Historical The Quest List Post 100

From: John C. Price
Subject: RE: [The Quest List] Re: Stress 101
Date: 2000-04-26 12:19:00

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher S. Penn [mailto:cs.penn[ at ]mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 6:00 AM
> To: The Quest List[ at ]egroups.com
> Subject: [The Quest List] Re: Stress 101
>
>
> John,
>
> Your question is actually quite relevant to me at the moment, because
> we're fairly heavily downstaff at my company.

;) That sounds familiar! We've been severely downstaff here since I showed
up ...

<snip lots o' useful stuff>

> Sometimes, again to relate to a To-Shin Do/Buddhist point, you can
> sometimes squash problems by sheer power of will. I forget where it
> comes from (it's in First Steps on the Path of Light) where Mr. Hayes
> talks about how sometimes willpower is enough to circumvent obstacles
> that pure logic would declare impassable.

Are we talking about "Fudoshin"? (I think that's the word I'm looking for
...)

> As always, there's a price to be paid. If you go full burners 24x7,
> you will take an enormous physical toll on your body, just as if you
> trained hard every day for 12 hours a day. Unless you were very
> careful and slowly adjusted yourself over time to train at that pace,
> you'd be in a clinic faster than you can say Mineral Ice.

Mental note: Slow adjustments ...

> The best and most relevant way I can address stress in my own life is
> to give myself different kinds of stress. A variety, so to speak. My
> instructor, Mark Davis, often talks about how Hatsumi sensei says we
> need a job, a family, and an art, to live a balanced life. Any one of
> those three can cause stress and burnout, so if your job is blasting
> you out, maybe think about wrestling your workday to as close to 9 to
> 5 as possible and spending more time with your family, or in training.

So ... "What is throwing it out of balance" ? "Discernment" ...

;)

Discern - What is throwing your stresses out of balance?
Disrupt - Disrupt the stresses (in an effective manner)

;) Anyone care to fill in the rest?

John Price
CHI Systems

"If the only way you can save your life is physically, you're wasting your
time."

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