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"Your guide for newbies covers vastly all the points that worry me the most ... I read it eagerly the minute I received it, and several times more after. ... I wonder how people used to prepare for their first gradings in the olden days, before you guys wrote this guide ... In general, I like the understanding and friendly style of yours, and the tricks to gain a few secs in case you feel too tired! ..." Patricia, London
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Without a shadow of a doubt, that is an example of practicing aikido. We start by learning aikido as a martial art. Over time, if we are truly open to what we are learning, it becomes an outlook on how we deal with life and humanity. It will influence everything we do given the opportunity. Most of the stresses that we deal with in life start from some kind of confrontation. (that doesn't have to have a "fight" connotation). Any time we have a different outlook on a subject from someone else we are interacting with it can create confrontation. If we remember the basic concepts of our art and let them guide us, we learn to deal with those situations in different ways. If it was an attacker coming at us with a lot of initial energy, we wouldn't try to stop him, we would avoid and then try to blend with that energy. The same thing can happen in verbal arguments and negotiations...we LISTEN first and then slowly adjust and subtly change the direction as we understand the nature of the argument. We can apply those basic principles into almost everything we do, IF we choose too.
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