Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Time to Unplug: Kick the Stress with Martial Arts!

Time to Unplug: Kick the Stress with Martial Arts! 
written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts



Technology: Stress Buster or Stress Booster?
It is interesting that we have come to equate technology with stress relief. Increasingly in the recent years, our definition of taking a break from stress always leads us to technology. Take a look at the things we have come to define as entertainment, and hence a relief from stress by default: movies, internet, social media, iPod, video games… The question to ask is do they really bust stress? 

Studies do not answer this positively. For instance, stats tell us that:

  •  If we misplace a cellphone, 73% of us feel panicked, 14% feel desperate and 7% sick – a total of 94%.
  •  48% of us feel the need to check social media even after having retired to bed for the day.
  •  Around 11% to 49% of us feel disrupted by electronic notifications during eating, using the bathroom or during a meeting 
  •  44% of us find it difficult to sleep if we don’t take the cellphone to bed with us.

This shows that we have come to live in the age of technology addiction. Technology today causes much more anguish and torment to people than the relief it is believed to provide. The consequences of technology addiction include

  •  Withdrawal symptoms - as in the case of any addiction - that can lead to serious issues like depression
  •  Gradual shrinking of the brain, which can eventually reach dangerous levels – as much as 20%
  •  Not being interested in the world outside technology
  •  Strained relationships with friends and family
  •  Health issues such as obesity that proceed from physical inactivity 


Each time you find a technology addict describing himself/herself using words such as insecure, desperate, lonely, anguished or messed up, it reminds you of the reality: it is finally time for us to unplug.

Unplug from Technology and Kick the Stress with Martial Arts
This leaves us a crossroad. If we genuinely cut down the usage of cellphones, television, internet, tablets and laptop, what remains? Tired from work or study, what do we turn to for relief? 

Of all the healthy and refreshing ways to entertain ourselves and relieve stress, the top place definitely goes to martial arts. Martial art is the only pastime that can at once work toward your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. It begins in physical movements, breath exercises and practice, but it gradually fills your mind, body and soul, touching every aspect of your life in a positive way.

Martial art lessons at a qualified martial art school like Bruce McCorry’s is an example of how you can actually achieve stress-relief through a physically refreshing and healthy pastime. In martial arts, you will find the most fun alternate to a number of things that you simply hate in life. With martial arts in your life, there is no more need to worry about working out or dieting. With martial arts at your side, you will no more fall short of expectations in your school or work. No more will you be burdened by lack of confidence or lifestyle-related health issues.  

It is time to say no to technological entertainment that ruins your mental calm. Instead, say yes to martial arts - the most enjoyable and easy-to-do way to escape from stress!

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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Tai Chi and Energy Healing

Tai Chi and Energy Healing: The Bruce McCorry's Combo for Life 
Written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts



Tai Chi is one of the numerous forms and styles of Qigong, a globally loved martial art that made its way into every nook and corner of the world. Tai Chi is one of the martial arts that can brag the richest heritage as it has inherited the values of prosperous Chinese spiritual and martial traditions of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. However, the reason why Tai Chi is so popular in the international martial art scenario is that there is something markedly modern in it. If the 21st century has a martial art of healing, Tai Chi is that.

The Clinical Miracles of Tai Chi: An Art that Can Heal
It has been two decades since doctors have started repeatedly associating Tai Chi with the terms healing and cure. The clinical and medicinal research in Tai Chi has pulled it right through centuries and recognized it as the therapeutic solution to many health problems that plague the 21st century man and woman. 

The earliest research discovered that Tai Chi has great orthopedic healing capability as it can successfully combat osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and other issues related to bone density. For those who acquired bone-related conditions hereditarily and for millions of women who suffer from orthopedic conditions during menopause, Tai Chi came as a boon. 

Soon after, Tai Chi was found to help neurological problems as well. A breakthrough discovery showed that the muscular difficulties that follow from neurological conditions like Parkinsonism can be improved through Tai Chi.

Cancer is definitely the most lethal of conditions that plague the 21st century humanity. Can Tai Chi be of help in our battle against cancer? For a while the possibility of Tai Chi being an addition to clinical cure was explored by scientists. This means that Tai Chi was found supportive in dealing with a number of additional concerns that affect cancer patients such as tiredness, lack of physical strength, mood swings, depression and stress.

Energy Healing in the 21st Century: From the Margins to the Centre
Can Tai Chi step from being an addition to being the cure itself? Its possibility doesn’t seem so far. A landmark 2014 study at University of Calgary indicates that energy healing programs like meditation, mind healing and yoga are not just additional healing practices that can motivate a person and support them through the main clinical curing process. On the contrary they can actually induce physical changes at the cellular level, which means that they have a potential to don the role of the main cure. What is true for alternate healing stands true for martial arts as well. For a clinically potent martial art like Tai Chi, this means a lot.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Mind Control for Adults to Lose Weight at Bruce McCorry's Academy

Mind Control for Adults to Lose Weight at Bruce McCorry's Academy 
Written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts



Mind control skills in martial arts are like a lore of the modern times, thanks to the numerous cultural representations in movies, shows and books of martial artists performing miracles with mind control. You might perhaps dismiss a martial artist levitating an object through mind control as a trick or performance. But the truth is that mind control in martial arts can perform miracles, but of a totally different kind. You can use mind control-based martial arts for a number of wonders: to shape and tone your body the way you want to, to make your martial arts training more perfect or to achieve goals like confidence and self-defense.

Mind Control: The Road from Vision to Reality

The basic principle of mind control is that one’s body and mind are intimately related. Its key is the notion that focus, concentration and repeated mental imagery can actually bring real changes to whatever goal you are aspiring at a worldly level. Even in a common sport which demands coordination and focus, there is some level of mind control that comes into play. But in something like martial arts where the mind and body are linked in intricate ways, mind control can unlock great changes.

Mind Control in Martial Arts for Weight Loss: Techniques and Benefits

Everyone has a motive to learn martial arts. For many learners, weight loss is a significant motive that draws them to martial arts. There are several mind control techniques a learner can use in martial arts to achieve the goal of weight loss. Some are given below:

* Focused Concentration: Focusing your attention on the specific change that you want to happen and concentrating on that while practicing martial arts is one form of mind control. For instance, if toned legs are something you want to achieve, you could focus and concentrate on your legs while performing martial art moves that are related to the leg muscles.
* Repetition and Rehearsal: Yet another form of mind control is repeatedly rehearsing to yourself the goal you want to earn. In addition to actual martial art practice you could rehearse your moves mentally many times and this improves the result. Repeated mental rehearsal coupled with actual practice increases the amount of pounds you can burn much quicker and with less effort.
* Visualization: Visualization is a more powerful form of mind rehearsal. If it is the repetitiveness that improves the result in the above instance, here it is the detailed and intense scenario that you imagine for yourselves that makes the difference. You can start with visualizing simple scenarios of action that leads to weight loss and make it more intense as you go along.

The Best of Mind Control Martial Arts for Adults: Bruce McCorry’s Academy

The above are a few of the ways in which you can tap the strength of mind control to grab your desired goals. At a professional martial arts school like Bruce McCorry’s Academy, you can unlock the miracles of the mind and explore the many ways in which mind control can be used to seize your dream. Just as the illustration above takes weight loss as an instance, you can use similar techniques to achieve health, confidence, stress-relief, strength of body, the ability to defend yourselves and so on. You can also perfect your training and achieve glory in martial arts. 

Mind control can be the keyword that can usher in a change to your life at home and at workplace, in your daily life and in your future goals. Make up your mind today! 

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy (Peabody, MA) - The Best Choice

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy (Peabody, MA) - The Best Choice


Questions that are faced by those who want to learn martial arts are many. But the first and the most crucial choice anyone has to make is where to learn martial arts. Because, as martial art experts often say, the right school is the first step to success and brilliance in the field of martial arts. Whether you want to make it big in the world as a martial artist or whether you want to achieve health, fitness, happiness and a stress-free life through it, an academy that can give you professional and customized schooling is your ultimate solution.

A Shining Name in the Pages of Martial Arts: Bruce McCorry's Academy

One of the oldest names in the martial arts history of Massachusetts, Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy is a unique space where you will find superior martial arts lessons from instructors with years of experience in each martial art. The brainchild of Master Bruce McCorry who entered the martial arts Hall of Fame in 2002, the academy was inaugurated as a small martial arts school at Peabody in 1978, with the aim to propagate the benefits of martial arts among enthused learners and to motivate hundreds to live healthy, stress-free and happy lives. Today, with knowledgeable staff, programs spread across different categories and two special wings for Kickboxing and Preschoolers, Bruce McCorry's Academy is the most adored name in Massachusetts martial arts.

Choosing What You Want: Bruce McCorry's Courses

The academy believes that every learner has his or her own dream to fulfill from the treasure trove of martial arts. The duty of a good martial art school is to help the learners to accomplish their own dreams and goals by providing personalized lessons and attention to individual learners. To suit the needs of all learners, both children and adults, the academy offers superior lessons in a range of martial arts including Taekwondo, Cardio Kickboxing, Kung-Fu, Yoga, Tai Chi, Mixed Martial Arts and Xtreme Martial Arts. Whichever age group you belong to, you will find a martial art that fits you from the courses ranging over the categories of preschoolers, kids, teens and adults. For children, academy runs exceptional Afterschool Martial Arts Program (AMP) and Summer Program. The inclusive Special Needs Program at the academy strives to make the lives of people with special needs better. As the academy follows the clinical and research-oriented developments in each field of martial arts and tries to keep pace with the changing trends, two special wings – Kickboxing Peabody and Preschooler Martial Arts Peabody – have been inaugurated over years.

Martial Arts that Counts: Bruce McCorry's to Transform Your Life

In Bruce McCorry's Academy, you will find one of the most learner-friendly martial art schools in the area. For the instructors and the staff, the comfort and safety of the learners, especially the kids, is of top priority. You will find a lively campus and a vibrant co-learner community at the academy. The academy will teach you to relentlessly pursue your goals whether it is health, fitness, confidence, stress-relief, self-defense, fame or success. Martial arts at Bruce McCorry's Academy can be your supportive companion for your life at home or work, or school in the case of children. With numerous unique offers such as a transport service for children and a free trial, you can make your choice with no second thoughts. 

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Friday, November 4, 2016

Negative Effects of Sitting: Martial Arts for a Healthy Living

Negative Effects of Sitting: Martial Arts for a Healthy Living 
written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts



A few years back, the Bureau of Labor Statistics came up with the report that six out of every seven jobs that are usually aspired for as well-paying ones in the US involve sitting for lengthy hours at an office. This did not come as a surprise for us as for many of us, it is quite natural to sit for extended hours, sometimes as long as six to eight hours in a stretch, crumpled up before our computers or laptop. But more recent studies have shown that we should be really concerned about the nature of our jobs and aware about what can we actually do to combat its unhealthy aftereffects.

Sitting and its Ill-Effects: Why Should We be Concerned?
We already know that sitting for long hours at our desk is not something that our body finds healthy. The wrong posture with the curved spinal position, incorrectly placed feet, the neck that bends forward and the wrongly held arms can all lead to serious health concerns related to muscles, bones and brain function. But a 2016 research done by The Lancet points out that there is much more at stake if you have a job that demands you to sit for long. It says that inactive hours and extended sitting can increase the chances of cardiac failure and even cause an untimely death. On a positive note, however, the study also points out that engaging in mild to moderate levels of exercises in a day can actually be a counterforce to the ill effects of physical inactivity.

The Importance of Exercise: Martial Arts to Combat the Negative Effects of Sitting
All of us who spend excessive hours at our office desk must know that it is quite difficult to incorporate something like working out to an already packed schedule. Even if one can find time, the work hours at the office leave us too tired and exhausted to even try anything like hard working out. This is where you must know the wonders that an easy and fun alternate like martial arts can perform. This stands for our children as well, whom spend countless hours in-front of video games, computers and hand held devices.  Our kids spend hours at school sitting. Then, after-school are transported home on a bus sitting, and for most, come home, sit or lie on the couch, to play games or watch TV.  Not good!

You will not find an hour of martial arts at the end of the day tiring and exhausting. It rejuvenates you and refreshes your body and mind. At professional martial arts schools like Bruce McCorry’s Academy (Peabody, MA), you can find martial art lessons that you can time according to your convenience, at the end of the day or during the weekend. An hour of martial arts under adept instructors and among of a mutually motivating learners can keep you safe from all the fatigue and stress that a day at the office gives to you. It is exactly what the 21st century needs so badly.

At Bruce McCorry’s Academy, one of the long-standing martial arts schools in Massachusetts, you will see how martial arts can provide you with the necessary physical activity to combat the negative effects of sitting. It strengthens your bones and muscles, straightens out your body, increases blood circulation and keeps you away from lifestyle diseases and cardiac issues. Since it is a stress-relief mechanism as well, it is your ultimate companion for your working years. 

Join Bruce McCorry’s Academy today and find in martial arts your ticket to a long, healthy happy life. Get off the couch now and try martial arts for a better tomorrow!

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Martial Arts for Your Champion

Martial Arts for Your Champion: Bruce McCorry’s Popular Little Ninjas Course 
             




In a child’s phases of growth, the ages from 3 to 6 holds a special significance. Often called the Preschooler Age by professionals in child development, children in these ages pick up the basics of social interaction, and enter into significant acts of physical coordination (such as climbing and running around). This is also the age when mind development becomes more open and adaptive, and this is exactly why the earliest schooling begins at this age. If you are a parent of a preschooler, this is the time you have to choose wisely and act. You have to do much more than be mute spectators to your child’s development. 

Martial Arts for Preschoolers: Giving that Extra Push to Child Development
For the past few decades, the idea of preschooler martial arts has made revolutionary changes in the way child development was thought of in the 3-6 age group. Today, many research endeavors have shown that introducing preschooler kids to simple and non-heavy forms of martial art training can give that extra push to their physical, mental and emotional development, which will send them soaring through their school years and later life. 

It is shown that preschooler martial arts can influence a child’s immunity, bone development and physical coordination. It can enhance a child’s cognitive strength and help him or her pick up social skills like speech and manners more effectively. Martial arts in their early years help them to be emotionally stable in future, always confident and motivated. Preschooler martial arts is exactly what you need if you want an extra boost for your child’s innate talent in academics and co-curricular activities.

Bruce McCorry’s Popular Little Ninjas Course: the Perfect Preschooler Program
Even though many parents are aware of the benefits that martial arts can provide for kids in the 3-6 age group, they might have many questions. Some common concerns aired by parents are that whether their kids will be safe, whether they will turn aggressive by learning martial arts, or whether they will find martial arts too difficult for their age. In a professionally qualified program under experienced instructors, these will not be a concern at all.

A perfect program where you can let your child learn martial arts without these questions bothering you is Bruce McCorry’s preschooler program. With around four decades of service to its credit, the Bruce McCorry’s Academy is the long-standing martial art school in Peabody, MA. The preschooler program termed Little Ninjas has a skillfully constructed curriculum that imparts the simplest and most effective martial art lessons to your little champ. Each move and each activity is carefully chosen considering their age, ability and need.

Little Ninjas program takes special care to avoid all chances of safety risks and conducts classes under the supervision of expert martial arts instructors. The focus is on a non-aggressive and constructive approach to martial arts that values respect, companionship, trust and healthy competition among kids. Your little champion will love the gentle and caring atmosphere at the Little Ninja’s program where he/she will make friends and get the chance to boost their innate talents. It is time for you to act and let your kid be part of the most popular preschooler martial art course that fuses fun activities and martial art lessons!

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