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Old 05-23-2003, 12:41 PM   #15
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Ian Hurst (happysod) wrote:
Opher, I think I may actually be in danger of disagreeing with you on gestalt being too big a word as I find it quite a decent possibility. Mainly because within that gestalt you could also include the perceptions and personal beliefs of the person "extending ki" which would neatly side-step the spiritual/non-spritual arguments as the intensity of the belief would be one of the main weighting factors for it's successful application, whether that belief came from an innate belief in some sort of spiritual energy or adequately described body mechanics.
That's exactly what I was thinking. The idea of the Gestalt provides a bridge between the two school of thought. One of the main thing is that the mental attitude that is so important in Aikido both for focus and relaxing of tension points. What is important is belief, timing and technique, etc...

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