In general, conditioned mind is trained to pull you in the
comfort zone. Here, you live and do things which are familiar to you. This way
your safety is ensured. Security is of primarily significant for the survival.
It is pretty much etched in our DNAs.
Monotony is established when we start to live in the comfort
zone for a prolonged period of time. This is because, we perform the same
actions and lead the same kind of life that we lived a month/year before. We
stagnate and that we don’t establish a path for our growth.
Step out: To see growth,
it is important to recondition the conditioned mind. Or otherwise, it is
important to come out the conditioned mind to see our own pattern of the
conditioned mind. Yes!! Stepping out the conditioned mind gives us an
opportunity to see our own construct of the conditioned mind. After all, the
conditioned mind operates based on the already stored database that has been
accumulated by you as your experiences. It cannot think and act beyond this
database.
We need to have new experiences & new learning to move
forward. For this, step above the conditioned mind.
Awareness:
Awareness plays a key role in reconditioning the conditioned mind. Once the
reconditioning has happened, the mind starts to work in your favour for your own
growth. Yes, the same mind that pulled you in the comfort zone earlier ,now
pushes you to the discomfort zone.
In other words, to win this game, it is important to keep
the strength of your awareness far bigger than the strength of the conditioned
mind. If the strength of our awareness is bigger & stronger then it gives
an opportunity to mindfully step into the unknown zone. There is always a risk
to move here and this is where many fail to develop the gradient in progressing
through this zone. If you take a wide step then you will be thrown back to your
start point because you exceed your resource capability. If you take a small
step then that is not good enough to take you to your higher level. Mindful
moderate steps are the key for the success and that can be achieved by heightening
your awareness level.
Summary: Mind is
a protective mechanism that keeps you in the comfort zone. Growth means
stepping into your discomfort zone. To see growth in our life, we may need to
work against our conditioned mind & mindfully step into our discomfort zone.
FOR YOUR GROWTH, STEP ABOVE THE MIND TO STEP INTO THE DISCOMFORT ZONE
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