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Title: The Practice of Freedom Aikido Principles as a Spiritual Guide by Wendy Palmer, Jack Kornfield ISBN: 1-930485-00-X Publisher: Rodmell Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Know what it feels like in your body to be centered.
Comment: Wendy Palmer has captured what it feels like in your body to be off center and to get re-centered. She has transformed Aikido into much more than a maritial art - a way of being in relationship to others without losing yourself. This is a great book for couples as well as those who too often find themselves thrown by strong emotions and reactions. It will give you a physical sense, rather than just intellectual or analytic, of what it means to hold your own space in the world and in relation to others
Rating: 5
Summary: Touching & Accessible
Comment: Most of us get involved in the repeating "stories" of our interactions and our lives, and stop noticing our deeper connections to ourselves and to the universe.
To me, Wendy Palmer's book offers a doorway to that deeper experience -- through the Aikido practices she teaches, and the ways she describes our interactions.
Surprisingly revealing, the book tells about Wendy Palmer's own life experiences, and suggests ways to touch-in to the more universal connections we often ignore.
One way to seek balance, she suggests, is to focus attention on our vertical connection with earth (grounding) and sky (spirit) so that it becomes as strong as our horizontal connection to our "life stories."
Rating: 5
Summary: an open letter to the author
Comment: I am prompted to drop you a note thanking you for your new book, "The Practice of Freedom"; it struck a strong, resonant chord in me. I, too, attempt to follow the Tao (for many years)
and practice aikido (for four years). Many of your thoughtful insights are ones I have felt but have been unable to articulate to friends and family regarding the value of aikido to my life.
Recently, I was challenged by the deaths of my parents; my father's 15 year long decline from heart disease and Altsheimer's and my mother's 1 year battle with a horrific brain disease, both dying within 3 months of each other. The aikido principles of entering and blending helped me not only summon up the courage to engage death but also to "dance" with it, to make peace with it, thus enabling my latent compassion and deep love for my parents and, hopefully, giving them a measure of comfort and peace as their lives wound down. I then felt I was able to be the loving caregiver my father never had (which made me rethink Wordworth's line, "The child is father to the man").
By "surrendering" to what was being offered (as you note in your book), I feel my true self, my soul if you will, benefited greatly; I was able to be emotionally and spiritually engaged with my parents during that ultimate transition. Paradoxically, through this engaged experience with death, I now better appreciate my life and my close relationships and have attained a level of serenity.
As you elegantly mention in your book, I see us all as fellow travelers; each a separate universe, yet united in a larger continuum. You acknowledge Mitsugi Saotome in your book and I must mention that when I was researching aikido, before I started practicing, I was fortunate to read "The Principles of Aikido" and "Aikido and the Harmony of Nature" as my theoretical introduction to aikido. Both books, like yours, struck a deep chord. Some day I hope to attend one of his seminars when he comes into my area (Los Angeles).
Thank you again for articulating and validating important themes of spiritual growth that can mean so much to so many people.
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Title: Intuitive Body: Aikido As a Clairsentient Practice by Wendy Palmer ISBN: 1556433468 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fullfillment by George Leonard ISBN: 0452267560 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Randori Principles : The Path of Effortless Leadership by David H. Baum, Jim Hassinger ISBN: 0793148626 Publisher: Dearborn Trade Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: It's a Lot Like Dancing: An Aikido Journal by Terry Dobson, Riki Moss, Jan E. Watson ISBN: 1883319021 Publisher: Frog Ltd Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Aikido and the New Warrior (Io Series, No 35) by Richard Heckler ISBN: 0938190512 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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