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"hands" Educating with Aikido Aikido

"hands" in Aikido

Dr. Massimiliano Carletti

Thoughts and ideas to an informed understanding on the hand.

In 1997, during a visit to Padua, a dear colleague doctor taught me 'the rudiments of hand surgery. I saw him deftly working the clay during the long winter afternoons and evenings spent at home, forged statues of ancient Roman soldiers, so well done that seemed real. With equal skill answered my questions of surgical technique, introducing concepts of surgical technique not known to me. I just then rigorously every detail of technique always hoping to reuse them and they did. Since then I have always loved her hands, her advice led me to repair and save a lot of hands, hands, and I spend a lot of study time even if my discipline is the general thoracic surgery. Starting at the location with the Aikido I realized the beauty of hands and its enormous potential. My friend called Adrian Bucci . Thanks Adriano.
hand end in itself is represented as an organ taking, grabbing, and well-known aikido Aikido or if you prefer. We will discuss in this brief conversation in the philosophical sense of hands-SPIRITUAL, adding a little knowledge of traditional medicine in Eastern Europe while not wishing to be this a lesson but only a beginning vision of the immense knowledge to know. The interest stems from a question that I asked myself often going through classes taught by Japanese masters of Aikido, "What we can actually send out techniques? ". The answer is difficult because we Westerners do not have the same mentality Orientals. So we are with friends who know how to run a fine technique, but they do not know the meridians or chakras, which instead of the Japanese masters know very well but do not show during the internship for reasons of communication or for reasons of time. Aikido was born as a discipline and then fusion of Shinto and the need to combine principles of Master Ueshiba's religious, philosophical and moral.
the best person himself, performing a job or internal growth.

Hand The hand is an organ unique. Think of the feel, the ability to feel the heat, or the minimum roughness and variations, the hand that caresses, that separates, that grabs, giving May carry up to millions of movements, think of the baby a few months exploring the world with their hands rather than with the eyes. (Babies can see after a month).
hands of those who care. (Trivia: In the history of the hand was loved and held a weapon, the Ancient Romans, for example, cut off his thumb to the enemy, as one opposing finger, so indispensable weapon for challenging. Muslims instead cut off the hands of those accused or caught in the theft). In people with disabilities and not (deaf-mutism, blindness, etc.), your hands become a language, evolve, acquire different skills and sensitivity, replacing the organs are no longer effectively functioning . Extraordinary. In people who have lost a hand, and compensates the other hand it becomes capable, sometimes even enlisting his feet. Deserves to be mentioned also the study of Ku-ji or "nine seals" of considerable value to coordinate philosophical spiritual concentration and meditation. In Aikido the hand is highly valued on the dynamic plane, but after several years of practice, in particular conveys the KI or vital energy or breath. So is a bridge between mind and body, is also the organ that performs what controls the brain. The hands then are evaluated in our discipline as a channel that carries and distributes the energy that is stored in tandem or hara.
Hired for certain (but on this you are free to believe or not) that our body is a micro part of a macrouniverso and that we are all connected, the hand is compared to the foliage of a tree that absorbs energy "cosmic" and returns after it is absorbed and might be developed. (Circular motion energy) and then understand the importance of a fundamental concept. I could cite the Yuki, the special feeling to feel the breath of training partner (Uke) putting their hands with the palm completely adherent to the spine, or hands in Kokyu, or in the periods of the master Tamura with the activation of the meridians (years of "Eight brocades"), clearly mark Taoist. The teacher emphasizes hands specifying that an antenna that are connected through the heavens and the earth (in the third period) clearly channeling the energy. The hands become important for aikido for a job on itself, making day to day practice more 'aware, in relation to body, mind, will, around the world. These results can be seen also on the pedagogical level. In the ancient Indian idea and then Sino-Japanese hands are able to channel the energies of personal relationship with the energies of the universe, through specific hand positions that call Mudra.
The esoteric aspect of the mudra should not mislead, we must practice, practice under the guidance of discrimination, but not aware of a person who is dedicated to the subject, sometimes it takes even years. There are no grades or damage of practice in the mudra, but the fascinating thing is the individual path, the harmony that the continuous practice manages to reach and coordination with the technique, compare it to the hands un'orchestrale (an element of a 'orchestra), the sound and music are perfect if every component performs to perfection and harmony in the task.

set before you then briefly some basic anatomy and holistic.
But what is Holistic?
term could mean a difficult, ambiguous, and instead is a science that includes many fields of scientific research, involving a multidisciplinary space behavior of complex systems which involve a tight control in type feedback (mutual control) between systems as being crucial to the understanding of their behavior. We make an example. My
abdominal breathing soothes my mind (two complex systems that interact) then produces a state of meditation that produces un'abbassamento blood pressure (in time) and improve my mental abilities and social skills (the result is the lowering of blood pressure values \u200b\u200bthat control the quiet).
science becomes a holistic approach. The mudra become
part of a holistic science. Difficult?
Returning to hand you now a little list 'of simple descriptive anatomy.

The hand has a front surface and a back or rear.

Each finger has in all parts of the important features for the implementation of the mudras (or mudra). These features are "activated" according to the position of the fingers and hands combinatetra, forming the light pressure suitable to develop the right energy that is used for the purpose of authority by the gesture.

The thumb is the subjectivity
His falangetta active manifestation of the will of the infinite
The phalanx expression of the will of the finger preconscious
Mount (near thenar eminence), the life force

The index finger represents communication
The falangetta self consciousness
Falangina The self-realization
the Falange, the self-affirmation and self-determination
upstream of the finger self-consciousness

The middle finger represents the objectivity
falangetta His virtue and sense of truth
The Falanghina, a sense of reality and love for the order
The Phalanx, the determination and stability.
Mount discipline and the need

The ring finger, the instinct
His falangetta, skills and sense of social commitment. The
Falangina, physical expression. The phalanx
, sensuality
Mount empathic imagination

The little finger spiritual strength
The falangetta, spiritual sensitivity. The Falanghina, property of reflexivity
The phalanx propensity toward success seen as success of a program or plan you want. Mount
finger observation skills.

How to practice?
How to practice?
Start practice.
The start of practice, provides a gentle rubbing of hands for a couple of minutes, making the hand more willing to perform other movements. In this way becomes more vascularized hand, the hands are warm.
The greeting is usually the beginning of gasssho, but can be inserted into the Aikido dojo under the rules of respecting both.

The greeting "Gassho" you bring in the solar plexus (heart height) both hands, the right hand is open as the moon in a semicircle and the left hand is closed into a fist with the thumb inside the fist . The significance indicates that the moon meets the sun as the principle of Aikido joining surrounding it (the right hand receives the left hand), then she bends her head slightly in the sense of gratitude towards the universe, to the Our ancestors who have allowed us to be here now.

The left hand is yin or feminine principle, the right hand is yang or male principle, then the right hand man accepts the left, in the female person is the reverse. Variants may be provided for if I want to express a form of balance in my interior I use both forms.
often when the teacher before class is in seiza welcomes your left hand on the right at Hara, means that it is calming his mind (place hands on each other and thumbs touching at the end), focusing on the breath that is conveyed in tanden.
If we stick to the one written above:
(both thumbs touching) the subjectivity that activates the teacher puts at our disposal, and the universe, the phalanges of the thumbs touching ie 'trigger the infinite expression of will preconscious and the other fingers are touching with each other all their features.
Tell me if it is not wonderful !!!!!! Your
IO settles and everyone should with these hand gestures to: peace of mind
detachment from winning or losing the concept of objective detachment

proper practice for internal growth
"hands" we thought to go so far with only gesture of hands and the practice continues?

hands to grab a shake or a ken or jo.
But we know that is not grabbed, and then hand blended with the exercise, learn to tighten detects excessive voltage, opens at the right time, closes at the appropriate time.
So it becomes a hand jo, jo is the tip of the tip of the hand, the center of the jo is the hand.

The mudra. But how long to activate?
The time varies from 5-7 minutes to 15 minutes or run in conjunction with each mudra 12 -21 breaths in meditation (slowly, spontaneously and with the nose-ins expiration) course variable is the number of times throughout the day which can be 3-4 times. We briefly describe some

mudra
1) mudra to renew energy and vitality. Warm your hands.
Turn the palm of his right hand toward the body and the left hand outward. Open your fingers and press against each other the tips of the medium. You can feel the energy flow of your body that runs through your fingers joint. The act performed in addition to refresh and renew your energy, relieves the mood and brings out the strength from within.

Dr. Massimiliano Carletti