A meditation on increasing your comfort zone

A meditation on increasing your comfort zone

Close your eyes, or allow your eyes to empty of focus

Think back to your childhood. 

Think of a basic skill, lesson, or activity,

That once made you uncomfortable, but you are comfortable with now.

Perhaps it was a food you didn't like to eat,

Or a kind of homework that you hated,

A exercise that you disliked,

Or a tradition, or ritual that you didn't like.

Think about how that uncomfortable thing, felt the first time it made you uncomfortable.

Now consider how long you were uncomfortable with it.

Was it weeks? Months? Years?

Now recall how you overcame your discomfort in the past.

Perhaps, a family member, friend, loved one or mentor helped you deal with it.

Perhaps you confronted the problem head on by yourself.

Perhaps you studied the problem carefully until you learned to overcome it.

Perhaps you needed to "fake it until you made it"

Regardless of how you overcame it,

Think of how it felt to conquer the situation, and become comfortable with it.

Give your past self a "thank you" from the current you. 

Think of how your effort, and persistence overcame the issue.

Now, consider what things in your current life, are making you uncomfortable.

Allow yourself to receive a "thank you" in advance from your future self,

In exchange for the commitment to attack the problem until it is resolved.

Perhaps you will need a friends help.

Perhaps you will need to attack the problem head on.

Perhaps you will need to study the problem.

Perhaps you will need to "fake it until you make it"

Regardless of how you choose to overcome it,

Accept that just as you overcame the problem in the past, you can overcome problems in the future.

Realize, that not only have you received help in the past overcoming difficulties

But that you have given help to friends, family, and cherished ones in the past

That has helped them overcome similar difficulties.

The ability to challenge and overcome life's hardships, is a power that you inherently possess.

You have used it many times already in your life.

Continue to use, and strengthen this ability.

With it, you can help your cherished ones accomplish their hopes, dreams and goals.

With it, your cherished ones can assist you in accomplishing your hopes, dreams and goals.

With it, you can pursue your accomplishments, hopes, dreams and goals with your own power.