— by Kimbal Anderson Sensei
So reach for my cuff… Okay, wait, what’s tight? This is tight. Heavy… heavy… heavy… heavy…
Not ‘relax’. I want you to use ‘heavy…’ because it has no meaning to you, and ‘relax’ has lots of meanings.
Heavy… heavy… heavy…
Just do as I ask if you want to learn it, because that will work. Because I understand about subconscious things. Words have riders sometimes.They have passengers. ‘Heavy’ does not have a passenger, and I can build on it.
And also too: if you’re moving, and you. think like, ‘OK I ‘m tight. What do I do right now? ‘Heavy…’
Find the tightest part, and make it heavy. Don’t give that part a job – of relaxing.
‘Heavy…’
It’s already there. Gravity is already [hits the mat] here. We use the force that is there. And the threshold point, the alchemic point, the kyo, the boiling point, all that stuff, can be worked with with this ‘heavy’ principal, in a way that will function… you’ll be able to understand and function with it in a way that’s clear. One to one function.
And that’s all we need: is to have the right method and some kind of way to experience it that makes sense.
With the heavy thing, any thing I tighten, all I do is go ‘heavy… heavy… heavy… heavy…
I get out of the way and let gravity educate my body where I need to be.
Anything that’s tight is going to block my movement.
Right now, this knee, right here, is a little tight….
My big toe just kind of went ‘woooh…’
Now I’m balanced. I go to the next place… Heavy…
When I move now….