Self-Awareness for Everyone
Applied Guidance for Mindfulness
Meet Your Host
I am MJ Blehart - a dreamer, philosopher, geek, writer, editor, amateur photographer, and medieval fencer/herald/
re-enactor. I’ve been writing fiction since I was 9 and have been blogging regularly for more than 10 years.
I believe that Consciousness Creates Reality. Thus, I’m certain that we have the power to make our lives into whatever we believe we can. And that begins with self-awareness.
I have the pleasure of serving as your guide through easy-to-use mindfulness tools, conscious reality creation, and other devices for unselfish self-awareness.
Currently, I live in New Jersey (near Philadelphia) with my wife and two feline overlords (cats).
S5 Ep10: Why is Leaving Comfort Zones so Challenging?
Comfort zone is an inaccurate term. That’s because, though it implies comfort, mostly the zone is one of familiarity. You know it, what’s within it, how it works, and all that you can expect from this zone.
It’s comfortable only because it’s familiar. When faced with the uncertain and the unfamiliar, having a comfort zone can and will make you feel stabler and better overall.
The problem is that from within your comfort zone, your growth is massively limited. That’s because to grow, evolve, and command change, you must be willing to move into the uncomfortable.
How Does Self-Awareness Inform Your Identity?
Identity is complex. How you identify yourself varies depending on circumstances and situations.
Identity tends to get tied up in ego. Which adds to its utter artifice.
You are made up of a conscious mind and a subconscious mind.
Mindfulness is how you assume the control that’s rightfully yours.
How Do Your Comfort Zones Impact Your Life?
Everyone has multiple comfort zones that they exist within.
Even when a given comfort zone is unideal and maybe unhelpful to you and your life, that doesn’t mean leaving it is ever easy. Why? Because comfort zones are comfortable due to their familiarity. And the familiar is often comforting – even when not good for us.
There is always more than one depending on what it is and how it impacts you.