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Aikido: Centering through Expressing Gratitude

9/3/2012

Take a brief moment to appreciate something or someone you truly love.
Now breath into your belly and let out a long and gentle “ahhhh” sound. Notice any shift in your body and mood. Practicing gratitude along with intentional breath work produces a centered state that immediately shifts our nervous system into a more relaxed state.
--David Weinstock, Liminal Somatics (see link on Aikido page below)

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Aikido: Gratitude

4/21/2012

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Consider the Founder's saying: "Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love." It suggests that cultivation of one virtue can engender others. Just now I am pondering the question: what does Gratitude lead to?

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Aikido: No Contests

4/12/2012

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A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
—Morihei Ueshiba, O'Sensei

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Violence is the shadow energy of impotence.
— Deepak Chopra

Do I not destroy my enemy when I make him my friend?
— Abraham Lincoln

(also dialogue) noun - a discussion between two or more people or groups, esp. one directed toward exploration of a particular subject or resolution of a problem.

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The primary word I-Thou can be spoken only with the whole being. Concentration and fusion into the whole being can never take place through my agency, not can it ever take place without me. I become through my relation to the Thou; and as I become the I, I say Thou. All real living is meeting.
—Buber, I and Thou

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