1 January 2003

News Flash.. "Happy new year!"

1/ Dates for 2003:-   January 3rd First class Yaxley  January 7th First Yoga class Sawtry January 5th, 12th & 19th FREE self-defence classes for friends and family 2pm?3pm Sawtry (normal class will run) February 2nd Colour belt test Sawtry  Febuary ? Sunday morning seminar Rugby February 23rd Ki energy seminar Sawtry  March 2nd Weapons seminar Sawtry  March 15th British Championships London  March 30th London colour belt test & seminar May 4th Colour belt test Sawtry  May 11th Black belt test  April 5th-6th TSD England Boot Camp? April 6th Posible Seminar with Grandmaster Tom Muncy June 8th Scotland Seminar June 29th London colour belt test & seminar July 10th - 12th World Championships London  August 3rd Colour belt test Sawtry  August 16th-17th Scotland TSD Boot Camp  September 9th instructors AMA insurance September 20th Master Adlington's Championships  September 28th London colour belt test & seminar October 25th Scotland Championships November 2nd Colour belt test Sawtry  November 9th Black belt test December 7th Scotland Seminar (Christmas party?) December 14th London colour belt test &seminar December 21st last class Sawtry

2/ Vet   A man runs into the vet's office carrying his dog, screaming for help. The vet rushes him back to an examination room and has him put his dog down on the examination table.  The vet examines the still, limp body and after a few moments tells the man that his dog, regrettably, is dead. The man, clearly agitated and not willing to accept this, demands a second opinion.  The vet goes into the back room and comes out with a cat and puts the cat down next to the dog's body. The cat sniffs the body, walks from head to tail poking and sniffing the dog's body and finally looks at the vet and meows. The vet looks at the man and says, "I'm sorry, but the cat thinks that your dog is dead too."   The man is still unwilling to accept that his dog is dead.   The vet brings in a black Labrador. The lab sniffs the body, walks from head to tail, and finally looks at the vet and barks. The vet looks at the man and says, "I'm sorry, but the lab thinks your dog is dead too."   The man, finally resigned to the diagnosis, thanks the vet and asks how much he owes. The vet answers, "$650."   "$650 to tell me my dog is dead?" exclaimed the man....   "Well," the vet replies, "I would only have charged you $50 for my initial diagnosis. The additional $600 was for the cat scan and lab tests."

3/ zebrafish   The tiny zebrafish had already impressed scientists with its ability to regenerate damaged spinal cord, retina and fin tissues. Now research shows that the fish can also regrow missing and injured heart muscle. The findings, published in the current issue of the journal Science, could aid the development of strategies for healing impaired human hearts.  Mark T. Keating and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School wounded the hearts of adult zebrafishes by surgically removing 20 percent of the muscle from the lower chamber. Most of the creatures survived the surgery and resumed swimming. Within a week, the scientists found, the altered fish could match their normal counterparts in speed and agility. In addition, after two months the injured ventricles had returned to their standard size and shape--with no evidence of scarring--and were contracting normally. The team theorizes that zebrafish produce new heart-muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes, in response to injury, which allows them to regenerate undamaged heart muscle. Humans, in contrast, experience scarring after the heart muscle is harmed. Keating notes that "the implication, which isn't proven, but is quite exciting, is that by enhancing human cardiomyocyte proliferation after heart injury, one may be able to enhance cardiac regeneration and reduce cardiac scarring." -- Sarah Graham

4/ Dragon Academy T-shirts Remaining  stock X3 small Black X1 large Black

5/ Subtle energy research.  a/ Ki energetics in Sacred Space (See No. 7/) b/ Unbendable Arm, New theory See No. 8/) c/ Collective consciousness (A new form of image streaming) d/ More on the Tang Soo Do Chil Sung Hyungs e/ Energetics of pain f/ Energetics of resistance training

6/  IGTSDA World Champs 2003   http://www.igtsda.co.uk/ for your world championship update Entry forms are here!   Team forms for the world championships are free! As a good will gesture Master Adlington and Mr Fernandez agreed to  include this free event at our IGTSDA world championships July next year.   Each country can enter 2 teams. Junior team X5 students under 16years old. Senior team X5 students 16 years and above. Any combination of male and female.   Please show us where you are from on the guest map. http://pub30.bravenet.com/guestmap/show.php?usernum=2522498725&password=&zoom=4&movetox=-900&movetoy=-525

7/ Ki energetics in Sacred Space    One of the Christmas presents for my mother was to Feng Shui her house (and present her with the Academy certificate) and  create what I call "Sacred Space". So to test my theory of energetics I did this for mum and then tested her like we do in the  Tang Soo Do classes.   a. Resistance to centre lock - Better then most black belts I have tested. b. Arm strength (Pulling apart) - I could not pull mum's arms apart. c. Finger strength (OK sign, thumb and finger together) - I could not pull mum's finger/thumb apart without physical damage,  very strong! d. Unbendable arm - Unbendable without causing physical damage.   Mum is now the local Super Granny. Anne Adlington is 60 years old (60 plus) and knows nothing of Martial Arts. For the tests she did nothing, no stances,  no energy flow,  no rooting, no aerials, no breath technique. Before the Feng Shui she tested, as would any elderly woman, weak against an  adult male. As the theory predicted every KI energy technique is natural in the correct environment.   Tang Soo Do Grandmaster Jae C Shin says in his first book "The ultimate goal of Tang Soo Do is to live in perfect harmony with the laws of nature." "To become one with nature is what we strive to attain. To understand, appreciate, and apply these laws is our goal."   I hope my research has brought us all a little closer to this goal.   This Feng Shui service is avalible to anyone, an Academy certificate will be supplied once your home is energetically corrected. (Small research donation) Contact Mark tangsoodo@btinternet.com

8/ Unbendable Arm new theory    Still working on this (No one to work with over the holidays) it seems like it is not the energy flow down the arm  that gives an unbendable arm! The energy is there for the unbendable arm all the time and the energy flow allows us to access this energy.  So two different energies working here.   Energy a/ Allows access to the strengthening energy Energy b/ Strengthens the arms.   Now we should be able to switch off an unbendable arm from a distance and also switch one on.   Lots of other effects with this, we will be looking at all these things in normal classes and seminars.   More fun arm wrestling down the pub!!!

9/ Mantra   The mysteries of mantra and its capacity for mental, physical and spiritual healing are little known in the Western world. Although we are all familiar with the fairytale magician?s words of power (those secret syllables which when uttered usually unlock hidden doorways into the earth, revealing a cave of treasure) we are generally unaware of the esoteric significance of such stories. They are in fact folkloric references to the sacred subtle sounds used by mantric adepts, which open the ?cave of the heart? (to Universal Love) and reveal the treasure of the Spirit. Mantra is a profound and practical method of self-awakening, opening and self-transcendence. It is a form of yoga which speaks to the deep organic roots of man?s being by the use of vocalised and mental sound-currents of both audible and inaudible frequencies. These subtle vibrations awaken dormant centres of the brain (most of which are as yet unused in the average being) attuning the psychological, physiological and spiritual faculties to the primordial and sustaining vibration of creation. When we come into harmony with the vibratory rate of sub-atomic pulsation in consciousness (as in deep meditation) we hold the key to universal knowledge and self-healing.   Among a great many western practitioners of yoga, one finds that the major focus of interest rarely goes beyond that of the physical aspect. While every effort is made to perfect the basic developmental postures of Hatha Yoga, scant attention is paid to the higher forms of practice. Hatha Yoga is the necessary springboard which allows one to dive into deeper consciousness-evolving practices. Most practitioners however, seem content with simply bouncing on the board and never jumping off.  Yet all the great yogic texts firstly enumerate the most important asanas (or postures) and then the pranayamas (breath-expansion and control exercises), pratyahara (withdrawal of consciousness from the external world) followed by the Raja (Kingly) Yoga exercises of a psychological nature. The teachings then lead on to the higher experiences of Laya Yoga (the Yoga of Transformation) through the practice of Mantra (sacred mystic syllable repetition) and Nada (the Yoga of Subtle Sound.)   In order to bring the body, mind and soul into harmonious balance, all these other higher forms of self-development need to be cultivated at the same time. This is generally the case in a truly integral yoga practice after an initial period of Hatha Yoga discipline only. If this is not done, it is equivalent to building a house and forgetting to put in the plumbing and the electrical circuits at the same time. It can of course be done later, but it?s a lot less efficient.   The postures of Hatha Yoga are extremely beneficial in preparing the subtle nervous system for higher voltages of energy. These subtle circuits might be termed the ?para-physical wiring-system? of the subtle body which sheathes the physical body with an ?energy-field? in a similar way as a magnetic field occurs around a magnet. The conduits of the psychic nervous system are known as nadis or ?channels? and have been mapped as meticulously as their counterparts in the physical nervous system, by thousands of generations of clairvoyant yogis. And like the meridians of Chinese acupuncture (though not always concurrent with them) the nadis are conductors of subtle energy throughout the body.   This energy is diffused and distributed into the physical nervous system via six major vortices situated along the length of the spinal column and a seventh at the crown of the head. The vortices are known as chakras (?wheels?) in Sanskrit and are the ?Seven Seals? (of the human ?Book of Knowledge?) in Christian terminology. Chakras are actually meta-physical transformers through which higher frequency psychic energy activates the physical body. Music and chant activate these channels, but it is an extremely rare occurrence for physical exercise alone to switch on the current. The word mantra itself means ?that which protects consciousness?. The first syllable man comes from the Sanskrit term manas??thought, consciousness?, and the suffix tra??that which protects.? Thus the use of mantra is that which protects us from the constant mental flow of thoughts, fears, apprehensions and negativities and all the useless flotsam of over-thinking. In short, it protects us from our own minds and frees us from the pollution of our thoughts. With constant practice, mantra repetition activates the psychic energies in the nadi system and vitalises the pineal gland, which awakens intuitive faculties (and often ecstatic joy) in the practitioner.   Since the Vedic period of India (at the dawn of recorded history) mantra repetition has been a scientifically replicable practice, which when persevered in, unfailingly led meditators to communion with the Absolute. The subtle harmonic vibrations of chanted mantras, both mental and vocal, act as a cleansing and purifying agent on consciousness. The yoga-rishis (seers) discovered that certain sounds brought them joy and ecstasy, some illumined the consciousness, some brought tremendous psychic powers, profound tranquillity or boundless energy, freedom from fear, or mental and physical healing.   These same mantras are still in use today. And they still evoke the same results in those who earnestly practice them. The movements of the soul we experience when listening to fine music or opera (the thrill up the spine at a certain note) is but a feeble echo of the deep nourishment engendered by these sounds. Mantras create a stable core in the centre of our beings, which vibrates in unison with the underlying life force. Thus mantra teaches us to transcend language and enter into the Universal Vibration, becoming one with the Omnipresence.   In India, it is not unusual for homeopathic doctors (as well as sages) to prescribe specific mantras instead of the usual remedies. This is not as amusing or simple as it may seem to the rational mind. For centuries witch-doctors in Africa have known that a certain frequency of drum-beat will serve to break a fever and have developed a repertoire of other rhythms to cure various physical and mental symptoms. Similar methods are used today by advanced radionic practitioners using sophisticated instruments. And even in allopathic circles, sound-therapy is beginning to be utilised in the treatment of both physical and mental problems.   It is only relatively recently in the Western world, that it has been discovered that certain music and sound-waves have the capacity to activate cellular healing when played to bodily wounds. And such sounds have been shown to promote a far speedier return to health than by orthodox methods. So it is that medical science begins to vindicate the findings of the sages of millennia ago.   What is an ordinary dose of allopathic medicine after all? It is no more than a substance composed of atomic particles in a dense state of vibration. Homeopathic medicine goes one step further. Its highly diluted remedies appear to contain nothing of the original substance, yet they are highly potentised and radiate a powerful frequency which can replicate the effects of the disease. This causes the body to throw off its illness without the effects of harmful drugs, simply by a sympathetic frequency. A sonic frequency works on a similar principle.  Medical researchers in Paris have found that certain repetitive sounds played to cancer cells will eventually destroy them. This is a fascinating breakthrough, for all involved in sound-work. Over the past few years, having had several cancer patients in my mantra workshops, I have begun to receive letters from those who have been able to avoid operations after the effects of a workshop. One lady who was due for a mastectomy soon after a mantra workshop found the malignant growth had diminished after the five-days of chanting, so that the operation was deemed unnecessary. Five years later she is still chanting and still has her breasts. Another woman with cancer of the throat and barely able to speak had a remission and stabilisation with improved ability to speak afterwards. Clearly something powerful is in operation here.   If lifeless repetitive electronic sound can make cancer cells disintegrate in the laboratory, how much more effective the living sound of one?s own voice can be in toning the cells with the repetitive vibration of healing. Mantra is known for its vibrant pulsation of subtle healing frequencies which purify both mind and body. Because of its capacity to resonate in consciousness, it is considered by the great sages as the most efficacious method of unburdening the subconscious and cleansing it of residual traumas. As many cancers can be traced back to unfelt feelings blocked in childhood, mantra (with its internal massage of rigid cellular structures) often allows such frozen pains and tears to be released. On occasion even traumas of previous lifetimes have been experienced following a mantra session, allowing students to relive and release past-life memories which previously created hidden tensions in the body.  Although it is helpful to have practised some form of yoga before beginning with mantra, it is by no means a prerequisite. Anyone can benefit from the vibrations. Less active newcomers to yoga generally take to it like ducks to water! While some find its ?spring-cleaning? effect on the psyche allows their long-blocked feelings to arise and be dissolved in emotional release, others find in mantra an immediate sense of ?coming-home?, of being ?cuddled by the universe?, or a supportive joy in deep meditation. At the very least, it is a wondrous relief for the over-burdened mind.   Mantra has the blossoming of the heart as its central experience.

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11/ Last Call for the 2002 DBBAI Hall of Fame   Master of the year: Master Andy McCann    Instructor of the year: Michelle De-Vry     Student of the year:  Arthur Fernandez    Commendations:  Nick Griffiths     Congratulations to the above named award winners, thank you for all you hard work in 2002.     Please contact me with any worthy candidates for the DBBAI Commendation.

12/ Ki Master, Ki Instructor, Ki Student.   Together with South African Master Eddie Jacobsen the DBBAI have designed a new patch for our outstanding students. The patch will be worn on the right arm opposite to the IGTSDA patch. Students showing advanced skills in the area of Ki Energy will be awarded the patch. This will be no easy task!  Instructors can work towards the Ki Energy Instructors level. Instructors that have mastered the current level of Ki Energy understanding and are into the area of new research will attain the title of Ki Master and will be awarded the Ki Master patch.      May the force be with you.

13/ DBBAI Weapons Hyungs Working again with Master Eddie from South Africa we are looking at a new Knife form. Students that were once in the wtsda used the knife hyungs in competition and still wish to do so. The old knife hyung is sadly lacking in practical applications and is a strain on the shoulder joints. The weapons should be ready to be presented to the Academy at the World Championships seminars in July. (If not before)

Mr Mat Klee with his new "Snow Hyung Il Bu"