So what I’ve discovered some thing that I mentioned to somebody when they asked “are you too tired?” And I replied, no worries I will create the energy I need. And it was at that moment that I realized just like I can purposefully come up with a thought or I can purposefully come up with a feeling I can literally pick myself up by my own bootstraps and make myself do just about anything that I realized that I can create the energy I seek.

No obviously there are ways to enhance your energy with proper diet, exercise, and sleeping properly as well as living a good honest decent and energetically of style. Take movement for example. When you start moving you are by definition generating energy. In fact the whole principle behind tai chi and qi gong is the basis of movement and relaxation energies and everything in between. Start moving around for example start a simple exercise like simple light jumping and after some time you’ll notice that you start to warm up. Your heart starts beating faster, your blood is pumping faster, and your muscles tendons and ligaments are all working harder therefore creating more energy.

Now add to that the possibility of an energetics attitude and mindset. I feel the energy, picture of the energy, and imagine the energy all inside and around you. And combined that along with your movement, as well as proper breathing, do you have now “created” energy. So that’s the basics behind that. We can DEFINITELY “Create” our own energy.

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ToddsZen Season 1, episode 5: The art of PEACE. The legend of Morihei Ueshiba.

Morihei Ueshiba was born around December in 1883 and lived to around 1969. He was a great, and honored Japanese martial artist and founder of the martial art Aikido. He is often referred to as "the founder" (Kaiso) or (Ōsensei), "Great Teacher.” He was also author of one of my favorite books— one that I keep handy at all times, “The Art of Peace.

He was the son of a landowner from Tanabe Japan, and he studied a number of martial arts in his youth, and eventually served in the Japanese Army during the Russian/Japanese War. 

After being discharged in 1907, he moved to Hokkaidō and met and studied with Takeda Sōkaku, a founder of jūjutsu. When he left Hokkaido Ueshiba served as a martial arts instructor and opened his first dojo. 

On an expedition to Mongolia around 1924, he was captured by Chinese troops and returned to Japan. The following year, he was said to have had a profound spiritual experience, stating that, "a golden spirit sprang up from the ground, veiled my body, and changed my body into a golden one." And it was after this experience, his martial arts skill appeared to be greatly increased.

Ueshiba moved to Tokyo in 1926, where he set up what would become the “Aikikai Hombu Dojo.” By now he was comparatively famous in martial arts circles, and taught at this dojo and others around Japan, including in several military academies. 

In the aftermath of World War II the Hombu dojo was temporarily closed, but Ueshiba had by this point left Tokyo and retired to Iwama, and he continued training at the dojo he had set up there. From the end of the war until the 1960s, he worked to promote aikido throughout Japan and abroad. He eventually passed away 1969 but certainly left a legend behind. After Ueshiba's death, aikido continued to be promulgated by his students (many of whom became noted martial artists in their own right). It is now practiced around the world.

I encourage you to pick up a copy of “The Art of Peace” and see how it can affect your spiritual life.

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