Discipline as Training

Discipline does not impose its way upon the will in order to override the will but to train the will. I am not diminished as a person by acceding to an externally governed structure, but am equipped to function better as a person. While there are certainly people and methods which provide forms of discipline in such a way as to diminish and control others, such effects are not inherent characteristics of discipline but dangerous and self-serving manipulations of those involved.
As I begin to recognize areas of life where my will is not serving me well, I would be wise to frame it as an issue of an ill-equipped will rather than a weak will. Rather than get down on myself for continuing to choose poorly, I would be better served to seek out training to teach my will, body, emotions and soul how to pull together.
Such training—while difficult, unnatural and forced initially—would result in a developed capacity, a healthy habit and an alignment between desire and choice.