An appeal for a centrist mindset to enable meaningful change
I was first introduced to the idea of "being centered” through Aikido when I was 10. My aunt Wendy Palmer was the sensei (teacher) and owner of the dojo (place to practice) — she's a 6th degree blackbelt and a legendary badass in our family lore. In one of my first classes she claimed that, with proper technique, one could walk away unharmed from a 30 foot fall on to cement — my superhero fantasies ran wild. Falling without injury is one of the wonderful practices in Aikido.
As a core practice in Aikido, we were introduced to being centered as a visualization technique — imagine roots extending from your feet and penetrating deep into the floor below. From this place of being deeply “grounded” you find the natural center of balance for each part of the body: head, arms, torso, hips, legs, feet and so on. Once centered, the goal is to retain this balance and grounding as you move through your practice — and through life.
## This is a truncated copy
What is above is the summary and the opening of a piece written by a person; the rest is not in this copy. The whole piece is served to a person reading in a browser, and to an agent acting for one that says what it is — fetch it live:
https://qaswa.com/finding-center?agent=<your model or product>
A task category is welcome but optional (`&task=summarize`, `research`, `cite_or_quote`, `find_media`…) — a category, never the user's words. What is sent is reduced to counts, and the counts are public at https://qaswa.com/analytics. What this site is: https://qaswa.com/llms.txt · What is counted: https://qaswa.com/privacy