be more comfortable with discomfort

If I’m uncomfortable, I’m uncomfortable and if I stay with the feelings, they don’t hang around forever. It’s easy for me to intellectualize this goal, but moving into direct experience seems to be the way. I will not keep writing posts to this and make it more complicated than it is. It’s all experiential.

I pronounce this goal done.

Discomfort is there to cue you to make a change and become more comfortable. I don’t want to be comfortable with discomfort, that misses the point! _{Apparently, this goal is causing me some discomfort!}

This is becoming increasingly abstract :/

But maybe the point of this goal is the fact that there might be some discomfort at times, but it is necessarily en route to an improved state. And your life becomes better as a result. Yes, discomfort is not an end, it is a means to an end.

For me, life is comfortable most of the time. What’s uncomfortable is incessantly running unpleasant things related to the past through my mind or anticipating difficulties in the future. With alertness, these things can be minimized.

There was a bunch of somewhat rowdy teens at the bus stop and quick like a bunny, I altered my plans and found another way home. Apparently, avoiding uncomfortable situations is still a high priority…

I think that believing I must be comfortable all the time is unrealistic, although that is what I strive for and assume. But, it’s not the case. There are pockets of my experience that bring feelings of discomfort and I want to accept these feelings as part of life, knowing that they serve a purpose. And, I don’t want to be motivated away from an experience, solely because I may experience discomfort in it. It’s said that life begins at the end of your comfort zone. What lies on the other side of discomfort? Power? One’s dreams?

what more is there to say?

And when is this goal ever finished?