Love

ITPI Board member Christina Grote leads an adaptation of an LET exercise created by George Leonard. It offers you the opportunity to develop your subtle sensing of the outer world. You can become more aware of and connected with your natural surroundings, and you may come to experience a feeling of reciprocity, and even love, as you feel this deep connection. You may find that touching doesn't have to be limited to physical contact. Through the practice you may experience yourself as being connected with everything in the world and even the universe.

The last step of GRACE at the beginning of the Kata is ENERGIZE. ITPI member Jill Robinson describes it as “a calm, yet alert sense of aliveness.” This energy sets up a readiness for the movements of the Kata. It can also nourish the activities in the rest of the day.

Generosity with another can take place in everyday situations. In my experience, generosity in relationship to another affects both of us. It happened on my boxing team.

In many cultures the heart was, and still is, considered to be the seat of intelligence and intuition, a special window into the world and its divine nature. When we see with the eyes of heart we can perceive things as they are without judgment. Our perception is filtered through the lens of love.