discipline

To map out strengths and weaknesses or to learn during tough times is called discipline.

Discipline requires the three A's:

1. Accepting fate,
2. staying Aware, to keep
3. Above the challenge

If you find you aren't able to rise above the challenge, it because you don't have sufficient control.

Many people pride themselves on something else they call discipline, when it is actually a type of self-denial.

Self-denial can be fine if your routines are hurting you, but it must be balanced with sound reason (not just "reasons"). You deny because of a higher good you are going for -- not because someone called something "bad".

Discipline allows you to manage the chaos and turn it into order.

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Let's say you don't want to be fat. So do you deny yourself foods you like? Well, this is where meditation can be handy. You must examine the nature of your fat, not your craving. Are you not able to apply yourself, for example? The pop psychology excuse is that you have low self-esteem so you eat to compensate. But this is oversimplistic.

• If you crave meat, you are substituting meat for real yang or male power and relationship.
• If you crave cheese, you are craving real yin, affection from the mother. Perhaps you are disconnected from Earth because of your lifestyle.
• If you crave sweets, you are looking for the love of GOD. Perhaps you don't believe in one.
• If you crave alchohol, you probably aren't following your heart in your life.
• If you crave cooked foods, generally, you are too disconnected from society and stuck in yourself. Perhaps you are disconnected from the Old Testament (if you have Celiac's disease).

You can always find me, if you need someone.

See also impeccibility, control, mastery of form.