Leila's journal

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Hey @leila, if you have been reading my writings then maybe these 2 posts will be useful too

Hunterad's journal

Thanks for providing more detail @hunterad, I think what @henryyyyyyyyyy wrote is a useful way of looking at it. The ‘dirt’ will always be there in some degree, it’s probably to be expected that my feeling good will usually be tainted by this or that. It sort of reminds me of Geoffrey’s video where he talks about arriving at a more pure feeling good, and that the good feelings tend to go last. So for example at the moment there might be an intent to feel good but also a slight fear that my frie…

Hunterad's journal

I don’t know how useful all my Brazilian jiu Jitsu metaphors are to others but this reminds me of something that I see with people starting out in martial arts. The ultimate goal is to arrive at a place where I am able to use sophisticated technique and strategy to ‘neutralise’ pure strength and athleticism. I often get new guys just starting out saying that they feel bad that they are not being technical and only using strength. The thing is that for the first few years of training they…

What I am getting at can be summarised by the last bit of the second post - “If we all start ‘dirty’ then the best way to proceed is to accept this and get stuck in”

It’s great to have you and @FrankN contributing on here so definitely keep going