positive

To live to the principle of love as O-Sensei defined, you need to be positive. During last year we have written several posts about being positive which shows how hard it is for us to actually think, speak and act positively. This post will be about a particular part of the 'becoming positive' process, i.e. handling our tendencies to complain. I'll also describe a technique that may help to become complaint free.

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.

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.