Gurdjieff - Understanding Updated Ancient Wisdom

“Violence is the antithesis to understanding. We have to create understanding. Understanding is a positive thing. Man is his Understanding.”

To understand is to Know. To know is to be able to see the cause and effect in all the events in your life.

To understand is to see and know the working out of the Law of Three, (You; the other and the realationship between) in all your relationships.

To become violent to any person, place or event is to not understand the cause of that event, nor to understand your relationship to that person, place or event.

Quantum Physics tells us that thoughts are things. It also tells us that our thoughts create our reality. This is done because our thoughts reach into the infinite ocean of intelligent thinking substance, called the Quantum Ocean, Mind of God. These thoughts then create our physical reality around us.

If there is a person, place or event in your life that is about to move you to violence, then you do not understand. You do not understand the cause of the event. You caused it. You attracted it. You also do not understand your relationship to that event. What is it you have to learn from it?

Therefore forego the violence and with all thy getting get understanding.

There is an old Chinese proverb, which when I first heard it, I did not like it or understand it. It goes like this: “The murdered person is as guilty as the murderer.” Now I understand it.

Winston Churchill said, “Just because you have to kill a man, there is no reason to be angry or violent about it…”

Keep in mind that the Karma attached to every event you cause in your life is judged good or bad by your MOTIVE.

Each of us in the course of our daily living must create understanding. We must understand the cause and the relationship of every person, place, or event that enters our life on a daily basis.

Understanding can only be positive for it follows the Natural Laws of Quantum Ocean, Mind of God.

You are the sum total of your understanding. What you understand you know. What you KNOW you are.

The place that each of us attains in the hierarchy of things is the sum total of our level of being (state of consciousness.) And our level of understanding.

Every time we truly understand the cause and the relationship of every person, place or thing that enters our life, we raise our level of consciousness ever so slightly. One cannot exist without the other. To understand cause and effect, and the Law of Three of Relationships, puts you at a level of unconsciousness above the level of consciousness of Massive Society.

To raise your level of consciousness, even a little, above the level of mass man (unconscious man) is to be able to understand the Laws of Cause and Effect in your life; as well as the Law of Three in Relationships.

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What Style of Tennis Game Should I Play?

This is a question that usually does not creep up until someone has been playing the game for awhile. Many times a player will reach a certain level and look for ways to improve their all-around game by taking a look at ‘doing something different’. I am all for a player assessing their game from time to time and looking at what they can improve, but in order to do that one needs to have an understanding of the different ’styles’ of play that exist within the game.

By and large, there are three types of ’styles’ that players usually fall into, and most players usually adopt a style that maximizes their natural strengths on the court wile simultaneously minimizing their weaknesses. Let’s take a look at the three most widely adopted ’styles’ of tennis.

Let’s start with the ‘Baseliner’. A Baseliner is a player that, most of the time, plays from the baseline and utilizes their ground strokes to play their most effective tennis. Most often, this results in long rallies back and forth across the net, with the Baseliner’s main goal being to simply hit the ball back over the net just one more time than their opponent. Strategies of the Baseliner include:

–Moving the opponent side to side, wearing their opponent down physically by making them run down well-placed shots.
–Keeping the ball deep in their opponent’s court, which reduces the angle from which their opponent may attack.
–Hitting a variety of consistently well-placed shots that keeps their opponents off-balance.
–Playing points intelligently and patiently, and waiting for just the right opportunity to attempt to hit a winner.

To paraphrase, a good Baseliner might say something like this in describing their
play:

“I’ll stay out here all day with you, and wait for you to make a mistake. If you don’t then I’ll just keep opening the angles of my shots, and keep you running from sideline to sideline, until I run you ragged, and then I’ll hit a nice smooth winner that you just won’t be able to get.”

Examples of World Class Baseliners, Past and Present:

Men: Bjorn Borg, Ivan Lendl, Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal.
Women: Chris Evert, Monica Seles, Steffi Graf.

Let’s next take a look at the ‘Serve-and-Volley Player’ aka ‘Serve-and-Volleyer’. A Serve-and-Volleyer does just that. They hit a first serve and immediately follow the serve into the net, where they attempt to utilize their fast hands, good footwork and first-rate volleys to win the point quickly. This usually results in quickly played points. The Serve-and-Volleyer’s goal is to end the point before his opponent even knows what is happening. Strategies of the Serve-and-Volleyer include:

–Using a well-placed, powerful 1st serve to force a weak return from their opponent, followed by a crisp volley to their opponents open court, ending the point.
–Angling 2nd serves wide on both the deuce and ad courts, again opening angles that can be exploited with good volleys.
–Using well-placed approach shots that will force weak return shots and/or lobs, which can be put away quickly.
–Constantly pressuring their opponent by coming in on every serve and return possible.

The Serve-and-Volleyer’s creed may read something like this:

“I’m coming to the net. I am going to come to the net all day long, behind my serves and behind your returns, so you’ve got two choices: pass me or lob me, because if I get to that ball I’m gonna put it away with a volley or overhead smash.”

Examples of World Class Serve and Volleyers:

–Men: John McEnroe, Stefan Edberg, Goran Ivanisevic
–Women: Billie-Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Jana Novotna, Amelie Mauresmo.

Lastly, there is the all-court player. There is nothing that the all-court player won’t do to win a point. If they are playing on a fast surface, like the grass at Wimbledon, they can serve-and-volley. On the slow red clay of Rolland Garros at the French Open, they can slug it out from the baseline. On hard courts, they can mix it up and do both, sometimes choosing one style over the other based on the style of their opponent.

Strategies of the all-court player are varied:

–They can adapt their style of play dependent upon surface, opponent, etc.
–Can surprise opponents by serving-and-volleying on one point, and then sticking to the baseline on the next.
–Have the ability to attack short balls and turn a baseline point into an approach to the net.
–Have the ability to play offensively and defensively with roughly equal skill.

Examples of World Class All-Court Players:

Men: Rod Laver, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer
Women: Martina Hingis, Justine Henin, Daniela Hantuchova

Note that Rod Laver, Pete Sampras and Roger Federer have all been hailed as the greatest players of their generation. They had solid all-court games and could play the way they needed play in whatever circumstances they found themselves in. Sampras, an all-courter and holder of the most Grand Slam Singles titles in history was always the favorite on grass and hard courts in his heyday; yet he never won on the clay at the French Open. Bjorn Borg, a baseliner, won 6 French Opens on the slow clay that suited his game; yet he dominated the grass of Wimbledon for 5 straight years, proving that adapting to a surface outside your normal style of play is definitely possible. Even so, a title on the hard courts of Flushing Meadows at the U.S. Open eluded him his entire career.

The different styles of play, and different surfaces that tournaments are played on, contribute to the wonderful flavor of this game we all love so much. Take some time and figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are; then find a style of play that maximizes the strong parts of your game, while you continue to work on areas that need improvement.

To Your Massive Tennis Success,

Coach Kyril

Kyril Popoff is a former NCAA Div1 All-Conference Tennis Player, Instructor, Coach and Author.

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The Power Of Thought

Our thoughts influence not only our actions, but also how we function and exist in the universe. According to the Law of Attraction, like attracts like, so when your thoughts are positive, you attract positivity to your life. Likewise, negative thoughts can bring negativity to your life. In short, the key to getting the things that you want in life lie in your thoughts. Thought has long been used for centuries as a way of directing a person’s life and helping them achieve the things that they want. It is amazing what positive thinking can do for your life.

Basically, there are three categories of thoughts. Once you are able to identify the category that the majority of your thoughts fall in to, you can change your way of thinking to better reflect and attract the life that you want. The three categories, positive thoughts, action thoughts and worry thoughts, each have their place in your life, but when certain ones like worry thoughts dominate your thinking, the positivity is sucked out of your life.

Positive Thoughts

When you are using the Laws of Attraction to attract good things to your life, positive thoughts are your most valuable and powerful tool. Like attracts like, so when you project positive thoughts into the universe, you will attract positive things in return. In other words, good things will happen to you. Now, there is a method to positive thinking. If you derive joy from thinking about someone else’s pain or downfall, this is not positive thinking. Even if it brings you joy, it brings someone else pain and sadness which defies the Laws of the Universe. Keep your thoughts positive if you want to attract positive things.

Action Thoughts

When you begin to devise a plan to get the things that you want, you are putting action thoughts to work. Action thoughts tell you what you should do. They help you give your positive thoughts wings to fly. When you are sending out your positive thoughts, or the you are thinking about the things that you want in life, the next step that you take toward putting those thoughts into action are action thoughts.

Worry Thoughts

Many people give in to worry thoughts, becoming consumed with the prospect of what may go wrong in a situation, what bad things might happen and how they may fail at something. Quite often, people who live with worry thoughts are not even aware of the negativity that they are attracting. They go through their day working off of a mental checklist that is constantly asking “what if.” These people generally believe that their thoughts and emotions are things that they can not control. They cling to their worry thoughts, defending them vehemently, justifying them by maintaining that if they don’t worry then they are not doing everything that they possibly could to prevent something bad or negative from happening.

Your thoughts most definitely influence your actions and where you go in your life. The Law of Attraction is working in all of use. Once you learn how to work with it, you can have anything that you want. Once you know to use your thoughts to get the things that you want in life, you will have successfully harnessed the power of positive thinking.

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