Unity & Diversity In Aikido
Exploring Universal Principles Through The Diversity Of Forms
Community Call w/ Patrick Cassidy, Bruno Gonzales, & Miles Kessler
FREE Event, Sunday, Feb. 11th, 2024
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| Date: | February 11, 2023 |
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| Time: | 21:00-22:00 |
| Event: | UNITY & DIVERSITY IN AIKIDO - Community Call |
| Topic: | UNITY & DIVERSITY IN AIKIDO - Community Call |
| Venue: | ONLINE VIA ZOOM |
| Public: | Public |
A Spiritual Warrior is a man or woman who organizes their lives around a set of universal principles. They walk a higher path of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual discipline. This means that every step on this path is a step of self-awareness and self-realization. With an unwavering commitment to universal principles, every relative contradiction, incongruence, and conflict in their life then becomes the territory their path leads them through. By committing to these universal principles, the relative parts of themselves are challenged to grow. These challenges become the practice that leads them forward on the path.
Have you ever been bothered by something to the point that you recoiled with a feeling of “Oh, shit!”? Then as you settle into an acceptance of what bothers you the internal feeling moves into “Oh, ok.” Then as your acceptance stabilizes, hidden insights about yourself bring the feeling of “Oh, wow!”. Then as the process matures you move into the final, and completely natural stage with a profound feeling of “Oh, thank you!”. This is Shadow Work in a nutshell. (more…)
“Shadow” is quite literally the parts of yourself that want to be lived, but isn’t allowed to. And the bad news is that when your shadow continues to be suppressed, exiled, and not allowed, it is mistakenly seen as a curse. On the other hand, when you access, befriend, and heal the parts of you that want to be lived, this integration then becomes the source of your inner light. It becomes your unique gift to the world.
Shadow Work is the process of re-integrating the disowned aspects of yourself. It is a healing process that begins with developing tolerance towards things that bother you in the world, because often the things that bother us “out there”, are actually unconscious projections from our shadows “in here”. The shadow work process culminates when you are able to fully inhabit the perspective that bothers you, resulting in a profound sense of wholeness.
