Training for life is quite a commitment. We get to run into ourselves often: injuries, classes where only one or two students show up, ego, rank, whether to stay with a teacher or wander about on our own. We train through times when life is easy and life gets difficult. Long drives, economic worries, issues with other students or teachers... these situations can all seem like reasons to stop...along with having to train with limitatations because of age or a long term injury. Job changes, family commitments, complacency, boredom...people stop training for all sorts of reasons. For me the best way to honor this commitment that I have is to train one class at a time. God willing and the creek don't rise... I will be on the mat on Saturday morning...10:00 A. M sharp...cause I am teaching first.
Very excited to have a forum again! I have always enjoyed the value of "training" here as well on the mat. It's a nice way to share what we are meeting in our journey of aikido and life in general.
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ReplyDeleteAs I watch the last of the leaves fall ,I think of how it reminds me of how much we grow like the seasons.
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