Se1Ep0 - Introduction

The blog is intended to add some information and illustration to the obscurities bandied about in the podcast. You listen to the episode, can't find your hands in feet in it, you curse the idiot who shared the link with you and you really don't feel that peaceful anymore?

Fear Not!

For the Aikidiot is here to provide you with almost full text,, extra information and possibly an image or two...

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I’ve had the good luck of visiting - and spending some time in - several realms of interpersonal communication and interaction. Hostage negotiation, Chinese Traditional Medicine, cyber negotiation, Clandestine operations, academic teaching, and lastly, Aikido. As the Arabic proverb goes: Min Kulli Rawdaten Zahra. A flower from each Garden. I became an avid learner of conflict and its transformations, and at a certain point - probably as a result of both advanced age and a lazy mind -  it all started to look the same: The same principles that underlie acupuncture can be applied to negotiation; a schoolyard scuffle can be analyzed and addressed the same as a cyber-crisis. This is no doubt a holistic eastern-style thought but to the best of my understanding it passes very well into all Western realms and can be translated into practical tools. Not just for conflict resolution. 

The podcast is called the Aikidiot, because several months ago - I suspect that this will change, as time, i’ve been told, keeps moving - I dragged my decrepit overweight self to the local dojo and found out that a. Aikidokas, aikido practitioners are lovely people and b. That Aikido beautifully embodies in physical action everything I am trying to teach and implement. The Idiot part, in the Aikidiot, I think, is obvious. 

So this is a podcast about the holistic principles that govern human interaction and conflict and the way they can help us go places. Is it a bullet-style list of easy as 1-2-3 recipes? No. 

Is it digestible, approachable, accessible, bitesizable, and all other kinds of ble? I doubt it. 

Is it interesting? Is it any good? I don’t know. You tell me.