Managing My Resistance Learning to Flow with What Life Offers
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Embracing Life’s Challenges: Flowing with Life’s Offerings
Summary:
Transform daily conflicts into valuable life lessons by viewing them as opportunities to harness energy for building positive environments at home, work, and in the community.Keywords: resistance, conflict, managing emotions, life purpose, aikido, workplace conflict, positive environment
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Embracing the Flow of Conflict
One of the most intriguing aspects of conflict is our natural tendency to resist it. Often, this resistance causes us to miss critical moments where we could respond purposefully and intentionally. Resistance is a knee-jerk habit. When I resist, I’m on autopilot, and I lose the chance to fully engage in the moment.
In aikido, the martial art I practice and teach, we learn that resistance only escalates conflict. If I push, conflict pushes back. Instead of resisting, aikido encourages alignment and redirection. I shift my perspective from seeing an attack to viewing it as energy that I can use constructively.
Aikido, pronounced "eye-key-doe," translates to "the way of blending with energy." Ki refers to universal energy or life force. Ki moments are when we are fully attuned to our life force and our influence on our surroundings.
Navigating Life's Attacks
In aikido, attacks are inevitable, a part of life itself. However, how we engage and direct these attacks can significantly influence their outcomes. Will I resist and turn it into a contest of win-lose? Or will I employ aikido principles to transform the attack into a source of energy? How do I choose wisely when I feel under attack?
Steps to Transform Conflict:
1. Have a Positive Purpose:
Without a guiding purpose during conflicts, we tend to fall back on instinctive reactions. Refocusing on your broader purpose answers, “What am I truly aiming for here?” and steers conflict towards productive outcomes.
2. Practice Skills Toward Your Purpose:
Our reactive tendencies can lead us away from our goals. Overcoming these requires skill-building, practice, and persistent effort to change our conflict “habits.”
My work aims to apply aikido principles beyond the mat?"addressing life’s challenges, whether in the workplace, personal relationships, or unexpected difficult events. How can we convert daily conflicts into profound life lessons? Simply by asking this question, we start transforming conflicts into ki moments and harness the energy to create the environments we desire.
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