Benefits of change and practice

This month the main focus on my training and requirements have been on forms, kicks, and of course the meat and potatoes of our training, push ups and sit ups. I slowed down abit on the push ups and sittups last month not due to laziness but rather I was getting bored with them. If things get boring you have to source motivation on something else to remain mindful but to also stay engaged on what you are doing and why. To me if your doing something because you feel you have to and your hearts not in it, your wasting your time. Plus, after a break you sometimes are better and more aware of what you might have been missing before and your even better from where you left off. Thats the great thing about kung fu, there is never a shortage of new sources to challenge and improve on, that is a never ending quest. You will never know it all and never perfect every aspect, but you can sure try. It seems the more you practice the more you have to build and improve and actually figure out what the heck your doing and why you have to do things a certain way in order to evolve and get that much closer to mastery.
I recently discovered a partial concept of center. While working on my stances, particularly my bo stance and straightening my back leg and engaging my hip while performing a technique, I visualized me throwing the punch from my hips. The power came from two directions going outward from my hips, out through my arm and down my leg out my back heel. Instead of throwing a punch and feeling the power coming from my shoulder or a kick fired from my leg I started to concentrate on executing all techniques from my abdomen and using it as the source. The more I practiced the more aware I became of what is really supposed to happen. All the times I heard Sifus say punch, kick, and block from the hip, incorporate the six harmonies, etc. Speaking of the six harmonies I now understand physically what they're about because I could feel my hands/feet, elbows/knees, shoulders/hips in sync, it was just too cool and alot more powerful techniques. The rest of the Six harmonies I'm still working on. Well thats where I am, and thats what I'm doing.