It’s our third week exploring the amazing power of living with integrity. For the past two weeks, we’ve been looking at the role truth plays in building our integrity. Now, we turn to a subtler aspect of this power – the aspect of our thoughts.
It’s hard to talk about the power of our thoughts without sounding new-agey and woo-woo. I mean, it was Oprah who said, “You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.” But honestly, I can’t think of a single successful person who doesn’t say that their big dreams came true in their mind first, and that this belief in their success helped it to become manifest. One of my favorite scientific discoveries was when Hans Berger detected the first brain wave in 1929. I find it fascinating that our thoughts actually DO send out physical signals.
Perhaps one brain wave is not powerful enough to make much of an affect on the world around us. But imagine what a whole bunch of your brain waves could do if you were in control of your thoughts enough to get them working together? Maybe we will figure out how all this works scientifically some day, but for now, I think the important thing to remember is that what you believe really does affect the outcome of your life. As much as we may not love all that responsibility, there it is. We really can make big things happen, and it all begins with how we think.
This week, the kids are moving onto a new “Power Gem” called Think First Power. This concept comes from our friends at Kid Power International. Our theme for the week is “Believe it First”. In After School, the kids will be doing Vision Boards for their art projects. In Ambassador Training, we discussed ways we can do what we love while also making the world a better place. And in our movement classes, we will be practicing a technique called a Mental Walk Through, where we run through the technique once in our minds and then immediately jump out of our minds to do the technique without thinking.
Our techniques of the week are…
Techniques of the Week: Sept. 17th
| Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | |
| Ukemi | Sideways Break Falls | Sideways Rolls | |||
| Technique 1 | Blocks from Kamae Set 2 | Strikes from Kamae Set 2 | |||
| Technique 2 | Dodging by Lowering Body | Using Angles When Lowering to Dodge | |||
| Technique 3 | Hicho no Kata – Mental Walk Through | Hicho no Kata – for Self Defense | |||
Kasumi Club : The next techniques for this year’s ryu
Kid’s Adventure: Inside of a Tree
Thanks for reading everyone! Don’t forget our Big Expansion Ribbon Cutting Party and Open House this Saturday! Free kids classes at 10:00 am and the party gets started around 11! See full schedule here.
See you in the dojo!
Sensei Nesta