Marc's Reflection on Aikido & True Play

Turn toward sensing
Rest into sensing

Sense my self (muscles, compression, skin, vision, hearing, smell, taste, stance, identity, voice)
Sense my Self (outside in)

In that order

Turn toward, rest into, be with

Sensations

Sensations are the present, period.

Some ever present sensations are:

Gravity
Center
Connection
Effortlessness
Transformation
Precision

Practice noticing and turning toward each sensation of the present

This moment is its sensations. Breath, sense, turn toward, stay with…

Pushing past and turning away are sensations and come from sensations.

Curiosity, I, Peace, Specific–AND–Universal, Harmony, Thou, Non-violence, Respect, Connection

The embodied meaning of each of the words show up from turning toward, resting into, being with, sensing, letting, opening, porousity

Aikido training develops

Respect in action (non-violence, curiosity, playfulness)

Leaders who do not instill fear

Employees who don’t amplify the fear they find in others

Only under these conditions will curiosity and innovation flourish

This is THE big issue in large organizations

How to support

Safe (fearless) creative organizations

For organizational survival

Curiosity AND non-violence (playfulness)

are the simple rules (actually practices)

for emergence of happier

complex adaptive systems:

Friends

Families

Neighborhoods

Work Organizations

Communities

Cities

States

Nations

World

What is the feeling of innovation?

Letting the outside in

Being the outside

Openness–riskless undefended openness

Relaxation

Smiling, chuckling, even laughing

Together–absent any violence, delicately respectful.

What is the feeling of rigid control?