MOVE, FOR MOVEMENT IS LIFE!

When you train ENJOY.   Enjoy movement for its own sake.
Do not obsess with “getting it right” the first time, then stand around beating yourself up mentally because you think you are wrong.
You are not on display.   It is not an exam.

Simply try to come close.  Then repeat.  And continue repeating.
As the mind-body-ki connection is healed through practice

THE  TECHNIQUE  WILL  REFINE  ITSELF.

Not because of stress or volition or undue striving.
Nor because of intellectual understanding, which will come with time, but because you are MOVING.
Movement is life.

Breathe and move.   Do the best you can do for that moment and let it go, for here will be other moments.   You are not in he dojo to be judged or to judge yourself harshly.  You are in the dojo to unlock and release all that junk that is getting in the way of you being YOURSELF.

The dojo is one of the few places where you have permission to be YOU.
Trying to intellectually understand a technique before doing it is futile. MOVE!   Do something.   Anything is a good start.
There is no “wrong” movement, just less or more harmonious movement but you can only make a start from where you are right now!
The more you move, the better it gets and improvement is guaranteed!
Standing around thinking is a waste of time. 

You are not expected to do a technique perfectly for the first 10,000 tries.
Then you have to begin refining again.    Start with a single step.   Even the best sensei and the greatest master is still learning and will continue to do so.   When you train do so for enjoyment.
Yes it is a dojo, show respect.
Yes it is a combat art, be aware, awake and vigilant.
Yes it is physical and intense, so be present.

But above all leave your ego, your worries and the world OUTSIDE.

When you bow onto the mat you enter a ‘spiritual’ domain where you and your dojo friends are dancing with The Great Cosmic Universe.   Nothing else matters.   Though many will not admit it, we all started with some degree of clumsiness, two left feet, all thumbs and many bad habits.   That’s life. Accept it.   Accept yourself.   Accept that all new endeavours carry some measure of discomfort.  

This too will change, but only with regular, manageable installments of regular training input and movement.  

There is great healing in this, for you, for those close to you, for society and ultimately the world.

So enjoy training, MOVE and be kind to yourself.