Define Control

When asked to defince control I think of a cube. With some sides having labels and other sides not being labelled, just being left blank instead. One the labelled sides we have, physical, emotional, mental, and financial. All of these sides makeup the cube of what control is to me. Because to me control is both internal and external, with each side effecting the others. 

Physical is about controlling your muscles. Are they relaxed or tensed when they need to be? Are you going to fast or to slow? Where is your center? These are some questions we always ask ourselves in Kung Fu about out body and what it is doing. because your intent will be to do one thing, and you must have the control over your body to do it. 

Emotional is internal, and it can develop into an external side. We know this because of how we react to interactions. When you do a kind thing, there is a warm feeling inside you, it feels good so you smile and say your welcome. The same goes for when something good happens to you only you say thank you instead. You have not overreacted by being to kind in your response because you do not want to make them uncomfterable by being too kind. The same goes when we deal with bad and dangerous situations. We can't over react emotionally because than we lose control over our physical control by putting everyone around us in danger of ourself. 

The mental can be confused with the emotional side but to put it simply. Its how you bouce back. Take a look at when I failed by grading last year. I did not blame anyone but myself. And I also didn't give up either. I listended to the feedback from the grading board and got back on the move to now this years grading. I bouced back in a good way. And I try my best to in everything, look at the positives and build mtself up upon that. This is good mental control. Some people won't, they will only look at the bad, and overthink or even talk down to themselves and sink further and further down. That is a bad mentak control. 

Financial control is also easy to define. You must be, in control of your spending, have a budget, have no credit card debt, be saving for retirement, have an emergency fund, and have a plan in place to know when you will be debt free. And to be putting in the effort to increase your income to the point where you will not need to worry about money. If you are not making the effort to have at least four of these. Than you are not in financial control of yourself. Not being in financial control can create unwanted stress which will affect all the other sides I just talked about. The same goes for the other sides too, if one if not under control the rest will be affected. It all goes in a circle, but it can start at any point on it. 

The reason I only have four sides and not six sides defined is simple. I have not lived and experienced enough yet in my life to know what the other sides are going to be. 

Numbers 

P/U: 22804

S/U: 21553

Forms: 439/473

Sparring: 71

AoK: 436

Mileage: 568.50km