aikido

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.)

Put Yourself In Your Partner’s Place: In Aikido this can literally mean swapping places with someone. In daily life it is the same. We consider how we would feel if we were the person in a difficult situation. It is more than empathy: empathy is passive, this is active: you move your Self to behind your opponent’s eye balls and look at what you are doing, saying, from over there.

Perform With Confidence: A person who has no confidence will always hesitate and perform poorly. This is true in Aikido as in daily life. When a person performs with true confidence they are relaxed, focused and fully aware. Confidence is not a feeling; it is an attitude. You have 100% control over your attitude, although you may have to learn to control yourself, and your behavior. Practice of honoring your word as yourself is the key to controlling your attitude.

Ki or Chi is Life Force within you.

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aikido principles

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
The spiritual circle is the foundation of all Aikido techniques. Circular movement synthesizes everything and can freely resolve all problems. The innermost study of the circular motion is to develop new techniques from the center of the circle. Aikido techniques are combinations of circular movements. Regardless of the ways the opponent attacks, linear or angular, a circular motion centered at your lower abdomen, hara, will naturally blend with the attack so that you can execute a controlling art with efficiency. The centripetal force will draw the opponent into your range of effectiveness so that the centrifugal force can eject him effectively. All circular motions are preceded by a spiritual circle. The spiritual circle is the circle drawn within one’s mind before the execution of the physical circle.
Range of Effectiveness
The best way to defend yourself against an attack is to get out of the opponent’s range of effectiveness. You can step off the line of force, move out of the opponent’s radius of reach or step inside of the circle of attack. However, in order to be able to control an attacker, one must remain well within his/her own range of effectiveness at the same time he/she is moving out of the attacker’s range of effectiveness. Barely reaching the attacker will not give the defender full advantage for he/she will be over extended and off balance. Being too close to the attacker could also hinder one’s effectiveness. Depending on the situation, one must learn to realize the range of effectiveness of that moment.
Principle of Ki
Ki is the force behind all things. Everything in the universe has Ki. Ki is the essence of our world. It is the basis of all matter, every phenomenon, emotion, sense, direction, will, consciousness and conscience. Ki is also an energy which can be very useful in our daily lives when used properly. Ki is our life force which keeps us alive. Ki is the binding force of our mind and body. We can be very efficient if we unify our mind and

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allowing

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.

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Are you my ideal customer? How did you find my site?

confrontingSummary: 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.
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There seems to be a certain order in the Universe.

There is a certain order in the Universe.

I know it looks random and capricious, but it looks that way because of your lack of respect, lack of looking again.

Human nature is to think that what you do in one area, like fixing what you think is wrong, doesn’t effect the whole, and it will be OK.

But human interference in the order of things forces a kind of phenomenon that is a lot like wounds in war… Some are mortal.

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Who is this site for? Is it for you? Get the information… and then decide.

Follow this link to find out if this site is a good match for you…

Find out your vibration number, aka vibrational frequency

Find out what is your soul correction

Find out if you have energetic attachments that drain you and make you sick

Find out how many of the 160 possible capacities you have working for you to have your dream life…

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Freecell

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.

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Positive Deviant

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.

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