To Become a Martial Arts Master,
You must First Strive to Master Your Own Emotions.

Controlling your anger before it controls you We all get angry. It's a normal emotion. However, some of us handle our anger better than others.

While one person might be a bit unhappy when someone cuts him off in traffic, another is so angry that he shouts and swears, and starts driving aggressively himself.

How can the same event cause such different reactions? And how can you make sure that your reaction is the calm one, instead of the wild one?

Manage Your Anger Constructively. The goal of anger management is not to eliminate anger completely: that isn't possible, since it's a natural human emotion.
Rather, the objective is to control and direct your anger - so that it doesn't control you, or damage an important relationship or situation.

In Anger Management: Channelling Anger into Performance, we discuss steps for controlling anger based on the ideas of Duke University's Redford Williams, MD, who with his wife, authored the best- selling book Anger Kills. There are three key elements to these:

1. Understanding what causes your anger.
2. Reducing your angry reactions.
3. Controlling your anger when you experience it.

The Patient Parent

Patience,
We run out of it, lose it, wish we had more of it. It's a quality that can make the difference between harmony and discord in family life. It's also a choice. We can learn to be more patient with our kids
Susan Spicer

This morning, over boiled eggs and bagels, I was helping my eight-year-old daughter review her spelling words - the ones we worked on last night. When she made the same mistake three times in a row, I found myself saying, "Annie, think! Sound out the word! A-S- T-R-O-N-A-U-T." Her eyes welled up and she looked panicked and desperate. I didn't intend to spoil her breakfast or her confidence, but I did.

Why? Overworked and overtired, I lost my patience - easy to lose and hard to find more of, yet so important when it comes to dealing with kids. You told us so yourselves in a 1999 study by York University psychologists Harvey Mandel and Harold Minden for Today's Parent. Patience topped the list of skills you thought you needed as a parent. Likewise, impatience was the number-one attitude you didn't want to pass on to your kids.

HYDRATION: Summer is here - - - Don't forget the water!!

Introduction: Water is our essence, our very lifeblood, the most important nutrient in our body. It makes up 70 percent of our muscles and 75 percent of our brains; oxygen is the only thing the body craves more than water. Yet every time we exhale, we lose it, as much as two cups a day. Water evaporates invisibly from the surface of our skin too, an additional two cups a day; and each time we urinate, we lose even more- probably as much as 2 pints in a 24-hour period.

During the course of a regular day, a healthy adult can lose eight to ten cups of water, and that is before working out at the gym. When we fail to replenish the losses, we set up a physiological chain reaction. Reading a "water shortage" (dehydration) message, hormones tell the kidneys to conserve water by urinating less; the urine passed is amber-colored (healthy water intake produces light-tinted urine). At a 3 percent loss of body weight, muscular endurance diminishes; at 4 percent, dizziness occurs, and physical labor capacity drops by as much as 30 percent; at 5 percent, mental concentration is reduced, drowsiness, impatience and headaches occur; at 6 percent, the heart rate increases and the body's temperature regulation system starts to fail; at 7 percent, there is a good chance of collapse.

We'd like to remind everyone we will be holding our June belt exams during the last weekend of the month.

Belt Exams will continue to be conducted on the NEW split schedule;

Children: Lil Dragons & Goshin Juniors will test on Friday 27 JUNE 2008

Adult Martial Arts & Jiu Jitsu will test on Saturday 28 JUNE 2008

Please review the testing schedule, exam roster, and upcoming events to see how it may affect you by visiting our website
@ http://www.americanblackbelt.org/student.html

Weekly Training Camps for Boys & Girls Ages 5 - 11

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