Getting the Most from Joint Mobility Movements
Dr. Stephen Stern is the MKP Journal Health and Fitness Editor – “the Wilder Elder” Learning proper technique, along with consistent actions, will produce the greatest results. Please read the following to learn and connect with what you can do – for YOURSELF – to get the most benefit(s) by performing joint mobility movements. When a joint in the body is compromised and is unable to move through its full...
Happiness is not a goal. It’s a side-effect.
An interesting article in Cracked this week about happiness. Why having a vast selection of choices tends to make people less happy in general. You have that agonizing selection process, repeated over and over again with decisions big and small (and some of you reading this have worried yourself sick over whether to go with LCD or plasma — don’t say you haven’t) which not only leads to anxiety, but decreased...
FIGHT BACK THE DARKNESS – World Suicide Prevention Day
To the men of The ManKind Project, our families, our communities: The Mental Health Resource Team invites and urges you to participate in World Suicide Prevention Day. On September 10, groups, communities, and organizations all over the world will be meeting and supporting each other in learning about suicide, learning how to prevent it, and learning how to deal with its aftermath. How can we join them in this vital initiative? That’s...
Game On
by Kip de Moll A troubling fear in the days before my surgery was that much of this ordeal provided a convenient excuse to avoid the more serious crisis of how to live the rest of my life. As long as surgery loomed and the catheter was an impediment, I could sit here quietly and always plead my health. Repaired, I have to face squarely my disillusionment with construction and disappointment with the financial results of my insurance...
New Play “Tickets to Manhood” July 14-30, 2011 NYC
SHOW: Tickets to Manhood by James Scruggs WHEN: July 14 – July 30 WHERE: Dixon Place, 161 Chrystie Street, NY, NY 10002 HOW MUCH: $15 in advance, $18 at the door. WHY: a Play about Rites of Passage, Initiation, and Masculinity in the 21st Century. From the Editor: I will be representing the ManKind Project for a talk-back panel discussion after the July 23 performance of Tickets to Manhood. I saw an early reading of this play...
If You Want to Change – Go Deep
by Owen Marcus I, like the rest of us, would much rather do the minimum than work hard. Why do more than you need to? Well, there are times when our mental solutions don’t work. In this post on my blog I write about how the mantra of our groups is – “Take the man deeper” produces a level of change unattainable from any mental technique I have ever seen. We are trained to be smart, to come up with solutions to problems. We compete to...