The comfort zone

One’s “comfort zone” refers to the things a person sticks to that are safe and familiar. People remain in their comfort zone in order to avoid pain, but it eventually keeps them from fully living. Rational thinking is too weak to override one’s preference for their comfort zone.

We avoid these things because, in one way or another, they all involve different types of pain.

It wouldn’t matter if we avoided these things once or twice a year. But for most of us, avoidance becomes a way of life. We barricade ourselves behind an invisible barrier and don’t venture out because beyond the wall is pain. This safe space is the “Comfort Zone.”

Whatever your Comfort Zone consists of, you pay a huge price for it. Life provides incredible possibilities, but you can’t take advantage of them without facing pain. If you can’t tolerate pain, you can’t be fully alive. There are many examples of this. By staying in the Comfort Zone you end up relinquishing your most cherished dreams and aspirations.

Do you know your comfort zones? Are you trying to break away from them or pushing the bounderies.