OUR COMFORTABLE CHAOS
OUR COMFORTABLE CHAOS
How is it that we can be so dissatisfied with the way we are, so desperate to change, and yet so terrified of making that change?
You might desperately want to evolve and upgrade your thinking.
Maybe we're desperate to let go of negative responses that have held us back and caused us pain... and yet something inside of us is frightened of what it might mean to actually become something different.
As uncomfortable as life might have become in this current form, it is at least OUR discomfort. OR an unlikely Comfort Zone.
It’s familiar.
It’s known.
Sometimes the journey into the unknown, no matter how dissatisfied we are with the life we know, it just seems too terrifying to embrace something new.
What would life really be like if I changed?
Who would I be if I changed?
Perhaps you have grown to believe that your anxiety is your identity... an essential part of who you are.
Perhaps you have a fear of becoming a version of yourself that you no longer recognize.
Perhaps you fear the decisions you might make if you were no longer limited by that anxiety.
Sometimes we have to take that leap of faith, embrace the unknown and confront the scary stuff!
Don't forget that we actually DO change every day.
Each tiny upgrade, every barely noticeable piece of learning and small shift in our understanding creates a new, more experienced version of us.
It happens naturally, without effort.
So maybe the only reason we haven’t changed the big stuff, those patterns of thought and behavior that we really WANT changed, is because there are parts of us actively working to keep these things the same.
What if that part of us was keeping it this way because of the fear of what it might mean to be different?
What if making that desperately needed shift to feel and act differently was simply a matter of stopping the process of resisting our own natural growth?
After all, as scary as it might be to change, the scarier thing would be to never change.
