A Simple Process To Keep Discomfort From Running Your Life

For example, maybe you avoid a situation altogether or become passive in order to escape discomfort or remain comfortable. Maybe you use food, argument, agreement, compulsive ritual, seeking approval, work, sex, spending, substances, giving up, sleep, bragging, busyness, talking — we all have our conditioned strategies. Some of them work just fine and some of them have consequences that we try to ignore or justify. And then, one day, we grow tired of doing it the way we have always done it. We see the toll our strategy is taking on ourselves and others. We are done being a slave to our habits and impulses. We feel that there might be another way, but we are not sure how to get there.