In Aiki-Lab practice we use authentic attack energy instead of collusive ukemi to create aiki spontaneously. Beginning the exercise in an already compromised position allows us to come from the midst of the most potent automatic response to perceived threat, thereby creating the greatest challenge to transcendent being. The use of imagination can help change intentions from the escape/fight ones to the higher consciousness ones as long as we stick to the beneficent intention rather than the sub-intention (what we believe we must accomplish before we can complete our main intention). In this case, the idea of giving someone water to soothe their thirst is the intention, and putting the imagined glass up-right is a necessary part of that. But focusing on putting the glass upright is focusing on a sub-intention, and the main intention can not be realized. By remaining with the main intention, the problems with the sub-intention are overcome naturally through the elemental movements of aikido.

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