Aiki-Feel

by Nick Lowry

So much of what we do, if we do it well, is a matter of feel.

Sensitivity, touch, and full body presence.

Actions and reflexes all finely tuned to sensations.

Lightness in the hands, like holding a baby or petting a cat or lighter, allows for high grade sensitivity with minimal interference of kinesthetic signal from our own efforts.

If you are busy being powerful, you can’t accurately orient yourself in feeling reality. You start reacting to your own internal sensory stimulus. When you lighten up you can tune in to an amazing degree.

Heres an experiment:
Get a partner– close your eyes — have them lay a hand on you– and without peeking — just with the map of their body in your feeling body/mind reaching out –see if automatically you can locate their body in space with feel alone–you know where their left elbow is — you know where their right hip is– you can find thier left knee if you like– their right foot.

How cool is that?

My thanks to Brendan Hussey for pointing this experiment out.

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