It’s your MIND that blocks you

My first ever profound revelation in Aikido (but not limited to…) took place just a few classes after I started. It was the first weapons class that I participated in.
Everybody was told to get a jo (a wooden staff of ~120 cm) and Sensei conducted the warm up. It felt very awkward, I was like [...]

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Fortunate random… thing?

In one of the last posts, I said I’ll come back to the idea of the “fortunate random thing”. I’m talking about the way I started practicing Aikido. It seemed a fortunate coincidence to have a colleague at work who has been practicing Aikido for over a year when I went with him for the [...]

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