Instead, you may find yourself becoming calmer, more relaxed and better able to handle situations in a way that helps everyone and allows wonderful person that you truly are to shine through.

Developing a more compassionate and kinder nature may help. Becoming less quick to judge a situation and more understanding of perceived transgressions of others may be useful in resetting threshold of your emotional alarm system.

Ridding yourself of thoughts of arguing or fighting with others may also leave you in a better state of mind. Allowing things to happen naturally and letting go of need to be in control of every situation will allow you to feel better about yourself and world around you.

Consider practicing that sage-like advice that comes from a most unusual source, bumper stickers. You have probably seen ones that say, "I practice random acts of kindness' If you actively do so, you may find your threshold for emotional responses naturally adjusting upwards.

Checking inappropriate responses is a great reason to pay attention to your emotions and feelings. Yet, there is a an even more positive benefit that hasn't been mentioned yet.

Consider this quote from inside front jacket of Daniel Goleman's book, "Emotional Intelligence". "Emotional Intelligence includes self- awareness and impulse control, persistence, zeal and self-motivation, empathy and social deftness. These are qualities that mark people who excel in real life: whose intimate relationships flourish, who are stars in workplace. These are hallmarks of character and self- discipline, of altruism and compassion -basic capacities needed if our society is to thrive".

Clearly, you have power to make changes that vastly improve quality of your life and lives of those around you. The answer rests within and can change your world.

The fourth exercise is generally repeated three times when practiced. When done this way total time to repeat this exercise three times is about twelve minutes.

The fifth exercise is done sitting down in cross-legged position. The leg cross can be simple "Indian" style or slightly more advanced depending on ability and comfort zone of person practicing.

There is a sequence of hand gestures at beginning and there are positions to hold. The duration of holding hand positions can vary. Once again, how long is determined by person practicing. Both how long you hold hand positions and overall duration of exercise are entirely at discretion of person practicing.

In beginning a person might only practice fifth exercise for a few minutes. Advanced users may practice for an hour or longer. Again, it all depends on ability and comfort level of person practicing.

These are very simple explanations of exercises. For more detailed and accurate accounts of exercises read Falun Gong by Li, Hongzhi. Or alternatively, you can download his instruction videos from main Falun Dafa web site mentioned previously.

Mr. Li also has another book called Zhuan Falun, which to my understanding expounds on characteristics of universe: Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. I wrote that with hyphens to underscore that this is one characteristic and not three separate ones. Again, that is my understanding about them and much more profound understandings can be found in book Zhuan Falun itself.

Because you can practice Falun Dafa with others in a group setting without being charged any initial or recurring fees, it seems like perfect alternative to other exercises that charge money to participate in. Exercising with a group or alone is fine and each person may have his or her own preference on that. It's enjoyable either way.

I personally practice it both ways. On weekends we do have a group practice here in Kansas City area and you are welcome to come join us if you are in area. Fortunately, many cities throughout United States, Canada and around world have similar group practices. You don't have to come to Kansas City to enjoy this wonderful practice.

I have one last item of note. It seems that some people can't stand to see others enjoy something good. And this is no different. The current person that runs China, Jiang Zemin, is terribly furious at people who practice Falun Gong for no logical reason that anyone can come up with. He brutally persecutes those who practice it in China.

If you want to learn more about persecution of Falun Gong in China, there is a web site that you can visit, faluninfo.net. They even offer suggestions to help end persecution if you are so inclined.

I do hope you get chance to experience what I have from practice. The health of my body and a deep sense of peace and well being are some of what I have obtained.

This article is for information purposes only. The information is not meant to give advice or attempt to prevent, treat or diagnose any health problems. If you have or think you might have any type of health condition, please consult your primary care physician immediately. Consult him or her before taking up any form of exercise