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Respect is a recurring theme in my life and every time I cast astray it returns with a sharp prick in my, well you know where. These sharp reminders come in many forms and have a way of branding themselves on my consciousness.\u00a0 Stern words from my grandfather stay with me forever.\u00a0 Serine moments turning dangerous, add an interesting pinch of fear in the mix and the affects of not eating healthy my be more subtle, but drastically effect the mind and body long term. The countless examples I have and continue to experience, reinforces that respect<\/em>\u00a0for all is what I believe.<\/p>\n

Being a Judoka (student of Judo)\u00a0 is a crash course in respect, literally! The first thing you learn is break falls. These teach us how to fall safely,\u00a0 in preparation to be thrown head over heels and slam into the mat. Once you are able to practice fighting, we are taught to respect our enemy. This means not underestimating and controlling our emotions, a hot head leads to mistakes. We learn about the founder and Judo’s origins, which brings the respect full circle. When this fighting style is shown the respect it deserves, you then understand why Judo is a martial art.<\/p>\n

Watching time pass over the land can be both slow like the sunset and fast like an approaching storm. Nature has its way and nature has its pace, it is in our best interest to respect it. Upsetting this delicate balance can be catastrophic and today’s rapidly changing climate is the perfect example. Possibly completely caused by a lack of respect, it might be the toughest challenge ever faced by humanity. Our ambition in the name of progress seemed like a good idea at the time, but is proving costly. Our rapid pace has far advanced nature’s, rendering her unable to catch up amidst the destruction. Nature’s pace cannot be predicted, but must be listened to and felt. Like riding a wave: Once the required level of respect is given you no longer have to search or struggle because she will show you the way. It is when you choose an unnatural pace things go awry. Nature is our home and also our being, to respect ourselves is to respect nature and vice versa.<\/p>\n

I’ve never once went wrong choosing respect. When a situation gets awkward or even becomes dangerous, having respect is the way to go. Through countless trial and error, over time I have proven to myself a philosophy and can boldly say: “Respect, this I believe!”<\/p>\n

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Respect is a recurring theme in my life and every time I cast astray it returns with a sharp prick in my, well you know where. These sharp reminders come in many forms and have a way of branding themselves on my consciousness.\u00a0 Stern words from my grandfather stay with me forever.\u00a0 Serine moments turning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}