The Meaning of Christmas

The Meaning of Christmas

Christmas has arrived once again, with all its joy and all its colors. Through the centuries, we have become accustomed to a certain way of celebrating Christmas. The homecoming of friends and relatives, the snow under the windowsill, the gifts beneath the tree, the lights and colors, decorations, lavish Christmas dinner – all these has become an inevitable part of our rejoicing. Beyond all this merrymaking and happiness, Christmas also stands for some core values – a deeper meaning.

The Meaning of Christmas - What it Stands For

Joy is the word that we often associate with Christmas. The true joy that Christmas brings is not just the joy of having our family back home, or exchanging gifts with them. The true joy that Christmas stands for comes from within you – it is the joy that comes from the hope of a new beginning that the birth of Jesus Christ brings.

While we celebrate Christmas with fervor, there are many families and persons who cannot happily rejoice so well during the Christmas season. Those suffering from poverty, diseases and loss of the beloved ones are there, unable to share in the joy of Christmas. Christmas is also the time of remembering them, and extending a helping hand to make them happy if possible. Christmas, thus, also stands for mutual care, philanthropy and mercy.

Even as we are planning for shopping and decorations, there are millions of families around the world, whose lives are ruined by war and hostility. The bloodshed about which we hear in the newspapers is a reality for some unfortunate persons around the globe. Even within our society, we come across instances of mutual hatred taking its toll on people. And these ruins are brought upon them not by nature, but by human actions. It is in our hands to empathize with them, and try to help if we can. Above all, it is up to us to stand for and spread the value of peace, without which humanity has no existence. It is exactly this message of peace that each Christmas advocates.

A Merry Christmas to All from Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy

Ultimately, the joy, peace and happiness that Christmas stands for does not come from just being happy. It derives from making others happy as well. Over the past forty years, Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy has tried to make lives better and happier for others. The services of the academy have always tried to make people healthier, more confident, and happier. Through our programs, we have tried to find better lives for the specially abled and the seniors in our society. The Academy has always stood for the unity and happiness that arises from amity, friendship and cooperation.

If we have made any difference to anybody's lives, it became possible because you were with us. This Christmas, Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy sends a very special Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to All.

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An After-School Martial Arts Gift

An After-School Martial Arts Gift: Bruce McCorry’s AMP

If you are a parent, it goes without saying that the most demanding Christmas task is to choose the ideal Christmas gift for your child. You might have spent hours and days debating the best thing that you can get for him/her. However, this year, you have the chance to give your child and enduring and worthwhile Christmas gift – something that will transform his/her life – Martial Arts.

How Does Martial Arts become the Perfect Gift?
A chance to learn martial arts is the best gift you can give your child for Christmas. The benefits of learning martial arts are varied. Especially in the case of children, martial arts can offer many advantages that will come to their aid in studies as well as daily life:

* Martial arts improve your child’s health by fostering immunity and reducing the risk of diseases. It also prevents lifestyle diseases in future.

* Children who learn martial arts tend to be energetic and fit from a very young age. This is something that will stay with them throughout their lives. Each martial art has unique ways of burning calories and redistributing fat deposits in your child’s body.

* Martial arts is also about safety and security. It is one of the easy-to-learn and beneficial self-defense methods.

* Martial arts provide energy, reduce tiredness and makes children sharper. All these will aid them in studies and extra-curricular activities alike.

When you gift martial arts to your kids, you are gifting them health, fitness, safety and happiness that will stay with them for their lives. This makes martial arts the perfect Christmas gift.

An After-School Martial Arts Gift: Bruce McCorry’s AMP
After-School Martial Arts Program (AMP) at Bruce McCorry’s Academy of Martial Arts (Peabody, MA) is a quality martial arts program designed for kids. Bruce McCorry’s AMP is a good choice if you want your child to learn martial arts. In the first place, the time after school is the most suitable for learning martial arts as it will revive the children after their heavy school hours. Secondly, it will also give them the much needed physical activity that would break the dullness of their day-long mental efforts. Healthy living practices like martial arts are an important factor that will determine the health and well-being of your child in future.

Bruce McCorry’s AMP is unique in itself in many ways. It is one of those rare children’s martial arts programs in which quality martial arts is imparted in an enjoyable and easy method. AMP brings together the best martial arts talents from various parts of US as the faculty. It is also a program that places a lot of emphasis on the safety and security of the children. The academy provides cost-effective transport service aimed at the safety of the children. AMP is great not only because it helps to make productive use of the after-school time, it also ensures that the kids have a safe and happy place to spend the after-school hours. Choosing Bruce McCorry’s AMP will be a better and safer alternative to spending the after-school hours unsupervised.

Why wait? Make this Christmas and New Year special by gifting your child the best gift that you can give – a chance to learn martial arts at Bruce McCorry’s Academy!

Karate Kids – Give the Gift of Confidence, Health and Well-Being

Karate Kids – Give the Gift of Confidence, Health and Well-Being

Written by: Master McCorry

What is it that your child will find most useful in his or her life? You might be asking yourself this question once or twice every year – especially during Christmas, the season of gifts. Everyone needs confidence, health and well-being to lead a happy life. But then definitely, these are not things that you can gift your kids. Or are they?

Karate: Give the Gift of Confidence, Health and Well-Being to your Children
If you want to gift your child confidence, well-being and a healthy life, then Karate is your key. Karate is a simple-to-learn yet effective martial art that has the potential to transform the life of your child. How exactly does Karate foster these hard-to-achieve qualities in your child?

Childhood is for many of us, too young an age to start working out. But everyone needs some kind of physical exercise to remain healthy and fit. Today’s children hardly spend any time on physical activities like playing or running about. Even school gyms fail at providing the necessary physical exercise for kids. That is where Karate comes to your child’s help. It is not intense or burdening like a typical workout, still it is more effective than a workout. It burns off the excess fat accumulated from junk foods, and enhances the blood circulation leading to healthier living.

Karate is not just for health and fitness. It also makes your child confident. Karate teaches many values that are a part of the eastern traditions where it takes birth. It teaches how to keep calm at the face of difficulties, how to face and overcome challenges, and how to take on the world boldly. Along with confidence, learners also achieve values like compassion, socializing, mutual help, trust and acceptable behavior.

Karate contributes to the holistic well-being of a child. It enhances the capacities of mind such as analytic power, reasoning ability, thought-processing and decision making. These are all faculties that would help children in studies, especially in subjects like arithmetic.

Gifting the Best: Karate Lessons at Bruce McCorry’s Martial Arts Academy
One of the best places that offers quality Karate lessons for children on the North Shore and surrounding areas is Bruce McCorry’s Martial Arts Academy in Peabody (Massachusetts). What you get to experience at Bruce McCorry’s is Karate with a difference. Self-defense, self-discipline and self-confidence is the mantra of Bruce McCorry’s Academy. The academy follows a unique learning method that goes beyond the surface of martial arts – the moves, kicks and punches – to the core values that lie at the heart of each martial art.

Karate lessons at Bruce McCorry’s are offered by veteran instructors with years of experience in Karate as both students and teachers. Each learner gets individual attention and care at the academy. Children from three years of age can join Karate lessons. For each age group, the academy has a special curriculum simplified and adapted to suit the learners. Children can also opt to learn Karate in after-school hours with the ever popular AMP Bruce McCorry's After School Program.
The greatest gifts that you can give your children are not PlayStations or iPads – the best gifts are those which they will find useful forever. You can make this Christmas unforgettable for your kids by gifting them the best: a chance to learn Karate at Bruce McCorry’s and be the Karate Kids of future.

Martial Arts: The Perfect Holiday Gift for Everyone

Martial Arts: The Perfect Holiday Gift for Everyone

It is once again the time to hunt for the ideal gifts for your friends and family. It is said that an average American spends around $704 on gifts every Christmas. However, we do not care much for the money that we spend and the effort involved in finding out the gift as long as it makes someone happy. That is why the perfect Christmas gift is one of the most Googled topics every December – exactly the reason why you are reading this now!

Choosing the Perfect Christmas Gift
You should remember two things before choosing gifts. Firstly, the person who receives the gift should love it. Secondly, what you buy for someone should be of some use to them. As long as you know the needs and tastes of a person, choosing a gift is rather easy. But what if you have no idea about a person's likes? Is there a gift that anyone would like – a gift that will be useful to anyone who receives it?   Yes, the answer is Martial Arts.

Martial Arts: The Perfect Holiday Gift for Everyone
Here is an innovative Christmas gift suggestion. For this Christmas, you could get your friends and family an opportunity to learn martial arts. This might not have crossed your mind, but martial arts is a wonderful Christmas gift for your near and dear. Why is martial arts a perfect Christmas gift? 

* It is good for health: Learning martial art leads to less chances of risky diseases. There are studies which show how martial arts lessen the chances of cardiac diseases, stroke, hypertension, diabetes and obesity.

* It also means a toned body: Who doesn't want a toned and fit body that they can flaunt? Martial arts can give you exactly that. Martial arts burn calories faster and better than workouts. 

* Discipline and values: There are a lot of values which we need in order to be successful in our daily life. Martial arts can help to cultivate those values. Discipline, punctuality, order, rational thinking, time management – these are all principles that can be fostered through martial art.

* Less stress, more confidence: Martial art is a worthy way to relieve stress. It also lifts your confidence level. Self-confidence and calmness are two merits which will come to your help whether you are a worker, a student or a homemaker.

* More fun, more life: Martial arts is also something you can learn in an enjoyable and entertaining way. It will give you the opportunity to socialize, make friends, be the part of a larger family and lead a happier life.

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy
This Christmas, you can get your friends and family a free trial at Bruce McCorry's Academy of Martial Arts as an ideal Christmas gift. One of the foremost martial art schools in Massachusetts, Bruce McCorry's offers quality martial arts in an enjoyable and easy-to-learn method.

As a Christmas gift, martial arts is the ultimate choice because it will offer a safe haven to take refuge from all the heftiness and problems of life. If you gift a person a chance to learn martial arts, it means that you are giving them something that will stay with them always and make them happy throughout their lives. It is something they need, though they may not have realized it until now. And it is definitely something that they will love, for everyone will find something or other to love in it, once it becomes their passion. Give the gift of health and well being.... Martial Arts!... Go for it!   Give is a call (978) 535-7878 today for more information, We offer all sorts of different programs suitable for everyone.  Happy Holidays!

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Is Martial Arts your Dream?

Many people who take up martial arts out of passion quits it without realizing their dreams. The reason why we often hear such stories is because they are taught martial arts in a way that makes it boring for them. Martial arts like Karate and Kung Fu are soothing and enjoyable arts – the right way to learn them is to have fun and learn. You can realize your martial arts dreams only if you learn to love martial arts for its greatness. Where can you learn martial arts appreciating its greatness and enjoying its calmness?

Bruce McCorry' Academy – The Haven of Martial Art Lovers
Since 1978, Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy is a familiar name for Massachusetts. Established by Master Bruce McCorry as a small martial arts school, today the academy is one of the largest martial arts institutions in New England, accommodating hundreds of students every year. The past four decades have molded Bruce McCorry's to a place where children and adults from all sections of the society come to make their martial art goals come true. A serene campus, dedicated teachers and student-friendly courses are the major attractions of the academy.

The Major Programs Offered at Bruce McCorry's Academy
The reason why Bruce McCorry's is popular is that everyone can find a comfortable space within the academy. Bruce McCorry's offers courses for students from 3 years onwards. Following are some of the major courses at Bruce McCorry's:

· Little Ninjas: Little Ninjas is a pre-schooler course aimed at light and burden-free martial arts for children from 3 to 6 years of age aimed at developing motor skills, communicative skills and health

· Junior Programs: A child between 7 – 12 years of age can join the foundation course named Juniors. The course is aimed at introducing the learner to the martial arts so that they can realize their aptitudes and decide the specialization they intent to take for the future. After school martial arts is a useful junior program, and so is the Summer Program.

· Teen/Adult Programs: Those after 13 years of age can join the  Teen/Adult programs. The learner can choose the martial art of his/her choice and receive customized training. These courses are useful in building health, keeping fit and alleviating stress.

· Special Needs: Special Needs program is an inclusive course that gives the specially abled learners an opportunity to experience quality martial arts. Physically and mentally challenged students can learn a selection of martial arts with therapeutic value. Students in the autistic spectrum can benefit a lot from this program.

What is Special at Bruce McCorry's
Bruce McCorry's offers you a number of opportunities exclusive to the academy. If you are interested in checking out the academy, you can obtain a free trial without any obligations, or by joining now through Dec 7th 2014, receive 15% off all programs. the Afterschool program also offers additional benefits such as transport facilities. All the teachers at the academy are persons with years of experience in their arts both as students and instructors. You can join the academy as a family, and enjoy the unique experience of learning martial arts with your family, which is again, something special. You might be wishing to learn martial arts for a number of reasons. Whether it is health, self-defense, fitness or stress-relief, Bruce McCorry's is the place where you can come to make your dreams come true. Register today for a free trial or Join today and take advantage of their 15% off Cyber Monday Sale on ALL MEMBERSHIPS. Sale expires on the 7th!