Self-development

The reasons for practicing aikido (i.e. following the Way of Aiki) can be very different for various people. I do it for one reason nad perhaps you do it for another.

I have a recurring problem at trainings which is trying too hard. I believe there is a great lesson to learn from this problem so I'm trying ( :) ) to take every opportunity to understand and solve this problem. On Wednesday, Szabi held the training and after finishing we walked towards the station and talked about this issue. He came up with a couple of good analogies to my aikido-based trying-too-hard problem that I found interesting and useful.

A couple of weeks ago I attended a series of seminars which were about the psychology of investing money, tips to build businesses and the key to being successful. I know, it sounds a bit strange to mention financial topics, entrepreneurship and the key to success in an aikido blog but I hope that, by the end of this post, you will understand why I mention them here.

Day 6 is special in every Veszprem summer camp. There is no weapons training, there is an extended 2 hour training in the morning and no training in the evening. Instead of the evening training, there is one session after the long training in the morning which is devoted to gradings!

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I was thinking a bit more about the 7th point of the previous post while cutting a couple of shomenuchis in our room: "Do something that makes you feel better". If this is part of a pattern that is associated with negative thinking and with - wrongly - focusing on what we don't want then there should be at least two types of activities that make us feel better.

I spend a lot of my time on thinking who I am, why I am, what is my purpose in this world, why I do things the way I do them. Depending on what my actual thoughts are my aikido trainings are also different. If I'm in a good mood then training goes with ease, if I'm having some negative thoughts then training is more like struggling.

A couple of days ago I was travelling in the London Tube when it was announced that there was a significant signal failure at Mansion House. Instead of my usual 1h 20min journey, it took me 2.5 hours to get to the university. My main point is what I realised somewhere around Victoria station (see below after the introduction :)).