The book I am reading at the moment is “The Untethered Soul” by Michael A Singer, and I had just recently read the words on page 169: “You are constantly trying to stay within your comfort zone”.
You can devote your life to the process of making sure everything fits within your comfort zone so that you stay safe and comfortable, or you can devote yourself to becoming free. The biggest thing that keeps you within your comfort zone is fear. The fear arises from being uncertain about what lies beyond: fear of the unknown, fear of failure. The trade off is that to avoid the fear and enjoy an easy life you have to accept your own self imposed limits on what you can and cannot do. Your comfort zone is finite, and it is limiting and restricting.
I believe absolutely in the potential that lies within each of us. I may not know anything about you at all, but one thing I can state with absolute certainty is:
You are capable of so much more.
That is true for each and every one of us, no matter where we are at in life’s journey. Even if we have achieved a high level of success already, there is still more to come, more to do, more to achieve, more potential as yet untapped. If we are at the beginning of our journey and have not accumulated a lot of success, the statement is true – we are capable of much, much more. The difficulty may lie in us believing this about ourselves so that we can act on it.
One of the keys to success is continuing to expand our comfort zone. The universe is infinite and operates on a principle of continual expansion. Things are not static, they are dynamic and moving. The atoms in the chair you are sitting on are vibrating at a rate of intensity you don’t notice or even think about. Counsellors are always warning us that our relationships are either getting better or getting worse, they don’t stay the same over time. It takes positive effort to keep a relationship growing. As individuals we are in a constant state of movement. Our actions are either taking us closer to or further away from our goals.
If you are conscious of being in a comfort zone, remember that there is nothing keeping you there but your own limiting beliefs. You have put the boundaries up, you have set the limits in place. Your spirit inside is free, and longs for free expression. No one else can define you, no one else can tell you what you are or are not capable of achieving. But you can define, limit, constrict yourself. If you tell yourself that you can’t do it, are just not cut out for it, not “wired” for it – that will be your truth. But remember that these are self imposed limits. The ultimate truth is that you are capable of anything of which your mind can conceive.
What a shame to miss out on all the good that life wants to offer you, simply because you have imposed boundaries and limits upon yourself. Devote yourself to becoming free. It is what God (the Universe) desires for you. The world is not served by you staying small. To quote Marianne Williamson:
Our Deepest Fear
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
