I’m writing this post to inform you that I’m switching my domain from wordpress.com to wordpress.org self-hosted site. This means my new posts won’t appear in wordpress.com community read feed, you normally will see my posts here they will not be shown after.
Notice the hyphen is gone, and since then, cjwrites is no longer a connection but a new wholeness. Just kidding lmao. But the goodbye of hyphen is true. Type cjwrites before .com and you’ll be guided to my new site.
It’s a sad but also bold move for me to continue my exploration in life and sustain my passions of writing. Your subscriptions really help me along the way and all of the likes that I received are the momentum I gain to share my contents onto the world.
It’s a new chapter, and with every new chapter, of course there are newness within. I plan on focusing on health ever since the pandemics hit hard on our heads to toes. It’s a wake up call for our collectives to realise giving up our physiological normality for the external needs is not an option.
I’ll continue writing more health articles and diving into different sub-categories from time to time, such as: biomechanics, physiology, sport injuries and else.
For my earlier on subscribers they know I used to write and read stories too. But honestly life has taken a different turn since then under difficult circumstances, right now I just wish I can finish writing my book. Thank you so much for being with me all these times. While I might not be posting interesting stories in the meantime, why not take an advantage of integrating the health element that I’m covering with? For me, living an athlete’s life is so rewarding as our psychological, physiological, and mental developments are being pushed over the limitations our minds have set for.
It’s like the idea of going for running is heavy, but being on the track and starts to warm-up then run, things go so smoothly than our mind thought it was kinda impossible. Our mentality has to be so strong that even we are in the hospital bed, we still have hope and the snap-back frame of mind. One of the most beautiful things is this in my opinion, and we can all see this in Olympics where all of the athletes doing their bests to achieve what they believe their names have already been written on the wall; sometimes, blessings have been made but the difficult path we’re going through is to prepare us to receive and handle the blessings and its consequences come after.
As long as we all know that the competition is a force to push us forward, the enemy is ourselves, not the opponent, then we’re competing our-self limitation. This is a healthy mindset for us to sustain our mental stability in the long run.
Okay, I think I’m turning this post to health and motivational article. (Laugh)
For my poems, which something that I really like, I’ll keep on posting them on my new blog. So my directions to my new domain, are to focus on Health ( body limitation, injuries, ways to improve and such), Story (this is really my hobby and I’ll push that whenever I can), and Poetry.
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Also, I’ll now tweet whenever my new post is made, so if twitter is more convenient for you, let’s be friends.
This domain – cj-writes.com will discontinue in the mid of August. All you need to remember is without a hyphen. Then you’ll land to my new blog. How Dope. Thank you so much for your continuing supports and spending times to read my work – (Some are just outrageously peculiar, I know! Ha.)
To say an athlete only does for sport is an understatement. The road he or she goes through is full of thorns and difficult steps.
Australian boxer Harry Garside who claimed bronze medal in the men’s lightweight cateogry (57-63kg) over the champion Cuban boxer Andy Cruz in 2021 Tokyo Olympics
Every athlete or who has been one knows, how extreme their life is.
The efforts and dedication we have to put into something we love so much that many believe it’s a waste of time and not living up with the reality are unbelievably extraordinary.
Some did it. Some live with it. Some have lived past it.
Sport in Chinese means something runs and moves at each meaning of their separated character( 運動 ). Similar to the definition of Sport in English that usually it involved any physical activity. Though I believe sports is more than just physical activity, it’s always a combination of our whole body alignment at work. Looking at our daily life, we’re all doing sport in a sense because we’re constantly traveling, mentally and physically. Finding the balance in between is a lifetime worth of habit we can have.
All in all, it always comes down to how much we love that sport or interest, like those sports athletes in Olympics.
We might not be in their insane amounts of physical training as a sports athlete since we aren’t the representatives of the national team (maybe for now), but we must adapt their mentality and the fit, ready-to-go body undoubtedly.
By trying to be the best version our body is capable of through the sport we enthuse about, we start to learn from others. We start to appreciate the physical knowledge that has been passing down from our ancestors as basic as how to hunt.
To share a better way to hunt for food, it’s probably one of the best blessings our forefathers can have in terms of wildlife survival back in the caveman time. Tips on traps and tactics, also the telling and showing of using their powerful weapon, the body, for the efficiency and longevity, such simple sharings had not only helped to sustain their lives, as well as the generations came after. Through their evolutionary traits, we continue to infuse our potentialities with their genes for an interesting future to come.
For me, dancing has me reclaim my body, and music is a necessary element for its sport. Can you believe that? Two dream elements in the same category!? You can listen to music every time you dance. As long as you’re a dancer, you’re entitled to listen to music while feeling and moving your body however and whenever you want!
What I realised the most is that the definition of music and dancing has been refining with every new wave of generations. For example when you see 80’s people dance style to today the after-transformation dance style in Hiphop battle, body control has been transformed to a whole new level.
The same with music when the samples of jazz were influentially used in the 50s songs with strong trumpet or saxophone as lead till now songs that can combine jazz-funk-trap together.
The changes in music and dancing, which are arts, are shaping by the outcry from the extremists and passionated to detail engineering enthusiasts.
To not stray too far away from our sporty body topic today, we are back to living an athlete’s life for the strengths they honed, in which we can pick up on.
The old thinking about athletic life in general goes the older you get, the more injuries you are likely to bear with. This prevents many to continue to pursue what truly makes them happy in the first place.
To change its fixated, inflexible thinking, here is where sports science comes in.
Sports science is a large subject that subsets with many smaller categories. These categories are what life excitements lie in terms of knowledge-wise. Human anatomy, biology, physiology, psychology, biomechanics, and kinesiology, for example, they’re demonstrations of what a human body can do, and what cannot, through any form of 2D plane. Soon when we advance our VR technology, 3D interaction on human body study will change us tremendously, whether it’s for the educator or student.
(Whoever has this idea to reality please contact me. investment should be in the discussion! This is a quick door to open many possible doors like robotic developments and medical treatments, by the large amounts of students who can access this technology when they grow up for instance, due to the instant, visual, and interactable contents live in hologram mode.)
Sports science and subcategories set up the principles and instructions for every athlete in their field regarding how ruthless they can be out of the limitless spirit they have but under the limitation of physicality.
Sports science is significant and a game-changer for all of the top athletes in the world. They spend large amounts of time healing and resting so their mind and body are at the optimal levels and ready to practice and perform across the race with time.
So what’s it for you?
Your studies will trade off with abundant health first and foremost.
For example: What defines a warm-up? This sounds silly and simple at first, but thinking it deeper, if we know the defined line in the warm-up, then we can access that point every time so we don’t hurt our body accidentally. Many people are afraid of getting injured. I get it, me too!
Some say it’s the warmth of the body, while others think light stretching is the definition.
Therefore, knowing the details in biomechanics will equip us with safety and reinforcement in knowledge.
Okay, the answer to the question is very universal.
Raising our heart rate to 90~110 or above. So an easy slow run is good before stretching.
Then the question is, how long for a warm-up?
I’ll leave that for you to find out.
These definitions and conditions around humans and nature itself will help our thinking and strategise our moves in the sport we’re participating.
Weather, gear, emotion, and body changes are all important factors to determine if the training session is successfully maximised the most satisfaction.
Many of us work very hard indeed. Living an athlete lifestyle isn’t easy. First, you’ll be cutting off many bad habits, like playing video games. Secondly, you’ll be very focusing on your body development, like what to eat, as well as the energy you have during the day and night.
Then it comes to third, you need to maintain social relationships, like your loved ones, friends, and communities. And then there is your job and payment. Many challenges occur just like a normal person would have. What about keeping your skill sharpen like a sword? You’ll need practicing and resting times throughout the weeks equally in energetic level to maximise the improvement. And study?
So, not knowing there are better ways and easier routes to pass challenges with shorter amounts of time is a shame. Talking about sport, we know the time frame is limited. For a diver in Olympics, passing 36 is an older age to compete with the opponents who are younger than him, in which they are in the prime of their young body to execute the most gracious postures they can do. And of course, there are exceptions, and the variables depend on the type of sports.
As I have mentioned in my “A Better View On Aging” that the functional cells decrease in different parts of the body is noticeable with age. The recovery rate also declines, comparing to a 14-year-old body for instance.
The question is, how can we outrun people who have better physical conditions beating with age? Well, experience is the most valuable thing there is. And by having the right knowledge and training strategically, keeping our bodies in good conditions while overcoming the psychological obstacles with good faith and attitude, then the favors will be on our side.
Studying sports science is not only limited to those who are older, a four years old kid learns faster than adults when the right knowledge is being passed down.
Deciding to study the body is a really fantastic way to start with. By knowing the limitation in physicality we can then measure our strength and accuracy in action towards the potentials. For example, we just cannot turn our heads 360 degrees. (At least the human evolution hasn’t caught up that talent yet. For now, it’s still pretty useless for our survival.)
But the point is, within the range that our head can turn, how much effort we can put in to reach the limit of our potential? And is it worth it? Learning the subjects that are deeply related to our body will only help us to improve many aspects of our lives altogether. We protect ourselves while aiming for the furthest range of motion.
By the way, for those who have a fire but are afraid of getting injured again, possibly the old pain hasn’t gone away, and for those who deeply think they aren’t the sporty material for their whole life, I can tell you that studying human body will be the best rewarding thing you can bestow yourself to.
It’s because you’re studying yourself through the process essentially. You’ll examine yourself why works and why doesn’t work for you. Why you didn’t do and why you did do. What changes you can make and then you’ll open a world that is full of wonders and potentials.
The future is merely potentials, which means it’s the unknown. Who knows, you can turn yourself into a sports enthusiast if you dare to take up what health means to you.
No one borns with athlete’s mentality or having its title to hang around their necks. All athletes develop their mental and physical strength and endurance through years of difficulties, sacrifices, and choices they made.
But having athletes’ mental thinking, and their dedication in attaining the fiddled level of their body, these concepts will help every single person to achieve whatever they want in life. Because these advantages a sporty person has is what every society desires; passion, motivation, knowledge, discipline, mental and physical strength, flexibility, creativity, and many more. They are self-evident through every athlete you see in the present and the history book. They might not be wearing the title of an athlete when they get older, but they surely live an athlete lifestyle for all their lives and they love it.
I suggest everyone should study sports science or any sub-category as they help you understand yourself. It doesn’t have to start with sports science first. If biology is more interesting then go for that. Anything that is in your interest.
Sports science is a big name for other fields of studies gathering for sports basically. And dare to step into the unknown and you’ll find the abundance within. You’re naturally smart.
Thanks for reading this article. I hope it helps you grow your interest in human body study. I love learning these, and I realise people around me don’t know what these cool subjects can do to them upset me. The safety and stability a society provides does wear our guards down and allows pleasure and entertainment to overtake our lives. We sometimes pay too much attention to the outside and forget to look and feel our inside. These phenomena are unacceptable for me so I write this article and hope that people can find ways to discover their physical potentials.
The benefits last for a lifetime and knowing how to use their body helps them gear self-defense too.
It’s not about age. It’s about having the willingness to do sports and find aims that can propel you for the significant achievements that fulfill you as a result. Sports science helps preserve, improve, develop, and enhance biologically. So regardless of age, the benefits are always there like fluids inside our veins. We breathe with them.
The joy is being able to exercise our body in the sport that we do in the comfortable pace against the uncomfortable nature of reality at the same time.
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It’s the labor work that brings the information into the actual form or builds around it. Like the chemical reaction at the subatomic scale, or the flying airplane we’re lucky to experience, each object and motion contain information.
Even the smallest particle is still a container of information as the information is what constructed the particle itself. In other words, without that piece of information, that particle wouldn’t exist because it had no use. No value for it to exist.
Information is the idea itself and the actual form will build around it to support this idea. From the troops in crusades for they protect the faith installed them to a brick house is built to protect the family’s living, these visualisations are other ways to understand why the form of particle needed to exist in the first place.
Microscopic scales of things are super interesting but we’ll save it for the future.
To look for the truth of every piece of information, which is the innate nature in all of us, is almost impossible but so worth trying. Without this curiosity or rather, this attitude in our blood we wouldn’t have gone this far.
As we tried to find out the truth, we categorise all sorts of information we gather into organisations we can easily access – such as physics, chemistry, biology, and so forth – curriculums that can improve our lives for generations to come. A personal organisation in seeking the meaning of life is a form of finding the truth within themselves to maybe connecting with the divine in the end. We’re expanding our brain development as well as looking for the accuracy of the truth itself.
Exploring the sky was once a thought in our ancestors’ heads and now it stretches out as space exploration with sophisticated math equations among graphs and diagrams.
So long as we don’t fire backward with our self-made problems – like overly exploited natural resources – to threaten our kind of its existence, of course.
Seeking truth has always been the driving force to expand our humankind socially, culturally, educationally, physically, mentally, spiritually, and more.
Then, what’s the truth within that one ancestor’s mind on the night when he looked up the sky and imagined the future he saw would look like? We probably never know. But we can put our dreams forward now to this reality so our ideas can amplify big enough to become physical existence beyond the imagination of our mind. It’s a blessing to live in this wonderful time where we don’t need to worry about survival in the wilderness but to focus on solving problems that we mankind are impeding by.
So, can we really find out the truth at all, through information? The truth is, we don’t know.
The way we perceive the world bases on the expectation of our reality model inside our head and the sensories we process the reality itself. We try to rectify what went wrong and avoid those mistakes throughout our lives for survival but there is no actual contact with the reality itself but only through our sensories and brain to make sense out of it. It’s already damn significant in my opinion. And I hope this concept is incomplete and that we can find a way to directly make contact with reality itself.
But I believe, every step we take is closer to the truth itself. Like, if we look at an orange, we can say it’s orange. Orange has made its representation in our head, but it’s a low resolution of its truth. We cut it in half, there is more stuff within it. And the more we look closer at it, the less it looks like the orange itself. We’ll discover there are a bunch of molecules to determine the orange color and the taste of it. And they’re the living thing too just like us, co-existing within the same space and time. So what’s the truth? Depending on what you aim at.
Now, within this frame, we can see the word knowledge we talk about is merely referring to the storage and exchange of information and these enable both parties to enhance their informational processors’ functionalities, which can improve their lives in general as a result. And if they realise the information they perceive can serve as a retooling kit for altering their thinking model, they then can avoid and prevent many obstructions and ambiguities for instance.
If we break down the word “Information”, we can see it’s just about what kind of sources we want them to inform us, so we are informed, we’re then the information.
With this idea, we can now recognise our true power in controlling what kind of information we would like them to inform us. If I want to be informed about the next move on space exploration, I’ll expose myself to associated informational centers, whether it’s visual contents from the internet, or being at NASA’s workplace.
Therefore, it’s important to be resistant to the information we don’t want to receive.
Reason one, we’re the information made up of. So we behave and live inside the information.
If we watch sesame street every day, we surely will subconsciously imitate some forms of behavior from the show. People who tell lies will try to live up to the false information too or else the lie will expose. The foods we eat also contain the necessary information for us to stay alive but allowing them to be inside our body, we’ll represent that information.
This information, like proteins, adding up together the result can be astonishing. If we eat too much meat, we’ll risk our health to disease or even cancer. Because, a slice of the meat itself contains a lot of information and our body needs time to break it down and if one source of information ( like cholesterol ) is stacked up, it’ll affect the body regulation. Remember information within its container is merely an instruction, so of course, it will create the blockage at the liver because it does what it told. This is just one way to think about it.
Reason two, to remove the posited information inside our brain takes time. Like the patterns of taking meth, it’ll take effort and consistency to clear out the fragments of information at the throne and also create enough resistance to deter future action on that matter.
Of course, not everyone is taking meth, but coming closer we can see how our reliance on our screens can also be a dangerous path when everybody is doing similar postures to handle their phones and allowing their eyes to perceive the information for time-killing. Many of them feel they have no choice because it’s deeply connected to their subconscious reaction and being so accustomed to this habit as a spending time tool already. Not to mention how many health problems might arise through the constant similar postures being used in using the phone that will affect our health mentally and physically.
We surely need some counteract measures or information to tackle it.
The sooner we channel ourselves to the desired information we want to process and resist the information that doesn’t help our improvement, we then advertently guide ourselves to betterment naturally.
To put this information concept in our daily lives we can consider this. To be physical or practical, we put the information into action mode. If I say, roll on the floor from here to the very end of the room and come back. You get the instruction and idea of how to do it, and naturally your brain sequences yourself in the situation to predict the possible outcome. If you take that action, meaning – start rolling. Then you’re showing the information in a sense. So, being productive or taking action isn’t that difficult at all when you have enough energy to carry out the process.
Thank you for reading this article. Information is something that I think is significant and attempting to explain this abstract idea coherently is a blessing and good challenge. And knowing that forming this abstraction to physical shape so other people can be inspired or act on is pretty cool. Information transforms us tremendously, from the moments we could write and record onwards. The future is only full of potential is a perfect, at the same time, underrated statement.
What’s your definition of information? Does this article help you? Let me know in the comment!
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The last article showed the technical side of the convoluted aging process and how it impacts us in such a way that our contribution to daily living equally affects the outcome of us growing old.
In this article, we’ll talk about death.
Death is inevitable, the same as the fathomable truth about our galaxy is being further away from other galaxies instantaneously. So our future humans might have to accept the situation that they are indeed alone in the universe, surrounded by complete darkness, assumably we would have been lucky enough to propel our technological advancement to the type 3 civilisation and beyond. They might not even know the universe was once shinning across the Milky Way if our preservation doesn’t handle properly with time. From the potentiality of civil war, space war to silence particular truth of something with fire and violence, there are many unknowns we can’t predict for the far future ahead of us. But the fact that the speed of each astronomical object is increasing and moving away from one another startles many, i mean why wouldn’t they?
If our universe has constructed in this way; explode and cease, explore then expand, collapse then reborn, our death seems to be more acceptable, perhaps.
But either way, immortality could be equally destructive as the death itself, in terms of humankind as a whole.
Imagine an immortal person, he can put every project off because, in theory, he can do them four centuries from now.
Life would have been unchallenged or even unsatisfied in a way that the motive of living organisms will probably die out comparing to many aspects of how we live and the idea of passing on our genes to secure our kinships will be unimportant in a sense.
It might be good to fantasize about the possibilities but I do believe that death has pushed our humankind to evolve to this day of age along with a lot of significant achievements. From the internet to skyscrapers, to landing on another planet with very sophisticated machines, as well as classical Beethoven’s symphonies in music, these accomplishments would not happen without the terminal element of death exists in the reality and its idea deeply rooted in our thoughts subconsciously.
Therefore, knowing we’ll one day die, it becomes less horror and rather, an encouragement for us to reflect upon. Death might be the ultimate force we can harvest to push our potential to achieve our set goals. Be like our ancestors like Beethoven, or whichever historical figure you admire.
The death might be invisible, but the reflection of death we can always feel around us which is the evolution of every living kind.
What we sometimes overlook the death in the overall picture though is that it’s like a phoenix, death is only a part of the process to give birth to something newer, something brighter, like generational waves. This cycle of death and reborn has been encircled since the existence of time. So, for whatever hardships you’re facing now, dare to stand up on both of your feet, stand up for yourself as no one else can do it for you. This death will breed something greater down the road. Our actions will determine the final outcome of our life since we’re gifted with free wills.
Taking care of our health is now more important than ever in this regard, as we want to extend our “good time” while being in the absence of sickness so we can enjoy our journey with ease.
What do you think about death? Share with me in the comments down below!
This is a video I filmed for my dearest friend and now I feel that I should share it with the world too so the encouragement contained within this video can spread throughout.
Through dancing, although somewhere along the line you will most likely end up practicing with yourself a lot of times, the self-examining, self-improving and self-practicing processes are what shaping individuality in different aspects of one’s life. Physicality simulates our mind so much because of the pressure we consciously put on ourselves and be resistant to it, like playing ping-pang but by ourselves on both ends.
A lot of dancers give up in mid-way due to various reasons, and if you have checked out my recent article on aging, you will see why for dancers to keep up with their bodies and energies when they grow older would be more difficult. Though if dancers can understand their body agility and mobility are, for the most part, depending on their choices in life whether it’s a diet habit or they stick with dancing or not, their desire to dance, as well as how to maintain the restoration of each time. It’s sad to learn that you will not be able to see your favorite dancer express him/herself anymore through dancing.
In this video, I mainly used breakdancing to perform. Whenever I connect with the public floor I feel excited (As long as the floor isn’t toooo dirty of course! haha). With the summer pervading in slowly, the warm ground supports my weight as I grip my hands-on and I know it allows me to fall and fail with a tough foundation as a bounce back.
Dancing does open your heart and feel better after every session you do, at least for me. To not dive into the science aspect, dancing simply makes you feel good because during the dance training session is completely free for you to explore your body and work on the parts you don’t normally do. For example, you hold up one leg to the sky for as long as you want. When you do some weirdass or super awkward moves, people just think that’s how it is. (Laugh!) It’s truly a blessing.
By excluding the need for choreography or any showcase, the training session is really your free time you get to spend with your body alone. That’s also the biggest contribution to why I often share health concepts and encourage ppl to do sports and emphasise the need to use the body.
I see the death everyday
A group of sad prayers before the sick bed
A father before his son’s grave
I see the death in your dream
The hollow spaces wish to redeem
From the deeds that remain unseen
I sense the death everywhere I go
Death in the eyes and death in empty vessels
I experience the death around me
Ending cycles in relations
Closing hopes in creations
And breaking waves in vast ocean
I see the death within me
The reflection of my skin goes decay
Draining bloods be leaching away
Nothing seems to be getting away
I see the death everyday
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