When you study the martial arts, delving into philosophy and spirituality, you find that one of your main purposes is to reformulate yourself.

What you are, what your family, society, bosses, teachers, and government have made you, just cannot stand.

Something specific may have alerted you to this need.

Perhaps it was a slight, received from someone disrespectful, that made you feel weak.

Or, one evening, you were walking with your friend and you felt afraid of that group of shadowy figures who were loitering at the next corner.

And after the exigency passed, you were ashamed of yourself that you were so fearful, so intimidated, and upon reflection you came to see that you were afraid most of the time, and maybe one day, you