffy; and so they long for a larger and airier home. But instead of seeking new materials and a new master builder, they rummage up the old materials and call upon the same architect – the senses – to design and build for them a larger home. No sooner is the new one built than they find it so small and so stuffy as the old. And so they go on demolishing and building, and never can they build the home that gives them the comfort and the freedom they carve. For they rely upon their deceivers to save them from deceit. And like the fish that jumps from the frying pan into the fire, they run away from a small mirage only to be lured by a bigger one.

Between the men of the great and the men of the Small Nostalgia are the vast herds of rabbit- men who feel no nostalgia at all. They are content to dig their holes and live and breed and die therein; and they find their holes quite elegant, and roomy, and warm, and would not exchange them for the splendor of a kingly palace. And they snicker at all somnambulists, especially the ones who walk a solitary trail whose footprints are few and very hard to trace.

Much like an eagle hatched by a backyard hen and cooped up with t brood of that hen is the
man with the Great Nostalgia among his fellow-men. His brother-chicks and mother-hen would have the young eagle as one of them, possessed of their nature and habits, and living as they
live; and he would have them like himself – dreamers of the freer air and skies illimitable. But soon he finds him a stranger and a pariah among them; and he is pecked by all – even his mother. But the call of the summits is loud in his blood, and the stench of the coop
exasperating to his nose. Yet does he suffer it all in silence till he is fully fledged. And then he mounts the air, and casts a loving farewell look upon his erstwhile brothers and their mother who merrily cackle on as they dig in the earth for more seed and worms.

Rejoice, Micayon. Yours is a prophet’s dream. The Great Nostalgia has made your world too small, and made you a stranger in that world. It has unloosed your imagination from the grip of the despotic senses; and imagination has brought you forth your Faith.

And Faith shall lift you high above the stagnant, stifling world and carry you across the dreary emptiness and up the Rugged Mountains where every faith must needs be tried and purified of the last dregs of Doubt.

And Faith so purified and triumphant shall lead you to the boundaries of the eternally green Summit and there deliver you into the hands of Understanding. Having discharged its task, Faith shall retire, and Understanding shall guide your steps to the unutterable Freedom of the Summit which is the true, the boundless, and all-including home of God and the Overcoming Man.

Stand well to the test Micayon. Stand well, you all. To stand but for a moment on that summit is worth enduring every kind of pain. But to abide forever on that Summit is worth Eternity. Himbal: Would you not lift us now to your summit though for a glimpse, however brief?
MIRDAD: Be not in haste, Himbal, and bide your time. Where I breathe freely, there you
gasp for breath. Where I walk lightly, there you pant and stumble. Keep you hold on Faith; and
Faith shall perform the gigantic feat.
So taught I Noah.
So I teach you.

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What Your Mother Couldn’t Tell You and Your Father Didn’t Know Audiobook Summary by John Gray

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What Your Mother Couldn’t Tell You and Your Father Didn’t Know: Advanced Relationship Skills for Better Communication and Lasting Intimacy by John Gray

Gotta love love John Gray. First the Men Mars Women Venus book and now this. I like his thinking, he makes sense and he explains it in ways men and women can understand. This book takes us to the present time when women are no longer in the homemaker/child-carer/love-giver box and men are no longer the hunter/protector/provider box. See back in the day couples were too busy for romance, it was about doing your part and fulfil your job description and thats that. So we need to relearn a few things. In the summary what ever starts with M is for men to relearn, W for Women and WM for both. WMD for (insert weapons of mass destruction joke here).

Summary
W – Now that things have changed a man is not enough for a woman. And the thing is women wait around for the men to do things. So women have to help men to be ‘pleasing’ to her and not wait.

John says the 2 the main things are to anticipate setbacks and relearn things. Like when a man comes back from work his old program tells him that his job is done. While for a woman have the need to do more.

M – This is where men need to nurture the female side. See the woman does not mind doing the work but she feels unappreciated or alone and all that stuff. How you ask? Well for one, women like to have a non-goal-oriented conversation. Men don’t need to understand this just STFU and nod! See women’s need to talk and men’s need for silence is a perfect combo if used correctly.

W – But because women enjoy that kind of talk it sometimes messes up the man because he thinks they’re all problems for things for him to do or react to in some way. So women need to be straight up about their needs. And to understand that men will do some chores here and there. Bit by bit. In between he’ll feel the need for his private time and will take it. Let him, he’ll be able to support and nurture women more.

M – There is no need to solve everything women throw at you. Sometimes it even makes women feel like you think they’re not capable. You know you enjoy your private time staring at a screen, daydreaming etc but when your woman is talking just listen to her and don’t ignore her and don’t get lost in your work/activity/floating.

We come to mens 3 main needs. 1 Success at work, 2 Distraction like TV/Games/etc, 3 Anticipating appreciation from their woman. We’ve all heard or seen a man getting deeper into 1 and/or 2 if the woman is not capable of providing 3. And it’s also because when his woman talks to him, she sounds like she’s blaming, criticising or mistrusting him. Which she’s isn’t but it sounds like so he ends up ducking and dodging her.

W – So she has to relearn how to appreciate him in a way he’ll know it’s appreciation.

As for women’s needs so far he’s only mentioned that women now need a new type of security since men are not hunters and protectors anymore.

M – Need to have patients, give love and maintain when a woman is talking as she doesn’t know how she feels about things until she puts things in words. So men have to help women work through their feelings.

See in conversations men need to look away from the person to think things and women need eye contact or they think men are not listening. Or when they give solutions to women it makes the women feel that men don’t understand. And those are the two worst things to tell a man ‘you don’t understand’ and ‘you’re not listening/are you even listening to me’. In the first one he thinks his help is not welcomed. The second one they heard from their moms and so its a degrading phrase, just know that he is listening in his own way.

W – Pause and prepare the man before you say something. In the start I was having the same situation with my partner coz she’d start saying something but my head is in something else so I’d go ‘HEH?’ And after we understood this it didn’t bug her out.

Women have to do something called ‘male talk’ at work. Talk logical things and goal oriented so when she comes home she wants to get things out. Men don’t get this.

W – So if women feel like it’s going to be a ‘you don’t understand’ or ‘are you listening’ situation. She simply has to tell him something along the lines of ‘You don’t have to say anything, I just need to say things’.

Goes on to talk about Men Mars/Women Venus stuff about men like to be in their cave staring at nothing.

W – Need to gauge if he’s in his cave or is ready to listen. It could be simply by asking how was your day and seeing if his reaction was aloof or if he’s more vocal with his answer.

Something men always worry about is how long is the non-goal-oriented convo going to be. Paras note: For some reason I have a listers face and have to sit there nodding. Heres a secret… I don’t have a big attention span so I space out around a person with verbal diarrhoea and it’s ok because they like talking so much they’re gonna say all that stuff again and again… AND AGAIN! And this is not only for women, the longest sitting I’ve had was with one of the few men who have this condition. 3 hours listening to the same thing I’ve heard for a decade or more. I’d say something but it’ll only lead to 3 more hours!

WM – Anyway so both men and women should ask ‘how was your day’. M – make sure you ask it when you’re ready to listen. W – ask this to see if it’s a good time for the man and he’s not in his cave. Or women can simply ask if it’s a good time to talk.

John talk’s about an old adage that says ‘never go to bed angry’. Well he says that was more for the women. They need to talk it out before sleeping. For men the need to sleep it out before talking. This is why men walk away when they’re angry. Women think it’s punishment when that’s his way of making things better.

W – Now it may be hard for women to walk away from upset men because they feel like they’re doing the wrong thing but be strong. Just walk away and postpone the talk without accusations.

Both sides have different ‘I don’t want to talk’ signals. Communicate with each other properly to know them and respect them.

Now men have the goal oriented ‘hunter’ program which is why after having sex they expect to progress from there and find it hard to go back to nonsexual affection. Affection to him is a prelude to sex while women needs nonsexual touch/affection.

W – 4 ways to change this are 1 – giving the man a new goal as this will fulfil his need to learn a new skill. 2 – Men not feeling blamed for not doing things earlier (like nonsexual affection). 3 – Reward him when he does desirable things. 4 – Non-demanding behaviour when he forgets to do the desirable things.

WM – Both need to embrace the opposite sex in them to nurture their partner. Something covered is The Way of The Superior Man Audiobook by David Deida. Things change after marriage and both sides need to support and nurture each other. Both sides can being it all back like it was.

Something about women reacting to problems in 4 ways and in brackets are the ways men react to them. 1 – Talking about it (seeing it as complain and criticism). 2 – Sharing their feelings (feeling controlled). 3 – Solving it for themselves (feeling disengaged). 4 – Men solving it (waiting too long and feeling resentful which leads to him not wanting to help).

Men also like to do things that will create positive change. Taking out the trash is positive but it’s something that needs to be all the time so no progression. Paras note: I feel the same about cooking. In these cases men will grumble but do it and that grumbling is just a sign that he needs some sort of reward.

W – Start small with the rewards. But show appreciation and pump that ego. Paras note: I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen wise women get so much done just by pumping that ego the right way. Next John suggests is for women to write 10 things to recondition like this. He says it and I concur that women have the power to change the things they want.

Something about sex going on the back-burner for women because after sex she expects a connection and expectations rise because of it. Why didn’t he call, call more often, etc. And when men try to give more she becomes more resentful. Especially when a man start to talk about their emotions, it reduces attraction on both sides. Or the woman will start mothering the man when she’s in a negative mood not knowing that it’s making him feel useless.

M – This is where the men should just give her the connection and feel the resentment with patience because she will realise for herself.

Something about women who feel the need to be supported on her feminine side will become more masculine and vice versa for men. If women find themselves working after work they compensate by becoming more masculine, eating more, look for things to solve/fix, pick fights more. Usually overeating is their way for ‘need replacement’ and they see the feminine side as weak. She’ll end up taking over more and basically ‘be the man’. Men feel they need to talk and open up more. But they have to do it in a way where they reveal less and make the woman reveal more. Same thing for men, if they don’t get their nurturing/love from female, they’ll work harder or stay in the cave more. He’ll try to compensate by being more aggressive at work, become feminine. (Who hasn’t seen the aggressive bully at work with extra hormones ;oP) In stage 2 he’ll drink more. (John recommends the 12 step program). In stage 3 he’ll be extra feminine, emotional and start demanding love. (Oh boy) And this is how he gets back his feminine nurturing needs. In stage 3 he’ll talk more mostly because he needs to feel right. (Wow symptom for symptom man). Women talk regardless they don’t need to feel right they just need to get it out. They just have greater marital expectations.

John says marital monogamy is possible but we don’t know how. Women get into soaps and romance novels etc. Men get into sports, porn, action stuff, etc.

WM – Both need to realise that just like how you get tolerance for drugs, alcohol, addictions. The same happens for sex and you need to up the ante. The 7 secrets to keep it spicy… 1 – Differences attract, 2 – Change in growth (keep it fresh), 3 – Feelings, needs and vulnerability, 4 – Personal responsibility and self healing (problems may be deeper and connected to the past), 5 – Love, romance and monogamy, (the need for consistent love) 6 – Friendship, autonomy and recreation, (activities like dancing) 7 – Partnership and service to a higher purpose (Men have separate departments for men and women e.g. he goes into her department for sex and then goes back to his department… or what men call nap) This is not the right way but it happens. After having children the couple need a new goal.

WM – Practice forgiveness. Sometimes we hide love to protect ourselves from hurt. In new age relationships we need to find creative ways to fulfil each other. Etc etc.

Phew! These summaries are getting long. My apologies if it got repetitive.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. What Your Mother Couldn’t Tell You and Your Father Didn’t Know
2. What Women Need Most and Men Really Want
3. A New Job Description for Relationships
4. How Men and Women Are Different
5. Masculine Skills for Listening Without Getting Upset
6. Feminine Skills for Talking So a Man Will Listen
7. Men Speak “Male” and Women Speak “Female”
8. Why Men Forget and Women Remember
9. What Happened to the Man I Love?
10. Where Is the Woman I Fell For?
11. Men Are Still from Mars, Women Are Still from Venus
12. A Lifetime of Love and Passion
13. Dance Steps for Lasting Intimacy

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