come from the east there are often esoteric stories about strange forms of power, strength and spread wide as the typical mass of water or a gust of wind, capable of sweeping away the obstacles that oppose it. This energy is identified under different names, but one that appears most frequently in the martial literature of Japan, Ki, while the unified source from which this energy must be made result is identified by the name of Hara which, literally translated, means abdomen, or belly. Most suits the martial arts of Japan, with their more advanced levels, are based on these two concepts inherent energy and central abdominal, Ki and Hara, illustrating the practical tools, frameworks and exercises needed to develop and to make themselves relevant in the reality. In particular, the centralized power, variously described as intrinsic or internal, is owned by anyone, although it is consciously developed by few. Aikido, even based most of his methodology practical and functional on it and its source in the abdomen, and integrate it into the very name of discipline (Ai-Ki-Do), but the first difficulty that meets the student of this art the principle of training, especially in the traditional one, is precisely to identify and define, as in the West lack equivalent terms and concepts. To begin with, the energy in the West itself must be defined in ways relevant and specific, designed as physics, or magnetic, or dynamic, or muscular, or mental or psychological or spiritual problems, ... depending on the context within which observed. For the traditional Aikido, however, all these different classifications should not exist. For him, energy is only one and expresses all the various singular events in the flow of life force that the West back to the very existence and, if you really insist on wanting to anchor a phenomenon even more accessible, his breath basis . Energy is the single, integrated, like the infant who has not yet learned how to artificially divide and weaken the unity of substance in thousands of categories created in he belongs and, as such, he expresses and represents. The traditional aikido wonders what could ever be the usefulness of muscle development, physical, focused, without a higher purpose that transcends it and justifies it, stating both the existence and function. On the other hand, he asks again, what good can never have a development 
spiritual absolute, whether philosophical or mystical in a rational and learned, without basing it on a physical basis that ensures the functionally effective in the world of reality? For him, then the two extremes, the physical or material, separated by internal reasons animators, and the spiritual or mental, inner detached from the first, represent aberrant distortions of a single principle that is complementary, simultaneous, external and internal, physical and mental, and emotional muscle, immanent and transcendent. Ultimately, the mind and body do not, for the traditional Aikido, separate entities that can reach their full essence and function of different ways, but only different aspects of a phenomenon unique, indivisible. Research, development and maintenance of this absolute fusion, in a harmonious condition of these two aspects of human personality, is the primary purpose that the traditional Aikido aims to achieve with the constant practice and disciplined art. The image of the newborn appears frequently in Japanese literature and martial arts, on broader background in Chinese literature appears to have preceded that in conceiving the idea and make energy a central purpose of philosophy, points out that the traditional Aikido difficult it is to open the fist of a newborn if the latter, as relaxed and happy, prefers to keep it closed. Distracting and diversionary maneuvers with a weakening of the persistent concentration, directing his attention elsewhere, that fist is opened by itself. The integration of physical personality, outdoor, muscle, and inner volition or interest, if we are allowed to use these terms now overloaded with modern meanings convoluted and complex, it is very high based primarily on instinct and innate, since we can not yet speak of an intellectual response and planned his case. 
We shall see later that aikido works precisely and to develop the instinctive reflexes of the student, basing on their immediacy and spontaneity of the whole repertoire of his techniques of neutralization and coordination. With age, according to Aikido, we lose this natural fusion, primitive, between the outer and inner aspects of personality, including execution and volition, between perception and reaction, between act and thought. Aikido seeks the ambition to restore the ancient link and substantial natural, spontaneous and true, to reconfirm the martial axiom according to which the energy generated by the integrated personality at its center in the abdomen, is higher than that obtained by the 'separate and independent use of its components. The first practical example was offered in the centers of education in Aikido, is very basic and elementary, the "arm inflexible." Students were asked to draw the arm forward and keep slightly arched in that direction, the fingers open and relaxed, in a normal. He was then asked to relax the muscles of the shoulders and abdomen, and through an effort of imagination to be convinced that an invisible flow of energy, starting from the abdomen, it is channeled in that arm then extends to infinity, as well fingers over the carpet, behind the walls that surrounded the training room. While the student is mentally focused in this form of inner projection, central abdomen, the instructor will try to bend that arm extended, acting on the elbow. If the student was completely relaxed and had, even as a joke, agreed to immerse themselves in this strange form of an extension of centralized power in the abdomen, as the arm did not offer the typical strength of the vibrated muscles under tension, it was not possible to fold the outside acting. That seemed elastic arm, extended, relaxed, but inflexible. This experiment resembled some cases of self-hypnosis, with the difference that the student continued to remain fully conscious and, often, in amazement at this unexpected result. Some teachers Aikido encountered by the authors showed that energy, the ki, literally with both arms extended and subjected to the simultaneous action of students who muscled, but could not bend 
although those teachers stay relaxed, conscious and have fun. Aikido is directed to act in real life dynamic. Consequently, the idea of \u200b\u200bcoordinated inner extension should animate all the movements and actions of the student on the carpet. In fact, if he fails to make this permanent extension and automatic execution of the techniques of neutralization is to be weakened. Moreover, the extension of inner energy to be maintained even beyond the limits of the carpet, in social life, ensuring the integrity and balance. From: Aikido and the ball dynamic
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