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TOM HOWARD

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. -Lao Tzu img src=http://i107.photobu

About Me

I have had the good fortune of meeting and befriending many incredible people in this life and look forward to many more to come, so which ever category you fall into, I look forward to hearing from you!
Born into an amazing family of 7 children (yes, Mormon), 2nd to eldest, in Salt Lake City, Utah. My parents and siblings are SAINTS! Raised on the MEAN streets of Laguna Beach, California. My father imigrated to America on a boat from Holland so yes, I am a proud (stubborn?) dutchman.
BIG on self improvement on all levels and always looking for the lessons that interactions and life experiences have to offer - a season and a reason. Along the way I've realized how much I selfishly enjoy helping people (if there is anything I can do for you, just ask) and truly attempt to be a positive influence upon the lives of everyone that crosses my path. Always strive for balance and subscribe to the work hard, play hard school of thought.
"The greater the love grows within you, the greater your kingdom shall manifest abundantly around you in this your reality. The more it manifests, the more unlimited you will become."
Strength, Honor, Peace, and Light to You!
"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both."
Poodwaddle.com
Just found this clip of me fighting in a video game. Its WEIRD seeing yourself in a video game...
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With our friends Taurus, Tammy and Uncle Benny... THANKS!
An old episode I did with HHH of "The Drew Carrey Show", way back when...
ANGELIC!
Premiere party with Matt "Horseshu" Wiese, Evan's father, Fox bodyguard and old roomate Evan Marriot.
In Japan after one of my many beatings with Don Frye and our better halves.
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Me getting a knee to the head from 7'2", 400 LB. Korean, Hong Man Choi at the K1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Hiroshima, Japan.

My Interests

Smile and say "I never did mind the little things"

ENLIGHTENMENT
Enlightenment means rising above thought. In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before. You use it mostly for practical purposes, but you are free of the involuntary internal dialogue, and there is inner stillness.

"Enlightenment ... is not an emotion. And it is not a mental recognition of anything. Perhaps the word that is closest to it is the realization of stillness, which is when the mental noise that we call thinking, subsides - which is thinking. There is a gap in the stream of thought, but there is absolutely no loss of consciousness. In that "gap" there is full and intense consciousness, but it has not taken on form."
-Eckhart Tolle

Don't mess with Farva's liter of cola!

Heroes:

"Unhappy the land that needs heroes" - Bertold Brecht
“We can change the world when we change ourselves. And the energy of our consciousness, like the energy of all light, continues into the eternity. When there is light in the soul there will be beauty in the person. When there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.” - Chinese Proverb
CHRISTIAN, JACK & JESSICA
THIS IS A JOKE... BUT NOW I CAN TELL EVERYONE I'M JUST A MISUNDERSTOOD GENIUS!
Tom Howard Compilation - Puroresu Japan
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Doing a training video with my old friend "The Smashing Machine" Mark Kerr


Tom Howard Puroresu Video Comp #2 - Zero One, Japan

Tom Howard on CBS News about training Jack Black for the movie Nacho Libre
FREEDOM
We are incredible, amazing beings trapped in the chains of repeating patterns, rigid mindsets and emotional beliefs that keep us anchored to a lower vibration.
The key lies within us. It is time now to free ourselves from the mental and emotional chains so that we can ascend.
Ascension means raising our vibration to the level of light. Because every thought, word, emotion and action is a vibration which creates our aura, Ascension entails purifying our thoughts, cleansing our emotions and choosing loving action for the highest good until we radiate at that higher level. The higher we go, the wider the overall picture we can see and the greater the understanding we have.
The material, physical world is the plane of illusion. When we decide to move to a spiritual plane, previously unseen doors start to open. Here we accept that we are spirit and become aware that we create our reality. - Diana Cooper
Inside a submarine at Pearl Harbor.
Me getting kicked in the head by Tom Blackledge in London
A clip of me from an instructional video teaching John Cena and Samoa Joe
Fan video of me cagefighting Butterbean in a Borat like arena in Alabama

My Blog

TRAILER FOR MY NEW FILM FROM THAILAND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxHx01oXqeg ...
Posted by TOM HOWARD on Sat, 03 May 2008 08:28:00 PST

THE SPIRITUAL WARRIOR - INTRO

 THE SPIRITUAL WARRIOR INTRO PHILOSOPHY FROM THE BOOK: "13 DISCIPLINES" BY GRANT SHNARR - BASED ON SUN TZU'S "ART OF WAR" Warfare is devastating. Violence and hostility toward another is wrong. ...
Posted by TOM HOWARD on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:56:00 PST

KNOW THYSELF

  KNOWING THYSELF  nosce te ipsum_____________________________ We have all heard the famous adage "Know Thyself" that is inscribed over the doorway of the Greek temple of Delphi. The an...
Posted by TOM HOWARD on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:51:00 PST

FIGHTING... AGAIN!

I'm leaving tomorrow to fight the legendary Eric "Butterbean" Esch, again, this Saturday in Mobile, Alabama.  Also featured on the card is the former Olympic ice skater Tanya Harding.&n...
Posted by TOM HOWARD on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:30:00 PST

ENERGY HEALING

Just found this brief article that does a great job of explaining and simplifying the basic concepts of energy healing, chakras and Reiki...  Hope you enjoy! Highest,    Tom  ...
Posted by TOM HOWARD on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:00:00 PST

FIGHTING BUTTERBEAN

I am leaving tomorrow morning for Alabama to fight the legendary boxer turned Mixed Martial Artist Eric "Butterbean" Esch.  Last I heard he was tipping the scales at a little over 400 lbs. so thi...
Posted by TOM HOWARD on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:47:00 PST

TRANSMUTATION OF THOUGHT ENERGY

Sometimes we get to a point in our lives when we realize that no matter what we seem to do nothing ever changes. We no longer find happiness through the activities we once enjoyed or with the people w...
Posted by TOM HOWARD on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:22:00 PST

HEADIN BACK TO JAPAN!

I am on a plane tomorrow morning back to Japan to do some work for my old friend Inoki at the IGF event in Nagoya.  It may be generous to say that I might be a little rusty after I unofficially "...
Posted by TOM HOWARD on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:46:00 PST

WRESTLING STORIES 1

This is a copy of an article I wrote years ago for upw.com:   "I OWE IT ALL TO WRESTLING" New column by Tom Howard for upw.comWhen Rick Bassman asked me to write a weekly article for upw.com, I ...
Posted by TOM HOWARD on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:59:00 PST

STORIES FROM WRESTLING 2

This is a copy of an article I wrote for upw.com years ago:   "I OWE IT ALL TO WRESTLING" by Tom Howard   As I mentioned in last weeks column, this is the story of my love affair with wrest...
Posted by TOM HOWARD on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:57:00 PST