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Living in the Challenge: Beyond the Comfort Zone
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We all want to want to feel safe, comfortable, and free of stress. That’s universal. However, without venturing out of our so-called “comfort zone”, we grow stagnant and soft, and unable to handle setbacks and adversity. What’s more, as we know from personal experience, we need a certain amount of manageable stress to grow and learn and prosper.
In this episode, a talk I originally gave to the Healing Circle early in 2021, I discuss moving beyond our comfort zone using a model first developed by a Russian child development psychologist almost one hundred years ago.
With that model as the basis, I discuss:
- How we, as adults, can apply it when learning new skills and become aware of when we are indulging in comfort to the extreme
- How we instinctively seek our comfort zone in the way we dress, eat, and entertain ourselves
- Why seeking help from others, whether it’s with a teacher, a therapist, or a Healing Circle is often essential for moving into the learning zone
- How the right amount of manageable stress and fear always accompanies the acquisition of new skills
I give examples from my own life, and how my spiritual teacher knew instinctively when his students were making a nest out of his teachings to reinforce their ego, and that it was time to shake things up.
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