These last few weeks have been a test in many ways, but apart from my time in the dojo, none of them physical. With a death in the family and complex emotions involved, plus other issues that seem to occur at just the wrong moment, often through one person's lack of consideration for others: There has been a lot to digest.
It is my honest belief, that without the self discipline and emphasis placed on self control by my studying Karate, I would have found things very difficult to cope with. The stress levels at times have been very high, but the ability to detatch and take deep breaths has helped to combat this.
There have been a number of complicating issues involved in all that is going on, and without a doubt if these were taken as a whole, I would have found these insurmountable. My own education helps me to separate things out, but the techniques learned from karate have helped by focus each time on the highest priority task and see it through to completion.
I haven't practiced my kata as much as I should either, but each time I do, I try to make it count. I now feel quite compfortable running through the first two Naihanchis combined as a slow exercise kata, so hopefully this will feed back into the dojo. The funeral in question is in the next few days, and after that hopefully, we can start to focus on some of the other pressing issues.
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