LOVE
Devote the time to understand what your body and mind need in order to be healthy. Then dedicate yourself to achieving that mindset.
Martial arts helps determine your physical and emotional needs through mental study and rigorous practice. After time, students will be able to understand what their bodies need physically and emotionally in order to reach new goals and succeed.
Why Love
Love as a tenet was chosen because you are you. You cannot switch bodies or minds with any other person. An individual can change over time, but it takes caring and understanding of yourself to do that. It is also important to support and love everyone around you, it is easier to love yourself and to know that you have the self-control to make the changes and learn from them. This is what Be There’s Love tenet is about.
The Stance
This stance invokes love by having your feet firmly planted on the ground, and reaching above your head with your hands coming together to form a triangle. This stance creates a stretch throughout your body and it allows to focus on one pinpoint, which is the triangle that is made by your hands. While doing this stance, focus on feeling the ground with your feet, and everything else reaching towards the sky with your gaze looking upward.
Performing the stance
This stance helps you associate with Love because you are taking the time to stretch your body, relax your mind, and focus on one singular point.
Raise your arms above your head at a forward, 45-degree angle.
Set your feet shoulder-width apart.
With your hands open, fingers together, and thumbs out, create a triangle with your thumbs and index fingers touching each other.
Tilt your head up slightly and look through the triangle of your hands.