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Rupert Atkinson wrote:
The only way to deal with your fight/flight response is to deal with in in practical terms. Create a situation - stress - and learn to deal with it. Aikido is just too easy most times.
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I find plenty of meaningful opportunities to work with my stress response within the context of my Aikido training. Sure, I might not be tempted (most days) to resort to my domination based strategies, but I can certainly feel the temptation of the habituated fear/stress response. In time, as my inner peace has a more solid foundation, I could see turning up the volume on the environmental stress, but I think I've still got plenty of work to do just noticing the more subtle stress responses that I've either normalized or ignored over the years.
If others are on a different place in their journey, then power to them.