Wednesday, July 16, 2008

What does it mean to be a Responsible Karate Student?

What does it mean to be a Responsible Karate Student?

Responsibility is essentially moral, legal, or mental accountability. It is defined as the rational belief that you are responsible for determining who you are, and how your choices affect your life. With that in mind, the ultimate goal of the karate student is to live a just moral life to the best of his or her ability.

The core of any responsible person must protect and nurture their health and psychological well being. Taking preventive health oriented steps of structuring your life are essential. Time management, stress management, confronting fears, and even burnout prevention will ensure that you have a solid base upon which a person can make good moral and ethical decisions and en able you to help others.

It is important that Karate students take an honest inventory of strengths, abilities, talents, virtues, and positive points. The key in being responsible is to point the finger of responsibility back toward yourself and away from others when you are discussing the consequences of your actions. A person must determine your feelings about any events or actions addressed to you, no matter how negative they may seem.

In order to move forward and evolve as moral responsible people, karate students need to let go of blame and anger toward those that existed in your past. A person must make take time to work out anger, hostility, pessimism, and depression over past hurts, pains, abuse, mistreatment, and misdirection. When these are accomplished any formidable obstacle that one may encounter in a dangerous or volatile situation can be resolved.

In the simplest terms, a person cannot care for others if they cannot care for themselves. Often we push ourselves in our personal and professional lives and forget the simplest necessities we need to be a whole healthy person. We can neglect diet, exercise, sustenance and even rest. If we are not careful we can lose the connection between physical and mental health.

We have a responsibility to care for ourselves and those around us who need our help and support. We have to be at our best so that we can always be kind gentle and good to others. If we do not care for ourselves it becomes impossible to be supportive or help others. When a person is not at their best they will most likely to perform poorly or behave in ways that do not reflect who they really are.

Being the best you can be takes a great deal of hard work and a great deal responsibility. Karate helps us to stay fit both mentally and physically, but we must manage our time accordingly and be effective as possible. The ultimate goal of karate is to improve ourselves as people. We must try to make ourselves the best human beings we can be, through practice and discipline. We must make the world a better place.

Karate students will help bring peace. That was Master Funakoshi’s ultimate goal—to make peace in the world by helping people develop themselves, as individual human beings, through karate-do. Above all know yourself first, and then you can know others.

P.S.

I will be a daddy in January :)

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