Forbearance, Perseverance, and Patience

All martial artists of traditional or classical practice tend to lean more toward those aspects of self-improvement by developing and enhancing the ability at self-reflection. To develop a nature of patience, tolerance, unruffled self-control and restraint especially under stressful scenario's such as adversity. It is a trait to acquire and build the ability to slow down a natural survival instinct to retaliate, it is the ability to restrain or avoid expressions of resentment and a strong ability to restrain themselves when under provocation.

These traits and practices are meant to teach us how to expand on our patient self-control which builds our ability at avoidance and deescalation. It means we become steadfast in doing everything whether under the best of conditions or under difficult ones. Martial arts are meant to develop the kind of character that is persistent, refuses to stop, remain diligent in all things, and to quietly and steadily persevering in the dojo and out.

Traditional/classical forms of martial arts were meant to inspire within each of us a greater capacity to accept or tolerate delays, trouble and suffering leaving anger, frustration and disappointment outside our need to deal with them. We leave also annoyance and negativity behind a blockade to our conscious mind remaining peaceful and more serene. We exhibit forbearance under any strain or short or long term difficulties with emphasis on those conflicts that could lead to physical altercations, etc.