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Our objectives are kept alive with discipline.
Discipline as an internal sport that has to do with a personal decision, that is, one’s decision to achieve a certain goal.
Discipline is also essential for overcoming obstacles that life puts in one’s path each day. Without discipline, paths deviate, objectives get lost or distorted, enthusiasm disappears, and one becomes weak, giving up on the path one had decided to follow.
With discipline, on the other hand, objectives remain alive, and mark a path to follow, enthusiasm is maintained and reinforced by the advancements the person achieves. Discipline also keeps the individual energetic, strong and positive.
The greater the objective, the more energy, discipline, enthusiasm and more decisive action is required.
Conscious discipline establishes a hierarchy of values that orders our life according to our higher goals and objectives. For this it subordinates capricious and whimsical desires and passions that we identify with everyday.
As a person strengthens their self discipline consciously they become an active principle in their own life.
- Accumulate energy.
- Boost your capacity to do things.
- Increase your self esteem.
- Generate personal satisfaction due to the goals you have obtained through your own effort.
- Increase your capacity to think of and create your personal projects.
- In sum, it favors the possibility of attaining success in all your purposes.
Practice: Immobility Exercise
Objective: To exert self-mastery over your body.
Position: Back straight and chin up, sitting on a comfortable chair.
Achieve total immobility, stop slight movements such as muscular convulsions, eyelid tremors, little muscle twitches of the face You must remain as still as a statue for a minimum of three minutes.
