CMAC Note

This year’s energy will be much more conducive to positive change if one is open to the subtle insights and intuitions coming from the self on the inside. Meditation should still be part of your everyday regimen with the underlying goal of establishing some harmony in reality through self-balance. True progress comes through real changes in thinking and this is not always easy. Unexpressed emotion can build up on the inside and can only be suppressed for so long. They can be real walls in the way of new insights. Karate is a great therapy to deal with this complex balance between mind and emotion and has been described as motion plus emotion. The highest reward for doing anything is not what we get from it but what we become by doing it. Looking to balance perspective between sunrise and sunset, between being a consumer and creator, should be a consideration on a daily basis. During these dark days of winter do not focus on what may lie ahead or be concerned about what happened before; what really matters is what lies within. Strive to keep in balanced. Approach each day as if it is the first time.

Sensei W.M. Platt