Comments on: A Habit Becomes Natural http://www.damazen.com/blog/2009/12/20/a-habit-becomes-natural/ Martial arts in the modern age Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Dr Richard Deshimura McCall http://www.damazen.com/blog/2009/12/20/a-habit-becomes-natural/comment-page-1/#comment-419 Dr Richard Deshimura McCall Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:35:41 +0000 http://www.damazen.com/blog/?p=573#comment-419 Just a quick but SINCERE "CONGRATS!!" on your blog post and your definitive efforts to change your life for the better! Keep up the GREAT work and the great ATTITUDE! Both will take you farther than one can typically even imagine or hope! Just a quick but SINCERE “CONGRATS!!” on your blog post and your definitive efforts to change your life for the better!

Keep up the GREAT work and the great ATTITUDE! Both will take you farther than one can typically even imagine or hope!

]]> By: Alex http://www.damazen.com/blog/2009/12/20/a-habit-becomes-natural/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Alex Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:41:12 +0000 http://www.damazen.com/blog/?p=573#comment-353 Just wanted to share my experiences forming a habit in 66 days. The first time I read this article was about the same time I became a student of Master Danny Lai. One thing I knew for a fact, is that I really wanted this change in my life, and really wanted a new good habit (for 17+ years, heavy smoking used to be my habit). Given that my life-style was very inactive for the past at least 8-10 years I was out of shape big time and the first month or so it was a hard work every day. Since I started on Jan 5th, I missed practice only twice - the first time because I thought my body needed a rest at least once a week (not really.. my body didn't need any breaks, or at least at that time), and the second time celebrating Chinese New Year with Master Danny. What can I say? I do have times when I don't want to practice for one or the other reason. However, I keet telling myself: If I allow to slip once, there will be a second time, and a 3rd time and etc. So the first month and half or so there were times when I was forcing myself to get up and practice. So it was just like battling smoking cravings when I was quitting. Just live one day at a time, one breath at a time. And day by day I'm now on my 3rd month, and let me tell you - I can't wait to get home to do stretching, Qi Gong, and Tai Chi. This is something I want to do every day, and I find time to do it every day. I'm sure there will be an occasion when I can't practice for some reason, but it is not today. This is how I approach it. One other interesting thing I picked up from one of the blogs here, is that I don't expect to become a master in a month. Instead, I'm enjoying the actual process (be it stretching, Qi Gong or Tai Chi). Just wanted to share my experiences forming a habit in 66 days. The first time I read this article was about the same time I became a student of Master Danny Lai. One thing I knew for a fact, is that I really wanted this change in my life, and really wanted a new good habit (for 17+ years, heavy smoking used to be my habit). Given that my life-style was very inactive for the past at least 8-10 years I was out of shape big time and the first month or so it was a hard work every day. Since I started on Jan 5th, I missed practice only twice – the first time because I thought my body needed a rest at least once a week (not really.. my body didn’t need any breaks, or at least at that time), and the second time celebrating Chinese New Year with Master Danny.
What can I say? I do have times when I don’t want to practice for one or the other reason. However, I keet telling myself: If I allow to slip once, there will be a second time, and a 3rd time and etc. So the first month and half or so there were times when I was forcing myself to get up and practice. So it was just like battling smoking cravings when I was quitting. Just live one day at a time, one breath at a time. And day by day I’m now on my 3rd month, and let me tell you – I can’t wait to get home to do stretching, Qi Gong, and Tai Chi. This is something I want to do every day, and I find time to do it every day. I’m sure there will be an occasion when I can’t practice for some reason, but it is not today. This is how I approach it.

One other interesting thing I picked up from one of the blogs here, is that I don’t expect to become a master in a month. Instead, I’m enjoying the actual process (be it stretching, Qi Gong or Tai Chi).

]]> By: mukul http://www.damazen.com/blog/2009/12/20/a-habit-becomes-natural/comment-page-1/#comment-323 mukul Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:08:24 +0000 http://www.damazen.com/blog/?p=573#comment-323 I read something somewhere that went like this,"what you do becomes a habit, what your habit is becomes your nature (probably 2nd nature), what your nature is becomes your destiny." It's a chineese quote for sure, not the exact quote, so correct me if I am wrong. I read something somewhere that went like this,”what you do becomes a habit, what your habit is becomes your nature (probably 2nd nature), what your nature is becomes your destiny.” It’s a chineese quote for sure, not the exact quote, so correct me if I am wrong.

]]>