The Comfort Zone or the End Zone?
Hello hello,
Week 20 in the Master Key experience and surprisingly it’s still a revelation.
The comfort zone, the place where nothing grows. Why is that? And why is it the first place that I go to when in retreat?
The Cambridge dictionary defines it as a situation in which you feel comfortable and you do not have to do anything new or difficult. It’s the familiar. The dreaded routine that’s so hypnotizing you’re unaware it’s happening. You’re not present in it. It’s a habit. No original thought required in the comfort zone. It’s a resting place. A pit stop, not a destination.
Since nobody goes to sleep and wakes up exactly the same as they were the day before then why do we go throughout our day as if we did? Going through the motions. The mundane. The quiet discontent.
It shows up in our relationships as complaisance. Where it’s good but it hasn’t been great in some time. And in our work as compliance. Just go along to get along.
We enter into these roles with the greatest of intention, having them mostly defined for us, never having had defined them for ourselves. Then waking up and finding ourselves in the infamous comfort zone.
These are also spaces where the comfort zone can become quite uncomfortable. Where you can start to hear your spirit call out for more.
Personally, I retreat to my comfort zone when it all has become too much for my senses to bear. When I don’t want to play the game anymore. When I forget that my presence is the only way through and that my power is merely waiting for my command.
Some people understand this innately and other will never understand it. Then there’s the class that I am in where this information about growth and cracking open the cement is taught so that we can identify where it is that we find ourselves and exactly the path to take to move past it.
What I know for sure is that what is waiting on the other side is more than worth it. It’s all of your hopes and dreams but more importantly it’s your life. In life you’re either growing or you’re dying. Someone famous said that most people die at 25 but don’t get buried until 75. What a concept. The choice is yours.
I choose life every day because that’s what is required of me. What will you choose?
Peace and Blessings Fam,
Lakia McCrae aka Alchemist Kia
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Alchemist Kia, this is fire! 🔥 The way you describe the comfort zone as a pit stop, not a destination, really hit me—it’s so easy to slip into autopilot without realizing we’ve checked out of our own lives. That quiet discontent, that slow drift into complaisance or compliance, is so real… but I love how you call out the fact that we always have a choice. You, choosing life every day is powerful, and it’s a challenge to the rest of us to do the same, because what’s waiting on the other side is too good to miss!
I agree Lakia, you have the chance each morning when you wake to be a different person and choosing a different way of being.
Very thoughtful blog.
Thanks for sharing about your own Zone of Comfort, Kia, and yes, it seems universally present. We can share about it because we are not alone. Your thoughts are profound and have prodded me on to think and act.
I’ve heard you are either green and growing or rip and rotting! Here’s to growth! Well done, Lakia:)