Sharon Friedman – Vigilance and Tranquility

Many times the simple concepts are the hardest to apply. Today I let my students to hold and pin me and than released and returned. The purpose being to show that with natural movement and a calm mind you can see and do a lot in a place where others tense up. I also had them evaluate each others movement and so become aware of themselves and others more. The slow work in analasis and in movement bares our weakenss and frees us from ego driven speed and struggle. It seems that people think there is no conflict and say “hay this is easy” and that is the idea. Relax and things will work. If you do not tense the antagonist muscle than you do not fight yourself and if you are aware of all your parts, it will be much harder to find an opening. a perfect ball will not stop moving on a slope.

People tend to get tunnel vision even with simple tasks. One person was to stop another from touching one person just walking along and it became a struggle many times when the one who’s task was to touch could have let go and reach the logical solution if he was calm and without a need to win to govern his motion. We will obviously not be successfull always but by keeping calm we can minimize our mistakes and move on to other mistakes rather than living than again and again.