Aikido is a certain style of Japanese martial art, more a way of living that anything.
Here are the principles of aikido: pay attention, it is an amazingly sound way to live:
Extending Your Mind: The extension of ones mind is directly connected to the extension of Ki. A person who extends their mind becomes aware of everything around them and naturally extends Ki. A person who extends Ki, naturally extends their mind.
Know Your Partner’s Mind: To know your partners mind is to know your partners “intentions”. This can only be achieved with the free extension of Ki.
Respect Your Partner’s Ki: From a self defense stand point, respecting your partner’s Ki would be to blend with an attack rather than meeting it head on. In daily life you can think of this as respecting someone’s opinion and not dismissing them out of hand. (In evolutionary language, this is cooperation instead of competition, leading to both surviving, instead of both dying.)
Principles of Aikido
True Victory is Victory Over Oneself
One must first learn to control oneself before attempting to harmonize and control others. Without a good balance and control of oneself, one can neither avoid an attack nor apply an effective technique on others. It is through self-control that one can learn to enjoy a harmonious way of life.
Principle of Oneness
In order to harmonize with the laws of nature, we must first learn to develop and maintain the right attitude of training. We must always keep the attitude of becoming one with every situation. This is an attitude of respect for all things at all times. Regardless of the situation, friend or foe, one must always be ready to harmonize. The right attitude greatly affects the efficiency of the action. It is not how strong, but rather how correct you are that counts. This concept of oneness will make it possible for anyone regardless of age or sex to perform the arts efficiently.
Principle of Circular Motion
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allowing means: put up NO resistance. Liking or not liking, loving or not loving have nothing to do with resistance. Resistance is activated by fear and self-preservation, including the false self: your opinions, your world view, what you think of yourself and the world.
Allowing means: to make room for, let it in. It doesn’t mean agreeing with it. It doesn’t mean changing yourself or your views to accommodate it. It means: making room for without trying to kill it first.
Summary: Now that I have lost my main source of income, I am back to the planning stage. I am back to finding out how to reach people who want what I have to offer: Energy remedies for peace of mind, freedom, power, and are willing to work for it at the same time, instead of waiting for a miracle or a pill or a magic bullet.
I am not often confronted. Being confronted always means that something or someone has breached the separation between your hidden self and your fake self.
You hide the stuff that you don’t think will work in the world, that will not buy you the image or goodies you want, the affection, appreciation, the job, the friends, the money.
Freecell is a computer game that I use to put myself in a meditative state, to reliably take myself out of the mind, while I am doing thinking, when I coach, when I watch movies, listen to audios.
In essence, I bilocate: my busy mind is playing, and my brain is working through structured thinking, and my Observer is observing.
You could say that I am ADHD, and I have no arguments about it. It works for me. And I get to observe myself in action, the pros and the cons of how my machine works.
Deviant: someone who deviates.
de·vi·ate
verb: deviate; 3rd person present: deviates; past tense: deviated; past participle: deviated; gerund or present participle: deviating
?d?v???t/ depart from an established course.
“you must not deviate from the agreed route”
synonyms: diverge from, digress from, drift from, stray from, veer from, swerve from; More
Positive deviant is a technical term for someone who does things differently from others and produces drastically better results.
Most positive deviants go deep within for the deviant knowledge, and are rather unconscious about the fact that they are special, that they have a secret knowledge others are not privy to.
