Ancient ruins and KungFu

Today I was listening to a lecture between ancient ruins and people. Physical ruins are tangible and easily seen and ruins in a person are silent and hidden yet both physical and emotional ruins can be dealt with the same way.

You can rebuild over the ruins, covering them and making them look better but they are  always there.  Sometimes you create layers by building over and over again on top of the last layer.

The other option is tearing down right to the base and rebuilding again.  This option is a lot of extra work as you need to get right down to the bottom layer and be prepared for what you may dig up.  Both of these options give you a base to plant seeds for new growth and start over again, but its whats underneath that makes the difference.

So how does this tie into KungFu?  Ruins are also in everyone's KungFu journey, especially when your dealing with injury or limitations (mental or physical).  So how do you deal with them?   Do you gloss over them and just build on top of the issue or tear it down and really look at the problem?

It made me think how I have only recently decided to do some tearing, finding underlying issues and face them head on.  I had many years to tear away.  Identifying areas like extreme frustration when a quick fix isn't found, relying on others to help motivate me, and procrastination.  So what have I done?

• I have been working on my shoulder exercises daily, rebuilding the muscles so one day I will do normal push-ups. 
• Today I started phase 1 of my training for the 10K Sun Run.  Phase 1 is 8 weeks and Phase 2 is 8 weeks giving me a few weeks extra for fine tuning.  
• Each day I have been documenting in my journal (thank you google forms) working on this years requirements as well as next years.  

It has only been two weeks but I had to start somewhere.  These are the seeds I have planted and I can't just sit back and expect them to grow.   Consistent action is required!
See you in the kwoon!