Quantum Physical Education

Take 3C: World Day of Interconnectedness & Wordshift Movement

2011-11-11T17:43:00.002-05:00

My dear young Friends; it is November 11^th 2011:

And also the 1 year anniversary of the Worldshift Movement:

World Shift International

Both initiatives are about uniting people and organisations world-wide who understand that we are all INTERCONNECTED or INTERDEPENDENT. Not sometimes, no; AT ALL TIMES! They both want YOU and everyone else to turn every day into an INTERDEPENDENCE DAY!

So even if you read this after 11-11-11, TODAY IS INTERDEPENDENCE DAY!

AND TO-MORROW WILL BE TODAY AGAIN!

Check out their web sites; you will see that both organisations are made up of people who not only UNDERSTAND that we all are interconnected with each other (and our natural environments), but they also USE the FORCE that generates from everybody influencing each other to create their wonder-full projects!

They have created a team of people who INSPIRE & ENERGIZE each other.

And now they want people world-wide to do the same.

In QUANTUM PHYSICAL EDUCATION we use the model of THE WEB to represent this potential of INTERDEPENDENCY; to inspire & energize ourselves and each other.

In earlier blogs I gave YOU examples of individually experiencing The Web through juggling and percussion. Using our Inner Web, we can inspire & energize ourselves. In the last blog we gave you a glimpse of how two people playing guitar together with well functioning Webs can create through a 1+1=3 dynamic: there is “something extra” in the air.

In this blog we see a clip about how the Web of a whole group can create an atmosphere where all individuals inspire & energize each other. There is “lots of extra” in the air.

If 1+1=3, when two people create together with well functioning Webs…

How much would be 1+1+1+1+1+1+…, in a group filled with uplifting Webs?

So the question is:

How do we know whether our Inner Web is functioning well?

And how do we know we are in the Web of a group that is UPLIFTING?

Well, one of the several ways to verify this is that, when we are playing sports or doing arts (or when we are in an inspiring class at school or in a stimulating working situation), it should generally FEEEL GÒÒÒD:

Here is the clip showing one of the many groups in schools I have facilitated. This group participated in only one session a month during a school year. My two Social Circus partners, Lôdvi and Costa, joined in for the last session. Lôdvi filmed & produced the clip.

Don’t think that every group that steps in “my” gym is positive and enthusiastic about doing social circus. Whether it is a group of youngsters coming in for a Happy Youth Creations session or a group of adults trying out the various activities as part of a The Juggling Act of Life conference, many are under the influence of the collective Web of their group, as it has been installed over time through daily interactions in their educational or working routines.

Unfortunately many peer groups of young people are negative, due to too many frustrating and boring group activities and/or due to over exposure to violent or mind-numbing scenes on screens. Unfortunately many peer groups of adults are “play unfriendly”, from living in a world where “being in our head” is often the norm.

WHAT IS AMAZING is how almost every youngster and every adult, after an inspiring demonstration & short explanation of “The Bubble” (see former blogs), picks up their innate sense of PLAY and self-teach capacity AS IF IT HAS NEVER BEEN LOST.

This happens even with the many “tough” young people who were in my circus & sports sessions and even with adults who told me they couldn’t remember the last time they truly PLAYED.

This has immediate effects on the general WEB of the whole group and the resulting CREATIVE FIREWORKS are often SPECTACULAR.

ET VOILÀ MY HOPE FOR THIS VERY SPECIAL TIME WE ARE LIVING IN.

We have never had the chance to tap into the full potentials of our individual Webs, our specific group Webs and the WEB OF LIFE of the planet at large.

And now we do. Now it the time to first recognize that everything in Life is interconnected and then to USE the enormous ALCHEMISTIC FORCE this phenomenon of Interdependence offers us, individually, collectively and globally.

HAPPY INTERDEPENDENCE DAY TO YOU ALL !!!

Peace Out!

HANSTEIN

Check this out:

The Juggling Act of Life

Happy Youth Creations

next blog: Take 4: Our Physical Body – the Illusion of Physical Education

Take 3B: 5B Web Guitar Playing, It Takes Two to Tango

2011-10-27T17:42:00.016-04:00

This is a clip we filmed the day before filming the last percussion clip.

I had planned to bring this one out first, but somehow that percussion clip passed before.

So, let’s go right away to the Music Room:

IT’S GONNA BE A BRIGHT, BRIGHT SUN SHINY DAY!

YEAH!

This is one of my favourite Spirit-of-the-Future songs.

What is/are yours? Let me know!

So, what was going on in the Music Room today, 5B Web-wise?

Playing with others in sports and arts is about CHEMISTRY. As soon as we start mixing our own Social Body with the Social Body of someone else, all our other “bodies” get stirred into that BOILING POT OF INTER-PERSONAL DYNAMICS.

QUANTUM PHYSICALEDUCATION is about developing in the first place the ability to direct our own CHEMISTRY; to involve our own five “bodies” and become AWARE of the INTERDEPENDENCY between them, when we individually practise a sport or form of art.

If you do, you will often have the DIRECT EXPERIENCE IT WORKS.

QUANTUM PHYSICAL EDUCATION is then about developing the ability to fully engage all our five bodies in ANY SOCIAL SETTING in sports, in arts, in education.

If you do, you will often have the DIRECT EXPERIENCE IT WORKS.

Once we start to get “the hang” of EXPERIENCING the physical, creative, emotional, mental and social aspect of every CREATIVE PROCESS, we can start our SPECULATIVE STUDIES of all practises, games, jams, happenings we are involved in and all those we witness, “live” or on the screen.

I invite you to look BEYOND the usual assessments like; “that is so good”, “that is so bad” and “what is the score”. I hinted at that when I talked about my own 5B Web experience while singing under the shower and the professional artist or singer who does NOT necessarily have a 5B Web experience (no more) or only a part-time one.

I invite you to ANALYSE sportsgames and concerts you see from those five angles. NOT because you want to add your opinion to the zillions of opinions about sports & arts people throw in the air every day, but because it will inspire you to continually improve your own ability to TRULY PLAY.

WELCOME TO A WONDER-FULL LIFE-LONG INNER SCIENCE.

Yup; once you start, it never ends…

Watching the clip, you noticed probably that Adam and I were pretty relaxed. What you maybe didn't notice is that we have not played together a lot and hadn’t really practised anything for the clip. This was our third and last take; we did not have time for another one. The first take Adam and I got into a hilarious conversation completely losing the theme of the clip. The second take went well until the batteries of the camera died. We laughed, stayed in the present moment, did the final take and had to run off to the rest of our respective days.

Adam is a truly passionate guitar player who plays in a band. I only play once in a while, but felt comfortable, because my limited guitar and singing skills were supported by the rest of my 5B Web.

At one point Adam was helping me run Social Circus workshops. He had no experience in any of the circus arts. However he picked up the basics of a couple of the circus skills in no-time, because he practised with the same CREATIVITY, PASSION & FOCUS as when he plays guitar.

Adam and I inspired each other in the clip. In later blogs we will look at the potential for spectacular dynamics in groups when everybody has warmed up his/her five “bodies” and inspires each other. Many of my workshops over the years were full of CREATIVE FIREWORKS!

I am preparing a book on how to apply this 5B Web approach to team sports.

Imagine a football match; 11 players against 11 players.

EEEEH… HOW MANY “BODIES” ON THE FIELD???

Of course I am NOT counting “bodies”, however with the 5B Web in mind I always ask myself the same type of questions. From watching the Olympics and World Cups all the way to each time I pass by a pick-up game in a parc or in a schoolyard:

Who NEEDS a coach or teacher to tell them what to do – or not to do?

Who USES a coach or teacher well as an adviser and inspirator?

Who is IN THEIR HEADS a lot in spite of being involved in a rigorous physical activity?

Who is able to transform the FRICTION every team sport match is so loaded with?

Who enjoys the ENDORPHINS rush team sports can give us?

What coach or teacher allows his players true ARTISTIC FREEDOM?

In short: who is PLAYING?

And WHY or WHY NOT?

But for now, back to the Music Room. Let’s keep it simple. Just start observing yourself when you PLAY with one other person. As Adam just pointed out in the clip; two people playing involves 10 “bodies”. There was some wonderful chemistry in the short session in the clip. However I have also played with people with whom it did NOT “click” at all.

In any sport or form of art where we PLAY with others, the verb PLAY is RELATIVE.

Ask yourself when you play with others; “how are my “bodies” functioning”. It is a kind of like checking the different panels in the cockpit of an airplane while it is flying. The more you get “the hang” of using your 5B Web, the more you will cultivate the DISCIPLINE to check those panels BEFORE take off…!

If you and your partner both play with well functioning 5B Webs, there are two main benefits, as I mentioned in the clip.

First of all, there will be many (small or bigger) wonder-full moments while you create together, in any sport or form of art (and educational setting or working situation). On our own we can create some magic, but when we play with another person who also plays with PASSION, there is SOMETHING EXTRA in the air.

Suddenly 1 + 1 = 3!!!

And secondly, after your sport or art session you will both continue the rest of your respective lives with fully warmed up 5B Webs (this is one of the ways to evaluate the quality of every session!).

Before I let you go, here is a book suggestion you can send around to your parents, teachers, coaches, etc. When we will look at the EMOTIONAL BODY in a later blog, I will use PASSION as the expression for an emotional body in full health. But PASSION is also used for that one (or more) activity we always LÒÒÒVE to do, we are CRAZY about. I gave you a checklist to verify if you have found your PASSION at the end of my second blog (Take 2: Everything is Relative).

Sir Ken Robinson’s book “The Element” is about the importance for every human being to find his/her PASSION. He tells the fascinating stories of how great artists, athletes, business leaders and scientists found and fully developed their PASSION.

Peace Out!

HANSTEIN

Take 3A: 5B Web Percussion

2011-10-22T15:58:00.004-04:00

In the last blog (Take 3), I gave YOU an example of how to warm up your “bodies” in a simple juggling session with one ball. I told you (your Creative Body!) that you are FREE to choose a different sportive or artistic activity in order to get a DIRECT EXPERIENCE of your own 5B Web.

As I will repeat a lot in my blogs, it is all about getting the DIRECT EXPERIENCE and not about trying to first UNDERSTAND this approach. JUST TRY IT!

So I decided to show you in a few blogs how to apply this to a variety of activities, before I will start to zoom in on each “body”, starting with the Physical Body in Take 4.

In the clip below you will see me play a little percussion. Next will be a blog with a clip where a friend of mine joins me playing guitar and then one with a clip of one of my Social Circus workshops; you’ll see a whole class of teenagers doing all kinds of tricks.

What is important to keep in mind is that all these clips are NOT about HOW GOOD we are, but about HAVING A 5B WEB EXPERIENCE in all the stuff we do.

In a later TAKE we will see how the “best” athletes & artists of the planet often started from a young age with a 5BWeb experience in their specific domains (often “in the streets”) and how they were able to continually develop each body (and their InterDY), even throughout their careers in professional settings.

So I invite YOU to PRACTISE having a 5B Web experience in anything you already do and – if you decide to start learning a new sportive or artistic skill – to practise from the very beginning with your 5B Web.

It is easy IF you are able to RESPECT YOURSELF by STEPPING AWAY from EVERYTHING & EVERYBODY and from within your BUBBLE start directing your attention equally to all “bodies”.

Unfortunately, in general sports & education are NOT about bubbles. It are BOXES where the Mental Body runs the show.

Alright, let's go to the Music Room :

Take 3: Our Web of Bodies

2011-10-09T19:44:00.007-04:00

TADADADÀÀÀM

WE ARE BÀÀÀCK!!!

Great to see YOU again! Sorry for letting you hang there for a while. But from now on, I will be blogging regularly. There is a whole series of short blogs coming up. Please, let all your friends & networks know that I am back!

Today I am going to give YOU a first touch of this “web of 5 bodies” we ALL have (will call that 5B Web from now on). Coming up below is a clip with a first very brief description of each “body” and the INTERDEPENDENCY (InterDY from now on) between all “bodies”, followed by a clip showing a very simple juggling exercise to invite YOU to get the DIRECT EXPERIENCE of your own 5B Web in action!

Are you into sports? Music? Any other form of art or craft? GREAT: fasten your seatbelts, because you are going to take whatever you are into to a NEXT LEVEL by playing with 5 “bodies” at the same time. And once YOU get more experience in doing that in your favourite activity, you will be able to apply InterDY to anything else you do.

I could try to explain InterDY scientifically to YOU, but then it might only get “in your head” and, as we already saw in Take 1 & 2, we know what kind of a world that creates.

On top of that, I have been applying what I discovered about InterDY for almost 3 decades in sports, arts and my daily life and I am still far away from UNDERSTANDING how it all works.

BUT IT WORKS FOR ME! ALWAYS! IN ANYTHING!

And I have seen it work in ALL my workshops in sports, circus arts, music, life skills…

For everybody; FROM BEGINNERS TO “THE PROS”!

So let me give YOU a first touch of the 5B Web:

Alright, I hope you are used to my Dutch accent by now. Filming this clip I felt like the Weather Man in front of one of those geographical maps with clouds moving over it. In fact, the illustration of the 5B Web is like a map; it is only a model. In school in geography class, when I saw a map I often thought “oooh, I wish I was there”. Well that is exactly the point I am trying to make about this 5B Web map:

IT IS ABOUT BEING THERE, ABOUT EXPERIENCING IT, ABOUT LIVING IT.

Like anything else; it takes practise. So here is a great exercise for YOU to try out:

So as I just said; try it out. Maybe your Creative Body has you try it out a couple of times or in various activities. ENJOY all the little discoveries & surprises. Applying the 5B Web comes often with little moments of magic:

*an unexpected catch (or any other success in another activity) or

*an AHA moment after a miss that made you realise what went “wrong” or

*you suddenly feeling great by realising that ”wrong” doesn’t exist anymore or

*the ball (or your instrument or any other tool) and YOU slowly but surely become ONE

In later blogs we will see how the 5B Web is a map towards a state of being that has been called “being IN FLOW” or “being IN THE ZONE”. And how playing in this state with others can create CREATIVE FIREWORKS!

Before I let you go (not for long!), here is a link about the 5B Web you can send around to the adults around you and to all your friends to send to the adults around them also:

http://www.happyyouthcreations.com/PAGES/ANGLAIS/JugglingAct.pdf

Next blog will be done with my new skeleton friend about THE PHYSCIAL BODY.

How to nourish it well and how it is ALWAYS “attached” to the other 4 “bodies”.

Peace Out!

HANSTEIN

Take 2: Everything is Relative

2011-08-14T21:49:00.003-04:00

TADADADÀÀÀM,

Great to see YOU back!

In the first blog I invited you to throw the December 2012 Maya date OUT OF THE WINDOW and join us in “ending the world as we know it” RIGHT NOW TODAY.

Pretty FAR OUT idea, isn’t it? But in a later blog I will explain to you why IT WILL WORK. Of course we can NOT change “the world” at large overnight. But imagine that YOU – and many other young people - start to change your own world, in spite of what ADULTS WHO LIVE IN THEIR HEADS have planned out for you.

WHY would you NOT take their world for granted? Well, it is simple. You have another 60, 70 or 80 years to live on this planet and they don’t. It is their mess and of the adults before them and they don’t seem to be able to do anything about it. YOU started your life time not too long ago and at one point your children have their long lives to live.

Do you notice how fast things change? This new COMPUTER AGE we now live in is not only putting about everything upside down; it is bringing changes in ever accelerating ways in many areas of life. However ADULTS WHO LIVE IN THEIR HEADS keep on preparing YOU for a future as if they know how it will look like.

Well, well, I guess those adults are……. WRONG AGAIN; the future is totally UNPREDICTABLE.

Let me tell you a secret. Come a little closer to your screen.

Yes, indeed; in Quantum Physical Education we USE OUR BALLS TO UNDERSTAND LIFE. You know how many jokes about “my balls” I have heard in 30 years of juggling? So I apologize for my silly ball-jokes, the point I am trying to make here is that there is SO MUCH ABOUT LIFE WE CAN LEARN THROUGH PLAYING SPORTS.

Take a football game, for example. Eleven players on one side, eleven on the other and ONE ball between them. Of course everybody – coaches, fans, commentators, talk before the game as if they know what is going to happen and after the game as if they knew it all along, but I have played in countless games in my life and most of them unfolded in MOSTLY UNPREDICTABLE ways. Besides the many unexpected events we encounter in a game (and in daily life – see later blogs), there are many forces that play a role.

Now, this does NOT mean that we are victims of random complex outcomes. NO, NO, NO; the game is about processing ever-changing situations. That is why most of us LÒÒÒVE sports (playing or watching); it is the excitement of never really being sure what is going to happen next. However we can DIRECT UNPREDICTABILITY IF WE KNOW WHAT FORCES ARE AT PLAY. This is not easy, because most of these forces are subtle. Some may even surprise us, because we never paid attention to them.

As I just said, great athletes are like scientists, embracing both traditional and new science. When I call them scientists I don’t mean they are wearing white coats of course. Like Quantum Physical Education teachers they have studied and perfected their game in profound ways, using every practice session and match as A LABORATORY FOR NEVER-ENDING LEARNING.

First of all, EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE means that NOTHING IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE.

So NEVER BELIEVE ANYBODY, before YOU have the experience yourself, including believing me in my blogs and clips. What is true for me, is not necessarily true for you and what is true for us today, is not necessarily true for us to-morrow.

I am going to suggest you look at –maybe for you- NEW ANGLES in many aspects of your life. It is all practical stuff to try out and see if it works for YOU. And if it doesn’t…. no problem! YOU can change or modify the activities and experiments I suggest or YOU can completely come up with your own stuff! It is all good, what counts is that you don’t take your life for granted by repeating the BORING stuff.

CHANGING OUR WORLD IS A PROCESS. Once you start, it will never stop and in later blogs we will look at how YOU can team up with others who are creating Something New also (like YOU are doing, but in their own unique ways).

*EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE also means that when I say I write this blog to ALL YOUNG PEOPLE of 13 years and over and YOU happen to be a little younger than 13 but already able to grasp some of this… GREAT ! And maybe YOU are much older and digging all this... WONDER-FULL !

“YOUNG” is relative and so is “OLD”. I know some “young” people who are already LIVING IN THEIR HEADS like many adults do (if YOU feel this is your case a little bit, stick around; in one of the next blogs I will help you to “move out”). And there are also “old” people who are still FULL OF LIFE, often living in THE PRESENT MOMENT.

*The main meaning of EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE we are going to explore in these blogs is to be found in the inter-connections between - what we often think are - totally different aspects of life. The lack of understanding these inter-connections is happening on large global scales (hence the terrible environmental mess we are in), but we are going to first focus on ourselves and the immediate world around us in the next blogs. I gave you a little “pre-view” of some of this (“COMING SOON TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU”) in the clip in front of the football match.

Another name for inter-connection is INTERDEPENDENCY. Get used to that word! Say it out loud: INTERDEPENDENCY; there are four “E’s” in a row and only the final “Y” is pronounced as an “E”.

We are going to look at INTERDEPENDENCY IN EDUCATION. Many students who are bored, stressed and/or who sit down too long, can’t think very clear, at least not for a long time. Then when they get up, relax and do something that inspires them, their THOUGHTS BECOME CLEAR AGAIN. There are many schools were this INTERDEPENDENCY between our FEELINGS, THOUGHTS AND BODY (and as we will see in TAKE 3; also our CREATIVITY) is still ignored, but there are ways YOU can start yourself applying this INTERDEPENDENCY in any school, just the way it is (later blog).

It is the same in PHYSICAL EDUCATION & SPORTS. If your physical education teacher puts you on the spot or the coach stresses you out or the parents all scream who you should give the pass to, you won’t play as well as when you are relaxed, confident and focused on ONLY YOU handling the situation. Once you start to apply your understanding of INTERDEPENDENCY to your practices and games, you will be able more & more to play on your BEST in ANY sports setting, even under pressure (later blog).

EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE can seem to be COMPLEX & CONFUSING. What the hell… I have to start looking at everything from different angles???

YÈÈÈS! That is the first step towards changing your world. And it comes with INSTANT REWARDS. When you look at your life from different angles you will have immediately MORE CHOICES IN EVERYTHING YOU DO.

If you look closely at the GREATEST athletes, artists, craftsmen & women, scientists and other specialists in any domain, you will see that they build their extra-ordinary careers exactly like that. They look at what they do from many different angles and then get BETTER & BETTER & BETTER through trying out the MANY CHOICES they create for themselves.

If I was a teacher, coach or boss I would – secretly of course – read these blogs too. Imagine having a class-room, team or working place full of self-motivated students, players or workers. In a later blog we will see how great chemistry between team mates can create a “laser effect”.

To sum this all up; THE END OF OUR WORLD is the end of living with ONLY A FEW CHOICES and the BEGINNING OF SOMETHING NEW is the start of a life with MORE & MORE CHOICES.

Let’s start TODAY! TADADADÀÀÀM.

In each chapter I am going to invite you to add Something New to your life. Maybe YOU started to PLAY after the last blog or maybe YOU already PLAYED, but now realized that PLAY is for the rest of your life. And maybe YOU didn’t. Well… WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Will to-morrow be your TODAY?

PLAY does not only mean playing sports, games or music. No, there are many ways to PLAY (see later blogs – for now USE YOUR IMAGINATION).

And by the way, PLAY is also RELATIVE. As we will discuss later; there are people who don’t PLAY SPORTS (although they might call it like that)… they DO SPORTS!

Another example of the relativity of PLAY is that it doesn’t mean you should throw hoops or draw pictures all the time. There are times you have to do the dishes or do your school work, but… in a PLAYFUL way!

Alright, before I talk about TODAY’s “homework”, here is the next clip to send to all the adults around you. In this fabulous speech, Sir Ken Robinson explains so well how the future is unpredictable and how many schools prepare their student for A WORLD THAT IS “NO MORE THERE”. In his lectures and books he points at the importance of developing – what we will call in TAKE 3 - our CREATIVE BODY.

And again, send it to your friends also, so they can send it to the adult world around them. Imagine you and all your friends PLAYFULLY asking the adults around you some time after sending the clips how their PLAYING is going and if they enjoyed Sir Ken…!

Well, my Dear Friend, here is my next suggestion to add Something New to your life. It is a “homework” inspired by Sir Ken. I will take my time to explain it to you, because it is an “assignment” for a whole month (I am going on a little trip and will post TAKE 3 in a week or four, five).

Have you found your PASSION in your life? Do you know that each one of us is born with specific interests and that there is one (or maybe two or a few) that make us feel we were “BORN FOR IT”!

For me it was and still is football (in Dutch “voetbal”, English is my second language). Later on it turned into a passion for sports in general. Other people found their PASSION in domains like animals, trees, literature, planets, music (yes, me too!), technology, history and so on & on & on…

A passion is not something you like to do. NO, it is something you LÒÒÒVE to do, something you are CRAZY about. I am going to give you a check list that describes different angles of a true PASSION. If every point on the list makes you nod your head, when you think of a favourite activity or interest, YOU have found your PASSION.

If YOU have not found your passion yet; no problem. Just start paying attention FROM NOW ON to what activity or interest attracts you. Try things out and use the list below to see if it is your PASSION (or one of them). And if you find it… TADADADÀÀÀM…

PASSION is on top of our PLAY MOUNTAIN and as with PLAY; make it a regular part of your life. Of course, there are periods we can not (yet) spend the time we wish we could spend on our PASSION, but do the best you can. KEEP THAT FLAME ALIVE.

For now leave SEX out of this assignment (ha, did I catch some of your thoughts?). Sex is in a league on its own as a potential passion, as we will see in a later 13+ blog…

Well, here is the check list. I know I FOUND MY PASSION, when the activity:

Energizes me. When it is an involvement that is not physically demanding I feel totally re-vitalised afterwards. When it is a physically demanding activity, the process of getting tired is unlike other non-motivating physical activities.

Taps into my own unique creativity. Even when it is a widespread passion - like playing a sport or an instrument – I develop myself in a different way than others. Even when I am under the guidance of adults, I feel it is truly MY experience.

Makes me always feel good to great, no matter what is going on in my life. I feel motivated by the passionate activity itself and not (at least not in the first place) by rewards outside of the activity. I accept that part of the process is that “things go wrong” so I can learn from them.

Pushes all my daily thoughts (including worries, arguments and other problems) to the background and brings effective thoughts about my passionate activity to the foreground When I hit obstacles, I try to figure out what is going “wrong” without blaming myself or others and self-talk (think) to myself how to improve.

Inspires me to practise on my own a lot, even when it is considered a group activity like a team sport or singing in a choir. When I share my activity with non-passionate participants I am often able to be active from within my “bubble”. When I share it with other passionate people…. PARADISE ON EARTH…

Next blog we are going to PLAY with our WEB OF BODIES. TADADADÀÀÀM…

I am off to the Sea. I believe that enjoying Nature is also a PASSION of mine. Let me check the list. Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes; it is!

Peace Out!

HANSTEIN

This series of blogs is a preview of a book I am planning to write. It is just a warming up! You could read each “TAKE” separately (they are all inter-connected), but there is a certain build up in the presentations of the topics. However – as is the title of TAKE 2 – everything is relative; so if you happen to start at a later TAKE, well… that is OK also. I do hope you end up reading them all, but not in one shot though! We don’t want these ideas to only go IN YOUR HEAD. We know what kind of a world we get then…!

Please, feel FREE to share your CREATIVE COMMENTS with me and all readers.

NEXT BLOG: OUR WEB OF BODIES

Take 1: The End of Our (Boring) World

2011-08-14T13:10:00.016-04:00

2012 ! TADADADÀÀÀM....

I hear more and more young people around me talk about this infamous – or famous – date of December 21st 2012. WOW, THAT IS GREAT. YOU KNOW WHY???

Whether YOU believe it is “the end of the world” or whether YOU believe it is “the beginning of Something New”, at least something SPECTACULAR is going to happen on our BORING planet run by ADULTS WHO LIVE IN THEIR HEADS. It is always the sàààme òòòld stuff we hear in – what they call – “the news”. ADULTS WHO LIVE IN THEIR HEADS talking endlessly about the latest natural disaster, about the latest killings, the latest scandals and who is going to win the Oscar, the ball game or the war…

Now, apparently in December 2012, we are finally in for SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

OR there will be NO MORE morning news at all OR the morning news will be about a new epoch of BRILLIANT developments and WONDERFUL happenings on our planet …

TADADADÀÀÀM...

Hi, my name is HANSTEIN and I am a QUANTUM PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER - will explain later, for now, let’s say that it’s a specialist of juggling a wide variety of balls AND a wide variety of NEW IDEAS.

Let me say this one more time (after running towards YOU, flipping the ball over my head – that move is called THE RAINBOW - and a little bit of juggling) :

You just heard my sad list of reasons why one could give up hope for the planet. And I could have made this list much longer… however the GOOD NEWS is that WE LIVE IN A VERY SPECIAL TIME…!

I don’t know what you got out of your history classes, but have you noticed that EVERY EPOCH in the whole history of our planet has been filled with WARFARE & MISERY.

Yes, right now it looks like we are even in a BIGGER MESS as ever before, however due to our fast changing digital world, THE WORLD HAS BECOME AN OPEN BOOK. We can now ALL know what is happening anywhere. We can now ALL be connected, hear about new ideas, create networks, exchange with people all over the world.

This is all possible now FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER.

Many PROMISING ORGANISATIONS have been launched in the last few years, but you hardly hear about them in “the news”. I will mention many of these INSPIRING INITIATIVES in these web blogs. So stick around. There is not only HOPE; there is lots of EXCITEMENT coming up.

-If YOU believe it will be “the beginning of Something New” in 2012, check out these blogs & clips too. YOU AND I AGREE. However “Something New” is pretty vague, isn’t it? This and all following blogs & clips are about trying out NEW IDEAS right TODAY. I respect those Mayas who pointed at Dec. 21st 2012 as the end of their calendar a lot. Some of them must have been REALLY WISE. However I have read that the exact date, December 21st 2012 might be a little off. BUT WHO CARES – what can we do; stay inside in bed with our head under our pillow until that day? NO WAY; we don’t have to wait and talk endlessly about WHEN we think WHAT is going to happen. As I just said; we are starting Something New right TODAY!

-If YOU have never given it much thought….. HELLÒÒÒ, WAKE ÙÙÙP, it is about time you do! There is so much going on in our world that is out of hand. Maybe you are used to see all that warfare & misery in “the news”. Maybe you happen to live in a relatively peaceful country, but even then, don’t you find that there seems to be a whole lot of UNHAPPINESS & UNFAIRNESS going on around you? And isn’t it bizarre that those ADULTS WHO LIVE IN THEIR HEADS (will explain in next blogs how come they “live” there) seem to take all that for granted?

Maybe you do find the world often CRAZY, but you just don’t believe in any Maya date! Is that so? GREAT! Welcome aboard! Join us in creating the “END OF THE WORLD”; the world as we know it!

So TADADADÀÀÀM, all you Doom Thinkers & Something New Believers & Crazy World Youngsters…. LET’S GET STARTED !

BUT WHERE?

There is a long list of things that need to change on this planet, but WE HAVE TO START WITH OURSELVES & THE WORLD AROUND US.

Let me suggest you an exciting FIRST CHANGE. This may surprise you at first sight, but let me explain.

I have observed many young people in the last 30 years in their daily lives and noticed that most of you find much in your daily lives REALLY BORING. Many, many young people have told me that they are most of the time BORED at school or at work. Of course we are talking in general here. There can be exciting moments or interesting periods in your daily life and fortunately there are some INSPIRING ADULTS around. However in general YOU don’t seem to have much choice, but to follow what ADULTS WHO LIVE IN THEIR HEADS (parents, teachers, coaches, bosses, administrators) have planned out for you, in order for YOU TO BECOME LIKE THEM.

Who wakes up in the morning thinking “YES, SCHOOL TODAY” or “YES, WORK TODAY!”

AND WHY NOT? Why isn’t it possible to create schools and jobs that are NOT boring most of the time? Why can’t we have a daily life that REALLY motivates us? How can any of the world’s large problems ever change if most people live WITHOUT TRUE MOTIVATION? So, let’s put BOREDOM on top of that list of “things out of hand” on this planet. And let’s start doing something about that RIGHT AWAY.

Here is an idea. Who decided that as kids we are allowed to PLAY and then when we grow older we are NO MORE ALLOWED TO PLAY. Who decided that we can play in our – way too little – “free time”, but that PLAY or having A PLAYFUL ATTITUDE is not welcome in educational and working situations?

Check out this great slight show by the National Institute for Play. They explain that if people (YOUNG AND OLD) would PLAY, in many domains of life, they LEARN BETTER, WORK BETTER & FUNCTION BETTER IN GENERAL :

IMPORTANT, watch the complete introduction

INTRODUCTION TO THE INSTITUTE FOR PLAY

So here is the first piece of the puzzle to start Something New; find your own ways to PLAY in your daily life or if you already do; PLAY EVEN MORE. Start TODAY and don’t EVER have ANYBODY make you believe that at one point you have to stop playing. .

Then send this clip to ALL ADULTS AROUND YOU; your parents, your teachers, uncles & aunts and so on. You know what? Send this clip to all your friends so they can also send it to the adults around them. Don't forget to tell them to watch the entire introduction. Don't skip it.

What is so special about the National Institute for Play is that they show that it has been SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN that PLAY IS AS IMPORTANT AS NUTRITION AND SLEEP.

Adults need to hear that. They live most of the time IN THEIR HEADS. Their thinking goes ON & ON & ON. On top of that, in their thoughts they believe they are ALWAYS RIGHT. Unless it is....... SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN!

Ouch, I guess that adults are not always right after all… thinking that PLAY is only for kids… WRONG !

And thinking that learning and working with a PLAYFUL ATTITUDE is not productive… WRONG AGAIN !

The next blogs and video clips will be filled with other tips and suggestions you can DIRECTLY TRY OUT IN YOUR OWN LIFE:

-about how YOU can avoid LIVING IN YOUR HEAD like many ADULTS do,

-about EDUCATION and about what to do if you find your school boring,

-about SPORTS and how to play like A STAR at whatever level you are,

-about ARTS and about the many ways to fill your life with CREATIVITY,

-about finding your PASSION and becoming lifelong friends with it,

-about healthy FOOD and how you can still enjoy some JUNK,

-about FAMILY and about what to do if you don’t have a nice one,

-about how to nourish FRIENDSHIPS and about how to “un-friend” at times,

-about SEX and about what nobody seems to want to talk about,

-about TAKING CARE of yourself and then of OTHERS and THE PLANET.

-and about LOTS MORE.

TODAY we start with PLAY (even more) as a first step to CHANGE OUR WORLD. We don’t need the Mayas telling us when it is all going to end or start. We are ALREADY ENDING & STARTING it right now, step by step.

Peace Out!

HANSTEIN

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